Ella T's Profile

Best. Party. Ever.

So thoughtful and sweet, down to the burlap runner and doilies. Love it.

Watch Toy Story 3, maybe with your daughter. I'm not joking. It does a beautiful job dealing with the ideas of discarding vs. giving, loving vs. keeping. Maybe she could be part of the process of making the decision to keep or give. My mother saved a couple of thoughtful things from my childhood -- a plain wooden baby doll cradle that my daughter adores now, an old child-sized rocking chair -- and I'm grateful she did, don't get me wrong. But there's something freeing about letting stuff go, especially if it will bring immediate happiness to someone else, rather than storing it to maybe bring happiness down the road.

Agree with Magoo1, same w/ crib bumpers. AT, be an advocate for responsible design.

You can get those striped blankets new at llbean.com seasonally or at amazon -- it's a hudson bay blanket. Woolrich makes them too.

This makes me so nervous, I didn't catch your child's age but the low railing with the desk and chair and climbable toys right there makes me so anxious.

I have flor tiles in my living room and dining room and they drive me crazy. It's hard to find reviews of them online. I would not purchase them again. In higher-traffic paths they separate from each other, the stickers used to attach them wear out much quicker than I would have thought. Every few months I find myself buying more stickers, pulling apart the rug, putting it back together, bleh. I've had them for two years, the actual carpet surface itself has held up well but it's such a pain. Plus it's annoying to walk over them and feel the seams where the tiles start to separate. Maybe in a room that's rarely used they'd be fine but I would not recommend for high-traffic areas. Too bad, I wanted to love them!

Haba marble runs are great too, plus they're more open-ended and emphasize designing your own runs. You can get a basic set of tracks and curves and add on different pieces.

$12 for chalk, $25 for MOMA pencils? That's more about unnecessary design packaging for adults than giving to kids. As someone who has children I recommend you spend $12 on a huge tub of crayola chalk. And I won't even go there about those pencils. A special shame on you, MOMA.

My fave part of this post is "I finished off the room for my wife and the girls as a surprise and had it ready when they got home." You are awesome and so is the room.