You Are My Fave

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You Are My Fave

Here are some pictures of the "Favorite Things" party we held this weekend at Little Farm.  The weather was beautiful and the cows were hungry. Our adult guests were treated to a delicious picnic lunch complete with fried chicken, potato salad, coleslaw and biscuits.  The kids snacked on prepacked lunches including peanut butter and honey sandwiches with the crusts cut off which I wrapped in wax paper and sealed with a quick custom masking tape.  The hit of the party was the kids table which I decorated with kraft paper and a few of Wylie's favorite things like trains, dinosaurs and a bag of costumes (including capes).  It also housed the cupcakes, vanilla with vanilla frosting, which were topped with miniature figurines of zoo and farm animals, and more dinosaurs.  I made an animal food station packed in the boys Ikat Easter Baskets, which we used to bag portions of food to feed the cows, goats, sheep and chickens. At the end of the day, the kids took home their W favor bags filled with animal crackers.

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Give Me Shelter

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Give Me Shelter

One of my favorite scenes from a movie took place inside a house-tent in The Royal Tenenbaums.  Richie and Margot sat listening to "She Smiled Sweetly" by The Rolling Stones and shared a real moment. It was an illuminated hideaway in their otherwise chaotic childhood home.  I think I've secretly wanted a little tent in my house ever since.  Fast forward 11 years.  My son Wylie has the tiniest shoe box of a room.  It holds a crib, a small dresser and wardrobe.  It's never been a place for him to hang out. His birthday is today and I presented him with his very own little teepee tent for his room.  I've been working on it all week. It's made from eco-felt, dowels and twine. I tried my hand at a little hand textile design using an oil based fabric pen  I'll put up a tutorial update to this post soon. For now, here's some more pictures...

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Party Animal

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Party Animal

This Saturday is my baby's 2nd birthday Party.  For his first we hired a singing cowboy and had a spaghetti western.  This year we'd planned on a party at small farm located in Tilden Park.  He's obsessed with animals.  We've been talking about his birthday a lot over the last few weeks and he's had some things to say about what he wants (including a dinosaur cake and a choo choo train).  I thought it would be kind of fun to morph this into a "Few Of My Favorite Things" theme. I'm trying to keep it simple, and it's staying at the farm, but I'll be incorporating some of his requests into the day.  I made the favor bags today.  They are a nod to his love of animals, but between us, he gets a box of animal crackers every Monday when we do our weekly grocery shopping trip.  I made the bags from mill cloth sacks and block printed them using a simple stamp handmade from some craft foam glued to cardboard. I also printed brown bags for pre-packed lunches for the kids and and to hold the celery and lettuce they'll feed the animals.  

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Getting It Together

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Getting It Together

I was curious.  I saw people posting sets from Polyvore featuring items that are not in their bank of images, which are limited mostly to fashion.  How could this be? After a little poking around on their site, I found a "clip to Polyvore" button for my toolbar. This may be common knowledge, but in the off chance I'm not the only one who hadn't figured this out, here's the link.

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