LOS ANGELES
Announcing a new Babyccino City Guide: sunny Los Angeles!
Get ready for your next family adventure! We are super excited to add another city to our wonderful city guide series! The hip, sunny, family-friendly Los Angeles! Our new LA-based contributor, Stephanie Hauptli, has spent the past few months gathering content and writing reviews for her favourite places to eat, things to do, shops to visit, ...
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LOS ANGELES
Family photos by Marisa Vitale and some highlights from Los Angeles
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we spent a week in LA back in September and stayed in the beautiful home owned by Peter James and Marisa Vitale. Marisa is a talented family photographer and offered to snap some photos of our family while we were in town. I jumped at the chance to get ...
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LOS ANGELES
Our stay in LA, with Kid & Coe
We recently spent a sunny week in Los Angeles to mark the start of our year-long adventure. We had moved from LA to London twelve years ago, so it was nice to go back and spend some time exploring the city again, to spend time with friends and family and to get a feel for what ...
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SERVICES
Kid & Coe, a vacation rental website for families!
I am really, super excited about the recent launch of Kid & Coe, a vacation rental website featuring stylish family homes all over the world. Imagine travelling to New York, Paris, San Francisco, Copenhagen... Mexico even (!) and being able to stay in a family home, complete with child-sized beds, toys for your kids, a ...
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HOME AND DÉCOR
Looking Dapper
There is a little shop in Encinitas, California (where I used to live) called m.o.m that has the most adorable decor pieces, accessories and handmade clothes for children. They often use one-of-a-kind fabrics with fun prints for their items. I bought the most adorable pink striped tie for one of the favorite little boys in ...
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KIDS
Little Warrior
Little Warrior is a sweet children's line out of Los Angeles. The Spring/Summer '12 Lookbook is adorable and perfectly captures the feeling of endless childhood days. I love all of the super-soft unique silhouettes and the muted palette. Little Warrior just opened a boutique in Hollywood over the weekend. If you are in the neighborhood, ...
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LOS ANGELES
Welcome Elizabeth in Los Angeles!
I was first introduced to Elizabeth Antonia when I discovered her blog about a year ago (perhaps you remember this blog post, which was inspired by a post she wrote!). I have since become enamoured with her life in LA, her relationship with her gorgeous daughter, the traveling she does, and the refreshing take on ...
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FOOD
Summer Sweetness: Upside Down Fig Cake
Living in Los Angeles, we’re so fortunate to have an abundance of fresh, organic and local produce year round. You can find farmer’s markets every day of the week in a multitude of L.A. neighborhoods with readily available, inspiring ingredients. One of the ingredients that I get particularly excited about each year is the fig. ...
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LOS ANGELES
Welcome, Kaela... Welcome LA!!
It's funny how sometimes you can meet somebody and within hours chat as if you've known each other for years. This happened when I met Kaela in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago. Good thing she was forced to stay in town for an extra few days due to the strange phenomenon of an Icelandic ...
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