Giveaway! Win Mini Me Paper Dolls from Lily & Thistle

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This week’s giveaway is a $30 Gift Certificate for MiniMe Paper doll made by artise Hannah Stevenson of Lilly & Thistle Art Studio.

You know we love a good paper doll here at Modern Kiddo!

But imagine finding a paper doll that looks like your little girl or boy. Enter Hannah Stevenson, a brilliant and charming artist who decided to bring back the wonders of paper dolls for her own children and has extended the offer to you. She has created beautiful paper dolls with bewitching little dresses that will be played with for hours and hours and hours.

Included in your Standard Paper Doll kit, wrapped gift-ready are the following:

  • Personalized hand drawn and digitally colored MiniMe doll with name stand(see options under ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS on the side of your screen)
  • Six adorable outfits (Spring Line)
  • Amazing reusable adhesive strip so you have the option of playing with or without tabs!
  • “All About Me” pages (four pages for your favorite girl to fill out and keep as a memento).
  • A CD with custom doll, outfits and “All About Me” pages for reprinting.
  • All pages are printed using high quality archival inks on beautiful premium grade textured art paper.***
  • Paper dolls can be played with, framed, or used in scrap booking. Print them out as many times as you would like!

Or you can splurge for $10 more and get a paper doll that is customized to your daughter’s wishes! I don’t know if there is anything physically more awesome than this.  Just think of the time I would have been able to save instead of having to draw glasses on all of my paper dolls…

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And if you do all of them, you will be entered five times. Whoohoo!

Thanks and good luck!

Included in your gift ready package will be:
* Personalized hand drawn and digitally colored MiniMe doll with name stand(see options under ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS on the side of your screen)

* 6 adorable outfits (Spring Line)

* Amazing reusable adhesive strip so you have the option of playing with or without tabs!

* “All About Me” pages (four pages for your favorite girl to fill out and keep as a memento).

* A special “Keepsake Doll Set” that is signed and dated by the artist Hannah Stevenson.

* A CD with custom doll, outfits and “All About Me” pages for reprinting.

*** All pages are printed using high quality archival inks on beautiful premium grade textured art paper.***

Paper dolls can be played with, framed, or used in scrap booking. Print them out as many times as you would like!

Oh La La: Ola & Olek

International Kiddo,

I love a good redhead.

I would have been drinking henna milkshakes if I thought it would have helped the Peach turn a bit more into a strawberry.

So, you understand why I fell in love with Ola & Olek, the particularly delicious line of children’s clothing from London designer, Eliza Lopatowska. You are sucked in by the stunning red hed kiddo models, but stay because the clothing is just divine. With a wink and a nod towards vintage, Eliza manages to combined all of the comfort of today’s kid’s clothes dashed with pretty pretty accents that would not be strangers in your mother’s closet as a child.

Like a pretty peter pan collar.

A sweet bit of detail on a pocket or two–perfect for putting something special in.

A ruffle here. A ruffle there.

Even the t-shirts are something special.

As Eliza notes on her Website:

My line is for the parents with very individual tastes in design who are looking for designer children’s clothing with a unique charm and appeal. Every line consists of both tailored and casual pieces. The tailored pieces demonstrate timelessness, simplicity and clean cuts. This is coupled with the use of specific materials in a beautiful nostalgic palette that are often surprising for children’s clothing. The final outcome is quality design pieces with definite ‘pass-it-on’ potential. The casual pieces consist of quality kids pieces with creative and quirky applications.

Too true, Eliza!

All of these goodies can be found in select stores in Europe, Asia and Australia.  Clearly they need a US distributor. Any takers? PLEASE!

Yay for Ola & Olek!

Simply Silhouettes Giveaway results.

Giveaways

Wow, we knew that silhouettes were having a resurgence but you guys weren’t kiddin’! Our Simply Silhouettes Giveaway was a smashin’ success:

Congratulations to Linda of the lovely Burlap & Blue! For those of you who didn’t win, we have another amazing and unique Giveaway coming up tomorrow—so be sure to tune in. And don’t forget to swing by the fabulous Simply Silhouettes. Angela has her shop stocked with so many cute things (I’m especially fond of all the goodies in the Gifts section!).

Hope you all had an awesome weekend….

Meet Beatrice Bird! Our Weekly Kiddo.

Weekly Kiddos


Guess what people? It’s FRIDAY! And that means we have a three day weekend ahead of us. WHooo hoo! This week I have a special little girlie for you. This is Beatrice Birdie. She’s only 2 1/2 but this spunky lil monkey already has mad style! Get ready to be charmed my friends. Take it away Bea!

+ Chickadee peasant shirt, Vintage
+ Skinny jeans, Gap
+ Pink Converse One Stars, Target

+ Plaid dress, Vintage
+ Straight-leg jeans, Old Navy
+ Squeakers Sneaks, with the squeaks removed (wise move, mama!)
+ Hot pink sunnies, Target


+ Yellow floral top, Old Navy
+ Capri jeans, Old Navy
+ White cardigan, Cherokee for Target
+ Flower headband, Target
+ Yellow jellies, Old Navy


+ Apple red jumper dress, vintage
+ Straight leg jeans, Target
+ White onesie tee, Target
+ Purple sneaks, Old Navy

+ Blue paisley top, GAP
+ Skinny Jeans, J.Crew Crew Cuts
+ Knit Flapper Headband: Jek in the Box (on Etsy)
+ Cool Cigar Box ukulele: by Uncle Jeff (husband to Ms. Jek!)

And because that little plaid vintage dress is so cute, one more time! I love it paired with the little pink Converse. It’s a perfect example of taking a slightly proper vintage dressie and turning it into something cool, spunky and wearable!


Yes. My girl Bea is holding a banjo. How cute is she?? Little Honey Bea loves animals but us especially fond of panda bears. She is a nature girl at heart and loves the grass, the sun, the beach and balloons. (YAY for balloons!) Her cool mama Natalie tells us that when meal time rolls around, she really digs Miso soup and pickles, which is just about the coolest and most random combo ever. Go Beatrice! This little sweetie loves story time and her favorite book is Ferdinand the Bull.  Seeing her with her banjo and ukulele, it won’t come as a surprise that she is crazy about music and she loooves to dance!! Her favorite song is Yellow Submarine but she falls asleep listening to Beach House. Needless to say, she’s a super rad kid. Hip hip hooray for Little Miss Bea!

Have an awesome weekend my friends. Dottie and I are taking Monday off to enjoy Memorial Day with our families, but we’ll be seeing ya bright eyed and bushy tailed on Tuesday!

Dottie’s Kraft Korner: Leila & Ben Kid’s Patterns

Dottie's Kraft Korner

You know I love a good sewing pattern. But I particularly love an easy kid’sn clothing pattern. Because as much as I liked to do beautiful hand-wrought stitchery–I really only have a couple hours to make crafting magic for my little Peach.

Enter Leila and Ben with this to say about their wonderfully designed, button cute patterns:

“All of our patterns are made with the beginner in mind and feature step-by-step instructions and clear photographs to make your projects a success!”

I’m picking up what your putting down, Leila and Ben!  Because as much as I like the “process” of sewing clothes for my kids, I also don’t like hitting my head against my sewing machine in despair after spending my precious time ruining a nice piece of fabric that was suppose to be a dress. I’ll save the vintage Vogue patterns for later. Right now, I need something easy that fills my crafty void.

And I could fill it nicely with this sweet dress pattern for girls and babies.

Here is the description:

“This dress is the perfect dress for summer and can also be layered over long sleeves and pants for cooler weather. Featuring a simple design and little puffed sleeves, this pattern can be completed in about 2 to 3 hours. Because of the flexible design, these dresses will fit for a long time, and can be worn as a tunic when the length gets too short. This pattern is easy enough for even beginner sewers and features step-by-step photos to guide you through.”

Two to three hours from fabric to dress? Color me SOLD! And I’m a big fan of dresses that turn into tunics. And step by step photos. Utter genius. That would have stopped me from drowning my sorrows in mojitos during the horrible chevron dress fiasco of 2006.

But they have other dandy patterns, like this sweet cap.

This skirt they swear takes less than an hour and less than a half yard of fabric. Yes!

I’d like this sassy jacket in my size, please. That ribbon placket is perfection.

They even offer crochet patterns for all sorts of goodies like a  cape or  snuggly cap with ear flaps. Or a summery tank!

But I’ve saved the best for last. And I dedicate this to my work-out buddy who told me the sweetest story about her son, who was surprised by school photo day and drew a tie on a piece of paper and wore that paper tie for his photo. I give you the tie for your little guy pattern!

I hope this inspires you crafty types out there to dust off some fabric and take a walk on the crafty side this three day weekend.  I plan on spending some QT time with my darling serger. Wish me luck. And hopefully next week I can do a little show and tell… Crossing fingers…

Enjoy!

PS: All images are from Leila & Ben!