Holding onto Childhood (For Dear Life)

March 8, 2010
Decor, DIY Home, Everyday Crafts, Gifts, Grown-Up

I had a favorite stuffed animal as a child, a dog with a white body and floppy brown ears. My sister and I had the same one, but mine was so worn that the ears were virtually bald. Now it’s long gone, and all I have to remember that dog is this one photo that my sister printed a few years ago from the original slide. (That’s me on the left when the pup was still new. And really, I have no idea why we were watching TV with the dogs between our legs.)

Kids get so attached to their toys, but it’s impossible to try to keep them all for posterity. Here are a few ways to make a lovey last…

Have a custom portrait painted of your child’s toy. Visit Customtoyportrait.com.

Fill your child’s beloved with beans to make a bookend or a doorstop. Found on Real Simple.

Make a sweet picture book with photos of your child’s toys. Maybe it can help teach them to read. Spotted on Party Perfect.

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Happy-Happy Tape-Tape

March 5, 2010
Decor, DIY Home, Everyday Crafts, Grown-Up, Older Elementary, Tween to Teen

Whoever named this product really gets it. Happy tape is exactly that—happy. Check out these amazing projects done with this super-fine craft material…

Here’s the stuff. Happy yet?

Happy tape table by The Happy Home, via Say Yes to Hoboken.

Tape bow and tape flowers from Smarts and Crafts.

Open this birthday card to find this sweet, happy tape banner. Found on the Happy Tape Blog

Happy tape as wedding decor, via Project Wedding.

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Wedding Bliss 002

March 4, 2010
Grown-Up, Jewelry and Fashion, Parties

Last week, I posted Wedding Bliss 001 which set the scene for our Hudson Valley nuptials. Next up, in issue 002 of this series, is our wedding fashion. We wanted to feel comfortable and natural, not fairytale or stiff. So we went with what we loved.

We tweaked the order of a traditional wedding a bit by starting with the cocktail hour. Everyone arrived at Cat Rock around half past six in the evening, and Michael and I joined them. He was in his wedding suit, but I was in a short ‘n sweet white dress by Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent.

Michael’s bespoke suit deserves a section of its own. It was designed by my dear friend Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders as a wedding gift for us. Michael has a thing for the Mad Men fashion era.

My dress was by Kenneth Pool. (That’s my super-glam mom next to me in the green gown.)

And lastly, our most special guests, our nieces and nephews. The three flower girls, Han nah, Grey, and Sidney, wore a sweet dress by Pipsqueak Chapeau that we bought at Seed Factory in Atlanta. Jordan, my junior bridesmaid wore an awesome dress, but sadly I don’t remember who made it. And the boys, Quinn and Zach, were looking dapper in their little suits.

Next up in volume 003, the printed matter…

(Again, lovely photos by the lovely Heather Weston.)

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