We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Sorry for my absence.  My computer keyboard has been slowly giving out over the last few weeks and at this point will only type the letter J.  I have tried writing several post but all I could say was jjjjjjjjjj and so I wasn’t really getting my point across.  I hope to have a new keyboard next week.  In the meantime, I have distracted my husband momentarily and am coming to you live from his computer to bring  you these super awesome Star Wars cookie cutters from Williams Sonoma.  If you are married to a nerd and have a child these have Father’s day written all over them!  The set of 4 is $19.95. May the force be with you.

More Closets

Cleaning out a closet is so calming.  After CityMouse’s inspiring closet transformation I undertook a good clearing of Babymouse’s closet, well that and the fact that we are selling our house soon and I need to make it look like no one lives here, never mind a three year old with a lot of stuff.  So after a few hours of sneaking obsolete toys off to the salvation army, removing the pictures and shelving, repainting the inside of the closet white white white (it was formerly a flesh beige that I hated but never got around to painting, but I can’t take a risk of a dirty flesh colored closet in this real estate market!) and replacing the shelving and prints, here it is!  It looks ridiculously empty for a child’s closet.  But relatively clean.  I also got my closet shelving from easyclosets, suggested by CityMouse years ago, and the white is cheaper than the wood color in City’s kitchen closet and is just fine for a kid’s room.  It really is the best solution short of Ikea pax for closets, and inexpensive, like  about a thousand times cheaper than california closets and I’m not sure it isn’t made of the same materials.

Knocked Up

Sorry if the title of this post was misleading Mom, I’m not pregnant.  But some of our reader are and this one is for you!  CountryMouse has previously posted about the Norma Kamali all-in-one dress from Walmart.  It was also featured on the Today Show this week.  But did you know that it is also available as a maternity dress???  Even better, its just $14.  That’s $14 for 5 different dresses.  That’s such a good deal it almost makes me wnat to get pregnant.  Almost.  Again, sorry Mom.  Preggos, please also check out this dress from Norma.  That one is so cute that I may just order it and hide it away for a few years.

Stella…Stella!!!

Often times being a short and rather slight person is not to my shopping advantage.  Did you know that many lines carried at Macy’s do not come in sizes smaller than 4?  Bummer.  But today my luck is changing.  I’ve never been able to afford any of Stella McCartney’s clothes in the past but she just debuted a new line for Gap Kids and it totally fits me!  Even better, it has tiny kid sized prices.  This dress is only $58.  Lots of cute stuff for tiny dudes too!

Important News

Breaking: Babymouse is adorable!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Flensted Mobiles

Hi all, as may be obvious, we have been away this weekend! at a wedding, a wedding on a sailboat, a wedding with lots of lobsters and pine cones, but no computers allowed.  But I can report that the coastline of Maine is still amazing, I just checked.

It looks like Velocity has a large selection of the Fensted mobiles, a/k/a the cutest and most affordable baby mobiles that you probably will leave hanging after you have put the crib in storage.  I love these, it is actually hard to pick one.  This one is a bird feeder!  hang it outside the baby’s window.

Moustaches and Sharks

Ok, now moustaches in band-aid form! although I definitely see a waterskiing ramp and plastic shark ahead in the water for ironic moustaches, these are still pretty cute.  They are 7$ at Urban Outfitters.

It Smells

My soon to be 3 year old son loves smelling my perfume bottles, mainly to determine whether they smell like anything at all.  He comes along and sniffs deeply, and in the event they do (have a scent, usually yes) he will knowingly inform me  “it smells.”  He never seems too pleased about it either.

Anyway he loves bubbles, the kind you buy in the 99c bin at Target with the wands?  Imagine my delight when I came across these Agathe’s Bubbles in this month’s Vogue, which clearly are bubbles that smell.  They are by Francis Kurkdjian, who is a perfume celebrity and also does scented installation art, that is him above smelling bubbles at Versaille, where he has also apparently scented the fountains.  How do these things happen?   Anyway, the bubbles come in pear, cold mint, and cut herbs, of course they do! Fun for me, fun for babymouse.  I won’t be leaving these in a bucket on the porch, however.  The bubbles are supposed to be available at Bergdorf Goodman,  Liberty of London, and Neiman Marcus at some point this fall.  Stalk the Liberty of London site, done and done.

Direct from Neverland Ranch

These marquee alphabet lights were featured in an inspiration board on Snippet & Ink earlier this week.  They are just so adorable I can’t stand it.  Picture these atop blue striped wallpaper in BabyMouse’s room.  ADORABLE!  Its like the fair, but wihtout all the creepy carneys.  I think these would be so perfect (1) in a child’s bedroom, (b) in the room of your pet chimpanzee named bubbles or (4) lighting the way to where you store the Beatles song catalog and the rights to Happy Birthday.  Just a few suggestions.

Let’s Hear it for the Boys

So, I have been skirting around the idea of wallpapering my son’s room.  I had a disastrous problem with covering the walls with fabric adhered with liquid starch- actually let me back up and say wallpapering your walls with fabric and liquid starch DOES work, with the right fabric.  I did it with burlap and it looked pretty good.  Unfortunately I  took down the burlap when he was in the oven because it seemed kind of scratchy for a baby, and tried the same technique with some patterned cotton.  Well, I failed to preshrink the fabric , so there’s three days I’ll never get back.   After that debacle I painted beige in a fit of non-creativity, but as so often happens when you go running out to the paint store and pick a color in 5 minutes, it isn’t really the beige of my dreams.   It has a sandy pink tone that I don’t care for.  Anywho I love wallpaper, for obvious reasons, and actually believe I am better at wallpapering than painting.   

This is an old house and a small room.  At first I thought a wide blue and white stripe run horizontally. 

Then I thought I could throw caution to the wind and get this totally old school “little boy” wallpaper at the top, or this one, which is what I really want (the fact that this is also out guest room holds me back).

I know this royal blue bumblebee paper is too much, I worry this could lead down a short road to christopher robin style pantaloons.   I’m just including it here so you can remind me I am not allowed to get this.