I love the retro Valentine's themes this year

Let me just start this with...I kinda hate Valentine's Day.

I just do.  But I am not a romantic.

So that's that.

BUT...I do love Valentine's themes.

I love hearts and well...glittered hearts and candy hearts and chocolate hearts and...

even heart pillows

But I am noticing a Retro Theme this year...and I love it. 

Because once again...it takes us right back to when we were a kid and

Valentine's looked like this.

I saw an ad for Nestle Toll House Valentines 

cookies with retro images on them.

I will hunt those down.

And these...these I need.

I mean my kids need.

And not that these are retro...but pretty darn cute.

Spanish Candy Hearts!

And I leave you with this beyond fabulous Valentine Theme from TomKat Studios.

I heart Kim from TomKat.

Time to think of Valentine's Day

She needs a shirt

maybe one of these

Then she needs a skirt

like THIS one

Or this

 or this

with these

or these

 and then these

More later:)

~cristy

A couple fun things in the shop tonight:)

I am slowly adding just a few fun add on items in my shop that well...I really like:)

Things that I think are adorable and so maybe you will as well.

These are little items that will make fun little gifts for kids...maybe I will start adding some for mom's.

But for tonight...I just added these.

First. Boo Boo Bling.

Yes.  Rhinestones that cover up your bandages.

Fancy Nancy would approve I think.

Get them here.

How about candy necklaces.

The kicker is...these are made out of wood...but look exactly like the real deal.

I love them.

Get these here.

 And...yes...I had to get the matching pacifiers.

I don't have a baby...but these almost make me want one. 

Almost.  

I have some other fun stuff that I will be adding in the next week or so.

I leave you with the story of blankie.

Blankie is her second favorite thing in the world.
I am her first:)

I am sure one day that will change and blankie and I will be balled up on the couch by ourselves while she is out with her next #1...but so far, blankie and I have had a good long run.

I have to say...I am not afraid to admit that sometimes, if I walk by and blankie is hanging on the back of my desk chair (which is where he sits while waiting for her at school)...I may or may not take a quick sniff of him.  He smells like her and she smells so good.

This is the updated version of blankie.

Ours is 7 years old.  And it is still soooo soft after 200 washes.

Awww...this was her with blankie when she was 2

This one was when she was about 1.

And this one was a couple years ago.

Blankie never left the house unless we were going on vacation.

He is just always there.

I wonder how long that will last.

At breakfast...he got a bath.

While she watched.

How can we keep them little forever?

She is into stripes these days.

Did you know that all stripes match no matter what color they are?

Some might call it Tiffany Blue...I call it Paper Lili Blue

Check it out...today while I was sewing labels on fun things like this...

 I noticed that my nails were the same blue as the blue in my label.

Clearly...I am into blue.

I like it.

One of my kid's had a blue room in our last house, 

and we had a blue bathroom in the house before that.

Maybe I should paint my office blue.

That might cheer it up. 

Opi  What's with the Cattitude?

Fitting non?

Tonight I feel like blogging

Hi.  It's me.  

Just popped in because my blog was looking a little aged and needed some new pretty things to spruce it up.  So.  Let's search the web a see what fabulous finds I can see that we all need.

Or need to look at.

First...my mom just showed me these tonight. How cool are they?

Little glass balls that have holes in them so you can hang them in any shape you want.

Get them here

Next...this hat.

I bought it on sale at the Free People store in the mall.

Speaking of...the Free People store could very well have the coolest furniture (not for sale I don't think)I have ever seen.  Seriously.  Amazing furniture.

It is like Anthropologie but a little more laid back.

Younger maybe?  Not sure...but whatever it is...I was digging it.

So I bought this hat at xmas time...and I have had 3 people compliment on it.

So it must be cute.  

Little did they know that I was wearing it because I didn't feel like fighting a brush through my hair.

My hair which is rediculously long and I have no idea what I am doing with it.

To go with your new cool hat...how about this scarf.

It was there as well...but I did not buy it.

I have a good handful of scarves and I never wear them.

Why?  Because

A. my hair literally forms into a huge knot at the base of my neck when I wear a scarf

and

B.  I do not look good in scarves.  I have not been able to nail down why it is that scarves just don't work on me.  That was until this morning. When once again I tried. I see Jessica Alba looking all fabulous in her scarves.  Like she just tossed it on and ran out the door to the playground.

Me.  Nope.  I look stupid.  But this morning I had a moment...a moment when it came to me what the problem was.  The problem is that my one kinda good attribute is my neck. I never thought of it that way...but my neck and collar bones actually need to be seen. lol.  This may sounds stupid...but if you don't see my neck and collarbones...then the fact that I have no chin is really rather obvious.

See.  So if I wear a scarf...it covers up my neck and collarbones and you are left with one big round face.

So.  Anyone want my collection of scarves? 

If I had a chin like Jessica Alba...I would totally wear this one.

 

Alright...enough of the cold weather stuff.

Let's talk spring.

Let's talk shoes.

I just got this email from Juicy Couture the other day.
Maybe it is because I was born in the 70's...but I LOVE these shoes.

I also love bell bottoms though. 
Bring back the 70's.  I like it. Reminds me of being a kid.

Good times.

I also really really REALLY love this dress.

I love everything about this photo actually.

But this dress.  Sigh.

Erin Fetherson for Juicy. 

Awesome.

The funny thing is that yes I love this dress.

And yes I love this photo.

But it also reminds me of a photo that Lyra took of my chick last June.

Lyra took about 300 perfect photos that day.
I have a good 50 perfect photos with this balloon.

She makes it impossible to choose just one. 

But you get the idea. 

I am a sucker for balloons.

I took this photo 2 years ago.

and this one

I love balloons.

Ok.  Not sure how I got off on a balloon tangent. 

Back to business.

Speaking of business.  I have lots of new designs in the shop.

And I will have tons more...TONS more.

But for now...I leave you with these...which you can check out here.

and while I am at it...here are some fabulous pictures from happy customers

this one is from Tracey.

Can you believe that she is not a professional photographer?

I know I have said it before...but honestly...I cannot explain to you how wonderful it is to get emails from happy customers.  From mom's that love their purchases enough to take photos...and send them to me.  Of little chicks that insist on wearing their sparkly tee every day.

That is awesome.  

And super cool.

And although I have never personally seen a paper lili sighting in action...(this would of course require me to leave my work and venture out into public) but my friend Robin saw two little chicks today wearing my stuff...and that made me feel...fabulous.

 Seriously...there are sooo many wonderful photos.
I need to come up with a photo contest.  

Hmmm.  It is going to have to be on facebook.  

I will figure it out tomorrow.  

I like contests. Since I hardly ever win something...the next best thing is to give away something:)