Obligatory Easter Pics

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!  Ours was so nice here.  We had gone to a church service the previous Thursday night (the church has services on various days to accomodate everyone's schedules), so we were able to have a leisurely Easter morning around the house.  We had an egg hunt, then took a trip to a wonderful park across town, where we had a picnic, played at the playground, and took a nice walk on the trails.  Because it was Easter, it was almost completely empty, so the kids loved having all the playground equipment to themselves!

 Since we didn't have to get dressed up for church, I let the boys pick out their own clothes, and dressed Avery in this cute bunny jumper.  Absolutely everything they're wearing is from the thrift stores (except Avery's socks!). 

 Oh, and their egg-hunting bags are from Anthropologie- ha ha!  

I just had to add this last photo of Avery and the Easter bunny.  It's from the previous day when we went to an egg hunt at my mother-in-law's house.  Avery wanted nothing to do with that bunny, and I can't say that I blame her- the bunny's a little scary looking!!

Lil' Vintage Story Books #23

Welcome again to Lil' Vintage Story Books, where we share our favorite vintage children's books!

This is another Little Golden Book called "A Dragon in a Wagon", by Janette Rainwater, illustrated by John Martin Gilbert, and published in 1966.

It is such a fun little book showing rhyming words with silly illustrations.

 Such a simple concept, but so cute!

I love this illustration of the king on a swing!

Here in Florida, we see lots of armadillos, but never on pillows!

My kids especially love this page because there's a tiny picture of the book on the nightstand- they think that's so clever!  I love this page because it means I can send them all to bed!!

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Little Vintage Ducky Style

 I went through some of Avery's "to grow into" clothes, and pulled out some "new" vintage pieces that I've been saving.  We decided to try out this ducky dress first!

 It coordinated perfectly with polka-dotted leggings and cute yellow sandals (both thrifted).

 Although as you can see in the above photo, it's still a touch big, and kept falling off her shoulder all day!

She was very agreeable with posing for me this time around, and came up with some silly faces, and nice jumping, as well as just some pretty standing!

 Oh, it's all just so funny, isn't it, Avery?!?

And just because I love these two photos so much, I decided to put them together for my entry into Paper Mama's "Eyes" photo contest!

Dollhouse Nursery

 Some of you may remember this dollhouse from this post.  I've slowly been accumulating various pieces of dollhouse furniture- from thrift stores, estate sales, etc. Not necessarily intentionally for this house, but just in general, you know?  When you have as many dollhouses as I have, furniture will never go to waste!!

Well, as a result of this slow accumulation, I've got myself a complete nursery now!  

 My pièce de résistance is this little changing table.  Do you remember Avery's changing table (here) and this dolly changing table (here)?  I mean, how could I resist when I found the matching dollhouse version?? 

  The little plastic Ideal crib, buggy, and rocking chair were from an estate sale.

I'm not sure why there are two cribs in this nursery- maybe it's a twins' room!  All I know is that it looks cute!

 Love the little decal of course!

Now my next step is to find a baby doll (or two) to put in there!  

Lil' Vintage Story Books #22

Welcome again to Lil' Vintage Story Books, where we share our favorite vintage children's books!

Well, if you couldn't tell from this post, I have a bit of an addiction for vintage nursery decals.  So when I saw this Little Golden Book, I knew it was meant for me!  It's called "Fun With Decals", written by Elsa Ruth Nast, illustrated by Corinne Malvern, and published in 1952.  Originally, it came with its own sheet of Meyercord decals, but sadly, the ones in this book had been taken out.  But that's okay, I know I can always find more on Ebay or Etsy!

 In addition to the decals, this is also a little storybook about a family who takes a trip to their new cabin.

 Unfortunately, it begins to rain on their very first day.  Never fear though, Mother and Dad have plenty of projects to do!

 I just love the illustrations of these little girls- oh, those sweet little pinafore dresses!

 A break for lunch-   five sandwiches for Ty!  Oh my!

 Hurray!  Dad has a surprise!  Meyercord decals for everyone!

 The whole family has a grand time putting decals on everything!

 How much would I pay for this adorable shelf at an antique store these days?  Too much!

 The rain finally stops, and everyone goes out for a swim, knowing how fancy their new cabin looks now!

Yes, yes, yes, and yes-I'd take one of each of these little pieces, please!

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Little Vintage Style

I haven't been dressing Avery in vintage as much lately.  I've felt so busy, I usually just grab the easiest thing out of her closet in the morning!  But these photos are from a few weeks ago, and I realized I never shared them!

This was a sweet little vintage dress that I paired with houndstooth leggings and little red shoes.  Everything's thrifted.

 I sort of like the quirkiness of the mismatched prints.

 She wasn't into any fancy posing on this day, but at least she sat on the chair for me nicely!

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Avery's Room Addendum

Well, hello!  I know it wasn't very nice of me to post all those photos of Avery's room, and then disappear for a week.  We went out of town for Spring Break, and the highlight of my day was checking in and seeing everyone's sweet comments about her room!  Several of you asked questions about things, so I'll try to answer them here.  But before I do that, I'll show you what has already changed about the room since our return!

Avery now has a sweet little toy chest by her window!  Isn't it just wonderful???

On our trip, I went to probably 6 different antique malls, and can you believe that this was the only item I bought?  There was seriously just nothing I liked anywhere!  But that's okay, because the fabulous-ness of this piece makes up for the slim pickings!

 It was only $30, which I thought was pretty inexpensive for a nice wooden piece, and what's so nice is that it doubles as a little seat for her!  And of course, look how many Meyercord decals!  Five!  I am SUCH a sucker for vintage nursery decals!

So, now onto some of your questions.  I had several people ask about the paper doll on her wall.  Really, this was just a lucky Ebay find a few years ago.  I frequently look for vintage paper dolls there, and just happened upon this GIANT one!  But you could probably make your own by taking a smaller one and making enlarged copies of it at the copy shop...

I also had questions about how I hang some of the things on the wall.  Well, really, I am not the best person to ask about this.  Honestly, most things are just hung with regular nails.  If I were to ask my husband to do it, he would use huge dry-wall anchor screws that make a mess of the walls.  And I like to rearrange frequently, so I try to avoid that.  So, it's probably not the best way, but I haven't had anything fall, so I'll stick to it for now!!

And finally, the bed.  It used to be just a regular white toddler bed from Babies R Us (these kinds are a dime a dozen at thrift stores around here).  You can see pics in this post.  But I knew I wanted something more vintage-y for Avery's room.  So I spray-painted it (I used Montana Spray Paint in Malachite- I had to order it online), then distressed it.  The "decals" are actually not decals, but are images printed out and decoupaged onto the bed.

So there you have it!  I hope I answered all your questions, but feel free to ask if you have any more!  If you missed the original room tour, you can find it here.