Vintage Mint

I swear, they — the retail clothing gods — better be churning out cute/hip kid clothes like the {limited} Stella McCartney line for Gap Kids by the time I finally have one. Stocking up on cool clothes for my yet-unborn, future children isn’t too irrational, right? Right??

I love everything {EVERYTHING} about this Gap kids holiday line: the soft pinks, grays, cashmere, military jackets {major swoon}, even the yellows {!} — and I am not a fan of yellow.

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Arlo Weiner, son of Mad Men creator Matt Weiner, is one sharp dresser. Oh yeah, and he’s only in 2nd grade. {In 2nd grade I would have thought an “ascot” was a bad word and definitely not something you wore around your neck.} This kid’s got it together {supposedly, even Beck had taken notice}. I’m glad his parents appreciate his creative fashion sense — my parents almost disowned my younger brother when he once wore a velvet maroon blazer to high school.

{Story + Photos via GQ}

I think I’ve figured out the color scheme for my future first quilt: aqua + red! I don’t know why I didn’t think of this color combo sooner, especially since it’s ubiquitous, maybe even a little passé {hello, brown + baby blue/pink}. Still, I think the colors are bright + fun as well as gender neutral. {Actually, I think I’ll have to make TWO quilts, since my preferences vacillate between vibrant colors and neutral tones}.

{love the tiny toadstools fabric!}

{Image via Purl Bee}

Cute dragon craft from Martha. Too bad I didn’t realize Chinese New Year is…um, today. Still, this would be a fun craft for a child’s birthday party, or just fun in general.

{Dragon template, here}

These little Holt Howard winking-Santa mugs would be a cute holiday gift for a little one…with some hot chocolate of course! {And tons of whipped cream. And maybe some chocolate shavings…and a cookie, or two…} I’ve already spontaneously bought collected two of these mugs, you know, for my unborn children. {Yes, I’m that kind of person.}

{$12 for a set of 4; vintagegoodies}

{More found, here.}

What a fun little craft for the holiday season! Maybe even easy enough for kids and non-coordinated adults to do. {We shall see…}

{Love how bell jars makes anything look snazzy!}

{Image via Martha Stewart}

When my siblings and I were kids we used to think Snoopy’s Thanksgiving “feast” of popcorn, jelly beans, and toast was hilarious. {We were easily amused I suppose.} Love this classic T-Day movie.

I’m an admiring fan of Joanna’s vases + creatures and now she has these new squirrel vases for sale on her etsy store, pretty random objects. Too cute! These would look adorable in a child’s room, or even on a fireplace mantel for the holiday season {especially with those berry branches!}.

{$65; pretty random objects}

There’s no other Halloween candy I detest more than candy corn. I admit, their cute little triangle-shape and cheery tri-color bands make them kind of irresistible, but they are deceiving! They taste neither like candy or corn. This is the one candy {along with Tootsie Rolls} that I will never dole out to trick-or-treaters, I might as well be handing out orange painted pebbles. To quote Lewis Black, “All the candy corn that was ever made, was made in 1914. They never had to make it again; we never eat enough of it. Literally, after Halloween the candy corn company send out their minions and they go from garbage can to garbage can and collect the corn and throw it back in the bag…and it appears next year.”

{However, they are adorably tolerable in glass apothecary jars…}

{Photo from melissan}

Ah, this article made me laugh out loud, “10 Ways to Avoid Hipster Baby Names.” I’m afraid the list of baby names I secretly hoard in my brain fall victim to rule #4:

Avoid the names of high-falutin’ writers.
This is kind of a thin line. We’d say Auden, Austen, Flannery, Harper,
Tennessee, and Tennyson are dripping in hipsterdom; Edith, Eudora,
and Ellison, still okay.

{W.H. Auden; Tennessee Williams; Flannery O’Connor}

{Found via HuffPo}
{images via here, here, + here}

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