Happiest New Year Wishes!!

I hope your holiday was super special and filled with family, friends, and food!

Wishing all you mamas out there a happy and healthy new year! Wishing you a year that brings only joy, success, and fulfillment - to each of you respectively. May this year bring you pure serenity - in mind, body, and soul... a year of health, wealth, and happiness. A year of achievement; success in all you set out to accomplish. And most of all, a bountiful year of motherly nachas!

This play shofar was the easiest DIY ever. It's cut out of felt, glue gun-ed, stuffed with cotton balls, and a party blower top. Brought heaps of fun to my little toddlers Rosh Hashanah interpretation. : )

Eames + Eat

Found this Eames High Chair Hack very amusing.

By designer Tim Peet.

Kosher (or not) Animal room Decor

I'm sorry I've been a bit MIA as of late: I'm filling in for a friend of mine who had a baby last month, and I'm taking over her Pre-K class for the first month of school. Been busy in and out, setting up the classroom and doing some holiday project prep for the peewees... I've had preschool design on the mind lately (my sister-in-law is opening up a 3-year-old class out of her home this year, an up-and-coming preschool contacted me about consulting with them for some of the design, and I've been preoccupied trying to turn an ever-so-typical preschool classroom into a warm, colorful, and peaceful space). When I've got a specific space on my mind - I don't stop seeing things for it!

Stumbled upon a print shop that does the most beautiful work with animal photography! I love what these charming captures can do for the ambience of a preschool/kids space. Anyplace from a child's nursery, playroom, classroom etc. would do well with a bit of natural, still-life art/photography. It's said to psychologically bring out the best of compassion within children.

They have a great variety of kosher animals:

But I can't deny, my favorite is this adorable baby porcupine: (!!)

From The Animal Print Shop, by Sharon Montrose.

Daddy Duty

An adorable sketch-up of what goes on when mom volunteers to "get the ice cream" and daddy says he'll "watch the kids". Gotta make you smile. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOfy5LDpEHo&feature=player_embedded]

The Butterfly Effect

I've been having some trouble feeding Freida lately... she's really not all that interested. She wants snacks all day (in toddler-tongue it come out "want sax! want sax" which has proven to be disturbingly inappropriate and publicly embarrassing!), but refuses to cooperate in proper food consumption. The frustration has resulted in me feeding her sandwiches in fun little cutouts. But what to do with the remains (aside from inhaling them)?? Send any good idea this way...