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I MUSTACHE You A Question... Will You Be My Valentine? Found this cute little mustache Valentine idea on Pinterest, so I whipped up a mustache for my little man, snapped some pics, and created our own cards to give out to friends & family for Valentine's Day. Make your own: Snapshot of kiddo with paper mustache cutout & taped to upper lip. Photo edit a little Valentine saying on your image. I

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Head on over to Lil Blue Boo & get yourself entered in the tshirt GIVEAWAY she's hosting for StyleMint, a new exclusive tshirt design company started by the lovely Olsen Twins (yes the girls from Full House), Uncle Jesse's nieces! Lil Blue Boo is giving away 5 of their tees! Oh yah gurl!I'm digging the Broadway tee!

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When Freedom's preschool said they were having a cowboy & western themed dress-up day at school, naturally I felt I had to sew him up a quick lil Woody inspired sheriff's vest & Lone Ranger mask to wear.  I used the basic ideas from this awesome free Leila & Ben tutorial to make his little vest.  I was so thrilled to have just enough cow print fabric, in a bag of fabric scraps a friend had given

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A Rite of Passage (A Video) One of my favorite blogger, crafter, designer, just all around fierce & beautiful warrior women online shares a video of her recent experience with having to shave her head, due to hair loss from cancer radiation & chemo treatments.  This is an amazingly bittersweet video.  Grab a tissue or two.  Her family is so supportive & loving and her young daughter is so strong,

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I turn 36 on December 20th.  I got myself a stuck-on tattoo! This snapshot isn't the best, but the tatt is on the inside of my arm, lower right forearm. My birthday/christmas present to myself.  I kind of love it!Tomato pin cushion, sewing & crafting inspired tattoo.

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I created postcards again for our holiday cards this year to mail out to friends & family. I got one heck of a deal at Overnightprints.com & they were printed and sent lightning fast.  I just love the simplicity and uniqueness of a postcard, plus the postage is a little easier I'm cheap & proud of it on the wallet too! I actually had intended to get their premium printing on my cards, but

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My 3.5 year old in the hand crocheted Yoda hat I made him, pictured with his bestie. Complete with the home sewn cloak robe I whipped up. Her mommy put together her little blue Jewel bird from the movie Rio ensemble. It is amazing, she is so creative and made her feathered wings that span out across her back. She is one master glue gun mommy! They look too cute in their hand crafted

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My son turns 3 years old today!This boy brings my world joy!  Thank you son for giving me the best past three years of my life. Love, Mommy

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I did an Eric Carle's 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' theme for my son's playdate birthday party. This is the caterpillar cake & cupcakes I made. :) The cake is just a store bought white cake mix, super simple, and I used a tub of regular store bought frosting and just added drops of red food coloring until it was the color I liked.  I did the eyes, nose & cupcake green frosting the same way and

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Image Source One of my favorites, the FABULOUS Forty Toes Photography owner, creative photographer, designer, mom of four, is so over the moon about her 3,000 plus fans on her Facebook business page, that she is hosting the most AWESOME Giveaway as a way to say thank you to all her supporters!  Go check out the incredible prizes of handmade delights from a variety of vendors & designers waiting

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A .50 cent Vintage Cherry Red Handolier & $1 Green Cheese Grater by Tupperware. I LOVE ALL THINGS VINTAGE & antique & retro & full of history from another era.  Second, only to my son, is my passion for thrift store finds, garage sale deals, antique store treats and estate sale treasures!  There is just something so beautiful about the way "old stuff" preserves history and tells a story.  The 

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I have some amazingly conscientious, compassionate, creative, crafty friends in my world.  They make & do wonderfully artistic and cool things.  They share ideas & inspire me.  They model for me, in my attempts at improving my photography.  They let me do play dates and be a guest in their homes, a lot, because my home is tragically guest unfriendly.  They make me happy & make my son & I feel

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Blessed Be Alone.... I love this precious video. It's such a delightful, creative capture of how beautiful and simple and non-frightening being by ourselves, with ourselves, and having solitude can be. Finding comfort in aloneness, this is a state of being that I personally cherish very much. Being happy by yourself, with yourself, creating your own happiness, what a gift to give & receive for

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  My son & I recycled crayon pieces & melted them in a mini heart cupcake pan to create Valentine's cards for his lil sweetheart munchkin friends. Interested in creating some of your own crayon Valentine's? They are super simple, homegrown, heartfelt & make wonderfully unique non-edible treat cards for your tots' friends.I followed the basic instructions in this tutorial over at  Make and Takes

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Need a last minute super duper cute handcrafty 'Simple Photo Valentine Treat'? Check out this craftabulous lil photo card idea that we made for Lil Teeter Totter Tot's friends. Perfect for your child's preschool classmate valentines! Thanks to our crafty mama friend Felicia over at 3 Little Birds Stitch Co for the cute idea! To make your own- :: Snap a photo of your darling tot with arm &

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Another awesome chance to WIN a beautiful Word Art Sign from Barn Owl Primitives!  Hip, quality, fun wall art, doesn't get much better than this!  I am just dying to get my hands on one of these amazing, hand painted signs, one way or another & you can too!  Click on the link, head on over to Tatertots and Jello, check out the blog, check out the BOP signs, and get yourself entered into the

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I have just a teeny tiny obsession with all things vintage. I mostly just window shop online, swooning over etsy goodness & obsessing over things that delight me, but occasionally I'll take the plunge and actually indulge myself on a little something. I could get seriously giddy over things from just about any historic era, love antiques, love vintage cars, vintage ads, vintage fabrics, unique

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I rarely post to my blog (note to self, gotta work on that). I don't really know what to post or what to share. I have no followers, so this makes it super duper easy for me to participate in Ashley over at Little Miss Momma 's self-portrait party. No one will peek anyway. He, he, he.I do not like my face photographed here or there, I do not like photos of myself anywhere.I don't like my pic in a

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"My country tis' of thee, sweet land of liberty""Let Freedom Ring!" -Martin Luther King, Jr.For many years now, I have attended our local Martin Luther King, Jr. marade (march/parade). It's an important day to me, as it symbolizes something that matters a great deal to me, it represents freedom, it honors the people in our history that suffered, that were spit upon, ridiculed, burned, tortured,

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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! I designed this year's holiday card myself using the text/editing/create tools on Picnik.com and the postcard printing services of cards direct, and of course the willingness, sweetness and energy of my son to take a slew of photos so that I could find one that worked. I actually envisioned my little screaming silent night idea last year sometime,

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"I like my apple pie sweet & my whiskey neat, and I always wear an apron while I bake!"Sew, I finished up my very first full kitchen apron and took some snazzy pics of my great friend MamaZshanna (she's a hottie mchotterson kind of stay at home mom designer artisan extraordinaire) modeling it for me. It was a really fun project, partly because I didn't exactly follow a pattern, but did use the

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Who wouldn't love to win a sleek, functional & hip designed little potty chair for their tot in training? You have until November 4th, 2010 to get your entries in for your chance to win a Potty Bench from Boon at My Organized Chaos!

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Took Freedom to a groovy coffee shop, Common Grounds (where the service is fab and the baristas all have great hair) in downtown Denver, to visit with a couple of our special lady friends and two little Freedom friends. All was well, until Freedom saw that his lil friend had arrived outside parked on the other side of the busy, downtown morning rush, street. He was jumping all around, getting

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From Goodyblog.com, Keep Your Kid Close, a post with ideas on simple & sweet ways to be reminded of your darling while they're at school. Also, check out these great daycare, preschool & back to school must-have items at Inchbug. Their Bumpy Name Orbit personalized reusable labels will help keep your kid's germs in one place, on their own cup! We heart our inchbug nametags!

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Just wanted to share a photo glimpse into what co-sleeping with Freedom looks like in our bed. He actually sleeps 85% of the time in his own bed, but sometimes comes into mommy's bed in the middle of the night. However, this particular example is from a night when daddy was out of town and mommy allowed Freedom to sleep with her. It's nice to encourage attachment with your toddler,

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We are starting our second year/season of the MOPS & Moppets group at our church. MOPS is Mothers' of Preschoolers, and Moppets is what they call the nursery school that the kiddos attend while their moms are in fellowship and meeting. It is basically a community, support and friendship group that meets in local churches and is a religious based meeting that enables mommies to get out and meet

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Our lil water baby's first time at the local reservoir Free's first time on a jet ski ride with mommyReady to take her for a spin on the water Freedo meets Sea Doo the PWCDaddy has gone bananas and treated himself & us to a banana colored jet ski. Must be Christmas in September, because he also bought Mama B a brand new serger sewing machine, so I can get to making my kids clothes a whole lot

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Freedom 2.5 yrs. oldFingerpaint Masterpiece “One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators.” -Author unkown

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“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” -Elizabeth Stone My heart & soul in blue cap Fascinated by the scooter & sidecarMommy & son dateHighlands Street Festival 2010

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Just a peek at my ever evolving dred head. They don't seem to be growing much, per usual with my hair in general, but I do like when they stretch to be wrapped up on top of my head. Oh how I wish I could wrap them in a bun though. Learning to accept them, one day at a time. Mama B's dreads wrapped in a rainbow burrito at about 18 months of dredlock growth.

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 The nifty vintage restored dresser birthday gift!  It's pretty darling! Hooray for Two! Blue cupcakes are best eaten shoved in your face Did a sorta space/rocket themed bday.Here he is in his pilot birthday outfit trying out his new shades Lil Lady Guest Two with a Lolli Too Lil Lady Guest One enjoying her Lollipop Donuts are Tasty! First Sprinkled Donut Balloon Madness Freedom's 2nd

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I think he does a great job trying to use up a lot of the space on the paper. It's also kinda neat that he varies which color crayons he uses. Makes for quite a vibrant crayola crayon masterpiece! Freedom in color!

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I started crocheting recently and have begun to create some fun little toddler hats. I basically taught myself to crochet, over the last few months, because I saw the cutest monster hat online and really wanted to make one for Freedom, so I did. Now, I've not only made the monster hat, but I've also created some of my own original hats, that I'm calling 'Character Hats'. They're just little

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Thank you Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for your sacrifice! My lil marader all tuckered out from a long morning,but not so much that he can't have a lolli One PeopleHere comes the marade marchersTaking a lil walk along the parade route with uncle Andy Buddies waiting for the maradeWe try to attend the Denver Marade (aka March-Parade=Marade) every year on Martin Luther King Jr. day. It feels good to

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It's interesting to see how the littlest things a child does can bring smiles of joy to a mama. We normally keep Freedom's little jack-in-the-box sock monkey toy up in the closet and bring it out on occasion, because he hasn't completely learned how to wind it and push the monkey back in the box to do it again. His larger sock monkey stuffed toy sits out perched on the end of his crib. Today I

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High-five for being bestie lil buddies!Well no, I don't mind if I do borrow your shiny, pink fanny pack, friend.

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Freedom did such a good job playing the role of cutest garden gnome ever! It was a really great Halloween weekend. Freedom got to hang out with a few of his little costumed friends and then went trick or treating for the first time, with his cousins and nana. Mama B went to a few adult costume parties, which were loads of fun. We heart Halloween! Check out the garden gnome and friends in a few

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"Gnomes are those creatures who live in our garden and are known for caring for wildlife." -Mary Welling-Bonney Suite101.com contributing writer I found myself a little obsessed with garden gnomes this season, well that & I tend to obsess over Halloween & costumes, because I find it to be so fun! So, I thought up Freedom's Halloween costume all on my own this year. I decided awhile ago that I

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Mama B took little Free to his first pumpkin patch. They have a huge pumpkin festival, with carnival rides, games, food, tractor hay rides, haunted house & corn maze at the Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield location. I was actually pretty amazed when we pulled up to it, as I had not been before, at just how many people would be there, it was packed. The parking lot looked like a field of cars

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STAY HEALTHY TIPS FROM DR. SEARS

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There is a really neat, very toddler friendly playground at a park next to our local rec center. It's big and much nicer and safer than the playground within walking distance from our house, so we've driven to it a few times lately. They have two huge play structures, one for kids probably 5 and up and the other for smaller tots. Both are pretty safe structures in general and a lot of fun for

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The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) was celebrating their 20th year birthday at the Denver Zoo and it was a free day for the public. They had activities, art, environmental, cultural & entertainment tents and booths and performances by local groups throughout the zoo day. We decided to go and check it out, because we like to walk around, see the animals and doing it on free day

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Freedom was chosen on this fun parents blog, GoodyBlog, to be highlighted as their cute kid of the day! Thanks GoodyBlog, we appreciate it!

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We had a wonderfully animated lunch date with our very good friend, Tara, and her daughter Thea. Tara's partner Andy is the manager of one of my favorite sushi restaurants, Hapa Sushi and we decided to try out having lunch there with our toddlers. Actually, Freedom and Thea, who is also 19 months, did very well for the beginning of the lunch, but of course within their expected maxed out

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The Gap & Baby Gap company holds a nationwide casting call each year and it's that time again. If you think your sweet child deserves to be the face of Baby Gap or Gap Kids, here is your chance to enter their photo in the nationwide search and contest.To cast your vote for my son's photo as fan favorite, click here, Vote for Freedom!

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There is a 50 year gap between Freedom & his Daddy, quite an accomplishment & quite the adventure it will be to watch these two bridge their generations and grow through the father/son bond they build. We just celebrated Daddy's 50 something birthday with dinner out to a favorite Italian restaurant of ours, Pasquini's, at their new south location. Freedom greatly enjoys hanging with his dada.

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If you happen to find this sweet photo to be a top runner for a 'Sweetest Baby' photo competition, then I urge you to support us and vote. Registration to http://www.competico.com/ is free and we have entered Freedom's photo into a few of their photo contests, where he has the chance to win cash prizes. We're still giving it a try, but the competitions are difficult. His rank in the contest has

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I got Freedom some really fun alligator rain boots or wellies, but they are still too big for his feet. That hasn't kept him from wearing them all around the house and outside too. He just loves these boots and it's a joy to watch him run to his closet to get them out almost every morning. I have them sitting in a special place, set aside for when they do fit, and he is very good at putting them

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This is the video clip of Freedom that we have entered into the Earth's Best baby eating contest. They are picking 25 top memorable feeding videos and babies to be featured on their site & to each win $200 in their products. I have quite a few minutes of him trying to feed himself this jar of sweet potato cinnamon, but I narrowed it down to about a minute of footage for the contest. He was being

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Mama B grew her first real red, yummy tomatoes ever! We are very proud of the pretty tomatoes, so we had to take pictures of them. They are so cute & tasted yummy too, though Mama B is not the biggest fan of eating raw tomatoes, it was still fun to try growing something of our own!

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Freedom was featured on another blog, http://www.contestformoms.com/ in their 'Monday's Cute Kid' section.

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Freedom received an Elmo toy from friend's of ours in a bag of goodies (hand me down clothes and such) and he loves it, and actually I think it's pretty cute too! We also recently discovered that this particular model or version of talking Elmo has some secret options to it, that you kind of have to search for to get him to demonstrate. I came across this "secret" information while googling Elmo

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This is a difficult story and video to see, but I find it very impactful and dear to my heart. It's bizarre to me that America doesn't make a stronger push for parents to keep their babies rear facing for as long as possible, when research and crash studies demonstrate how devastating the consequences of an accident with a child facing forward can be. Many car seats will accomodate babies up to

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Today marks the first two weeks of the dread lock process down. Today I returned to Robin's loctician space, to have her wash & maintain my hair. Things have been going fairly smooth. I used a dry shampoo to condition, clean and protect my scalp for these past two weeks. Most likely, since I'm used to shampooing my hair frequently and rinsing it daily, my scalp did get a bit irritated, dry and

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I believe "the locks" symbolize some of the changes in my life, partly arising from my new role as a mother, or just a new/next phase in my journey. I have never really felt very connected to my hair, so this change feels good and like I've found a way to wear my hair that will hopefully be more comfortable to me. This is something that has been manifesting itself within me for sometime now,

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There seems to be confusion with some people about why someone chooses to have dreads and how they are maintained. One myth is that the hair has to be dirty in order to lock, but the opposite is actually true. In order for the hair to naturally lock and the process to go smooth, it's best for the hair to be clean. For anyone wondering whether or not I can wash my hair, the answer is yes! People

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I have begun the potentially long process and journey of locking my hair. This part is called the "Baby Phase/Stage", in a series of five locking phases; 'Baby, Child, Adolescent, Adult, & Elder.' The locking stylist/artist I've been blessed to have work on my hair is named Robin. She's a very neat lady and has been locking and maintaining client's hair for 20 + years. She is currently also

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