World of Julie

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Posted on May 31st, 2009 under Henry, Zuzu. Tags: beach, Henry, Zuzu. Comments: 5

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Posted on May 30th, 2009 under Eli. Tags: Eli, nap, sleep. Comments: 5

I am completely drooling over the Family Summer Center featured on Craft. The basic idea is to have a family camp of sorts, and to plan out your summer activities. I love the organization and the planning, plus the beautiful crafty calendar center. The thing is, though, I totally don’t have time to put something [...]

Posted on May 29th, 2009 under Parenting. Tags: activities, art, baking, crafts, Food, home improvement, summer, summer camp. Comments: 15

Let’s say that you go to the dump, and then on the way back you suddenly have a mild panic attack because you realize you hard boiled all the eggs for egg salad sandwiches, meaning there are no eggs, and you were thinking of making brownies. Because you get no sleep and chocolate is your [...]

Posted on May 28th, 2009 under baking. Tags: brownies, chocolate, dump, egg salad, eggs. Comments: 5

I was completely inspired by Michelle Slatalla’s recent column about cleaning out her closet. The idea is to try on every single item in your closet, get rid of things that don’t look good, and then I guess reconsider everything that does look good, so that you think about wearing that fancy velvet blazer with [...]

Posted on May 27th, 2009 under clutter. Tags: closet, clothes, clutter, decluttering, organizing. Comments: 14

These cherry shortbread cookies are from a December Rachael Ray Everyday magazine I picked up at the free magazine table at the library. There is a whole spread of holiday cookies (Julie’s motto: who needs a holiday to make holiday cookies?). These cherry shortbread cookies have the tagline “least likely to screw up.” While I [...]

Posted on May 26th, 2009 under baking. Tags: baking, cherry shortbread, cookies, rachael ray. Comments: None

How Robin Saved Spring by Debbie Ouellet, illustrated by Nicoletta Ceccoli This is a completely lovely modern folk tale, one of those “how the zebra got its stripes” kinds of books, but with better illustrations. Lady Winter lives in a house with Sister Spring. When one of them is having her season, the other one [...]

Posted on May 25th, 2009 under Children's Book of the Week. Tags: bear, books, caterpillar, ladybug, maple tree, robin, spring, winter. Comments: None

Oh my goodness, I just love that there are people on Etsy who are tooling leather belts, and especially that Eternally Chic is doing them in these gorgeous 1970s designs that I seriously think I’ve been searching for in thrift shops for roughly my entire life. I am in love with these belts. (What is [...]

Posted on May 24th, 2009 under etsy. Tags: belts, etsy, leather. Comments: 1

All my shirts are now back home after their brief vacation in the Rise Gallery Wearable Art Show (where, thankfully, a few of them did find new homes). And so now I’m actually working to get every last shirt in my inventory up in my Etsy shop. Hurray! Huge huge thanks to my family (Dave, [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 under etsy. Tags: etsy, onesies, shirts. Comments: 9