Making plans to sell baby and kiddie vintage!

Hello again! 

It's been ages since I posted. I've been too busy hanging out with my favourite little lady (or too tired) to be surfing the interweb.  Ivy will be 6 months in a few days! It sounds cliche, but I can't believe how the time is flying. Just this past week she sat up for the first time and her first wee tooth is poking through. Go Ivy! 

*swoon*  I am so in love!!!!

THANK GOD, Ivy is an extremely easygoing and happy baby. She sleeps well and enjoys being out in the world. She's beginning to be able to play by herself (woohoo!), and I'm feeling like the baby-induced fog is lifting from my brain and space is opening up in there for non-baby-related items. I've mentioned several times (here, here and here) that I want to start selling baby and toddler vintage... well, I've decided to give it a go!

I will keep you updated on my progress. I've started to redesign this blog (did you notice the new banner and layout?) and start to focus it more on baby and toddler vintage. My goal this week is to experiment with some ideas of how to creatively photograph the clothing. Right now I'm envisioning hanging the clothing from big trees in the park and photographing them in the sunlight... which is impossible right now because the trees in Toronto aren't even budding yet.... 

I've built up a pretty solid curated selection of baby and toddler vintage since Ivy was born and I'm planning to add more pieces this spring. I'm not focusing on a specific decade or style, but I'm building a collection that is based on my own baby-style ideas, which have been influenced by my own personal style and from playing dress-up with my own wee babe, mixing and matching contemporary pieces, hand-me-downs and vintage.

vintage dress

my favourite quilted jacket

homemade hat knitted by Ivy's great-grandmother

80s corduroy overalls

My interweb hiatus is officially over. i WILL see you soon (virtually, that is).

Lazer

Waiting Game, pressies, geometric mobile and big-eyed kids

Hello friends!

I'm still floating on a cloud in la-la land, out of it.  It's hot today in Toronto... I'm sweating, drinking big classes of ice water, roaming my house, doing random house-work-type things - laundry, dusting, washing cushion covers, washing the floors... I am a zombie-crazy-cleaning-mama-in-waiting lady.  

I've been having on-and-off menstrual-like cramps for days. I had an appointment with my wonderful midwife yesterday and she said my cervix has thinned but not dilated.  The cramps are due to my cervix working on thinning out.  The baby is also between 7 and 9 pounds. She grew a lot last week.  No wonder I've been so out of it.  My official due-date is September 11, 9 days away, but both my midwife and my midwife sister-in-law predicted I'd go sooner than that. THIS ANTICIPATION IS DRIVING ME NUTS!  My brain is mush and my body has been taken over completely.  

I'm feeling anti-social because I just don't feel like myself, but I also feel squirrelly and a bit lonely.  AH!  So many people have been checking up on me and I'm so thankful. There was a staff meeting at the school I work at yesterday and a couple work friends mentioned they missed me, which is very sweet.  I almost can't believe I won't be working for a whole year.  My mat leave started yesterday! I don't necessarily miss the students I taught last year (I teach an alternative school program for teenage ladies who are pregnant or have babies), but I would love to know how they're doing. A couple students I had last year are returning to the program this year, so I'll see them in a month or so when I stop by to show off the bebe, but a few students graduated and I'd love to find out how they are. 

My friend Jennifer (who is the lovely woman behind Castlemusic. I created this animation for her song "heaven" a few years ago) stopped by a few times in the past week or so and brought me presents!  

Cinnamon-honey, fresh flowers and an INCREDIBLE gigantic cinnamon bun from Dufferin Grove market!

This lovely soft scarf, perfect for breastfeeding coverage.

Some bad-ass hand-me-downs.  THANKS JENNIFER!! xo

I finally bought that geometric mobile I mentioned in an earlier post. It took about half-an-hour to put together, but it was totally worth it.  I love it.  I hope the bebe will love it too.

Today I dug out some of my vintage big-eyed kid art. I have a big collection that I gathered from thrift stores in my hoarding high school days. I'm trying to decide which ones to hang in the bebe's room.  I keep thinking, am I already trying to make her into a mini-me? 

(I just noticed my baby bump in this photo)

BYE FOR NOW!