a new baby on board!

remember when I mentioned that my dear (the dearest!) friends are expecting a baby girl? well, she finally decided to leave a pleasant surrounding and check out how this strange outside world really looks like. the mum’s good, baby’s good, dad’s most probably drunk by now busy celebrating this pretty extraordinary event;) cheers!

as a good (though a bit unexperienced) aunt I’ve collected some gifts for the baby and its parents – vintage books about newborns, preschool kids and young girls.
in my early teenage years, I found my mother’s book from the ‘60s – it was dedicated to girls and talked about things like feelings, sexuality, physiology. even though it sometimes sounded so naive and desperate questions such as ‘there were boys with me in a swimming pool – am I pregnent?’ made me laugh, I loved its soft, gentle feeling. this ‘don’t worry, changes are natural’ kind of attitude.
I thought the little girl might need it too one day.

-oh

polish diy god

I’ve (at least) once mentioned here my love to vintage books, especially all kinds of self-helpers. this winter was pretty propitious for expending my little collection and – among others – I got myself a real classic, adam słodowy’s ‘lubię majsterkować’ (‘I like doing some DIY’). of course, I know that when you’re not polish (and old enough), this name tells you nothing, but believe me, that man was simply a diy god. he used to have his own tv programme (25 years on air!) where he showed how to do some crazy stuff using things you can easily find at home. słodowy beats mcgyver’s butt when it comes to diy and inventiveness, that’s for sure!

I showed the book to mr. sewer and he flipped when we found a hammock diy tutorial:) I guess this summer we’ll finally make the sewer’s dream come true and we’ll gonna make some cosy hammock for two! oh, yes, please! I’ll surely share some tutorial when we do it:)

have a great day!
-oh



and a beautiful betsy walton work, just to keep you inspired!