Happy Friday!

Thought I'd share some things that I'm loving right now:

1. This idea from Decor8's post on decorator Jan Elani - Scanning, then resizing your children's artwork to make a single print of all their work! I love this idea! (check out the post to see the rest of her gorgeous house. Those floors!) Another sweet idea for kid's artwork is to scan them in and create stationery (seen on designsponge here)
2. Small Magazine's Spring 2010 edition - Lovely spring-ey freshness
3. Geoboards - I'd never even heard of these till I read this post, but think my kids would love love love this. Basically its a pegboard with screws or push pins in it that you can stretch rubber bands across to make different shapes. I know my maze loving five year old would get a kick out this. Here's smaller geoboards you can just buy (but I think the bigger, homemade version looks like more fun for my pre-geometry kiddos)

Have a great weekend!!

Lotta Jansdotter - Stencils

I'm a huge fan of Scandinavian design, especially for the home. Lotta Jansdotter is a favorite of a lot of home decor bloggers, and with good reason (check out her site here). Her designs are fresh, simple and happy. Which is why I'm really coveting this little book of stencils right now. I love the look and idea of wallpaper, but being a renter its just not in the cards. I can however, paint! And with Lotta's designs I can get the modern, fresh look I want (no country geese here!) for my home and a million other things.

Find it here.

Mother/Daughter Wear - Sonia Rykiel for H&M

I'm not the type of mom to dress to match my daughter (just writing that conjures up awful images of Laura Ashely dresses and nineties mall bangs) but if all mother/daughter clothes looked this good I just may have to change my opinion. I loved Sonia Rykiel's lingerie line for H&M (if you missed it, it was retro, simple and sexy) and now I'm in love with her new knitwear line. The line is simple, with sweet feminine details. I'm loving this yellow and pink sweater, I picture my daughter and I hunting for Easter eggs in matching sweaters. And the little sailor shorts! Bah! I'm a sucker for those sailor buttons...

Check out the line here (and us lucky OC moms can head over to South Coast to snatch these cuties up!)

Happy Weekend!

My daughter and I are starting our weekend right by treating our swan to some Starbucks. The rest of the weekend is devoted to a few boring errands, but in exciting news we may be adding a kitty to our family on Sunday. My kids are beyond ecstatic and I'm excited too, just a little nervous about how are little dog will react. She's not a cat chaser, so finger's crossed it all works out. In the meantime, I thought I'd share our newest kitchen dancing tune by our newest favorite disco band. Oh, yes, you read that right, a disco band. Enjoy!

From the Desk of A.J. (sort of) - Chanel Tattoos

Ms. A.J. is a busy busy bee, so I'm taking over her blog post to bring you this outrageous piece of fabulousness that she found. I'd like to think we lead lives where it would be appropriate to wear Chanel temporary tattoos, but I just don't see how they'd work at a parent teacher conference, Mommy and Me class, or date night at the sushi bar. But it still makes me happy to know that they are out there. Featured in Chanel's Spring-Summer Fashion Show in Paris, these Chanel icons were hand drawn by the Creative Director of Makeup for Chanel, Peter Phillips. Gotta love the mix of ladylike tweeds with leg tattoos! *le sigh*

Need some temporary Chanel love? Find it here.

Book Crush - Dog Food

One of my favorite things about the library is that chance to make a random discovery. Because I don't have any restrictions on what or how many books my kids can get (well, I have to be able to lift the bag!) they often stumble across really amazing books we might not have found otherwise. Last time we went to the library my three year old pulled this book off the shelf and threw it in our bag. I tend to gravitate towards books with a good story, so I didn't really think much of it at the time, but over the weeks we've had it, its become an instant hit in our house. Both kids have it memorized (a benchmark for any "good" book in our house is how fast it gets memorized), and my daughter "reads" it to my son every night.

Dog Food uses pictures of vegetables and fruits sculpted to look like pups along with common doggy phrases ("sick as a dog," "dog eat dog," etc.) The visual puns make us adults laugh and the clever use of the produce is fascinating. We loved going through and trying to identify all the veggies (could be a great inducement to try new food too!). Its somewhat rare to find a book that is so perfect for my beginning reader and my little one to read together (without adults even!). We can't wait to get another book by Saxton Freymann (we've set our sites on "How Are You Peelin'?").

Find Dog Food here!

It's Friday, I'm in Love

One of my favorite songs, enjoy!:

Goldfrapp Monster Love on the Culture Show from Mike Owen on Vimeo.

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day weekend!!