It’s that time of year again! The holidays = hot chocolate, twinkling lights, hugs from family, and the biggest shopping season of the year. To thank all ya’ll for supporting me and allowing me to outfit you with rad bow ties all year I’m holding my annual black friday/cyber monday sale. Starting [...]

hello friends. I know that I’ve mentioned in passing that we spent the summer buying a house but I have yet to introduce you to her (him? Is a house a her or a him?). So friends and family, meet our little blue house. Most of these photos were taken before [...]

holy smokes folks! Are ya’ll ready to say, “hello!” to fall? I totally am- I just wish that this meant crunchy leaves and cardigans and hot cider. In any case I’ve been editing our cache of summer photos and wanted to share what we were doing while I was so silent. [...]

So it is 5am (as you have probably already guessed) and I am leaving for the airport in 2 hours for Chicago & Indie Wed and I am just now starting to feel like I’ve accomplished something. Tonight was a marathon bow-tie-making evening with my sweet husband and generous parents pitching in until the [...]

ok, so I know that spring is sooo last month, but I’m a little behind and have just recently put all of the spring bow ties into the shop. They are lovely- but I pick out every pattern and then sew every stitch, so I am a little biased.
All orders placed through the wednesday [...]

We spent the morning wandering the ala moana center and kept finding these amazing patterns in the stores. They are going in my ways-to-perhaps-paint-a-wall-in-my-new-house file.

nordstroms

louis vitton

mui mui.

louis vitton again.
awesome, right?

You are 2 today. TWO. You are a handsome, sweet, precious little man, just like you were the day that you were born. I sang “I will” to you in the hospital to quiet you at night and I sing it to you now to get you to fall asleep. We [...]

I own two pairs of nice running shoes.
I needed a third.
I went to the store and gawked at the $150 price tag.
I told Garth that I would just buy a pair at a thrift store.
We made our way with our trusty GPS, but the kids were whiny.
Garth told me to go solo. Solo to [...]

hello ya’ll coming over from MADE- I am so so happy to be participating in celebrate the boy with Dana and so many other wonderful mommies and bloggers. Boys rule! I am the lucky mama of one particularly handsome almost-2 year old wonder boy, Jack. He is particulaly stylish and has deen [...]

We had a short weekend in New Orleans before boarding a long flight to Hawaii. We stayed in the french quarter and had beignets and hot chocolate. mmmmmmmm.