1+1 = 2.

Hand-made = love.

Lunch Box Notes, Back to School from FancyshMancyNotes

Leather Pencil, Needle, Brush Case from Studiocatb

Eco Friendly Reusable Sandwich and Snack Bag Set- Cream Apples from Jpulliam30

Apple Pillowcase Dress from SewInFashion

Little Apple Baby Beanie from ForStitchesSake

Apple Picking Ribbon Clip from ChickandBud

Images via Creature Comforts

This teenage girl must be in heaven in her new lofty surroundings. Well done Ez on the room makeover. To see more of what Ez does at Creature Comforts visit her blog here.

I had a fabulous time at the last fair looking at all the wonderful 40’s dressed fans courtesy of Le Keux Events, the fabulous area vintage shops such as Textile Treasure Seeker, Richmond Retro, Toadstool Vintage, and Second Hand Rose to name a few. But I found Vintage Vanity particular interesting as they were selling these adorable stuffed toys fashioned from vintage fabrics! Check out this adorable owl I picked up for Boy Blue. This little guy was created by the mother of a shop assistant at Vintage Vanity. If you want to get one of your own or find out more about other stuffed vintage toys contact Charlie at Vintage Vanity from  Tuesday through to Saturday between 10AM and 4PM or to contact by email go here.

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And here are some photos from the day …

Images via  WAVE Vintage Crafts & Fairs and by Textile Treasure Seeker, Katie.

For more info about the upcoming Worcester Vintage Fair see the poster below or go here.

Images via Citrus and Orange

The room is filled with a bed and desk unit, which I adore. It was a clever decorating and space saving combo. The area rug is from Vertbaudet, the bedspread from Designer’s Guild, the wall art from Beijos de Algodao and bird decoration from Ravenhill.  Beautiful designed Susana. To see more of Susana’s house and her design loves visit her blog Citrus and Orange here.

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Jobean is owned and sown by the lovely and happy mother of Josie, Alice. Alice is so very talented sewer and finds great vintage and mod prints to create lovley bibs and bags for babies and children. I couldn’t resist when I saw her display at the baby fair and had to have some for Boy Blue ! After testing the bibs out on B B and his heavy-duty teething drool, I experienced first hand just how wonderful the three-ply bibs really were! I also realised they’d make some fantastic gifts for friends with little ones so off I went to the Jobean website and easily ordered loads more! Alice also creates fantastic bags ideal for little ones off to nuresry or school. We use ours for when  B B is off to nursery or on a short trip into town to carry his nappies, wipes, spare change of clothes and for some small books and toys for entertainment. I think it is great because it is something he can even use as he gets older for sleep overs at friends or to take to the library for books! Alice does a wonderful job at personalising both the bibs and bags too!

Aside from being incredibly cute and irresistable, the bibs and bags are reasonably priced. If you buy bibs individually they are £6 or $9 each (current exchange rate of £1 to $1.50). If you buy them in threes they are three fro £16 or $24. The bags are £12 or $18 or can be personalised for an extra £3 or $4.50. Jobean is based here in the UK but will also ship internationally to North America. Just contact Alice for the details on shipping internationally. Now get on her website, have a look and get your Jobean fix too!

Here are some more photos of the Jobean products we have gotten our hands on…

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For more Jobean go here.

A rainy Friday means shopping this week! We went out to Worcester City Center to catch some school day deals since here in the UK school begins again in 5 weeks. We found these adorable boots for Baby Blue at H&M for £13 GBP or $20 USD which I thought wasn’t necessarily a steal but fairly reasonable. As Baby Blue has quite BIG FEET (width H) we are often limited to many shoes but we have found that H&M have a great selection of what we like to refer to ‘flexible footwear’. Here’s B B in his new boots made for walkin’…

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For more from H& M this autumn go here.

Unfortunately for all my European readers and I they don’t ship internationally at the moment {Sad face}.

Image via Name Your Design

Image via Tristan

Sorry for my disappearing act for a while and no I haven’t been on the see-saw this whole time with my son. I have been working away as usual planning more photography sessions for the charity breastfeeding calendar and also busy with research. I still have lots of exciting information to share about some great finds from the recent baby fair and vintage fair in Worcester. I also want to share our family day at Clive’s fruit farm with you so keep watching!

So here’s to shopping and getting in the green and re-usable goodies for your children for the next and up coming school year!

Here are some of my favourite picks from Re-Use It!

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Items include:

To-Go Ware Bamboo Flatware Set

Goodbyns Lunch Box previously mentioned by me here

Blue Avacado Ultra CompactLunch Tote

Waste Not Saks Snack Bag

Freak-O-Bag Monster, Frankenstein

Platypus Softbottle with Cap

Emily’s Balloon

One day, Emily gets a balloon. This balloon quickly becomes her friend. But what will Emily do when her friend, the ballon blows away? The eliquently described innocence of the story of Emily and her balloon and the touching and artistic images make this simple book a instant classic–like goodnight moon!

The writer, Komako Sakai lives in Japan. Prior to Emily’s Balloon she studied art in Tokyo, worked in textile design and illustrated children’s books. She is the winner of the Japanese Picture Book Prize. This is her first book in English.

Images via Amazon

You can purchase this book for a special little one here.