from Paris to New York, Rachel crafts a baby, a dissertation, and other life adventures.
Inspired by this product found via Ohdeedoh a while back, I grabbed an old wine box we had laying around, added $4.50 worth of casters, and voilà! Toy storage for the den:
With a little more time and research, we could score some awesome colored skateboard wheels to resemble the $100 original, but for now, we’re pretty pleased with the result.
Happy Earth Day! I thought talking about wooden toys would be appropriate for the day’s festivities.
Our friends Bérengère and Perry (and their cute almost two-year-old twins) sent us some adorable natural wooden toys made in Vermont by Maple Landmark Woodcraft. Jax is finally old enough to play with them and thinks they’re fun to bang around, roll, and bite. I thought I’d look up the company to see what they’re all about (and for future gift-giving reference…), and was pleasantly surprised with their line of toys called Schoolhouse Naturals, which are unfinished. They make the standard firetrucks and school buses (so cute), but also more unusual vehicles, like a hybrid car and recycling truck. And I am in love these alphabet blocks!
Check out these awesome downloadable posters from the Urban Forest Project. I didn’t even know about this exhibition, which took place in Times Square in August 2006, just as we were leaving New York for Paris. One hundred eighty-five artists and designers took the theme of the tree to raise awareness about the importance of forests. The giant banners were then recycled into bags designed by Jack Spade. Pretty cool.
Via an old post by Sweet Jessie.