Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 1:34AM Whatever fashions you’re sporting today, may they make you feel like a beautiful Irish rose….
(personal photo)
st patrick's day in Bloggy Misc Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 12:39AM I am not part of the e-book generation. You’ll have to pry a bound paper book from my cold, dead hands. (Or however that quote goes.) But this whimsical fabric cover is almost cute enough to convert me:
Fabric cover for a leather-covered ebook from Handmade Mommy (as seen on Whipup). Have an ebook without a hard leather cover? Check out this tutorial for a padded Kindle sleeve.
craft tutorial, ebook cover in Tutorials Monday, March 15, 2010 at 5:32PM I am sick, so this is a “phoning it in” post. But here are some highly recommended links.
(I love this. Via Awkward Family Photos.)
If you enjoy food blogs, get thee immediately to Salad in a Jar. I borrowed one of her photos for my instant espresso post, then stuck around for her beautifully designed blog full of appealing recipes. I predict a best-selling cookbook in her future.
Stroller Traffic offers tidbits on baby products and ideas, via email or Web. There are local editions for NYC, Dallas, and LA, and an “everywhere” list for everyone else. It’s new, but promisingly stylish.
“The Weight I’m Still Carrying is From a Baby Named Krispy Kreme.” Just discovered the odd mix of humor, cursing, and deep thoughts in F—- Yeah, Motherhood. I expected something funny from this lighthearted title, and came away truly touched.
Lost watchers, have you discovered The Final Season of Lost as Seen By Someone Who Has Never Seen Lost? Highly entertaining. Start at Episode 1.
Blog Love Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:49AM Is spring taking forever to reach your corner of the world? Perhaps these lovely paper flowers could get you by until the real version arrives….
Tutorial and photo from Jeffrey Rudell on CraftStylish (August ‘08).
P.S. Have paper flowers down cold and looking for a more ambitious project? Check out this amazing chandelier that Jeffrey Rudell created for a Christmas window at Tiffany & Co!
Jeffrey Rudell, craft tutorial, paper flowers in Crafts, Tutorials Monday, March 8, 2010 at 3:20AM Thanks to one and all for your kind messages of congratulation for surviving a year with Wallaby. (Or were you sending her congratulations for surviving a year under our care?) Not to overwhelm you with photo posts, but a few friends and family demanded messy-cake-face photos from Elsa’s 1st birthday, so….
We began the evening’s festivities by getting Elsa into her Birthday Shirt. She then put on her party face. (Which, like her game face, her greeting face, and most others, involves two bottom teeth and a RAWR.)
We had dinner with Mr T’s family at a tasty Malaysian restaurant, and then were off to National Geographic to see the Terra Cotta Warriors of Xi’an. Elsa was tired, and the exhibition did not end well.
But after a few minutes’ rest in the car, she was ready for her birthday cupcake! We purchased an almond-y yellow cake with chocolate frosting because the flavor was called Birthday Cupcake. Not shown: Mommy and Daddy’s own cupcakes and large frozen yogurt, because we couldn’t let our child eat alone, and because the place serves both and, um, the yogurt had fruit on top and fruit is good for you.
Here’s the Before:
During:
And After. Not actually as messy as I feared, given the chocolate frosting. Though we did have to wash down the walls. (By the way, according to The Internets, the best way to get chocolate out of clothing is to treat the stain with either dishwashing detergent or milk. Who knew?)
Mmmm, chocolate-covered babies are tasty!
And finally, for those of you who just can’t get enough of La Wallaby (i.e., her grandparents), here’s a special bonus not-especially-exciting-but-kind-of-cute-all-the-same cupcake video:
Baby With Cupcake, First Birthday in Baby Pics, Wallaby Friday, March 5, 2010 at 11:15PM 365 days ago, I started the day with this:
And ended it with this:
Hard to believe our tiny, squalling, barely-formed human has grown so much and learned so many things in the space of one year. Looking back over her photos, the changes seemed to happen in the tiniest of increments. But added together, they worked miracles!
One Month
Not an early fan of baths….
Two Months
Three Months
Wow, I hated that haircut. (It only lasted one painful week.)
Four Months
Elsa’s first baseball game — Nationals / Orioles at Camden Yards
Five Months
Zoe watching over her one-member Flock
Six Months
Not an early fan of grass, either….
Seven Months
Much-improved on the bath front
Eight Months
Nine Months
First Christmas
Ten Months
A favorite toy, responsible for many happy hours’ play (and also for Mommy and Daddy’s nervous breakdown after they go to bed singing The Farmer in the Dell to themselves for the 10,000th time)
Eleven Months
First signs of Snowmageddon
Birthday pics coming later this weekend — stay tuned!
Baby's First Year in Baby Pics Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:00AM 
What do y’all think about the first few episodes of Lost’s final season? Is it living up to your expectations? Can it live up to fans’ enormous expectations?
Any predictions?
And what will you watch to replace it, once it has gone away and left us with a gaping hole in the slightly-fantastical long-story-arc dramatic universe?
Despite all the grand (sort-of) revelations, this season has felt anti-climactic to me thus far. I admit the possibility that they’re moving pieces into place for a truly grand finale, but I don’t want to get my hopes up lest they be disappointed. I have no idea what’s going on. And Fringe is currently in the running to fill the hole in my life once Lost disappears to an alternative universe.
Or, I could just refuse to admit Lost is gone and spend one hour a week re-creating scenes with the baby’s toys.
Little People Lost in Television 