Summer is coming to Portland. Today’s sunshine nudged Portlanders outside to embrace the warmth and promise of a sunny Saturday. Our garden is starting to bloom. We have strawberries, carrots, beans, garlic, tomatoes, mesclun, parsley, rosemary, chives. Do you have a summer garden? What do you typically plant for summer crops? Our kids played in [...]
Teacher Appreciation Week starts tomorrow, May 7th! I am so very grateful to live in an area with awesome schools, a great community of active parents, and most of all, teachers who truly love showing up to work everyday and investing in our children’s future. Our teachers are the BEST, and I honestly cannot thank [...]
One of the greatest gifts of being a mother, in my personal experience, is watching your child in the process of discovery, to watch them embark on new experiences for the first time. Earlier this week, I had the good fortune of being invited to a media event for Cirque du Soleil’s OVO show. I [...]
So… I am totally exhausted and fighting a cold or some other illness, I have some odd old-lady muscle spasm in my shoulder & neck (aren’t those supposed to not happen until you turn 40? what the heck?), but since I am apparently incapable of just laying down and sleeping… I designed some iPhone cases. [...]
Several months ago, my then-4-year-old daughter declared she’d like a Princess Party. We were only inviting girls, and the colors were to be bright pink, orange, and blue. Easy peasy, right? Then right before I was about to send out her invitations, she decided she wanted to invite the boys in her class (or, rather, [...]
Easter egg hunts amaze me. Go find the eggs kids, and maybe you’ll get some candy or some stickers! Then at the end we’ll have a whole bunch of plastic eggs we’ll have no use for again for 364 days! But the fine folks at Zappos.com have figured out how to make logical Grinches such [...]
My daughter’s 4th birthday theme — butterflies — last year was quite fitting for the year ahead. In the past year, she has truly blossomed into this little person, transforming from my baby girl into this kid with big kid vocabulary, incredible reading skills, legs too long for jeans in her usual size, spot-on sarcasm, [...]
Once upon a time, I designed wedding collections. Invitations, save-the-dates, programs, party favors. Beautiful, modern, whimsical, full of love, love, love. It all started with my own wedding, 11 years ago as of this past Saturday. These look so simple to me now, and yet, still perfect for our own wedding. Colors: periwinkle and silver [...]
Seattle is one of those cities where you need to just don your comfy shoes (women of the world, do not – I repeat: DO NOT – only pack 2” heels as I did! OUCH.) and simply walk around to discover the city’s treasures. Here are a few spots we were pleased to discover during [...]
First off: two days in Seattle is not nearly enough to enjoy the gastronomical delights the city has to offer. There are simply too many options and never enough time. We tried to visit as many places as we could during our #2DaysInSeattle visit, and we look forward to returning to Seattle again soon to [...]
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