#36 Warning: Extreme Cuteness.

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C x

Oh my.
So cute.
If I ever have a daughter, I will give her a typewriter.

#34 Q&A

I know it's not that long since I posted a video but really, it's not my fault.
I just couldn't resist sharing this one too!
Watch it & you'll understand I'm sure.
So funny but also so sweet & so moving...


Q&A from StoryCorps on Vimeo.


Right?

C x

#33 What? Wood Again?

Clearly I love wooden toys.

There is really no point in denying that.

But seriously... Can you blame me?

wooden fruit set & wooden vegetable set by just hatched on etsy

wooden leaf puzzle-fall colours by just hatched

& don't you just love the sneaky education of this leaf puzzle? hehe!

Cx

#32 A Fathers Journey

A photographic series by Phillip Toledano was mentioned quite a lot in my web travels today, eventually curiosity won out over the laziness that was preventing me from tracking it down & I did...
Rather than tell you how you really should read it & why, I will provide you with said link & let you get on with it!

The Reluctant Father

C x

#31 Magic - A Belly Grows

Master C is sleeping, when he wakes up we will watch this together...

Too too cute.


Magic- A Belly Grows from The Panic Room Videos on Vimeo.


C x

*Oh! There's a blog attached to that marvelous video! It's as fabulous as you would expect. Pacing the Panic Room

#30 Those Blue Boots

Bright Blue Space Ship Vintage Gumboots.

Oh for adult sizes!



C x

#29 Little Red Dream

As a child, I guess I had what most would consider 'boyish' tastes.

I loved playing with lego, digging holes to hide out in (weird?), looking for old bottles & cans etc left by miners in the gold rush, getting purposefully lost in the state forest behind our house just so I could try & figure out how to get home - luckily those activities always ended well & I avoided any bottom of a mine shaft incidents!

I loved catching frogs & yabbies (sans net) in the pond out the back of our house more than anything else in the world, & I loved matchbox cars.

I had two favourite cars.

The first was a black english taxi cab, on which the doors opened backwards.

The second, was a little red treasure, which now belongs to Master C.

C x

#28 Babushka Babushka Babushka (yah yaaah)

I saw these online a while ago & promptly forgot about them until seeing them in a store last week...

Uh hello, cute much?!

They're made from some fancy very strong glass (oh I'm so knowledgeable, clearly! It's called borosilicate glass) so I'd be brave enough to let my little one use them.
Another plus, dishwasher safe.
They also, as you can see in the picture, stack inside each other like real babushka dolls, so are very handy for those tight on kitchen storage space.
Whether that be because there isn't much of it or because you have no self control when it comes homewares... *cough cough*
What do you think? Convinced myself?

via latest buy website

C x

#27 Movie Monday (take four)

Another of Master C's favourite clips!

And quite the coincidence that it's movie monday take four?
Ah the timing...



Feist - 1,2,3,4

C x

#26 I Loves A Nice Mobile

Petit Collage has so many cute things, I very much doubt that this will be the last time I post about their lovely lovely goods!


    

        
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You can have more than one mobile right? Like maybe, a whole ceiling full?

C x

#25 Movie Monday (take three)

The sweetest song, the sweetest dance too! It has to be in at least the top 5 highlights of children's films?

Master C watched a movie for the first time a couple of weekends ago, it's the first time he's had the attention span to sit through one, although he was a bit sick too so that very likely had something to do with it...

So he watched "Babe" which is a super cute movie, & even though all the American accents might lead you to believe otherwise, is actually an Australian movie.
He was very impressed!



Bless.

C x

#24 Too Too Cute.

I came across this photo shoot this weekend... Oh so cuteness?!

"the hank turns 2" via lang photographers

For way more gorgeous, do check out the rest of those photos on the website!

How sweet are those braces by the way?!

C x

#22 Movie Monday (take two)

Hang on... a week? It's been a week since my last post???

How did that happen?!

Oops...

This is a fairly popular clip but it's just so cute I can't resist!

Cx

#21 Movie Monday Begins!

So I think I might start doing this every morning?

Affirmations all the way!

C x

#20 Shoesational

Argh! CUTE!!!

What a clever idea right? They just loop in with the laces, so outgrowing shoes needn't mean they outgrow their wings either!

When I saw these in an Etsy article I got very excited, but then I steeled myself to look at the price... believe me when I say I was VERY pleasantly suprised.

At that price, I'm going to get a pair in every colour. hehe

Just as soon as they are back in stock anyhow... Clearly I'm not the only one loving them!

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I'll most definitely be checking back regularly. Master C will think they are awesome.

C x

#19 Baby Shower (sneak peek)

A teeny weeny sneak peek of baby shower no.1 ... Guests of honour - Cheryl & Baby Dos!

photography by cheryl

It was such a wonderful day.

More photos to come soon!

C x

#18 Dreaming with Pretty Dreamer

I'm having such a day of super finds today!

My wish list is getting completely out of control.

Lottery anyone?

Thankfully, Pretty Dreamer is exceptionally kind to the bank balance as well as being exceptionally easy on the eye!

We should start whispering now so that my credit card doesn't hear me coming...

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Sweet little unsuspecting toaster you are mine!

And the boat & serpent...

And the woodcutters axe...

How clever is that stacker of teething rings? Versatile much.

And the birds are teethers too but it's no stretch of the imagination to see that they would be played with long past babyhood.

Dear Pretty Dreamer, how I love thee!

C x

#17 Apple Accessories

I don't know a child who wouldn't love one of these in their lunch box.

How cute are they?!

I would have loved one. Wait, what do I mean would have? hehe

Perhaps I could get a little cosy for every apple in my fruit bowl? Wouldn't want my mandarins to feel left out though... hehe!

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The 1st & 3rd are my favourites.

That little button crossover detail is just adorable.

What makes these even sweeter? The price is nice!

I'll be getting one for sure. I mean, um, Master C will be...

Cx

#16 Cards Cards Cards!

I am a card hoarder.

I have a rather strong dislike for bad/cheesy cards but boy do I love a good'n!

If I see a nice card, even if there is no card-able occasion on the near horizon, I have to get it.

You know, just in case?

Actually this does often lead to me forgetting that I do have, for example, 3 cards already put aside for great aunt Esmeralda's birthday... But can you ever really have too many cards? Nah.

If the situation becomes desperate & you find yourself drowning in beautiful paperworks, well what better excuse to tell someone you love how much they mean to you? For no reason other than that you should do it more often.

By the way, I don't really have a great aunt Esmerelda. Wishing I did?

I'm especially fond of stencil cut cards at the moment.

At the Victoria Markets in Melbourne there is a stand that sells absolutely stunning stencil cut/pop up cards & when we lived there they were a firm favourite of mine.

It can be hard to find a nice card, & most of the time you can count newsagencys out. Although I will concede there can be the odd exception.

I feel it's very important to scope out a reliable beautiful card seller, when we move house I find the local supermarket & my nearest supplier of card loveliness. Can't be getting caught out!

Here's a couple of cute cards that I found on Etsy at Lama Works...

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I like the frog the most, because I love frogs!

I thought these 3 would be especially great cards for kids but there are cards of all kinds in the Lama Works shop.

These cards are ridiculously cheap at $2.50(us) & as a percentage of each sale is donated to the American Cancer Society Charity you can feel even better about buying them in bulk to hoard for that special occasion that is undoubtedly just around the corner... right? ;)

Cx

#15 Tealightful Indeed!

Who doesn't love tea parties?

I certainly do.

I love everything about tea parties, what fanciful fun!

via- mad hatter’s tea party by arthur rackham

At the moment I am SUPER excited to be organising not 1, but 2 baby showers! Yahoo!!!

I have no idea what on earth I could have possibly done to deserve such luck?!

I am so ridiculously thankful to have been bestowed the absolute honour of planning these joyful occasions, & I am doing a ridiculous amount of research to find all of the most gorgeous ideas that I possibly can!

In my web travels to find baby shower gold I stumbled across this sensational little gem of a business...

via - tealightful tea parties

Yes that's right, a mobile high tea service that yes, DOES do baby showers!

Genius.

Uh, excuse me for a moment but how cute is that name!

Too cute.

Tealightful is based in Sydney & Kathryn Gulli the owner/creator & is just lovely.

I think in some ways it's probably for the best that I don't live in Sydney, high tea every weekend sounds mighty nice to me...

Cx

#14 Shel Silverstein

'Where the Sidewalk Ends' has always, & will always, be one of my most favourite books in the whole world.

The 2 books that my mother owned ' Where the Sidewalk Ends' & ' Falling Up'

had a photo in the cover of each that I'll admit, I did stare at a lot!

In my infinite less than 10 year old wisdom, I thought he had the loveliest, most kind eyes I had ever seen.

He was also on my 'if you could invite 3 people to dinner who would they be' list.

Unfortunately he passed away in 1999. I was absolutely devastated.

I had no idea how, but I had felt so sure I would meet him one day...

It's quite impossible to choose a favourite of his poems, but if I had to it would probably be this one, which I would LOVE to have on Master C's wall...

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.

Listen to the don'ts.

Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.

Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

Cx

#13 But Your's Makes Me The Maddest - & That's When I Feel The Gladdest...

This post is especially dedicated, along with a gigantic hug, to the lovely Miss Susan. R who is apparently having an Oscar kind of day...

This Video captures the moment I fell in LOVE.

Now 22 odd years later I still love it (& my James) just as much & it's a firm favourite of Master C's... Gosh my boy has good taste ;)

He likes to play the air guitar... & air piano... & air bass... & air whistle... & air drums... & to DANCE around like a crazy thing.

Lucky I don't have a problem with listening to it on a loop all day!

Did you have a favourite song as a child that you remember?

Cx

#12 Natural Beauty

About a year ago I was shopping with a friend of mine who was pregnant & we came across this beautiful monkey rattle. My son had already far outgrown rattles & therefore I admit that I perhaps helped to twist her rubber arm into buying it for her little bundle so that I could live vicariously through her...

Not that it stopped me from wondering whether it would be too weird to buy it just in case... you know, future babies?

The head wobbles from side to side & makes a little click clacking sound - unusual & very sweet.

The raw beauty of it took my breath away. No stain, no paints, no varnishes -the different coloured woods are simply different varieties of trees in their unaltered colours.

Just Pure.Natural.Beauty.

It even smells nice!

But I think my favourite thing of all about this little rattle, is that feel of it.

The smoothness, the 'warmth' of it... Words just can't describe.

Even now when I visit my friend (No I didn't buy myself one in the end... um, sad face?) I feel absolutely drawn to it. I turn it over and over in my hands & now & then, I give it a little shake...

I think this is one rattle you could never get too old for?!

Fast forward to a couple of months ago & in a local toy store I come across these little people...

The same natural beauty & blissfully, the same heavenly feel...

Quick find the packaging! Find a name! Who is creating these exquisitely sensory toy experiences???

The answer : SOOPSORI.

My new love.

How adorable are these little guys?

Unlike the usual 'cutting cake' this little treat uses not velcro but cleverly concealed magnets. Nifty.

I want to hear this music in my house, don't you?

LOVING this little Dr's set! And since my Master C is apparently a Chef in the making...

This little Robot has elastic cords in his limbs allowing him to be positioned in many ways, & this ridiculously cute fishing set has a winding action reel as well as again having the concealed magnets.

I want them all...

These toys, in my humble opinion, are genuine family heirlooms in the making.

Sublime.

As if the deal needed any more sweetening, they are made from combinations of 20 different timbers, handcrafted at the last stage to take away any sharp edges & given a finishing touch of flaxseed oil. Nothing more.

Both the packaging - & in fact the toys themselves - are 100% recyclable.

AND a percentage of profit goes toward planting trees in third world countries.

What's not to love really?

Cx