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08 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Some images from the last few weeks…

*Huge Vintage Quilt Hoop in our Etsy shop.  I like this hanging on the wall on its own.

*Spindles from a beautiful custom screen door made by Vintage Doors.  All of their doors are made by hand in the US.

*Wild Rose detail from an Antique Victorian Painting.  Women often painted as a hobby in the early 1900s and I love the look these slightly folky flower paintings.

*Empty Carnegie Hall.  We took the kids to a violin concert this weekend.  It was inspiring for four of us, and not for the youngest of us.

*Antique Ironstone Cup with ‘Safe Harbour’ transfer design.  The perfect toothbrush holder.

*Antique White Petticoat.  I love wearing these as skirts in the summer, especially at the beach and for walks on the board walk.

*Vintage sailboat painting.  I bought this to sell and then couldn’t part with it.  The colors are pretty perfect.

*Antique safety glass in the front door at the Ocean Grove House.

*Vintage Clewell copper-coated pot.  I had never seen one of these before.  It has a pottery vessel inside and a copper coating for a skin.  So cool!

 

 

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21 Friday Mar 2014

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Happy Friday and Happy Spring!

I think I saw our tulip shoots push up another inch or two yesterday. I need to get out back and remove my over-zealous straw mulching from the fall.  This is our second year of growing a garden and we get very excited when plants actually grow out back.  I think I even see the start of flowers on one of my hellebore plants, which everyone else in our neighborhood seems to be able to grow except us thus far…Maybe this is our year.  One of our bee hives was bringing in lots of pollen this week.  I am so amazed that those girls know when and where to find the tiniest bit of pollen in the otherwise gray landscape.  I need to take a peek inside and see if we need to feed a bit more before the flowers really start providing nectar.  We are keeping fingers crossed for a warm weekend.  Hooray for Spring!

Instagrams from the week:

*Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

*Headband Crown Production for the lovely Acorn Toy Shop

*Ice Cream Weather, Ample Hills

*Long Shadows

*Dare

*Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

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Flea Market Finds: Heavy Metal

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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119CarLettesFront107SpoonsFront107Numbers2We have been gathering lots of vintage and antiques the last few weeks and posting them to our Etsy shop.  I am loving the color of these silver metals.  The Car Letters and House Numbers are such great graphic shapes.  I love how the font style tells a story about the era they came from.  The letters from automobiles practically scream style and speed, while the older house numbers seem neat and pretty, but also practical and simple.  These pieces look great in a group on a mantel, and I like how their shapes and lines play off of each other.  These Antique Coin Silver Spoons make me smile.  They were made in the 1850s in Haverhill, Massachusetts.  They are monogrammed on the back and were used for many, many years by the same family.  I imagine the spoons being used at the family table and lovingly cleaned and polished.  The smallest spoon is only 3 5/8″ long and would have probably been used to spoon bits of salt.  So sweet! Here are their pretty monograms:107Spoons
We are looking forward to spring and green and, (just as importantly), stoop sale weather!  Just one more week of winter!  Keep your eyes open for more vintage treasures coming soon.

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DIY Watercolor Wrapping Paper

25 Tuesday Feb 2014

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I ran upstairs to wrap presents for Josie the other day and realized that although we were well-stocked with holiday paper, we were fresh out of anything appropriate for a birthday.  Dare was napping, so I had a few minutes of quiet to get creative.  This splatter paper took me less than ten minutes to make and I was happy the results.  To make your own Watercolor Wrapping Paper you will need:

*Roll of Blank Paper (We used a roll from Ikea that is for the girls’ easel)

*Watercolor or Acrylic Paints

*Medium-sized Paint Brush

*Water

1. Unroll paper.

2. Mix paint and water until it is the desired color. (The more water you use, the fainter the color will be when dry).

3. Splatter the paint on to the paper with the brush.  Change water and wash brush between color changes to keep paint from looking muddy.

4. Allow paint to dry.

5. Wrap!  Seam binding is my favorite gift-wrapping ribbon.Splatter3Splatter4Splatter6

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21 Friday Feb 2014

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Happy Friday!

I have been with only one baby for a few days and must admit it feels like such a vacation!  The two oldest girls went to Nan and Pappy’s house for the school break week and Dare and I have been hanging out and crossing things off of our lists.  How ironic that when we were first-time parents we were too new to realize that having only one baby was simple.  Here is a bit of our week:

*Dare, Sitting Up.  She has officially figured it out.

*Orange, 2014.  I’ve been listing some of my paintings for sale on our Etsy shop.

*Aztec, MarieBelle in Soho

*Daddy and Dare

*Decorating for Josie’s Birthday Week

*Liberty Prints, Purl Soho

Have a great weekend!

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17 Monday Feb 2014

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I hope you are having a good long weekend if you had the day off. Here are some Instagrams from our last few days:

*Valentine Decorations and Vintage Metal Sign

*Dare Learning to Sit Up

*Snow.  Again.

*Museum of Natural History

*Giant Snowman in the Back Yard

*Sleepy Dare

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31 Friday Jan 2014

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Happy Friday!

We are looking forward to a weekend around the neighborhood, with rare above-freezing temperatures.

Here are some Instagrams from our last couple of weeks:

*Dare and Josie on an Ikea Run.  (What else could we do in this weather?)

*Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery, Maine

*Flamingo, Bed-Stuy

*Pretty Tag, Bed-Stuy

*Running Through Ikea (Our second trip in two weeks)

*Sleepy Dare

*The New Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth NH

*Car Wash

*The Friendly Toast, Portsmouth

We stayed in a beautiful historic old house last weekend in Portsmouth.  Chris found it on Air B&B and I would be happy to share the link if anyone is interested.

Have a lovely weekend!

Ikea Finds: Spotted Duvet

06 Monday Jan 2014

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One of our favorite gifts from Santa this year was this spotted linen PS 2012 Ikea duvet cover.  (Yes, Santa and Ikea do work together at times – see our DIY Teepee post).  I was looking for something that would make it easy for the girls to make their own beds and these covers are so pretty and bright.  The multi-colored dots make our white bunk beds look so cheery.  There may be lumps of stuffed friends under the covers, but the girls have been sleeping soundly and then making their own beds in the mornings.  (Here is the post for this cute little DIY Stuffed Bunny Toy).

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04 Saturday Jan 2014

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Happy 2014!

I hope you all are having a wonderful new year so far.  We have snow here on the East Coast and it feels all cozy and wintery around here.  Here are some recent Instagrams:

*Back Yard Snow

*Dare Inside the Fort (Long lengths of tulle are perfect fort building material)

*Sleepy Dare (The New Native Sling is still our favorite piece of baby equipment after five years.  It knocks my girls out every time, and folds up to fit in a diaper bag)

*Shrinky Dinks! (I had totally forgotten about these until Aunt Laurel gave Ada some for her birthday – so fun!)

*Bunk Beds

*Big Girl Dare

Have a great rest of your weekend!

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03 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Ada would not let it go.  She begged daily for a haircut until we finally reluctantly gave in last week.  Her hair had been given only two small trims in her five years and now she wanted to cut it short.  I cried a bit for a couple of days, and then made an appointment.  I warned her I would be a wreck at the salon.  We realized her ponytail may be long enough to send to Wigs For Kids and she liked the idea of donating her hair to another child.  When Ada sat in the big chair and we measured and snipped I saw her instantly grow up a little bit.  Although it was just hair and it would grow back, there was something magic in that moment.  This new short hair of hers marked one of many points where we as parents have to let go, trust that we have done our job, and then let our children be their own people.