Mama in the City Giveaway

Little Sylvie and Bunny Baxter are up for grabs over at one of my favourite blogs, Mama in the City, which also happens to be celebrating its first anniversary this month!

The author of the blog, Andrea, is mama to baby Ben (well not so "baby" anymore....let's face it - our toddlers are growing up!) She is also a Labour/Delivery nurse and lives in the one and only Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrea is a great writer, her husband a talented photographer, and her son is one gorgeous little boy. That's right, all the ingredients of a must-read blog :-)
In fact, vancouvermom.com recently included Mama in the City in the top 30 Vancouver Mom blogs. And it's so fitting that we collaborate on a giveaway, because Andrea was the winner of the first ever Koo & Poppet giveaway last summer.

Oh - and she has coined a term that I LOVE: "Koo madness"

And all you have to do to enter the Koo & Poppet giveaway is leave a comment on her post here.
But make haste - the giveaway is only on for a few more days. But luckily Mama in the City is only a hop, skip and a click away......

good luck!

Change is good!

Hi eVeRyOnE!

Introducing the new masthead. Is it too big? Too busy? Too in your face?

It's just that the old one was created slightly hastily; meant for temporary use only, and well, it's almost been a year.

I'm working on new print media for K&P this month and I thought I might as well update the blog graphics as well.

Here is permuation #2:

and #3:

I want to keep it simple and fresh, but also representative of the style and personality of all those Koos, all those Poppets. Who is who anyway? Even I don't know!

The poppets will be pleased

Thank you so much to Shirley for passing on this sweet token to my wee blog! 

Shirley is a talented illustrator and you can see some of her work here: http://www.shirleysillustrations.blogspot.com. She employs some beautiful watercolor techniques, and many of her pieces are well suited to children's illustration.

I used to work in the Marketing department for a children's book publishing company here in Victoria, BC, and Shirley, I'm telling you - this one's right on the money! 

Furthermore, I would like to pass on the award and give a shout out to the following inspiring and lovely blogs:

BurgerArts

Cabin + Cub

Camarilla Designs

Cance

Creative Juices of Ariel

EDub Graphic Design

Felix and Jayne

Found Paper Co.

Hello Lollipop

Les Jou Jou

Meade Design Group

Paisley Jade

Spearmint Baby

Sweet Ambs

Theo Design

WildeDesigns

Yellow Goat Design

Thanks for the great reading and visuals everyone, happy blog-hopping!

Here are the rules:

**Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. **Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have newly discovered. Remember to contact them to let them know they have been chosen.