My etsy shop is having a sale for the next two days in conjunction with etsy’s 48 hours of deals for Dads. It’s simple. With the purchase of any bow tie made today and tomorrow I’ll be throwing in a wirebound blank journal. I’ve already been selling these journals at The Palafox [...]

I really love flokati rugs. I have two that are safely tucked away in my parents basement awaiting our reunion. When I learned that I would be having a child and building a nursery for him, I wanted a flokati. A gray one. Being a flokati snob though, I knew that [...]

Jack’s nursery has been featured on Apartment Therapy’s Ohdeeoh, and I need your votes people! Head on over to the article and click to leave your thumbs up for Jack Danger’s room!
Click here to go to Ohdeeoh and vote!
I will love you forever.
xoxo
elle

Our long weekend went like this:
friday: sleep in. walk/bike/jog to the bike shop to drop of Garth’s bike for a tuneup. meander to the thrift store. buy books. get home right before it pours rain. screen in porch. race plastic boats down the flooding gutters.

saturday: wake way too early. [...]

Really, it’s the same lens that I already had- but this one is smooth on the zoom, quick with the shutter, and I can choose my focal length! What is it about a new lens hat makes you feel like you’ve got a whole new camera? =)
It’s pouring outside and I am off [...]

goodbye trips to the fire station, car overflowing with milk jugs and shampoo bottles.
goodbye tripping over bags of aluminum cans and boxes of cardboard in the garage.
hello lovely curbside recycling can.

As we were in bed this morning having our pre-day cuddle session we heard what sounded like our garbage truck outside, but different. We [...]

As I was taking photos the other day my camera started giving me an error message. After some research I learned that the particular message I was getting (the dreaded error 99) was a catch-all error message for any number of things that could be wrong, and I followed the online instructions to narrow [...]

Dear Eric,
Remember this argument from when we were still eating Happy Meals?
you: you’re stupid.
me: no, you’re stupid.
you: you’re more stupid.
me: you’re the stupidest!
you: you’re so stupid you’re stupendous!
Thanks for that, you always had a way with words.
Happy Birthday big brother, you’re stupendous!
Laura. =)

Rad street art in my neighborhood reminding me to fill my time with the things that I adore: hard work, magic, making, and my two boys (both currently sleeping at 1 in the afternoon!)
I love you all too- I’ll have an hour of you please. =)
xo
elle

My Dad is the greatest. I feel blessed to have him as my very own Daddio, and so excited that Jack gets to have him as a Grandpa.
Love you Dad!
Laura. =)