by ChiWei | Feb 7, 2012 | DIY, Printables
In honor of my homemade alphabet book, I thought I’d share some of my favorite children’s bookplates from across the internets, as well as provide alphabet bookplates printable! I made my bookplates as favors for J’s first birthday, and they...
by ChiWei | Feb 6, 2012 | DIY, Paper
We’ve been reading to J at bedtime since he was about 2 months old in an attempt to establish a solid bedtime routine, since in my new mom naivete, I thought that a solid bedtime routine = more sleep for mommy. Well, that didn’t really work out, but we...
by ChiWei | Jan 17, 2012 | Crochet, Kids & Toys
Whooo, you say? He’s the newest addition of our family’s collection of stuffed animals! By “family”, I mean J’s….err…mostly mine (sorry, I just can’t throw them away! sentimentality, you know). This post is a...
by ChiWei | Jan 13, 2012 | Food
I had this dessert on my first date with Drew. I feel like I should make some earth shattering conclusion from that sentence, but my head is spinning and I can’t think of anything clever, so feel free to make your own conclusions. It had originally caught my...
by ChiWei | Jan 9, 2012 | DIY, Kids
One of the gazillion Christmas presents given to J this year was a pair of incredibly cute polar bear socks, with paw prints on the feet and a parade of polar bears around the ankles. But with the hardwood floors in our house and the way Josh likes to just throw his... by ChiWei | Jan 7, 2012 | DIY, Spring, Uncategorized
Thank you all so much for the sweet comments on my braid scarf! It was featured at Flamingo Toes on Friday, and as I was checking it out, another one of Beverly’s “crushes” really caught my eye – the Morse Code Necklace by Jennifer at...
by ChiWei | Jan 6, 2012 | DIY, Uncategorized
Not all knits are created equal. Well, of course not, but I just never actually put any time or thought into this before. I probably should have. This is one of my more unsuccessful projects, although it came out passable in the end, I suppose. Hopefully,...
by ChiWei | Jan 3, 2012 | Food
This year, I am going to start an Eat Your Vegetables! series of posts to share what our family does with the overload of veggies we get from the farm during the summer, and to help make eating veggies fun, especially for Josh, as we enter the “I only eat...