Halloween!

I love this time of year. I get a little sad knowing the cold/snow is coming soon but the changing colors of the fall leaves makes up for it. I'm also super excited about the holidays. Halloween is one of my favorites. Since my tweenager hasn't wanted to trick or treat with me for a couple of years this year was a little more fun with an excited 2 & 3 1/2 year old to trick or treat with. Here are a few of our Halloween pics this year- courtesy of my instagram stream- 

mostly painted pumpkins using some black spray paint & tape & some 

using puffy paint found around our house. (yes I had puffy paint!)

next door neighbors house- using leaves they scooped up off the road - creative kids 

flo the waitress- baby bear w/ the crossing guards & a fairy princess

cat ballerina making her own whiskers

baby bear rolling over

Gloves That You Can Type In?

Say it's - 20º outside & your phone with a touch screen rings. Do you answer? It's sooo cold out- maybe you don't cause really who wants to take their gloves off & chance your fingers falling off. Not me- but what if it's your mom or your pregnant wife? Well guess what- you don't have to make that decision anymore! Not with these gloves from Muji. 

"A conductive material is interwoven into the thumb and forefinger so that these gloves make light work of touchscreen technology whatever the weather." 

Oh how I love Muji! They come up with some pretty rad goods. One of my all time 

                   favs is this ↴ NYC in a bag. The rats came out to visit for Halloween this year!

Halloween Decor

This post is dedicated to some awesome Halloween goods I've seen around the web

one of my fav's- a frankenstein pillow from annilygreen

forest scene pumpkin by sweet paul

skull soap from aubrey elizabeth apothecary

spider & bat decals from cano designs

paper machè owls from black bird folk art

felt halloween woolies from vicky

Matchy Matchy

Loving the The Portland Collections line from Pendleton.

* I really like this models hair color- it maybe time for a change...

Fab Love

 Fab. com really is pretty fabulous. It's great that I finally have a discount site with really cool modern goods to go to. The art prints are one of my favorite things they sell. I especially like the print below that incorporates the Brooklyn- Williamsburg and the Manhattan Bridges.

I also think these Trash Inspired Porcelain Vases are pretty rad.

* if you're not a member of fab.com yet- use this invite- it's free to sign up- but be forewarned you will want to spend- spend- spend!

Les M Design Studio

I love how Designers Céline Merhand & Anaïs Morel of Les M Design Studio cater to comfort. Every piece of furniture or house ware makes me feel warm & cozy inside.

Cocon

enveloppes

collerette

It's Getting Cold Here Fast

It's 43º today - I can't stop feeling cold. Really wishing I had all of these Beacon & Esmond Mills Blankets from Three Potato Four stat.

p.s. last week we were swimming...

Goodbye Summer Goodbye Steve

I hate to say goodbye to summer- but oh how I love the changing colors of fall.

I'm sure you've all heard about the passing of Steve Jobs. I'm writing this post on a computer created by him! Jobs really made a huge improvement in our technilogical world. He was truly an inspiration. I love this quote my brother in law Benton sent in an email today.

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone 

else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which 

is living with the results of other people’s thinking. 

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your 

own inner voice. And most important, have the 

courage to follow your heart and intuition. 

Everything else is secondary.”

 -Steve Jobs

image we heart it