I didn’t intend to at first, but it just kind of happened! @lauraiz Joey LOVES to reenact scenes from her favorite films and #MaryPoppins is her latest one. Emma: I don’t know if your is in a banana bread as I am, but hers is so amazing. Having been raised under the mantra "follow your dreams" and being told they were special, they tend to be confident and tolerant of difference. Since you asked, id go with a small table lamp so you can easily reach it and turn it off when Winter falls asleep in your arms while reading/rocking. Like, they can just kind of crawl on me. Elsie: And I started making Christmas ornaments with my kids and we did all summer we moved. Also my two children have almost the same middle names. "Run Like the Wind" Package (Value Line) + Printed Materials Product Code: CR11.VL.P There are so many children who need good forever homes. I’ve followed you from the UK since you had the Red Velvet shop and check the website every week. But they’re like, usually when they’re are full price to like one hundred and ten dollars. I just had a long comment written and I think I lost it, so apologies if this is a duplicate! And I finally just ordered them and they were so inexpensive. I think I made some drumsticks that were really good. But anyway, I recently finally just bought them because I definitely wear leggings all the time and I love to have leggings that are like, you can wear them out in the world and still feel kind of put together? But let’s get back to DECOR for now …, Our daughter’s name will be Winter Bloom Larson. So anyway, this is a true vintage gem and I feel so lucky to have it in our nursery. Hopefully, your little one arrives soon <3, Love love love. And I do not regret my model magic purchase. So beautiful! And it made so much more sense to me than framing them. Elsie: (laughs) Oh my gosh. Can we call it that?) I just love the soft colors! I’ve never met a Winter before (except for one Starbucks barista- haha!) Winters is my mother’s maiden name and I have a cousin that’s named Winter! A long cardigan, or that type of thing and with boots, and I feel like leggings fit inside of your boots, and anyway, so. Emma: Yeah. This type of rug is great for basically any room because it is so easy to clean. xx. There are so many truly pretty books for kids! Emma: And yeah, you probably should. Since it’s natural fiber it’s basically the same thing as shampooing your hair! I became a parent for the first time nine years ago and was completely unprepared for how my world turned upside down — I felt in awe of how overcome by love I was. So five years from now, provided I don’t lose this journal, (laughs) that’s the big thing. My. We chose this organic crib mattress (after upgrading to an organic mattress in our own bedroom two years ago we’ll never buy any other kind again). Sending posi thoughts for the rest of this process for you! But it was…you kind of got it on a sale, so…the other options are great too. Thank you for sharing your heart through this process! Anyway, if you have any more adoption questions, I am happy to answer in the comments. So I got these pink like faux fur Jessica Simpson house slippers. And we would love to hear what your best purchases were of 2020 in those comments as well. And that giraffe was an AMAZING gift! My sister and two of our cousins share a middle name. Beautiful room. Well this is the most gorgeous nursery EVER!!! So I’m going to link for you the exact water filter we got. It is beautiful. 2 of my sisters used the middle name of ‘Rose’ who was our Grandmother. I’ve barely gotten through it without crying with my babies so many times; it just touches my heart so much <3 I can’t wait to watch your family grow . I’m happy for you, Elsie <3. It’s ok- it’s so high up I can’t even reach it. Curious, why china when there is more risk of them just stopping your proceedings for no reason (and no legal ramifications) and also a MUCH longer wait compared to domestic..? Yeah. He’s a year and a half. It’s easy! That is so special, for both of them and besides being in the same family, it’s a sweet forever connection. Elsie: Right. Love it. Winter is going to be luckiest freaking kid ever. Winter Bloom is also a lovely name! Afterall, Winter means “rebirth of Spring”. The name you chose gave me chills (could you two have chosen a more beautiful name?). xx. They are so nice for babies and toddlers when sleep training! Ours are probably 3 feet… ish! And then I also got (laughs), here’s another epic one, a new pair of house slippers! Jan 27, 2016 - Tour a Modern, Feminine Upper West Side Apartment filled with amazing architectural detail. The pops of color and light fixture are my favorites. It’s wonderful that you guys have chosen to adopt and I can’t even imagine the mix of emotions that must happen on a daily basis! If it’s not something you want to discuss publicly, I’d lot if you could email me ([email protected]). Elsie: You don’t what you’re fully exposed in front of Uncle Jeremy. Best wishes to you on this journey! Platform: A Beautiful Mess Influencer: Elsie Larson Photographer: Amber Ulmer #kidsbedroom May 28, 2019 - I found this really cute colourful playroom and it is a great space that invites you to be creative and to play. Apr 13, 2019 - Explore A Beautiful Mess's board "life is colorful", followed by 469285 people on Pinterest. <3 I cry almost every time I read a new children’s book. I use it to make tea mostly because I drink tea kind of like two or three times a day during the winter season. And like, if we ever took a picture with the pour over, it was like, this is embarrassing. –Our Place Always Pan (I actually bought three this year, all with my own $). Emma: Yeah, I haven’t done massage this year either. Eloise (28) lives with her husband, Sam (30), and daughter, Frida (18 months), in London. I just wanted to say that you are a huge inspiration in my life and now I have a website shop of my own making crafts to make people happy. She will have a Chinese name most likely given to her by her orphanage (most babies are abandoned without any note so you never know their real birthday or the name their birth parents gave to them). It’s kind of like a jade roller but it’s bigger. I’ve done that for years and I usually get dressed every day like I wear jeans and normal clothes every single day. Each child is recognized for their individuality and is encouraged to develop according to their own inner growth pattern. The “yarn art” (Haha! Beautiful souls. Beautiful bedroom, and I love her name. When it comes to building … Where did you get that adorable rainbow pillow on your rocker?? So sweet that her and her cousin will share a middle name. Can’t wait for you to get your girl! Every adoption is different, but in our process we were able to choose our child’s gender (we chose girl) and age (we chose under 2) and we know that most babies adopted from China are at least 1-year-old, so we have a pretty good idea of the age range she will be. It’s very durable. So I’ve got that and I’m really excited to wear them nowhere because it’s 2020 but I still think they’re really cute and I probably should have bought them like two years ago. My cousin and I share a middle name! Others With a Similar Name. Thank you Jeff. And I can see future me looking back at present me, being even more thankful for the child in my arms. my cousin and my brother have the same first name. It’s weird when you name a baby to imagine them as an adult and at every stage of life with that name…. I truly believe that life’s painful moments can be used for good if you let them. Our entry table arrived last week and I immediately started decorating it … like seriously five minutes later. I have been following you and your adventures for many years from afar and I can’t even tell you how excited I am for you to get your girl!!! What is an organic mattress though? The wallpaper is by my favorite painter, Lulie Wallace. Oh, I might move. And I love it! -Emma’s robe upgrade. You both were so thoughtful about every detail (even up to the dresser being used for her teen years). I thought the etched wooden blocks would be fun for writing little messages out. And I was just so excited. –Cravings by Chrissy Teigen. Elsie: It was a bit of a splurge, but yeah…, Elsie: It’s really special. Oh Elsie!!!! Thanks for sharing your beautiful journey it must be so hard to wait for her arrival but so lovely to be able to get things ready for her. And anyway, so I will link them in the show notes. I’m not ashamed to say I have stalked their site for years (and even purchased a few random things for our adult rooms from them—haha!). And here is the affordable option for the pink kettle. Your nursery is absolutely beautiful!!! Looks beautiful! And it’s so special because I remember all the shops and you know some of them like send thank you notes and become like your Instagram friends and it’s just very special. Also, the room is beautiful! Elsie: So I wanted to get a tea kettle for a few years that was like appropriate for pour overs, because I had, like, I do have a hot water kettle that we loved. Winter has the most precious nursery that could ever be imagined, and is the luckiest girl in the world to be surrounded by such outstanding individuals! xx. Elsie: Yeah. I’m so excited four you two!! Nov 17, 2020 - Explore Truly Photography | Utah Photo's board "Kids playroom ideas", followed by 7785 people on Pinterest. I just wanted to point something out to you: “Swiss cheese” plants are poisonous. It’s called “You Are Special” and it’s about being different from the “popular” people, but discovering that you are perfect as you are. I’ve learned so much from them! My younger sister and I share the same middle name as our older half sister. The quilt hanging on the crib was a gift from an amazing Etsy seller called Quilt Kween. And I love your daughters name x, I love how the nursery room turned out! Yeah. | sfgirlbybay. For the sheet, I got a bunch of options (you’re supposed to stock up, right?!) ? I whipped up the night before these photos were taken. March 7, 2019. Here’s hoping you are matched soon! Love love love! I’ve been wanting them for like years…every time I see someone wearing. Elsie: And how much joy did it bring you when you opened up the box? Emma: Get out of here! Elsie: It’s giant. I can see Winter feeling so included with a western name, and think it’s so amazing you guys will incorporate her heritage as well! Elsie: In the spring still…so I thought and thought about this and I bought a pretty huge like gallon-sized container of Model Magic by Crayola. To carry on that tradition, when we had our daughter, we gave her my maiden name as her middle name and who knows, maybe it’s something she’ll carry on with her kids. And now when we go somewhere, we have something to take with us. As I adore this room. Their cousins in china have Jia in their surnames as well! Here at A Beautiful Mess our motto is: Stay home + make something! 3. This week’s show notes are very link heavy because we’re sharing our favorite purchases of 2020. We both like our last names and don’t want to change, and I don’t have a middle name, so it seems like a nice, subtle, semi-private way to symbolize our joined lives. And then I have a piece, and then I have another piece and then another piece…it is so good. It’s very high quality. It’s GORG!! You also picked a lovely name. Congratulations and as early as now I welcome you to the wonderful world of parenting and motherhood!!! Cheers! You can find the podcast posts archive here. I have been like, you’ve got to talk about this water filter because it’s really awesome. xx. My mom was adopted from Holt Intl in the 50s when they were just starting out. And now, like a part of my month every month is supporting small handmade shops. Gabriella, Love the room, as always! I absolutely LOVE your choice of name and it’s connection to Penny. Beautiful room, and beautiful name!! Spare no details. So I consider it a very worthy splurge. Where are the flower sunnies from?? The Montessori Notebook + Jacaranda Tree Montessori. ), Hug Me (thank you, Sherri), Gaston, Antoinette (super obsessed with the illustrations in both these), Last Stop on Market Street, Home, Triangle, What Can I Be?, I Can Fly, The Wonderful Things You Will Be, Home (A Chinese/English book … thank you, Mom! They’re so great and they come in lots of colors, like they’re always putting out more colors. I just found this Pom Pom Pillow you need! All the design choices are just perfect. Emma: Yeah. 16.07.2013 - Iyi Bayramlar everybody! 冬. I’m sure you can do it with Bloom using the character for Flower (or similar)花. But I actually like use it a lot on my neck and my back and like the back of my head. Cowhide rugs are very easy to clean (I won’t take up your time talking about it here, but ask me in the comments if you care). it may seem like a lifetime of waiting, but it will happen and when it does, all that waiting seems to be forgotten . But if not perhaps it could work better farther from the crib? So I think it’s a worthy splurge if you’re if you’re into that sort of thing…anyway. Elsie Larson On Adopting A Baby From A Foreign Country: "Don't Have Any Expectations" by Brianna Wiest. Such a soft and beautiful color palette. No…(laughs). Emma: No, that’s going to make him feel weird and me feel weird. They run a lot of sales. Something you can do that’s helpful and also fun. So I’ve had to do some reconfiguring. Can you share where the rainbow pillow is from? Congratulations on your little girl, and Merry early Christmas! And the elephant pull toy on the ground is just too cute, right? What an exciting post! Elsie: This is our chance to talk about things that just like have been great, but like maybe they weren’t going to be like a blog post thing, like a room tour, so. I also bought two vintage bronze wall hangings from EBay. , What is the length of the floating bookshelves? It’s been incredible! This makes my heart explode. And this is the ironic thing about it. Else Larson. We have tons of exciting plans for incorporating Chinese tradition into our home, but I will save that for another post on another day. Can’t wait til you get to bring your sweet Winter girl home! We will of course, keep all of her Chinese documents and that name will always be a part of her story. If my name wasn’t Summer, I would have loved to use the name Winter for a baby girl! So but it’s really hard when your water tastes terrible. Wow, this room is really beautiful, and I love the name as well. Elsie: OK, so the next category is something that was a good distraction from 2020. No worries- like I said in the post, I pretty much just made it for these photos (it ties the colors together). Love you! So I always, I always wear a robe after a shower, like kind of over my clothes or over my pajamas or whatever. So (laughs) anyway…, Elsie: So a couple little upgrades there and then I reorganized it and I also spent the year. So anyway! I hope you find parenthood just as beautiful. You’re so good with words!you perfectly described the feeling of a mom, decorating a nursery for her daughter! Infant Room. So now it’s an aunt swimsuit, I guess. I’m an adoptive mom to 4 and 8 year olds. Xoxo. Right? Is it bad that I don’t want my baby to ever throw up on it? Elsie: So I love a big splurge, as we’ve discussed in previous episodes. How did the cost compare? I love hearing your story and I would totally read your book! And I decided against white this time, although I liked the look, I decided to go with a color. Oldest is my husband’s twins little girl Kennedy Lauren James who is just over a year, our little girl Everlyn James Sailor who is 6 months old, and our nephew Ezra Daniel James who is 4 months old , I will echo the sentiments of others in regards to a lighting choice. Something that felt like a major upgrade in 2020. Elsie: But I realized that I miss the feeling of shoes so I got a pair of fur-lined Birkenstocks and they’re sort of like my house shoes, so that I don’t feel like I’m like always in bare feet. Elsie: I just feel like that’s just like one good way to do 2020, like to counteract all the other shittiness. Adorable–and all in my most st favorite colors! A couple of my cousins and I share a middle name (although I was the first ). Bloom is my maiden name and changed my middle name to Bloom once I got married. I have to echo what a lot of others have said about freestanding lamps. Bright, subtle, night light, etc. In our family, she is lovingly referred to by the other kiddos as “baby Winter.”. It was so much fun to decorate in tandem with one of my best friends and see how different our nurseries turned out! I love it because the wooden lens and dials really turn. Looks amazing!!! Ember is a temperature controlled smart mug that keeps your coffee or tea hot to the very last sip. There are some incredible adult adoptees who share their perspectives–it’s a priceless resource. this room is beautiful and the love and care you put into it really shines. So I got this like kind of purply periwinkle kind of robe and it’s like very bath towel texture. I sent the post to my husband, because now I want to do something like this in our daughter’s nursery as well! Elsie – this nursery is just so perfect. It is very important to teach children from a young age about different animals and the extreme importance of conservation. Hi everyone, I’m getting so inspired on Instagram these days and when I approached Eloise from @mightymother_ if we could take a tour of her Montessori-style home, I was delighted when she said “Absolutely!”. It was so good or what was that TV show we watched, remember when we were obsessed with this or whatever, you know, and it’s kind of those little things that I feel like I always forget. Have you considered cloth diapers? (with on-site guest demonstrati… Emma: So anyway, my IKEA white robe got worn out over time and just like had some stains that I couldn’t bleach out. your little daughter will be one of the luckiest little persons in the world. These are all fiction, pretty different genres. Please let us know YOUR best purchases of 2020 as well! I love it! Daughter has Georgia and son has George. Weigh in if you have a strong opinion. Do you remember this? ... Northfield Montessori, Carter's, Inconsiderate Prick, The Rare Pair, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, ... Elsie Larson. Because I was like, there’s just no way…. The wall paper is glorious, I want it for my own room lol! Can’t wait to meet her; thank you so much for sharing your lives with us on the blog. The pretzel rattle is from BlaBla Kids (as is the rainbow pillow on the rocking chair). It’s a balancing toy, so I won’t keep it there for long (it’s just cute for this photo!). Winter and Karina are my top 2 names for a future baby girl. I looked for months and months and never found the perfect thing to place there (but I think that in real life the perfect thing might be nothing). I mainly added the side table so I’d have a place for glasses of water. So that’s kind of my vibe. You did such a fabulous job, and I adore Winter’s name. The sunglasses are Oui Fresh and they come in four different colors! 2. I’m very excited about the new steaming baskets. I think it was essential to my mental health. I don’t know, but I think it was June or July. Elsie: Yes. My heart is seriously bursting for the two of you! So the more things that are sturdy or just plain out of reach will be best! I hope she’s with you soon! 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