sweet little headbands

From the day my baby girl was born I loved putting her in headbands. Maybe it was something about not having the chance to accessorize any of my other babies, but getting this little girl fancied up with a sweet headband was {and is} such fun for this mommy.

There are a million headband makers out there {just search for ‘headband’ on etsy and you’ll see!} and some very darling ones at that.

But, if you haven’t yet figured this out about me, I like simple, classic and neutral.

Even on my baby girl.

So I’ve decided to put together a mini collection of my three favorite go-to headbands:

They are now available in the shop.

They are ‘one size fits most’ {approximately 15 1/2”} handmade with soft elastic and can be worn by babies, toddlers, big kids and ladies. {There are small pieces on the flower headbands, so please be careful if your baby is anything like mine and wants to pull it off and chew on it}

You can purchase a sweet headband by clicking {H E R E}

P.S. There is not a what I wore post this week … but let me just say that three out of the seven days I was wearing skinny jeans {I think I’m a convert}.

P.P.S. Special thanks to my little models Audrey, Hadley, Natalie & Isabella. Aren’t they the sweetest little things?!

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paint

Paint is good. It is inexpensive, easy to apply and can transform any room in a matter of hours. We like to paint and find ourselves repainting rooms often. I thought I’d share some of the colors we currently have in our home. They are neutrals {no surprise there} and they go with everything, but be sure to try out a sample in your home to see how the color looks in different light.

T H E   E N T I R E   H O U S E

Our home was painted from top to bottom in a great neutral wheat/gray/beige by Rodda {HFH09 – relaxed khaki}. This is the color that is in our entry, the base coat of my office and the stripes in the boys’ room. However, I can’t find a sample online and I believe Rodda is only found in the Pacific Northwest, so here are some comparable ones I found by holding up my Benjamin Moore {BM} fan deck to my walls.

BM hazy skies {OC-48}

BM grant beige {HC-83}

T H E   D I N I N G   R O O M

BM berkshire beige {AC-2}

T H E    K I T C H E N

This is the color on the top of the walls.

BM texas leather {AC-3}

T H E   L I V I N G    R O O M

Our walls have been this gray-blue for the past few years

farrow & ball light blue

but we’ve just repainted the room with this new color

restoration hardware slate

T H E   N U R S E R Y

This is a soft blue-gray that doesn’t really look like this swatch on the walls. Sorry about that. It is a bit lighter and softer in real life.

Behr rhino {710E-3}

It is pretty similar to the ever-popular Silver Sage from Restoration Hardware

restoration hardware silver sage

The bed & shelves in the nursery are painted this sludgy gray-blue-green {also not very well-represented by this image}

Sherwin Williams rushing river {SW2093}

Need a few more suggestions? Here are a couple of pretty ones:

BM revere pewter {HC-172}

farrow & ball mouse’s back

** NOTE: while you can never get the color to match perfectly, we typically have the paint swatches color matched at our local hardware store. It is not the fanciest paint, but seems to do the trick **

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