Birthday Wishes
Today is my best friend's birthday! Like me, she is a Geminii and we both love a wide variety of pretty, shiny objects. In her honor here are some beautiful, shiny, unique, awesome and dazzling items, brought to you by the fabulously talented {NewNew} team!
Let her eat cake and lots of it. Make it the pineapple upside-down kind please.
Caketime print, $8, available at MyZoetrope.
She's always on the go and constantly losing things.
This bag is perfect because it can be attached to her wrist. Ha!
The Super Pleated clutch, $68, available at bungaloe.
In our own minds.
FOX pillow, $79, available at alexandraferguson.
I won't mention the time we went to a local bakery and she bought a dozen red velvets. She then proceeded to eat 6 of them at one sitting. That's just between you, me and the blog.
Lampwork Sprinkle cupcake, $32, available at astudiobythesea.
What I didn't mention is that she's a runner. So she's allowed to eat 6 cupcakes
because it will all fall off her after her 6th mile. Me on the other hand....
Ipod armband, $20, available at JiJis.
This might be the one thing that could make her stop and stare for more than 3 seconds.
LOOK AT THE PRETTY COLORS!!!!
Crystal Vitrail Necklace, $45 available at AdornmentsNYC.
I'd buy her this card so I could write something sappy in it.
Then she would read it aloud dramatically and we'd giggle until we felt sick from all the cupcakes.
Koi Bubbles notecard, $5 available at Fubabee.
Happy birthday Madness! xoxoxo!
Stephanie/metalicious
Well, don't let this delectable looking Gingerbread Cookie fool you. I used to call her "the Brute" back then. She was nearly kicked out of her Montessori school a year later and there are dents around the house from the ferocity of her tantrums.
I was so worried about my little morsel getting cold that I made this outfit as warm as a woolly coat. Of course my daughter had a metabolism like a furnace and she got rather sweaty inside it. But she looked good, and as she in her present incarnation would opine, that is all that matters.
Where's that can of Raid when you need it? We really thought our son would turn out to be an entomologist at this time, as there was nothing he loved so much as insects. So it was no surprise when he asked to be a potato bug for Halloween. I bought a black turtle neck at the consignment shop, and used material scraps I had already for the rest of the costume. I basically sewed a pillow in the oval shape of a potato bug, glued on strips of black for the stripes, and time always being short, simply pinned it to the back of his shirt. He was of course adamant that an insect had six legs, so I sewed two tubes of black fabric, stuffed them and pinned them to the back of his shirt as well. I also put a loop on the ends to slip over his wrists so he could wave all four arms at once. I attached some pipe cleaners to a headband for his antennae.
"This is good stuff. How 'bout we slip out and do a few more blocks while Mom's asleep?"
