Cutest Video of little french girl

Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.
I remember watching this video when it was first very popular and I found it again and I absolutely love it. This little girl reminds me of myself when I was little when my imagination was so wonderful I could tell neverending stories that just came out of nowhere. I especially love hearing her french it's even more adorable!

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Let Amy Butler inspire you...

Thanks to sfgirlbybay I was introduced to Amy Butler's inspiration page. The photos are so colorful and beautiful they are sure to inspire you to be artistic or at least introduce some color into your life! They remind me of summer and beach houses. Visit Amy Butler's shop for sewing patterns, fabric, books, stationary and more.

A Few of My Favorite Things...02.02.2011

 Making paper flowers...this was Martha Stewart's tissue paper flower making kit I bought a looong time ago and finally made them! I love them now and they are in a vase in my living room.

This is a tray that I decoupaged over the original image with magazine clippings I had saved and a quote I liked. I love collages and decoupaging and I hadn't done it in quite some time so this was really fun!

These squishy blocks from Target. I bought them for Baby V for Christmas and I didn't know if he would even really play with them but they are great. I can stack them up and he knocks them over and they can't hurt him and he squeezes them and chews on them. Plus they look cute.

And lastly, these pictures of Baby V. He is getting enormous!! My mom bought him this funny hat at a children's consignment store and then Daddy is holding him up to see the crazy amounts of snow we have been getting lately!

Little House in a Hill

, whimI've always been partial to thatched roofs. I've fantasized about living in a little house carved into a hill since I saw an illustration of one on the cover of one of the Little House on the Prairie books when I was little. So when I came across an old article on ohdeedoh about a family who built an eco-friendly version of my dream home I was ecstatic if not very jealous! It is incredible, beautiful, rustic, fairy-tale like, and good for the environment! Visit the couple's website to see more about their home, and their other projects.

These are some similar buildings featured on their website:

Fab Artist: Melissa Nucera "This Years Girl"

I actually came across this artist's photographs through Etsy's little program that finds things for you based on your taste. I want the Little Prince series for Baby V's new nursery! I am beyond excited to start decorating his nursery when we move into our new place. Up until now he has just been living in our room with us in our one bedroom loft apartment and finally we are getting a proper two bedroom. Melissa Nucera's Etsy shop called This Years Girl has gorgeous altered photographs that she sells as prints, pins, cards, and even adorable lockets.

Aren't these beautiful? I think the little animal prints lined up on Baby V's wall would look amazing. Check out more of her work at her shop.

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Fab Artist: Wendy Wallin Malinow

One day while perusing the book store with my literary aunt when I was a little girl I found the most beautiful book I had ever seen on a table display. I loved fairies, and unicorns, and magic so this book seemed like the perfect book to me. It was intricately and colorfully illustrated in a way I had never seen before. The story was a long, mystical, and whimsical poem and best of all, at the back of the book was a little fold up fairy box you could make for fairies to live in! The book was Fairies from A to Z written by Adrienne Keith and Illustrated by Wendy Wallin Malinow. I still have it and read it to my baby the other day although he is clearly too young to appreciate it right now. Unfortunately, the book is out of print but there are couple used copies being sold on Amazon and I would scoop those up ASAP especially if you have a little girl who would love it! So I looked up the artist and she also has some sculptural and jewelry work on her website.

Her site does not even do her artwork justice but here are a couple of her illustrations from the site:

Visit her website for more of her amazing work and to see what other books she has illustrated.

Up & Away

I just found this image and it made me think of the movie Up.

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We rented the movie a few weeks ago and I thought it was really cute. It's a little bizarre because in the beginning it seems more like an adult movie than for kids even though it is animated. However, in the middle of the movie it gets very silly and sort of loses the adult appeal. Overall though it was entertaining and has a sad but good ending!



Fab Artist: Alain Delorme

 I adore this collection of photographs by Alain Delorme that I found via Black Eiffel. They remind me of one of my favorite books as a little kid called On Market Street by Arnold Lobel.

 

He also has a collection called Little Dolls. These photos are sort of ethereal and creepy but captivating at the same time. 

Blanket Forts

I remember every time we had a thunder & lightning storm when we were kids, my brother and I would make a blanket fort in the house. We would often bring books and stuffed animals in and I remember them as safe and cozy retreats! I hope one day Baby V can enjoy them as well. This memory inspired me to search for other people's forts.

Sources: Fort 1, Fort 2, Fort 3, Fort 4, Fort 5, Fort 6, Fort 7

Beautiful Objects

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Gorgeous blown glass ornaments filled with feathers at Kate's Paperie.

I also found this precious knitting suitcase that I am in love with among all the beautiful paper products.



Flickr Photostream

This is one of the photos I took in Sandwich, New Hampshire from the view from our porch! This was just added to my new photostream at Flickr.

Garlic & Arts Festival

This was our third annual visit to the Garlic & Arts Festival in Orange, MA. It is the culmination of all of the things I love in life, good food (garlic-y food!), beautiful arts & crafts, fiber & yarn, animals, sustainable living, gardening, and baby clothes & toys! I tried to snap pictures here and there. Over the next couple days I'm going to feature a couple of our favorite vendors from the festival that we make sure to visit each year.