Perfect Town: March 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Pucker Up

You need to get this NOW:

It will literally make your lips as smooth as silk! Put it on before you go to bed and after a few nights, you will notice a big difference! I love how smooth it makes my lips.

You can find it at your nearest Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus and Sephora. You can also find it here and here.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

More St. Patrick's Day Cheer!

In case you were wondering about my other nephew, here's Brooks wishing you all a Happy St. Patrick's Day! He turns 6 months old today!

Even though he's wearing green, I still want to pinch him...he's just SO cute!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

These pictures made my heart melt when my sister sent them to me. Remember my post last week on the St. Patrick's Day books I sent to my nephews? This is why I LOVE giving them books. Look at their imagination run wild! Here's my oldest nephew, Chase, reading the book, The Night Before St. Patrick's Day:

Chase - 2.5 years old

He is intently looking at the page in the book where the kids set several traps for the leprechaun!

Check out the trap he made to catch a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day! Notice the shiny cookie cutter on top of the box to attract the leprechaun? Apparently leprechauns like shiny objects.

He made a set of stairs with some of his blocks and he even used small ladders because leprechauns are small. Is this kid smart or what? (OK, I'm a little biased.)

Here Chase shows us what happens to the leprechaun when it tries to get the shiny object...

He falls in the box!

I hope that all of you are able to capture your own leprechaun and that you have a great St. Patrick's Day too!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Going Green!

I can't believe that it's already March. We all know what happens in March...St. Patrick's Day! My days of drinking green beer are LONG over. Now that I have 2 adorable nephews in my life, I love to get them excited about fun holidays like this.

The other day I picked up a few books for them to help them learn more about St. Patrick's Day:

I was surprised at how many choices there were when it came to St. Patrick's Day books in the children's section at my local bookstore. The two I picked were The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing and Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola, one of my favorite illustrators.

In The Night Before St. Patrick's Day, my nephews will read about a brother and sister who are trying to catch a leprechaun. In the photo below, the mom has made them green eggs for the holiday. My mom used to make us green eggs, green milk and send us to school with sandwiches made on green bread!

They decide to make traps to catch the leprechaun and to lure the him into the trap, they make sure to use shiny objects (which leprechauns apparently like).

Since receiving the book, my almost 3 year old nephew has called me to talk all about leprechauns and how he wants to catch one! He even made a trap this weekend including a shiny object! I love watching his imagination and vocabulary grow with each new book.

In the second book, Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato, we read about Jamie and how he grows a GIANT potato. It's big enough to feed his whole town!

Tomie dePaola has always been one of my favorite children's author and illustrator. His stories are always classics!

So if you have some little ones in your life, run out and get them some fun treats for this fun, green holiday!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Design Goals 2010

Sorry for falling off the face of the earth! Life got busy and things got in the way which meant that blogging was put on the back burner. I'm back and hope to be writing a little more regularly now. I hope you missed me!

I love to decorate and I am always moving things around in my house - furniture, accessories, you name it. Something I've been wanting to get better at in 2010 is accessorizing and in particular layering and creating small vignettes around my house to complete the look. So, this has become one of my deign goals in 2010.

These vignettes or tablescapes can be created almost anywhere - on an entry table, a mantle, bedside table, bookshelf, dresser....the possibilities are endless.

Here are a few examples. I hope they get your creative juices flowing too!