Talent Show

Oh the joys of having school kids!  You get to spend many days helping out for the school talent show.  The show was this weekend, and I was so proud of all the children and how much time and energy they put into their performance.  They all rocked the house!  My Lucas told jokes.  He was so silly and had all the parents laughing in their seats.  And received many whistles when he took his bow at the end of the show.  Stella performed a tap dance act with her dance partner friend to Selena Gomez's "Love Song" and had many parents bopping their heads.  Time to put away the baby music and start listening to top music hits!  I was surprised how all the children knew word by word every top music hits song that was played at the performance.   Good times.

Designing + Creating

Lately I've been in the process of designing and creating, designing and creating.  I've got a lot of new jewelry pieces that I want/need to get up on my site, but we are relaunching my website in a couple of months--completely revamped with a new platform and everything.  I can not wait.  I've been wanting to update it for a long time.  I'm excited that it will be more compatible with browsers, computer screens, navigation,etc.  And one of the reason why my old site is not updated with new pieces is because I have to reload all products on the new site so that's where Ive been putting it or you can go to my etsy shop to buy new items.  Anyway, here are a few pieces that are waiting to be priced, photographed, categorized, etc.  Happy Weekend!

Handmade Valentines...

...are the truly the best and make giving Valentines more heartfelt.  Get together your crafting friends, spread out all your Valentine supplies on the table and throw a little crafting party.  Here are a few of my favorite paper supply sites for your handmade Valentines:

Paper Source
Martha Stewart Crafts
Paper Jade
AI Friedman
D. Blumchen
Paper Mojo

image via ingalls photography

Colored Pants

I've been really enjoying my $20 colored Mossimo skinny pants I bought at Target.  Yep...I bought one in every color--blue,green, red.  Good alternative from denim jeans. And good news!  It looks like colored pants will still be a must this spring.


J.Crew





La Petite Fashionista

 

Casual Glamorous

How Does She--she is wearing a mutze hat!

Samantha Perry David in Tory Burch

Kate Spade

RHBH

I admit.  The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is my guilty pleasure and I'm so excited for the finale tonight! My favorite housewife is the lovely Kyle Richards, and I'm obessed with her new French-countryside home.  Her style is beautiful but non fussing.  I love the white furniture against the dark hardwood floors and freshly cut flowers bring in color to the home.  You can see her house tour here.

Robot Party

Before all the holiday craziness, my little Jackson turned three and we celebrated by throwing him a robot party.  I'm not quite sure why I chose that theme since Jackson told me numerous times before the party that he wanted a Cars 2 birthday and NOT a robot party, but the plans were already in progress and by the end of his birthday he liked robots. 

Usually I stick with home parties to keep cost down, but this time I decided to hold the party off base.  Thinking of a bunch of little three-year-olds running around my house made me dizzy.  But having a party at a location can get really costly, so what I did was hold the party at our local children's museum on the day and time when the musuem offered free admissions to locals.  This worked out perfect because the parents could bring other children .  You'd be surprise how many local venues have a free admission day.  

Since the party was held at a children's museums, robots became a perfect theme because there are a lot of things to build and science projects to discover.  Here are the invitations:

The party favors:



  



Since the party was at a public place, I wanted the guests to wear something
similar so I made a robot design, printed it on iron-on transfer paper.

































The food:  For food I gave each family a picnic in a box filled with sandwiches, drinks, chips and robot cupcakes.  When the guests arrived at the museum the first thing we did was eat then play so we had enough tables and chairs for everyone.  Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of the boxes.  The day before the party, I poured water all over my computer and destroyed it!  My computer was non-functional for almost a week but did get it up and running. I had really cute labels, sandwich and drink wrappers for the boxes but couldn't use them.  Oh well! 



Party Resources:

invitations--me

party labels and tags--me

envelopes--AI Friedman

robot lollipops--Oriental trading company

little toy robots--Oriental trading company

Long sleeves t-shirts--Old Navy

Iron-on transfer sheets--Michaels

Robot design for t-shirts--me

cupcake toppers--cakes and kids

cupcake wrappers--domestic charm



Did You Know...

...Valentine's Day is less than a month away??  We are moving along quite quickly into 2012.  It's time to get a jump on gifts for someone you love.  Here are a few beauties:

Hey Yo Yo

Really cute party supplies and vintage cupcake toppers and novelty party favors can be found at Hey Yo Yo.  I remember getting those tiny telephones at birthday parties as a child and pretend to talk on them!

Staycation

One of my favorite week in the year is the one right between Christmas and New Years.  The kids are off of school and the hubby takes the week off and we make it a staycation every year.  Why go anywhere when we live close to one of the greatest city?  We go and play in NYC almost everyday.  It's a madhouse and many people are there for New Years but it's so much fun and the feeling of holiday is still in the air.  We head to all the museums, play in Central Park, stop by our favorite cupcake shop and take at least one cab ride and subway ride (the kids love that stuff).  Here are a few pictures from my iphone--i had some more pictures but they are lost on my computer.

New Baby Shoes

You'd think I'd get excited to receive a package of new heels in the mail, but these days it's all about the kids.  So I was very excited to open up a package of Joyfolie shoes that I had order a while ago from Gilt.  They are THE cutest baby shoes and also came with a matching hair clip. Even better! I've been wanting to buy a pair of Joyfolie shoes for so long and they were always sold out, but now they are manufacturing some of their styles.  Love them!  Can't wait to get them on little Miss.

New Year's Family Pictures

I've learned this year that next holiday season I need to mail out Christmas cards in November and not to attempt it in December.  This year we sent out New Year's cards because I was flooded with orders and was pulling late nights every night in December.  I like to design our cards but decided because of lack of time to order from Minted which has a great selection of cards and supports a community of artists.  Anyway, I ordered the cards on December 24th but then received it two weeks later.  Bummer!  I missed all the New Year's hoopla.  And here I am this week mailing out New Year's cards that probably won't even adorn people's refridgator doors because everyone is SO over all the holidays and will just end up in the trash. Oh well!  Here are a few family pictures that were used for our cards. 

Loving Urban

Urban has extended their apartment line and I've got my eye on a number of pieces.  Their furniture is pretty well priced although I'm not quite sure how the quality is.

Madeline Chair

Brass Pendant

Patterned Nails

One of my new year's resolution is to paint my fingernails more often.  It keeps my haggard nails looking feminine.  I'm loving all the nail wraps that are available now.  They stay on longer than polish, and they come in fun patterns. ncla has a lot of fun nail options like this ikat pattern. 

The Best of 2011

Here are few of my favorites from the past year.  It's fun to look back and see what you did.  I started the year with a newborn and ended it with a walking one year old.  Time flies.  We were very blessed this past year eventhough I feel like 2011 was kind of a funky year for me.  I'm excited for a new beginning.

Melting Crayons

Chocolate on a Stick Invites

Chocolate Party

Couple Photobooth

May Day Baskets

Homemade Strawberry Jam

Lego Party

Cape Cod

Paris Soiree



Spa Party

Family Wedding



Wigs Party



1st Birthday