I love IKEA. You can’t beat the prices and I think their reputation for low quality goods is undeserved. Many of the items we bought at IKEA has held up quite well in comparison to furniture that I we bought at Crate and Barrel. And the design is wonderful. Even though we can afford to [...]
Pablo got me a new light fixture for mother’s day! Before After Its called a Nelson Saucer Lamp. The design is by American designer George Nelsen. It was designed in in 1947 and is part of the permanent collection of the MoMA. I love the way it goes with my mid-century design chairs!
Web 2.0 projects make me tear up sometimes. Its kind of the same feeling I get when I imagine Matilda going to college or something like that. I blinked and the web grew up without me really noticing. It seems like just yesterday when I coded my first HTML page (ok ok, it was 15 [...]
I am trying really hard to not go overboard for Matilda’s first Christmas. I learned from my friends that you set a standard for Christmas with your kids that you have to keep up, lest they be disappointed. So Christmas in our family will be a relatively minimalist affair. We decided to get Matilda one [...]
As a person who suffers from a lot of hormonal problems, I have always been a bit concerned about plastics. Since Matilda is formula fed, I was concerned when I heard about Bisphenol A or BPA. Many popular baby bottles such as Avent, Dr Browns and Playtex are made of a hard clear plastic which [...]
It seems to be very fashionable these days to be environmentally conscious. My computer and electronic usage probably causes me to have a huge carbon footprint, but at least we are using cloth diapers with Matilda! People ask me how it works so here is all the info. We use a diaper service called Tidy [...]