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Last week A and I met up with with one of his newly favorite friends (and his super cool mom, whose awesome idea this was!) for the most perfect play date. Together we made custom painted plates for Father’s Day at Color Me Mine, a DIY ceramic painting studio. We actually had the dad’s with …
It’s that time of year again. School is almost out for the summer and A is growing out of practically every shirt he owns. We needed to think fast (and thrifty) so off to the store to get $1 shirts (we found ours at the Dollar Tree) and then back to the craft lab to …
I wanted to share the gifts from our Christmas 2011 zero-dollar-gift-exchange earlier but I’m afraid I caught that pesky flu bug that I was so hoping to avoid. But I’m now alive and well and ready to jump right into the new year! If you have been following my blog you know that Jon and …
In addition to our Random Acts of Advent calendar, I wanted to introduce a new advent idea for this Christmas season. I love and adore children’s picture books and, being an illustrator myself, have quite a collection of them. As of last year, I decided that I wanted to collect enough children’s Christmas picture books …
How was your Thanksgiving?! Are you stuffed to the gills and sick of the Black Friday crowds? I love how on Monday we can all sit in our jammies, recuperate, and…shop some more online!!! And…In celebration of Cyber Monday I’m offering a buy one get one deal in my Tuesday Mourning shop! Just purchase the …
If you haven’t yet been over to Creature Comforts to check out EZ’s fabulous online holiday guide, Gifted, you should do so now. It’s a fantastically curated guide chock-full of unique and of-the-moment gift items. EZ was so sweet to ask me to create some free downloadable gift tags for the guide and I couldn’t …
Hi Friends! If you are like me, you are anxious to get your kids costumes in the works in order to leave time for lots of Spooky fun during the month of October. And if you want some great, yet simple, costume ideas, Look no further than CountryLiving.com. Our knight costumes from last year were …
Last weekend we were able to attend the fabulous LA Renegade Craft Fair which has become a favorite Los Angeles experience for us. It has also become a beloved spot for finding unique, one of kind, back-to-school t-shirts for Little A and this year we made it a point to be on the look out. …
Hello friends! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and scored on a lot of great Black Friday deals (I actually got up at 4 AM this year for the first time and hit the shops with my sister! It was a blast!). But isn’t it great that the sales don’t stop there. I …
Little O (formally know as Baby O…sigh…) recently turned two and we threw him a little Knights and Nobles birthday party, to coincide with his Halloween costume. With his b-day so close to Halloween we found that we need to either throw him a Halloween bash or a themed party based on his costume to …