play creatively
So thrilled to be sharing our beautiful collaboration with children’s clothing designer Nellie Quats. We’ve created 4 sweet characters all dressed in mini Nellie Quats outfits which we know you’re going to love. Each are handmade, with hand painted faces and come with an illustrated card with their character story on the back. You can …
Enjoying the last weeks of summer and free play (and her new peg rail in her room! – how did we live without it?). We’re also getting every last second we can out if this toddler bed. In the works of designing her a new twin bed that I’m so excited about but am hesitant …
She’s halfway thrilled to have a room of her own now that the boys have moved out, and halfway missing them like crazy. We have been so glad to have found this beautiful Konges Sløjd bedding from our favorite Smallable Store to make the transition a little more snuggly. She also love this sweet organic …
School’s out for the summer! And we’re loving these slow mornings with late breakfasts. Enjoying our newly painted dining room floor – switched from cool tones to warm ones. The kids have even suggested we play life size chess on here. I told them I’m game just as soon as I’ve made them each cardboard …
We’ve been doing lots of random things over here at Banister House, such as putting flowers on Frida (an illustration I did for the Frida Kahlo edition of Bravery Magazine). Playing with legos on our new Gathre mats. They are absolutely perfect for keeping the little pieces from falling into the cracks. Miss M was …
We teamed up with the lovely brand Tellkiddo to celebrate SUMMER and PLAY! So we hosted an instagram giveaway where the winner receives $125 in Merrilee Liddiard shop credit and your choice of 3 Tellkiddo storage solutions for you toys (all of which we are obsessed with!). My friend Shannon Weight took such lovely pics …
Hoping you all had a lovely Mothers Day! We had a great and silly day with a french toast breakfast, Amazing messages at service, and rowdy play time with the kids later.
Meanwhile at the Banister House… We repainted the kids floor this past week as they were getting to a point that only paint could bring back to life ;). In doing so we had to take out the kids stuff and put it all in the master bedroom. Which had me wanting to dejunk once …
This past 3 day weekend we took some time to work on a few projects and I decided to finally transform our vintage doll house into a doll’s stage. We’re happy with how it turned out and have been putting on magical performances ever since!I had been wanting to transform this particular doll house into …
Friends I’m so excited to finally share with you my new doll shop, merrileeliddiardshop.com. It’ been a long time in the works and it’s almost surreal to see it finally come to life! Each heirloom doll is one-of-a-kind, handmade with a hand painted face. They are oversized at 26″ long (with the exception of the mini dolls) and are …