This is by far my favorite Superbowl commercial I've seen in years: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0]
Aside from the fact that the folks over at VW totally deliver (in marketing as well as in manufacturing!), this little boy is quite the talented actor!!! Just plain adorable!
Greetings from freezing Chicago!
Sorry I've been MIA over on the blogesphere; we've been busy with heaps of family events and parties! Thankfully we made it to that white winter wedding (it even made the evening news!) in one piece (minimal skidding involved!), and we made sure to party hard with the adorable bride and groom (you can view some pictures of the wedding party here). I haven't had much face-time with my computer this week, apologies for the lack of posts! But here are some links from around the web that I've been meaning to share with you all:
- Dwell Studio now does mobiles.
- PASKEZ Teeny Bits Cookies featured on the Not Martha blog!
- A new and useful mom-in-the-kitchen app.
- Dreaming of springtime in this awesome bracelet...
- An easy ode to Valentine's Day.
- The most adorable little French bow-ties.
Wishing you all another fabulous weekend!! Stay warm my cold-weather compadres!
Happy (belated) Monday everyone! (This image from here had me totally smitten while packing...!)
We're out (and cold!) in Chicago, but it's warm and toastie in this Skokie fortress with all the siblings and cousins filling up these large empty modern spaces of my childhood home! Packing for this weather was so very far from an easy feat. There was just no way to keep to a packing method or system - much too much gear, layers, cold-weather-accessories to keep it light... Left me feeling very out of control! :)
Our flight here was lovely - JetBlue always manages to keep it pleasant! Freida and I inhaled one too many bags of the complimentary Terra Sweet Potato Chips (apparently they moved up and on from the blue tubers), and Manasseh enjoyed the (all kosher!) contents of their ShapeUp box. While those super-cool seat-back TV's are highly convenient (and we enjoyed plenty of Food Network, ESPN, HGTV, and TVland; Freida is still feasting on Yo Gabba Gabba, so we made sure to download a few new episodes on iTunes (and print out a few Gabbaland themed coloring sheets, as well). Also, I make sure I got at least the bare minimum of these in-flight favorites!
Now that we are finally here and settled in, it looks as though the weather will be shacking us up for quite some time.... I'm quoting the news-folk here, "potentially the biggest storm this country has ever seen."!! While we will be trekking out to the wedding on Wednesday night (someway, somehow!), we most definitely will not be getting out much before then. Tonight we stocked up with the makings for s'mores, grilled sandwiches, soups, plenty of Netflix and magazines, and, of course, hot cocoa. And I'm being real thankful my mother kept all the great retro toys we played with as kids - the basement is grandchild-grand-central!
P.S. If you've ever been delayed while flying JetBlue and found yourself wondering why.... :)
I mentioned Confetti System long ago here (when they initiated their collaboration with UO), and we've all seen them grow in popularity (J. Crew display window and catalogues, on stage with Beach House, and even Bergdorf Goodman!), but now it seems they have seriously achieved pop-culture cult-like status! I give credit where it's due, but I don't think I've ever really gotten the enormity of their work until I caught a glimpse of this image: a fringed will for Nanashi in Paris. This is the sort of textural and beatific detailed-design that makes my heart beat a little faster...!
I'm also smitten by that color palette! Where to integrate....hmm....
Firstly, how cool? Also, honestly speaking, what really made me look was the little "pear" logo in the backside of the laptop! :) http://vimeo.com/17303749
Wishing the best of luck to all you jetting around the country during this holiday break - especially those of you who have been stranded on the islands of NYC!!!! Traveling with your brood is bound to be difficult, check out some of my favorite in-flight necessities here.
