Threadless

07/08/2010

The other day I saw on Modern Kiddo that Threadless Kids was having a sale on kid tees, onesies and hoodsies. (Sorry it’s over now.) Are you familiar with Threadless? Graphic designers can submit t-shirt designs and if they get enough fan votes they’re made into t-shirts. That makes for a lot of creative clothing! (They have adult sizes, too.)

Is it too early to start buying things for my future niece or nephew? I do have a couple of friends who are having a babies in the fall. Plus, some cuties I know will be turning 1 in August. And my nephew will be 2 in October. (Yeah, I know … it’s only July.) But it’s still fun to look! Here are all the ones I put in my cart but don’t have in the budget to buy:

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Babies Rock

07/06/2010

Since I now have an excuse to have babies on my brain, I’ve been keeping an eye out for all things baby-cool.

Check out this multifunctional bassinet/rocker called Koo that I saw on Design Milk. Baby sleeps in the bassinet until feeding time. Mom can rock baby back to sleep after nursing. Smart, huh?

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Babies

05/11/2010

Tonight my mom and I went to see the movie Babies. On the way we talked about babies, getting pregnant, cooky baby names. It was a funny girls night. I wish my sister could have been with us!

The documentary was cute – lots of oohs and awes and chuckles at baby antics. If you delight in watching babies play and learn and interact, you’ll enjoy watching this. There is no plot or dialog so it’s tempting to keep whispering back and forth about this antic or that observation.

The style of documentary reminded me of March of the Penguins (I’m one of the few who enjoyed that movie and didn’t fall asleep watching it.) I’d recommend it for what it is.

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Rockin’ Baby Party

03/03/2010

The theme of the baby shower my sister-in-law and I threw on Sunday was a Rockin’ Baby Party. BR, the mama we were showering, used to play bass in Jason’s band and her hubby is a musician too. (How rare in Nashville, I know …) I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking.

Excited parents.

Soon to be big brother (on the right) got some presents, too.

Adorable little girl helped BR open some presents.

I’d really like to get a better camera. I blame my bad photographs mostly on my camera.

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Babies and Elephants

08/26/2009

It seems like every few weeks I find out another friend is pregnant. Does that just happen at my age or are A LOT of people pregnant right now?

The best part of having pregnant friends is, of course, babies! Last week I got to meet 2 new babies!

Mikaelyn:

mikaelyn

and Benjamin:

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I had to patiently wait 2.5 weeks to meet handsome little Benjamin. (He lives out of town.) But it was worth the wait! Mikaelyn, on the other hand, I had the privilege of meeting 1 day after she was born. How cool is it to hold a newborn baby?? I’m so AMAZED at the miracle of life — to be able to hold a little bugger that just INSIDE my friend the day before. It blows my mind. God is so awesome!

I sewed Mikaelyn a fleece elephant pillow:

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mika_ele2

Her room is decorated in an elephant theme and I really wanted to come up with a design that was an “M” and also an elephant. (Can you tell I’m a graphic designer?) After a couple of days of searching and sketching, I found this inspiration finally:

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I hope she likes it!

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Jason and I look pretty good with one of these, don’t you think?

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Though I do have to say, if our future-someday-theoretical baby comes out with a full head of dark hair like these 2 did, I’ll be completely shocked!

I was making the elephant pillow WHILE Mikaelyn was bring delivered so I didn’t pause long enough to take step-by-step photos. However, if anyone is interested, I can draw up instructions. Just let me know!

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