Dishtowel Digits

Another number learning tool....I asked little R what number this was and he said, "Charles Allen." .......Ohkeedokee....

The Little Engine that Could.....we're getting there people....

Sea Life

This month has been crazy, wouldn't you agree??!!! Blue Chickadee has been busy, busy painting! Below is a three part "sea life" series I painted for a friend in Florida. Each canvas is 12"X16"

These will hang in her little boy's nursery above the changing table. Isn't her bedding ADORABLE!!! Check this bedding out here. If I had to do it all over again I would do this! I am such a stripe girl!

numbers

This is little r's room. He has some self made art on his side of the room, but the opposing wall was lacking. So in an effort to get him to RECOGNIZE his numbers, I painted his undies and hung them up. The idea was to let him choose which number he wanted to wear while getting ready for school because he is oh so opinionated these days.....

We'll see how it works out:) Lets just say, I think we have a lot of work ahead of us!!!

Serena and Lily Pop Up Shop

This is very uncharacteristic of me to be posting twice within 12 hours, but as I was reading through some blogs this morning I came across this one and thought I would share:) This Pop Up Shop will be happening from December 4-9.

via The Roof Over My Head

I crave John Robshaw

Ok, so I have been working on this post for weeks now and finally I got it together. Let's just start with the fact that it has been over two weeks since I left for NYC to visit cousin Jane (and Tyler) and their sweet baby Wade and I am just now getting around to blogging about what a fabulous time we had!

I swear, the morning after I got back, I sat down to catch up on all the blogs I had fallen behind on when...blackness was in front of my face. I swear, you have no idea how many times I pressed the on/off button, how many "please, just turn on's" I said, and how many %%&^*( were said following that.

Done.

After dropping my MAC (that's never supposed to break or have any problems) off with the "fix it man," I get an estimate of $900+ to fix-NO THANK YOU!!! So off to the Apple store I went on Black Friday and purchased a new one. Happy + Sad....for obvious reasons.....So....here I am finally figuring out how to make a collage via photoshop and here's what I came up with:

via a bloomsbury life, design sponge, john robshaw, sara gilbane interiors, gilt

So the girlies I was with are always in the know and knew just where all the sample sales were!!! Yay for me, I was in good company! We headed somewhere on the subway to end up in a line for what felt like an hour to squeeze into John Robshaw heaven!

So many great finds + too many people = only a few things.

(This pillow is obviously too big for this chair, it just happened to be to be the tidiest place in the house at the moment:)

(I do have a pair of these pillow covers, but again, avoiding the disaster areas lurking nearby)

I did get a robe too, but I will spare you the photos as well as a great looking tablecloth-impulse buy. It was definitely worth the wait! If you live under a rock and don't know who this fella is, then go look him up! Beautiful textiles!!! So sorry to ramble, a lot to say!

Mason Market

Sorry for the lack of posts recently!  (For those of you who actually read this-if anybody???)  My goal is to post about something at least each week, but sometimes the days fly by, and still no posts?  Anyway, here are a few pictures from the Mason Market at Mason Prep last week.  Not the best backdrop-what can you do with blank gym walls????

They had a fundraiser with over 40 vendors selling everything under the sun in hopes of raising money for the school.  It was a great event with a huge turnout!  Blue Chickadee participated with El&Ann Designs (formerly Textile. by Margeaux Fraunfelter).  Can you see her ADORABLE dresses hanging from the rack?!!!  I am telling you what, if you are a mother of a little girl or have any reason to buy for a little girl between the ages of 1yr-3yr defintely get one of these cute dresses (only $18 with matching ruffled bloomer for $22) So CUTE!!!! 

Here is a close up of what I am talking about.....cute, huh??

And totally unrelated,  I couldn't resist putting in a photo of baby G-he's a penguin if you can't tell.

And Little R-dressed as a forklift driver (not to be confused with a farmer!)  He had a great green John Deere hat but he refused to wear it at this Halloween party:(  Looks like he's pouting here, maybe he wishes he had it on????

Ok, I do have other things I am working on, so I will post more pics soon!!!!

You Caught Me!

Sweet little "innocent" R

(Daddy not sure if you have seen this one yet?  Sorry!)

*blue chickadee has some great things in the works...i'll be updating with pics soon!