Time for another Etsy Favorites feature. Here are my new favorite etsy finds…
Etsy – where talent abounds.
Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
Date: Jul 10 2013
Filed Under: Decor, Entertaining, Family, Fashion
I’m a Keeper! Are you? Wondering what it is? It’s the new visual marketplace for happy & productive shopping. It’s pretty much just like Pinterest, except you “keep” things instead of “pin” them. And the best part – it’s based totally on shopping. Yep.
I’ve been busy creating boutiques based around my favorite things like fashion, furniture, art…
Keep is soooo good for me b/c as much as I would like to blog about everything that I love, I can’t. Keep allows me to organize all my favorites in one easy spot just by clicking “keep it” in my toolbar (the process is just like pinterest). So you can follow along and see what I’m loving, too
I hope you will come join! The Keep curators are top notch and find the most unique and awesome things (that you can actually easily buy). Come find me on Keep HERE.
This post brought to you by Keep. All opinions (and my obsession for Keep) are my own.
Have y’all heard about Sonnet James dresses? Play dresses for playful moms. Meaning you can get down on the ground and wrestle with your kids in these dresses. And they’re cute. UM, I could use a few of these.
The designer, Whitney Lundeen, just launched a kickstarter video to raise money to get Sonnet James off the ground. There are some really fun pledge prizes, like being a part of the design team or having a dress made specifically for you. Plus, the video is just really cute. Go help a sister out and watch the video!
For the past few months I’ve been working on a crazy exciting collaboration with the Land of Nod. We’ve been co-designing a new big girl room for Lilly as well as outfitting the downstairs play room for the kids. I KNOW! And last week the Land of Nod team flew in to Charleston to install our vision and get some pretty photographs of my kids.
We’re going to be one of Land of Nod’s Real Families and will be featured in the August catalog.
There really are no words that describe how excited I am about this whole dream project. Land of Nod has been one of my favorite go to kid sites since I was first pregnant with Lilly. The opportunity to not only have this LLL brand collaboration is pretty amazing in it’s own right. But to also get to give my kids such a crazy fun experience at the same time just takes it over the top. The kids loved having the Land of Nod team around and were pretty elated with all their new things (as you can imagine).
Now I just have to wait for August to share with you what all we did!
You may have seen on my instagram feed that last week I was in Naples, FL. We went with 30 of my family members and had the best time. My grandparents have a place there so I’ve grown up vacationing in Naples. It’s such a wonderful town, one of my very favorites. Since there were so many of us on this trip most of us stayed at the Ritz Carlton. It was fabulous.
These trips are so precious to me since I live pretty far from my family. We spent most of our time at the pool and beach (and used A LOT of my favorite sunscreen – after a week in the sun none of us had a burn!). Here are a few random pictures from our week. This first one sums it up, we were such happy clams.
Modeling my Marysia Swim Lanai Dress. On my tippy toes, of course.
Lilly and me watching the sunset.
This is the pool at my Granny and Papa’s. Pretty incredible, isn’t it?
Speaking of, here’s my beautiful granny.
Random, but that Foley & Corinna bag was the only bag I took with me to FL. It’s the most perfect bag that can also swing over your shoulder and goes with everything. I’ve had it for years.
Here are my sis-n-law, Kim, and cousin-n-law, Kelsey…
Of course I snuck in some shopping. How cute are these Rag & Bone bike shorts?
Below spy Lilly pouting on her last day, but still looking cute in her Marysia Swim Bumby swimsuit that her Auntie Marysia over-nighted to the Ritz just for her (that Lilly has connections already). This is a sample, but production is happening and Bumby pre-orders will be happening soon. More on that next week.
She also got to make her very first tie dye tee. It’s being mailed to us or I would show you how it turned out.
It was a pretty amazing time. I know we live in an amazing city and have the beach right here, too, but it’s so nice to get away and have a full week of nothing to do but play. Vacations are good for the soul.
Date: Jun 10 2013
Filed Under: Decor, Entertaining, Family
With Father’s Day, 4th of July, and all those endless summer nights right around the corner, I’ve been brainstorming fun outdoor ideas that are family friendly. Naturally eating came to mind. Because, duh. Chances are that Josh will be happiest at the grill, so for this exercise I will focus my efforts on the dessert.
(for a pretty tablescape, consider setting it up right on the lawn)
(easy clean-up and cute presentation)
(how clever!)
(because sometimes all you want is a cookie)
(i want to pop popcorn over a camp fire tooooo)
(for those of us who prefer to drink our dessert)
(for after dinner star gazing and story telling)
*i’m just looking for a reason to buy myself that sleeping bag*
Everything tastes better under the stars, right?
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