I’ve posted before about how much I love pilot caps for babies. I turned up this one - or rather, variation of one - yesterday while I was searching for a sun hat, and I can’t get over how adorable it would be on a little baby head I know:

Sigh. Etsy is so enticing. This isn’t the kind of hat I’m looking for at all, but I love it so. It looks perfect for Spring, but who knows if it would fit by then. (Fit seems to be the key issue with everything baby related, unfortunately.)

PS. Just a reminder, if you need the snug ruffled kind of pilot cap rather than this springy one, we still have that awesome organic one in our store…which keeps this blog going, incidentally. Just in case you’re thinking some cuteness doesn’t sound like such a bad idea!

In a classic example of the internet curse - finding what you’re not looking for - I started a hunt for a sun hat with a chin strap this morning and found this chair by La Maison de Lena instead:

My thoughts were that someone really understood kids when they designed this chair, followed by: why have I never seen it before? And then, how much is €285.00 in dollars these days? Never mind, I haven’t space in Little Capucine’s 12 x 12 quarters anyway, but what a lovely, lovely chair…maybe you’ve got a way to make it happen?

For years, I would see the word ‘bunting’ in British novels and think ‘crepe paper’, or maybe a baby wrapper of some sort. And then, thanks to the internet, I finally learned that bunting was essentially those awesome Tibetan prayer flags, only looking like they were made by Cath Kidston and without the praying. (OK, to be totally type-A about it, bunting is actually the fabric the flags are made out of. And also a teeny little bird.)

I really love these, for their happy aura and the DIY possibilities. I’ve been seeing a lot of bunting lately, so here is what I’ve saved up…

I bet these are what the original British ones looked like:

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