Early summer – traveling, exploring, and spending time with my son who in the blink has become a little boy.

Whatever happened to Half Dot Spring? I made a few lightweight jacket designs which will be part of a larger collection for next year, Spring 2011. In the meantime, I am working on the fall/winter 2010 season that will soon be in production and available this September.

It’s time for ice-cream cones, keeping our toes cool in the sand, and lots of sunscreen – and I’m already thinking ahead to little kids bundled up in Half Dot coats during the wintertime.

A week in San Jose with family and friends, and revisiting old favorite walks with our little son (in Half Dot, of course).

At the Museum of the City of New York, we managed to catch the Eero Saarinen exhibit before it closed. And one floor above, a collection of pieces from MoMA’s Low Cost Furniture Competition with a chair by Saarinen and Charles Eames. Ah yes, their much coveted designs really weren’t supposed to cost as much as they do now.

Waiting for his dad inside Bergen Street Comics before we head over to Brooklyn Larder to get some incredibly delicious baked goods.

A couple of new (to me) places I’ve started tuning into recently:

Ink+Wit, for a good dose of letterpress and the goings-on in the world of print design

Junior Society – not your typical pretty-designy-children’s-products blog, this is a great place to go for ideas about things to do with the kids, and the vintage old school illustration bent to it definitely makes it easy on the eyes.

Recently confirmed things about kids:

They are naturally helpful beings, contrary to what Hobbes and Machiavelli thought.

According to the marshmallow experiment (reenacted here), there’s some direct link between a kid’s ability to sit in a room unattended with a big fat marshmallow and his or her future academic achievements.

And most recently from the NY Times’ 9th Annual Year in Ideas, that infant sleep is destiny – good sleeping habits in babies lead to better executive-funtion abilities in childhood. Hm, alright, that seems to be aiming a bit high. My son sleeps about 11 hours a night (and my husband and I thank our lucky stars for that) and all that I expect is he’ll have lots of energy to play when he wakes up.

And onward we go, a whole new year of possibilities just waiting for us discover. Cheers!

A few of the places online that I often like to stop by: scout holiday for a good dose of high fashion, minor details for designer baby things, lunch to see what my friends are eating, and camilla engman for a glimpse into life as a swedish artist.

I wonder what our kiddo thinks as he looks around at the blanket of snow around him.

In shop news, the winter sale continues (and certain sizes in our most popular styles are almost sold out). And we are shipping throughout the holidays so your little ones can start off the new year wearing Half Dot!

A warm afternoon in the kitchen, we baked strawberry shortcakes, the kiddo ate his first strawberries curiously. Happy birthday little man!