Confession #375

Remember when I used to shop local for the finest euro sweet treats? Yea, me too. Oh well. Now I get them at Trader Joes...luckily they taste *almost* as good....and they are cheaper than a plane ticket.

Jungalove

So much to love about all of this...

Snip

This was seriously just a regular saturday, we popped into the neighborhood hair place to get some fresh cuts for the kids. We left feeling as though we had done our part to help keep PDX weird (one kid haircut at a time). So much to love in this crazy city...

Launch Love

Our Schoolhouse Electric Fall Line has launched and it has been very well received. It is so fun to put your work out into the world and hear what the world has to say...

We have had a bunch of fun good press, nationally and internationally...but my most favorite take on the fresh line, came from a local fave, Portland Monthly...

I adore their copy, esp the bit below, which makes my heart smile. Because...don't we wall want something that could fit equally well in our rustic cabin and our spaceship?!

They get it! They get that our line and styling are the opposite of boring and they understand our efforts to avoid taking home decor too seriously. Yeah! It feels good to be understood, so well.

PS - I loved this coverage as well, it is a very thoughtful and thorough review

Creepy Crocodile

What good is a mommy blog if you can't post videos of your kids doing TOTALLY AMAZING things...esp when it is you and only you that gets to define "TOTALLY AMAZING".

See the creepy crocodile...

Zodiac Changes

I can't quite wrap my head around this news. All 4 of us have shifted into new signs. Does this change explain anything? Everything?

October

What is not to love about the month of October? Thanks to a bday party on a farm, we were able to kick off the fall season strong and early. So fun to have some fresh pumpkins!

HuffPost

It was fun to see my name in "print". My girl mammalingo continues to crank out great work over at the huffpost...and sometimes she quotes me...see #2 and #4

PDX 2016

Portland changes fast. Some of the recent changes certainly make us think of Amsterdam...

In just the past few months there are so many more bikes...and these green crosses are everywhere...

photo cred goes to my friend and old neighbor TL

Carpe Diem! Big Picture Calendar

If you know me at all, you know I adore planning my entire year on one page. I have made my own such planner for years...I even remember doing it in high school...

It brings me so much joy to share that I will no longer be making my own.

Schoolhouse has partnered with Egg Press (who is awesome and conveniently located one floor below my office in the Schoolhouse HQ) to introduce - The Big Picture Calendar. 

Go buy one.

Carpe diem sweet friends, carpe diem!

 PS - they come in this great tube packaging and make a fab gift...

Make Every Table The Kids Table

Yeliz Love

This sweet cousin of ours passed away last week. She was such a cool, good, vivacious girl, and way too young. We are so sad. We are so thankful we saw her last year (a la Baptisme). I also have amazing memories from a few weeks I spent with her in Saint Tropez in the summer of 2000.

She died in a tragic accident, in Bali. She certainly knew how to carpe diem, she was also a master accessorizer. I adored her more-is-more style and her lust for life.