HOME AND DÉCOR
Tips for decorating a teen girl's bedroom from Bodie and Fou
My friend Karine from Bodie and Fou got in touch last week to share her recent before-and-after renovation project of her daughter, Mila's bedroom. Mila is the same age as my eldest (and she's also really into surfing!) so it's always interesting for me to see the girl version of twelve years old. (I often marvel ...
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PICTURE BOOKS
Guess What? -- A Delightful Board Book Series by Yusuke Yonezu
Guess What? is a series of brilliant lift-the-flap board books (great for ages 0 to 5) filled with pleasant surprises. We own three of the books, Guess What? -- Food, Guess What? -- Fruit, and Guess What? -- Flowers by Yusuke Yonezu and they are simply delightful. Graphic and colourful, they reveal unexpected illustrations. My husband purchased these books ...
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HOME AND DÉCOR
Beautiful, handcrafted furniture from Kalon Studios
My friend, Michaele, and her husband Johann, started Kalon Studios back in 2007 shortly after the birth of their first daughter. They struggled to find a crib that met their needs in terms of design and sustainability, so they decided to create their own. Within a year of creating that first crib, Kalon was winning ...
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THURSDAY THOUGHTS
Do you let your kids walk to school?
Here in Paris not many families own a car, so driving our kids to our local school is not really an option, especially as the traffic is so very bad. We mostly walk, and kids start walking on their own to school from about 8 or 9. My eldest daughter Coco started at 8 as ...
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PREGNANCY
A very big little surprise :)
I am pregnant! The news came as a total surprise, as we weren't planning for another baby at all. In fact, we were very much finished with having more children. I had gone through the emotional period of waving goodbye to the sweet years of having babies. I had come to terms with the fact ...
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RECIPES
Super Easy Bread Recipe that looks Store Bought
Sometimes I feel like all I’m sharing with you is either food or cosmetic recipes but I just can’t help myself – they are just too good not to. And maybe you also noticed one thing in common between all of them? They are super easy and usually also quick to make. I have so ...
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INTERVIEWS
5 Questions with Amelia from A Gifted Baby
At Babyccino we are lucky enough to work with not just the loveliest products, but also with the most lovely of people. Amelia is most certainly one of them. She’s the lady behind the beautiful A Gifted Baby online boutique, a wonderful destination for stylish baby and children's clothing and accessories from socially conscious designers, ...
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WEEKEND GETAWAYS
Weekend Getaway: Lisbon, Portugal
Crystal Sawatzky and her husband have six children, aged 13 to 3. Originally from Canada, they moved to Europe in 2015 to spend a couple years slowly traveling throughout Europe in an effort to better understand old cultures and find new community. Over the last couple years, they've spent time visiting family in Northern Ireland, ...
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FASHION
Stay and Bird, organic sweatshirts with sweet illustrations
As I'm writing this, I hear the wind howling outside and the rain is coming down in buckets from the sky. It seems that autumn is upon us here in Amsterdam! Even though I love summer (I find it by far the easiest season), I also like the specific characteristics of the other seasons. (Even ...
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