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those are cute, but i recommend my friend jessica's teepees. she and her husband make them by hand, one by one. they're amazing (i have one in my playroom). and you're supporting a family, not a corporation.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/houseinhabit

i made one for my daughter's birthday and it was a huge hit. i found a pretty cotton shower curtain with a vintage-y floral pattern. the reason the shower curtain instead of a sheet because one edge of it already had the slits cut that were perfect for hanging on suction cup hooks on the windows! in total, the kit i made came with: the pretty cotton shower curtain, four wooden waldorf clips that i found on etsy, four suction cup hooks, and a flashlight all in a little pretty basket. here's a photo of it in action :) http://instagram.com/p/O7iKrJv0DF/

love everything about this

first of all, it's a rad mower! lucky girl! but if you asked her to pick the color, you've got to let her have the color (otherwise just avoid giving options, which is my usual go-to line of defense ;)
i would choose a shiny hot pink or a hot coral color. summery and girly and she will love you for it.

that's houseofhabit.blogspot.com :)

adelaidean, i love your comment :) :) mostly because you found a way to make your picky obsessiveness endearing :)

in general, these comments cracked me up.

i just need good light. i appreciate so many design elements, but if pretty things are in a house with bad natural light, it's for naught. my house is smallish, only 1750 sq feet but it was built in two stories in an almost perfect square with an open floorplan so that every single room has big windows on at least two sides. it makes me so happy. so many mcmansions are built for size, but often have relatively poor lighting. and homes built in the 90s often have big walls with tiny windows, poor things.

sounds totally fun and cute to me, and something that i would have SO wanted to do as a kid, but now as a parent, i can't help but thinking of firefighters trying to go through the house looking for kids and not knowing to check the closets, or earthquakes with rods/shelving up above the beds, etc. whoever posted to make little nook hide-aways, i think that sounds like a great compromise! i would have made it a hideaway as a kid myself!

iphone photos are super low resolution and won't print well any larger than, say, a 4"x4" print, so you have to basically force it to be higher resolution to get it to look nice as a big print!

my daughter has used the malm since her 2nd birthday with no problems and our big bed is not a malm, but a big pottery barn platform bed and we have never had a problem. the duvee usually goes down over the corners for a little padding.

i write directly on the page, too. yeah, it might be awkward if the book is passed on a year later or haphazardly, but i personally love finding a vintage book in a shop with a long-ago inscription. inscribe away!