Blog — family

A little over five years ago I was in the middle of introducing solid foods to my first child and found the amount of information on the topic to be a bit overwhelming. As a graphic designer (and mom who needs a feeling of control) I decided to summarize everything I found about baby weaning into an organized infographic. Since posting the first version of this chart back in 2012, I have received an overwhelming response from readers who had been looking for something to help them in their weaning processes. I realized that this chart was doing what I hoped it...

As a lover of cards and all things handmade I decided that I wanted my son to make his own Valentine’s Day cards this year. He is five years old and is at the stage where he loves coloring and cutting with scissors. He needed to be able to make 16 cards to give to his preschool classmates and, at first, I thought that would be way too many cards for a kid that age to make…until I realized that he could make 1 or 2 BIG CARDS and then cut them (which he loves doing) into smaller cards. BINGO....

Sometimes the dads in our lives are the hardest people to shop for and it can be even harder to surprise them. I mean, I’m pretty sure my husband saw that beard oil coming from a mile away. I thought it might be cute to offer some free wallpaper downloads that you can sneak onto your man’s computer desktop the night before or on the morning of Father’s Day.    You can download them by clicking on the image you want, or click below. Enjoy! ~Kat We Love Daddy – DOWNLOAD Best Dad Ever – DOWNLOAD My Daddy My Anchor – DOWNLOAD And...

ROCKS. Super fun, right? I mean, what could be more fun than a small, dirty, lifeless nodule found pretty much everywhere? Well, five-year-old Kat would have had a hard time thinking of something more fun than rocks. I can thank my mom for that. One summer while we were spending a really long time visiting my grandparents my mom made a bunch of rock dolls for me. I’m pretty sure the lack of toys at their house and the lack of stores in their small town made me whiny. Fortunately, my poor mom has always had the gift of creativity....