In honor of Halloween, generally my favorite of all holidays!

Vintage-y Halloween decorations with the glass glitter I’m so into:

A hysterical do-it-yourself gnome costume for walking little people:

Happy trick-or-treating, everyone!

A quick roundup of stuff I’m liking this week - can you tell there has been a lot of work hours around our place lately? This time of year is always so nuts for work, everybody wanting everything done before the holiday dead time…but, anyway, enough on that!

Vintage red flower chandelier for $89 at Uptown Country Home - there was an identical brass one in a design magazine spread I saw recently, but this red is awesome if your nursery has it as an anchoring color:

Three-foot distressed wood angel wings by Cody Foster, $80 at Miss Duffy:

This large wooden puzzle of France from French toymaker Vilac, $26 at Oompa:

The steel schoolhouse art/bulletin board, on sale for $80 in our store! Yes, I know - and you can probably get free shipping, too!:

This small chandelier with glass-glitter stars by Wendy Addison for $18:

This small toadstool chalkboard at Fred Flare for $32:

Et voila!

I saw a rather cryptic post during my read at Print & Pattern - this cell phone shot of some farm animals caught my eye, I love it:

There were no details in the post, but in the comments someone identified it as being by Lisa Jones. So I wandered off and found her website, but this isn’t listed there (although there are a lot of other cute designs!).

This would be the greatest poster for the nursery wall, does anybody in the UK know anything more about it or the artist? I toiled through the ’stockists’ links, but had no luck. It reminds me of children’s book illustrations, I would love to know more!

Little Capucine loved the caterpillar clutching toy that came with her mobile so much, we went looking for some similiar toys and found the Ibedoo rattle by Sigikid. It looked great - small size for easy grasping, interesting ears, cute face, a rattle inside, and cotton:

Pros: Cotton, a good rattle, ears!

Cons: Not narrow enough for easy grasping, only the tail tip is narrow.

Overall: This toy is a great example of why reviewing toys is so tricky. We were really ‘meh’ on this one for weeks…and then little Capucine became obsessed with it, it’s her absolute favorite toy. Those thin floppy little cotton antennae are good for many long minutes of sucking, chewing, and inspecting. The tags, the friendly face, the rattle - she loves it.

Tragically, this caterpillar abandoned ship at the Champs de Mars during a photo with the Eiffel tower. So now we have to buy another one. It’s in our store - probably should be at the top of the toy list at this point! - and you can get it right here.

We survived being sick. Even though we just did an Etsy post, I had a few Etsy-browsing moments over the weekend to space out and let my brain recover. I’ll have new project notes for you soon, but look what I came across!

So, I love the classic-ness of smocking on babies, if it is a little bit modern. Which I never really see. So look at this:

My gosh, these took my breath away. Such tiny stitches and generous amounts of fabric, and really great colors…

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Being sick with a baby is a special kind of hell.

Bonnie Jones “Hanging Handkerchiefs” for sale here.

We’ll be back on line soon!

- Mama & Papa Capucine