Always working on our home – how to mesh our love of chic design with our love for our kids. There is not a single place in this joint that our girls are not welcomed into with open arms. Which perhaps drives hubby nuts sometimes, since I can often be heard muttering under my breath, [...]

Coco has a hook in the ceiling above her bed. I’ve never hung anything from it before. I don’t even think I’m the one who drilled it into the ceiling. I admit it: I’ve never really been one for mobiles. Not even when the girls were babies. The ones that appealed to me were not [...]

After nearly two years of living in our ‘new’ home, we’ve gone and done it. We’ve painted the entire place. It started with Nici’s bedroom and bathroom. And then the girls’ bedrooms and bathroom. And then we said what the heck? And we went for it. And I spent the next week moving things from [...]

Not that I’ve had a lot of time lately to play around on my computer, but there were a few late night’s over the past week, spent checking out the links of sites that I love. I found some good ones!
My Mama Made It is my newest addiction, and it’s such a new blog that [...]

Over the years, I’ve amassed a lot of nice furniture and artwork. My mom is an Interior Designer, so I’ve made good use of her to-the-trade discounts, her own personal cast-offs and her gifts of art over the years. And my father, well, years ago, he decided to down-size, which meant selling his NYC apartment, [...]

As part of our plan to simplify our home, my husband and I have had several meetings of our minds about the current toy situation in our home. We have a lot of toys. Or rather, the girls have a lot of toys. So many, that this is usually how playtime goes down…
Girls: Mommy, can [...]

Yesterday afternoon, my husband made a bookshelf for Pea, to house her enormous book collection. He found a print-out of the original, which he used as a jumping off point, in a stack of papers on my desk. I was touched that he took it upon himself to make this his next project. Nothing made [...]

So, twice a month, I’m going to be posting on The Bump. The Bump is a very cool website all about – you guessed it – mommy and child. You can find information on everything from conceiving to pregnancy to community message boards; it’s a very cool and comprehensive website about all things related to [...]

Tomorrow morning is the baby shower that I’m hosting for my friend, who’s baby girl is due in one month. And this has been a crazy few weeks, so when I say that I really did wait until the last minute to get the details together, I’m not kidding. I did. I spent three hours [...]

I once had an overly affectionate love affair with Target. Back when we lived in Fort Worth. I was there weekly. Twice weekly. My husband seems to think that there were times when I was actually there daily. But I can defend that one – there was a Starbucks in it!
But since moving to Utah, [...]

Why do kids have so much stuff? Some days I feel like I’m up to my eyeballs in random collections of nothing. I regularly go through the girls’ toys and make piles for donations. Toys, puzzles and games that are too ‘old’ for them get put away for later days. Broken pieces get mended or [...]

This looks like Pea. It really does. Bright, whimsical, a little bit of a devil-may-care manner. So I am using it as inspiration while we make her room her own. I really wanted to stay with a monochromatic look. But that’s me. Not my little Pea. And so, in an effort to let her be [...]

As we’re working on Pea’s room, I’ve been scouring shops for artwork that will grow with her. And I think I’ve written about this Etsy shop before, but briefly and in passing. But it deserves more. Mummy Sam is just about my favorite place for kid’s artwork. Sophisticated but still childish subjects. Gorgeous colors that [...]

The Rosie Flo Original coloring book is one of the gifts that Pea received this year from Santa Claus. There are quite a few in the series, including one for boys. But I was looking for the original one, and it was impossible to find, even sold out at a little shop that has the [...]

I’ve been working on design plans for Coco’s room lately. She’s coming up on two, and her personality is really shining right now. She’s talking and singing and dancing. It’s a delight to watch her morph into such a… person.
I’d been waiting to see who she was before really getting to work on her little [...]