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“Come Away With Me,” by Angie Kim and Maggie Kim of Oda Fashion, starring their little ones Indigo and Bowie.

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“Come away with me” by Maggie Kim and Angie Kim

So, the girls and I have been just a little *wee* bit busy the last few months - something about moving cross country *again,* starting new job, starting new school, and a bunch of other crazy but fun and life-changing stuff.  So, no new baby scenes from us, and maybe never again - childhood is like that - it travels at a pace faster than any of us grownups can really grok (except in stunned moments when looking at photos from only months prior -”Wow, everyone is growing up SO FAST.“).

But here’s where we still get to delight in our friends Angie and Maggie Kim’s new baby scenes.  If you remember from an earlier post introducing this twin sister designer duo from Oda, these lovely women had their first kids within months of each other and have teamed up in yet another creative endeavor with their particular style of magic, fantasy, and amazing array of couture fabric remnants. 

I like to think of these beautiful children being cocooned not just by the fabric of their mothers’ handiwork, but also by the imagination inspired by their love.

Here’s “Come Away with Me,” by Angie and Maggie Kim, starring Baby Indigo and Baby Bowie.

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Aquatic Marvels, Part II

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Aquatic Marvels, Part I

Or, How to Catch a Merbaby

Around this time two years ago, we were trying to figure out how to move cross-country from the West Coast to the East Coast.  The two big icebergs that dominated my brain were: Moving, and Baby.  One day, I looked down at the green bubble wrap that I was using to pack fragiles, and a long-time problem that had been bugging me for ages, “How do I make a mermaid tail for the girls to wear in a babyscene?” suddenly popped like a shiny bubble.  Did I wrap Willow in her little tail while she was napping, or right before the shoot? I don’t remember, but we have this photo to prove that she took to the water like a natural-born merbaby.  Swim, little one, swim.

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"Shut the F-(ront door)!"

That's practically what my daughters yelled when we told them a few days ago that maybe, just MAYBE, Winter was *finally* going to be over!!

A dear family that used to live down the street from us in Brooklyn moved to Australia at the end of last summer.  The mom wrote me a sweet catch-up email just the other day, and capped it off by saying that we should congratulate ourselves for having survived another tough Brooklyn winter.  You know what?  She's right.

Snow is melting - the drip drip drip is music to everyone's ears.  Birds are singing again - so absolutely lovely.  And I came across two photos which were actually taken during the first August we were in Brooklyn.  It was the opposite affair then - the middle of sweltering summer and we couldn't go out because it was too HOT.  We blasted the AC and Violet and Willow put on their winter jackets, and they pretended to have a snowball fight with crumpled-up paper balls.  Well, Violet pretended.  Willow just endured.  Admittedly this was a slapdash effort-- kind of fun to see what you can pull together with no advance planning, right?

Because the Weather.  It just keeps coming around!

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Strongbaby

Inspiration comes from anywhere, and everywhere.  During labor with my second baby, Willow, I fell asleep at one point and dreamt that I saw her face (beautiful) topped with a thick thatch of black hair (impressive).  I woke up and told my husband promptly, "I just dreamed that Willow will have a full head of black hair."  And when she finally emerged, she really did. 

She was also very red and squalling - reminding me of the color of angry war gods from Chinese mythology.  My mother said, "She's an angh-ae-ah," or "red baby" in Taiwanese.  (A red baby is a healthy baby).

After Willow had had some time to recover from the whole "enter-the-world" experience, take many naps, and resume a more normal coloration, I was able to compose this homage to her abundant hair (parted in the middle, strongman-style) and her strength.

And no one can resist a good handlebar moustache.

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Strongbaby #1

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California Baby

So Violet entered toddler-dom and we stopped making babyscenes for awhile. I went back to work full-time and Violet learned how to climb, wreak havoc, talk, dance and just be amazing.  

And then baby no.2 arrived - our beautiful little Willow, who turned out to be just as adept as her sister at *not napping* during a babyscene.  Out came all of the backdrop cloths again, and creative gears started turning during maternity leave.  

What, for instance, would make good seabirds?  And fish?

(and good for snack-time afterwards too!)