open studio

we had an open studio party over the weekend at our loft...a chance for everyone to come see the space and get a peek at what brooke and i are up to (her with her jewelry and me with my painting). it was such a treat having all of my favorite people in my favorite space...having the little ones running around getting filthy and covered in paint! brooke made the loveliest water concoctions for us (and a good thing too...ack, is it ever hot up there)....lime mint and ginger lemon. yes and yes please!

 

p.s. a big thank you to my sweet friend andrea for stopping in and taking most of these photos. what a gal!

happy tuesday, friends!

ice cream afternoon

 

it's been hot hot hot around here! i took the bobbins to our favorite spot for ice cream yesterday after school and max ate a cone the size of his head while sis stuck her little fingers into anything and everything sticky. there's something about sweets and bare baby thighs that can make you forget all about the heat and start counting the days until summer...

9 month bee

along with all the craziness that april brought...it also gave us a 9 month party girl baby bee (who turned 10 months yesterday...ack! this is a "better late than never" kind of update)

sis at 9 months was a gal on the move...and has the bumps and bruises to prove it! she was a song singing, bye bye waving, food smashing, tooth grower (we affectionately named her deliciously gappy new front teeth louis anderson). her strengths lied in her constant curiosity and she never knew a stranger...not one. her weakness? strawberries. these days, our girl lives to scrap around with her max...then slobber his face. hip hop beats move her and disgruntled noises are the only thing that can make her laugh. she is wild and ornery and funny as can be---my constant little shadow that will kiss your mouth or bite your face off, who knows? she likes to keep you on your toes!


phoebe 9 months from katie stratton on Vimeo.

naptime picnic date

today was just one of the prettiest red letter days i can remember--the kind with sunshine and a breeze and a papa home from work with a napping baby in the car. it was a quick picnic date day! (we take what we can get around here). a sandwich wrapped in paper, hold your guy's hand, spread a blanket and lay in the grass, talk about some sweet nothings before phoebe wakes up kind of day.

i'll take two and three of those, please!

mother's day video Q&A

in the spirit of mother's day this weekend, i partnered up with a really amazing jewelry company, musana, and got a chance to a have a conversation about motherhood (via video) with one of their artisans! the sole purpose of musana jewelry is to provide employment and training to ugandan women--making a way for independence and self respect and a more sustainable future for their families and communities.

i was so happy to get paired together with medina--she has such a sweet spirit about her! my question to her was about her experience as a working mama and artist...and her's to me was about education.

click through ("read more") to watch our video responses to each other.

p.s. max watched my video last night and kept pausing it to see my terrible faces. haha. i think 2:00 was his favorite. hmph!