1. Personalized Letter Name Cards

    mrs booth

    Sim­ply choose a back­ground color and send her your name and Mrs Booth will send you a lovely, custom-printed name card! Lots of other fun stuff on her site as well!

    via lmnop

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  2. Lovely Ready-Made Letterpress Invitations

    ink + wit invitation

    Tara Hogan of Ink + Wit designed a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of ready-made let­ter­press invi­ta­tions for chil­dren. I absolutely love the orange ele­phant illus­tra­tion! She has lots of other let­ter­press good­ies, as well as a fan­tas­tic blog that is loaded with inspi­ra­tion. Oh yeah, and she’s really cool!

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  3. Wonderful Mix of Livability and Style

    nonchalant mom home

    There’s a great fea­ture in the lat­est issue of Rhode Island Monthly on the home of Carina Schott and Karim Hamid from Non­cha­lant Mom (also fea­tured as “Best Online Kids Store”). It’s a won­der­ful blend of liv­abil­ity and style, some­thing those of us with young chil­dren know is no easy accom­plish­ment. Very inspirational!

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  4. No Joyrides in the Jolly :(

    fiat jolly

    This past Sat­ur­day I hap­pened to come across a very inter­est­ing (to say the least!) estate sale. The most inter­est­ing item was a Fiat Jolly, which some­how lost its way back to the Riv­iera and ended up in north­west­ern Georgia.

    Trag­i­cally, I arrived shortly after some­one had just picked it up for a song. It wasn’t quite as nice as the one pic­tured above, but nice enough con­sid­er­ing the give­away price! There’s just some­thing about those wicker seats…

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  5. Climbing Wall Makes A Much More Interesting Treadmill

    climbing wall

    Climb­ing is a great way for kids to learn fun­da­men­tal coor­di­na­tion skills (as well as get some seri­ous exer­cise). But the heights can be dan­ger­ous and scary for some, not to men­tion the cost to locate and build a climb­ing wall. The Climb­Sta­tion is basi­cally like a ver­ti­cal tread­mill for climbers, elim­i­nat­ing the need for a safety har­ness because you never get more than a few feet off of the ground.

    After select­ing a climb­ing level from 1–12, you climb at your own speed. If you’re fast, the wall rotates faster, if you stop to think about your next move (climb­ing is very much a men­tal sport as well as phys­i­cal), the wall will slow down and stop if nec­es­sary to keep you in its cen­tre. It can also tilt between +15 degrees and minus 39 degrees (for the more adventurous).

    Check out the videos of it in action, it’s super-cool!

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