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Inspiration (Thankful)

23 Friday Nov 2012

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We spent the week celebrating, adventuring and eating great food with good friends.  We are feeling thankful for healthy families and how lovely it is to see the little ones merge into the family of old friends.  I hope you are all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  Here are some Instagrams from the week:

*The Costume Room Beside the Stage (Full of magic vintage costumes, at this amazing place.)

*Ada, Breakfast

*Spread at Scratch Bread (Some of my favorite baked goods ever, conveniently and dangerously just around the corner from us.  The Bourbon Wheat bread is insane.)

*Cat Tails for the City Girl

*Fruit in Chinatown on Thanksgiving

*Beautiful Gummybears, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory

*Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate with Homemade Black Pepper Marshmallow, Scratch (Way too good to share with the kids.)

*Vintage Ballet Poster, Big Indian Springs (Home to a ballet school in the 1960′s.)

*Big Indian Springs

*Beaded Charms, Chinatown

*Thanksgiving Leftovers, Nha Trang  

*Decorating the Stage, Big Indian Springs

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Vintage Finds: Globe Banks

23 Tuesday Oct 2012

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We picked up this little pair of vintage globe banks at a Brooklyn antique shop this weekend for $10 each.  These banks are small- about 5″ tall and a good start to an inexpensive collection.  Ebay has quite a few globe banks listed here.  I love that they combine saving money and geography.  Banks used to hand these sort of globes out to kids to promote saving, (presumably in the institution stated once the globe was packed with pennies).  Our girls usually put extra change in our big glass jug by the front door.  Maybe these globe banks will be the start of their savings to travel the world.

H Mart Love

22 Monday Oct 2012

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I am a sucker for good packaging.  Leslie told me about an Asian grocery called H Mart on an excursion with the kids this weekend and we were excited to check it out.   We stocked up on noodles and rice and dumplings among other things.  The Korean pears we found were the best we have ever tasted and the acorn pudding was an unexpected savory flavor, (which Ada declared delicious – a small miracle coming from the girl who lives on cereal and PB&J).  The girls had fun spotting things they had never seen before and eating rice and noodles at the food counter.  I dragged the family down every aisle and found lots of new groceries to try.  (OK, maybe I got a few just because they had pretty packaging).  The market carries products from Japan, China and Korea.  You can order online, but it is more fun to go wander around the store if you can.  Our favorite finds are these:

*Dried Noodles

*Little Animal Forks for Lunchboxes (I am saving these to use for a future party, despite Ada’s pleading to open them right now)

*Aid Helper Emergency Plasters

*Knife Sharpening Stone (Which technically we need, and how could I say no to that box?)

Inspiration

08 Friday Jun 2012

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Instagram photos from the last few weeks:

*Canoeing in Pennsylvania (Before the storm)

*Jane’s Carousel in Dumbo

*Walking over the Brooklyn Bridge

*Chasing the cat

*Beautiful Ford

*Dress Rehersal

Flight Pack

24 Friday Feb 2012

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We have yet to try flying with both kids.  An upcoming visit to the West coast has me excited and a bit worried about how to entertain two on the road.  So I filled up Ada’s dog backpack with activities and fun stuff for the flight.  (Top secret to her until takeoff).

*Little Packrats bags are adorable and made in the USA.

*Maurice Sendak’s Nutshell Library- four tiny, poetic stories with detailed illustrations.  We traded their cardboard for a softer pouch.

*Organic fruit snacks from Target.  A rubber band keeps them under control in the bag.

*Sticker and magnet books.  Small enough to fit in a child’s backpack.

*Wild Animal Baby Magazine from the National Wildlife Federation.  Ada gets as excited about a new issue in the mail as I do about my magazines.  This one is small enough for little hands.

*A pristine blank book to fill up with drawings, paintings and stickers.

*Clementine art supplies.  They are non-toxic and come in sweet little packages.

*Pipe Cleaners in Brown Bear Colors.

*A Rabbit and a Mouse.

This should get us through the flight with minimal IPod time.