Textile Tuesday: Paul Frank

We all know the name, well all love the happy go lucky silly characters, so now it's time I pay a little tribute to the company who has made it fun to get dressed and decorate. Paul Frank has been one of my favorites for as far back as I could remember. One year when I was in southern California with my parents I made them bring me to all the Paul Frank stores to hoard the swank vinyl goods. Now that I have Wolfgang I dress him as much Julius and friends garb as possible, and for us moms who have boys, this company has been a god sent for helping our kiddos look trendy.

Here is Mr Frank, the man behind the monkey read some of the companies drama here.

Here are my Paul Frank picks:

From left to right: *Alarm *Clock, *Rug, *Booster, Stools, Watch, *Space Tee, *Swim Suit,*Teal Tee,*Green Tee,*Nerd Tee, Helmet and Pads, Bike seat

***Denotes can be purchased at Target

All the rest are available through Paul Frank Industries

Suburbia Part 1

Well folks, I'm back in the blogging saddle again, after I took a little time off while baking a zillion cupcakes for our friends' wedding (300 to be exact).  Then, the Mister was headed off to the annual seventh grade camping trip that lasted five days. In order to further enjoy the excitement of solo parenting for five days, note the sarcasm, I headed up to my folks' place for some friendly daughter mooching and help with the Wolf.

With our friends' wedding over and all 300 cupcakes consumed, it was time to head to my parents' house.

Grandpa busted out my old wagon, then Wolf helped Gramps replace the batteries in his toy rocket.

I popped over to Rebecca's house from Consider My Dear to say a quick hello and get a glimpse into her creative space (she has so many cute things!)

Since we live in the worst place for shopping in the world, I normally try to make a stop at H&M to see what the cool people are wearing. This ensures that me and Wolfie don't slip into the central Illinois townie look. A.K.A Sweatpants with some word on the butt and a North Face jacket.

Stay tuned for part 2!

Cheers,

Deb

Tis' The Season For Group Sales

 It's my favorite time of year, that's right, it's rummage sale season!  Two of the local churches put on a huge rummage sale that is held at the county 4-H barns. This past Saturday was crazy, there were tables and tables of junk/treasures/knick-knacks. Now this particular sale isn't my absolute favorite one, but a good practice run for the big Second Presbyterian Church sale. This sale never fails me, and the prices are CRAZY good, it's like Christmas morning for thrifters!  But, here are the finds from this past Saturday's sale, Enjoy!

Can't wait to see what this Saturday's rummage sale will have for me.

Cheers,
Deb

Cutie Pie Prints from Lab Partners

I am so excited to share with you a recent purchase, a cute print from Lab Partners. They are a super sweet artsy fartsy couple that makes adorable art together. I spotted there work last week on Alix's (she is one of the big wigs over at Moder Kiddo) Instagram feed and instantly fell in love! To my surprised when I unwrapped my print, they threw in an extra one, which made my day and my wall very happy!

***NOTE: Please ignore that horrible wall color, we are in the process of painting over it ****

Trompet Girl C/O Lab Partners 

Cheers,

Deb

Textile Tuesday: Threadless Tees For Tots

All of this amazing tees can be found at Threadless 

Artsy Fartsy Friends: Rebecca Anne

I'd like you all to meet one of art buddies that I've met on Instagram, and have even been lucky enough to meet in person. Meet Rebecca she's a collector of many things and a watercolor artist. You can read her artistic adventures here and purchase your deer here.  I am excited to share with you her taxidermy deers that shes created, Enjoy!

Cheers,

Deb

Quick Fixes

On Saturday,  I dragged a pathetic shelf out the neighbor's trash.  I have been desperately looking for something similar for Wolfgang's room.  I made my husband drive me to the curb that had the shelf, and he hung his head in embarrassment as I loaded the treasure into our bug.

Not too shabby for a curb find, but this shelf did soak up one and a half cans of spray paint though.  YEEESSH!

One more quick little fixer upper I was working on was updating the jolly trolly lamp.  The lamp was once in my shop, but Wolfie fell in love with it.  Some vintage fabric Mod Podge onto a lamp shade, and we've got ourselves a classic craft.

Cheers,

Deb