surprise the designer

Related, but not: finally blueberry pie season I've long admired bloggers who have regular features. I think For Me, For You's (now mostly defunct) Bits of My Weekend  was the first one I followed, checking in every Monday to see the newest batch of beautiful photos.  Now there's Amanda Jane Jone's My Better Half , Shutterbean's I love lists, Friday! , and Darling Studio's good glad & lovely  (among many, many others.) Recently I've been thinking of a feature of my own: tips for my kids. Let me be clear... I don't have kids. And I could be wrong, but I would bet that I won't be having kids for a handful of years. But I'm learning lots of important things now, things I'll eventually want my kids to know too. So I'm going to start keeping track of them here.  Lesson #1? Say yes. When people invite you to join them for a meal (or a snack), go somewhere, do something, or just generally spend time together, it's a goo...

This post could also be titled: 'Kids are SO cool!' The past year has been a very good one for me. I've gotten to work for a small toy brand that I started out admiring and now downright love. And as a side benefit of that work, I've made friends with a seven-year-old (I don't think there are a ton of 25-year-olds who can say that...) See, the team I work with is a team of freelancers. Each and every one of us works from our kitchen tables and our home offices. Every so often we get to work from each other's kitchen tables and home offices. That means that a couple days a week, I wind up at G's house. If I happen to be there at 3:00, I get to help welcome the kids home from school. Sometimes that leads to grand adventures. More after the jump...