Brand We Love: Maileg

The Cat, my mom and I are spending a couple of days in Ventura. Yesterday we headed down to Main Street to do some thrifting and antiquing. I had no luck, but the Cat found a couple of cute things at the Buffalo Exchange, plus she got a new bathing suit since she went off and left her new one at home! (This happens every year. Maybe she does it on purpose? Crafty little devil.)
We popped into one of my favorite stores out here, Copperfield's, and found these ADORABLE little stuffed animals.  They have a home made feel to them, and the Cat really wanted the elephant.  (She is in love with elephants, as of late.) She settled on a bookmark that looks like a Persian rug, but maybe that little elephant is in her future.

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Circus tent w. podium + cutting sheet / Circus Lion / Circus Elephant / Circus Sealion / Circus podium

Kids' Favorite Things: A Visual Diary

Kids go through so many different phases: they outgrow one thing they used to love and move on to another. I think it will be meaningful one day to look back at the collection of things that represent what they were doing and what they liked at different times in their lives.  The shoes they wore, the backpack they carried to school,  favorite toys and movies, hobbies and interests.  It is so easy to do this!  It becomes a visual diary.

I wish that I had done it more often than I have.  I just forgot about it.  I don't want to let these precious memories slip by...

Here is one of the pictures I did of Britton's favorite things 3 years ago.  I am looking at that toy rhinoceros and remembering how he used to pronounce the work "os-crus."  It is fun to see what things he still loves (his bear fophetta that he still sleeps with) and what things are now just sweet memories.

Fophetta bear is a bit tattered and he is joined by Bucketoe Bunny.  Long gone are the zoo animals and catching truck, guitar and sword.  They are replaced with his Celtics basketball, movie script notebook, football stats and light saber.  

I hope that you can use this idea or some version of it!  I think it is such a nice way to make those memories last.