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My older sister recently welcomed her 4th little girl into the world (5th child total, as she has one boy) and I couldn’t be more happy for her. I wanted to celebrate this new little darling, baby Ella, so I decided to make her a quilt. I have had this idea for a simple herringbone …
We’ve been doing a lot of drawing and painting around here. Little A is getting older and is more capable and willing to really learn how to draw and Little O is just over the moon to do whatever his brother is doing (and of course loves getting his hands on any sort of messy, …
Knights, King Arthur, castles, dragons, etc….they are all a big deal at our house. In fact we keep the boys from fighting over their medieval acquisitions by giving all red knight paraphernalia to Little A and all things blue knight go to Little O. So it only seemed fitting that for this years tricks-or-treats the …
If you’re like me and are slightly manic about what you want to be for Halloween (Frida Kahlo? Liz Lemon from 30 Rock? Cool spooky ghost?) and have been waiting up to the very the last minute to put something together, well you’re in luck. With this simple hooded cloak ghost costume (made from two …
If you are like me, you are thinking “where on earth did the summer go?” or “how is my little one growing up without my permission?”. I know for many of you school has been in session for a few weeks already but for us Little A’s preschool officially starts on Wed. which means, haircuts, …
OK, so summer is officially coming to an end…which makes the nights a bit more chilly and (in my opinion) absolutely perfect. And what could be more sublime for a breezy night than a light weight cowl scarf? And one that is so super easy to make? Even better. In fact, you probably don’t even …
I was delighted to find the current summer Garnet Hill catalog in the mail this past week. Back in November I worked on several fish softies that would be used as props to accompany the Garnet Hill kid’s summer 2010 collection and I’ve been dying to see them in action ever since.The lovely and talented …
Despite all my pre-planning we seemed to have another up-to-the-last-minute Easter this year. Thank goodness I did in fact do all my Easter candy shopping weeks ago and that I started Little A’s suit last week, or we might not have had much of an Easter egg hunt at all (Easter itself still would have …
Now that baby O has wiggled his way into the title of toddler, I knew it was high time I did away with the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny baby towels that I’ve been stretching over and around him in and attempt to dry and cuddle after bath time. Little A’s polar bear towel had also seen quite …
It truly has been the most wonderful time of the year for me. With cookie-exchange parties for hosting and caramel apple cider for toasting and caroling around in the car (albeit a little too late on Christmas Eve….oops), I could not have asked for a better Christmas.We didn’t travel anywhere this season because of Jon’s …