Wee Wonderfuls

what's new?

Lots of stuff! New site design & a new header (click on through and check it out), we're now 3 columned and have a new list, "what we're reading" that I'm going to try to update every few weeks. Also new is our logo! Our logo font was getting a bit over used so Tim made us one from scratch. It's got a swoosh and everything! Also new, like I mentioned below are our new etsy shop and craft it up stickers and the main reason we wanted to start an etsy, a new doll design. I've been wanting forever to sell dolls again, in addition to patterns, and what better place to sell one of a kind originals than etsy. So if this CPSIA business gets sorted out I hope to have the shop stocked with this gal and her friends.

wee wonderfuls on etsy!

wee wonderfuls on etsy!, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.

okay, that's only been on our to-do list for over a year! only two products so far but one of them is the long awaited (by me) reprint of the craft it up stickers.

1958 is our year

1958 is our year, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.

I bought Tim this calendar towel to hang in our kitchen. '58 is our year. Our house was built in 1958. Then we started noticing that more often than not when we buy something old off ebay or at the thrift store or whatever it's from 1958. Evidently that was our year, even if we weren't around to see it.

inspiring me: new books

Santa brought us some wonderful new childrens books that I've been wanting to post for a while now. I'm going to start a list of favorites over on our new second sidebar, which is in the works. Here are some now while I wait...

When You Were Small is one of our all time favorites so I was so excited to get Where You Came From for Oscar this year and it does not disappoint. It's so cute and clever and Julie Morstad's illustrations are just gorgeous.

Mix and Match Animals by Mique Moriuchi is so fuzzy and so so cute! Phoebe loves it. She's obsessed with all the fuzzy feely flippy types of books. We both love flipping through to find our favorite animals mixes. And I so want to make a bippy or a squitten.

And lastly for today, these books by Utaka Yamada, who btw designs adorable fabric for Kokka, were a gift from Santa Julia. They're killing me with their cute. Thanks Julia! We love any excuse to use our fake french accents.

here is the bus of bunny friends

inspiring me: ebay finds

inspiring me: bright colors

No surprise that the constant cover of white outside is making me crave brights. This pile of doll quilts is making me especially happy.

inspiring me: tim walker pictures

A most wonderful birthday present from my Tim, Tim Walker Pictures. It's just about the most inspiring book I've ever seen. And maybe the biggest book I've ever owned. I love it so so much. And it's like this special treat because I never have enough time to read it and I won't take it out when the kids are awake so I've been savoring it in little bits.

tiny trashy barbie tries to reinvent herself in hip new digs

for a doll a week

take that wii

We're on an unscheduled second winter break over here. Two too cold for school days last week and a holiday and teacher's day this week and we're back in holiday mode. Oscar was showing some disturbing wii addiction symptoms so Tim pulled out this game that used to keep him entertained in his youth, rah rah monsters. These poor little guys are in constant peril, mostly from tanks. Oscar's been huddled on the floor, sharpie in hand for two days now. He's head to toe in marker and black stamp pad ink but he's the calmest and happiest I've seen him in weeks.

And as an added benefit, we finally get a turn.

socks to tights

Evidently I don't know how to shop. I can never find anything, like tights for Phoebe. I'm stumped. I was really stumped right before Christmas and in desperate need of some holiday tights so I improvised. I cut the legs off some white tights and sewed knee socks to the ends. I sewed a little foot shape at the end and voila. Striped tights. They're a little funky at the foot but they look cute with her boots and they'll definitely do in a pinch. Now where does one find cute baby tights?!