Happy shopping!
I admit that they have differences, such as that the one I made for Em has a bodice instead of being a “swing” dress and has snaps instead of buttons. But still, it was pretty fun to see something similar to what I made on Boden’s site!
By the way, Boden is currently having a sale of 25% off everything on their site, plus free shipping. Just so you know.
I received an email from REI this morning that was advertising their bikes and, being vaguely interested, I clicked over to their site to take a quick look.
As I was looking at the children’s bikes – there is even one without pedals to help children learn balance and steering coordination -I saw this trailer bike – somehow I have never seen or heard of these before (how did that happen?) – and immediately imagined Emma on one in two or three years, peddling away on her child size seat.
bloom
delft
I stumbled upon a stationery company called smock this morning. So lovely. All of the stationery is letterpressed, which I absolutely love, and very reasonably priced especially considering how “eco friendly” it is:
sustainably letterpressed on bamboo paper
packaged in a clear sleeve that is petroleum-free, tree-free, and certified biodegradable by the Biodegradable Products Institute
They have several gorgeous wedding suites, a variety of wrapping papers and fill-in invitations, as well as a very nice assortment of artsy-yet-classic correspondence and greeting cards.
So. Lovely.
photos from smockpaper.com
I’ve officially blogged 500 posts ……… wow. I skimmed back through some of those posts, and enjoyed a few moments remembering what was happening around me when I wrote them. Some of them are funny (or are now), some not, some short and some long, but all of them were relevant to me at the time. Kind of nice to look back at where I’ve been, a bit like the Israelites and their stones of remembrance (Joshua 4:1-9). But enough about that.
I picked up a book at the library yesterday entitled a child’s garden by Molly Dannenmaier. Such a lovely book filled with photographs of yards and gardens planted with children in mind.
The blurb on the cover says “60 ideas to make any garden come alive for children” and the photos illustrate just that: vibrantly inviting living play areas. There are three sections of the book starting with the introduction where Ms. Dannenmaier makes her case for complex natural play areas. The other two sections are titled, “home territories”and “how children really play” with subsections of water, creatures, refuges, dirt, heights, movement, make-believe, nurture, and learning. Some of her ideas are elaborate, but some – such as dumping a pile of sand in the shade or growing a tepee of sunflowers – are very simple.
It’s a beautiful book, and a calmingly inspiring read. :)
There is nothing better on a rainy day than a cup of cinnamon-laced coffee and a crowing baby. Other than having the baby’s daddy here, too, of course. But he’ll be back soon, and then we can enjoy the rain, the coffee, and our precious little baby together.
She is a little sunshine today, happy and cooing after a 12-hour night(!).
We are spending our morning nursing, listening to the rain through the open porch door, listening: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=313867933 (to the one on worry – good words, brought by Curtis Jones), nursing, napping (that’s Emma’s part), sewing and tidying up.
Oh, and trying to stay away from the cookies: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/ne-plus-ultra-cookies?lnc=ef2e802fb632c110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=cookie+of+the+day_recipe_b They do go well with coffee.
-picture from Williams-Sonoma
A few days ago I mentioned that there were other new ventures to stay tuned for ….. and, here’s one of them! We have set up another site called “the path less traveled market“, and on it we will be featuring handmades for the home. We are starting with aprons, and plan to add other handmades as time allows. The blog site gives us unlimited space to post pictures of product details, as well as to feature addtitions or changes, and we have set it up to link to a hosting site that allows people to purchase our items through PayPal.
