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Sponsor Spotlight: Invitation Consultants

Only 11 more nights and my baby boy, Kiet is going to be 2... no more baby, but a little boy who deserves a party. A great place to look for fabulous invitations, partyware and ideas is the website of Invitation Consultants.

I also visited the Invitation Consultants blog this morning and seached on the category 'kids party' and found super fun themes with direct links to the apropriate invitations or thank you cards.

New Series: Fashion Stories: Noemí from Cozy&Free

A new column here on B:Kids and it's all about the talented people behind the fashion labels we like to buy for our children. I have sent invitations to several kids fashion designers and aksed them to share some images with us 'from-behind-the-scenes' ... and answer a few short questions.

Hope you like the series. Today we kick-off with Noemí from Cozy&Free ... please enjoy!

 

A Fashion Story by Noemí from Cozy&Free

C: Cozy&Free stands for... feeling comfortable and free. There’s no one without the other.

O: Originality is... Sticking to your guts in spite of what everyone else tells you.

Z: Zipper, zebra or zeitgeist and why... If I have to pick one I guess that would be zeitgeist, though but by the minute, not a time or era.

Y: Years from now I will... Still be curious and use all of our senses and maybe add a few more.

 

Hello Monday with ChickenRythm...

Starting this week with a quick thank you to the lovely Malvina and Aliki from ChickenRythm for our awesome new shirts! Lode and Kiet were getting compliments in our local grocery shop last Saturday :) ...

some things I liked this week...

these gorgeous alphabeth prints from Woop via darling clementine

these lamps from Hartendief...

this vintage bakelite figurebox over at 2oldschool...

Come and Draw Table by Tian Tang design

Sometimes you see something that makes so much sense!

Yes this super fun drawing table called Come and Draw would look very nice in our home too! Tiang Tiang is the designer who currently studies and lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. I discovered Come and Draw at the blog of this good looking kids magazine from Denmark, thanks Mia for introducing me to it.

..Come and Draw Table..

Giveaway: Travel suitcase and Musicbox from Esthex

What can you win :: A super cute canvas Travel suitcase + a lovely Canvas Musicbox of choice both from my favorite Dutch children's soft toys label Esthex. 

What do you have to do :: just leave a comment stating which item which you would like to see added to the Esthex Travel collection?

This giveaway runs until Wednesday 2 March and the winner will be announced the following day.

THE WINNER IS : Lixa

..Esthex..
..Esthex online shop..
..I like Esthex' view on the Sartorialist..

Lode Loves Dino's, my pillows for him...

My son is a Dino addict ... it started when he was a bit younger and very afraid of the dark and when he saw some dino cartoons on  tv he started believe that these lovely creatures could protect him ... when I was working on my sewing machine a little while ago he asked whether i could make a Dinosaurs for him... so totally inspired by the sewing techniques of the wonderful Kristin from KLT:Works and Samantha from MummySam I created some dino-pillows for him ... and see here the result :)

Some other dino inspired things my son would surely love are these finds below...

 Dino Stamp Set; Dino undies; Dino lunch bag; Dinobox drawing set; Dinosaurs Matching Game;

 

 

 

Craft project: Story Dice

Great to see a new beautiful Craft Project arriving in my inbox this morning from the lovely Helen ... I missed her lovely craft projects, but am glad she is back with us! This week she is showing us how to make Story Dices... click here for more images and instructions.

..Curly Birds

Carnival costumes Ideas

I'm starting with something cheerful this week... Carnival! Will you be celebrating this year, i believe it is only two weeks from now...but plenty of time to create a nice costume yourself for the kids! To be honest we will not be celebrating, but I was brought up in a true Carnival family, i believe it is in my genes :) so around this time of year I am getting a bit excited and perhaps I will use these DIY samples for my boys whenever they wanna do a costume party at home....

In the top image: funny ghosts via fffound  and a beautiful little owl from Ellen Luckett Baker.... more images...

some things I liked this week...

art and fimo brooch from polka dots cloud...

this little lion and pirate kitty...

the new Snug.Zoo...

these animal cards from Beau Ideal Editions...

Happy Weekend!! Hope to see you on Monday :) love irene xoxo

 

playing and preparing...

Just a nice start of the day... Kiet is playing outside with his lego and I'm preparing a giveaway for  Bloesem: two of you can win a copy of Print Workshop by the very talented Christine Schmidt ... if you want to enter for this giveaway then head over to Bloesem...

The winner from last weeks Cherry Walls giveaway is : Heather

If you would like to organise a giveaway on BKids please drop us an email. I have to be honest with you we go for the big prices so minimum retail value is USD 75.-

Maps, maps and more maps inspired things...

Seeing these fun map-pillows from my bearded pigeon appear in my inbox this morning made me want to search for 'maps' inspired items for kids and here are some things I liked around the web...

Around the World in 20 Pages; a gorgeous mobile for a nursery by contexture design; amazing handmade baby soft-maps quilts by hapticlab and last but not least the beautiful handmade Australia Magnetic Geography Puzzle... perhaps you have more to add?

 

 

Craft project: The Long-Reach Gizmo

How Fun a Long-Reach Gizmo and your kids can make this crazy creature themselves, just follow the steps Teri  has written down for us right here... at the BKids' Craft Page...

 

..Giddy Giddy..
..more craft projects..

Sponsor Spotlight: Chicken Rhythm

 

Have you already seen the stuff from Chicken Rhythm. I only did a little while ago and I love what they make for our kids! Aliki Visser and Malvina Buonocore created Chicken Rhythm and they say their friends think they are funny because they are spunky and spontaneous ... this probably explains the happy, funny, bright and colorful range of t-shirts, rucksacks and great iron-on badges!

The Tiger rucksack I probably am going to buy as a present for my almost 5 year old son's birthday and I will order some of the cute iron-ons for baby Kiet, still call him my baby, but with his second birthday coming up that is not quite the case anymore... well Chicken Rythm is going to be a place for me to find some great presents!

..Chicken Rhythm..
..Chicken Rhythm blog..

Mom Story : Maja from Sweden

Hello new week, why don't we start with a great new Mom Story from a very talented illustrator, who lives in the small village of Lomma in Sweden... her name is Maja Lindberg and she has two children, a blog, a website and an etsy shop, where you can buy prints of her amazing illustrations. I absolutely love them!

Maja's Mom Story is right here... I believe it is our very first Swedish Mom... who is going to be next? Love to here and see more from Scandinavia!

..Mom Stories..