Mothers With Style

I like to call her Rosie.

Meet her family.

Aren’t they cute? And guess what…they will be adding a sweet baby boy to the picture this spring. I am thrilled!

I am going to let you in on a secret just in time for Christmas**.

Rosie makes jewelry.

Not just any jewelery. Take a look at this:

My sweet cousin made this for me. Isn’t it lovely? Don’t you want one? I suppose you’d want to change the names on yours, but don’t worry, she can do that!

I just love that Rosie makes jewelry. It goes along so perfectly with my earliest memories of her. Growing up on the east coast meant growing up far away from almost all of my relatives. When I was young, our family would try to make it to Utah around Christmas time and it was so much fun for me to have a couple weeks of sleepovers with all my cousins. Along with staying up all night watching movies and making recordings of our fabulous renditions of Beach Boys songs, we loved to go shopping for Christmas gifts together. Jewelry was one of our favorite things to buy. Usually they were of the dollar store variety, but I don’t think we could have loved those strings of fake pearls any more if they were real! Our taste has changed a bit over the years however, and now those fake pearls aren’t quite as cool to wear. Thankfully, Rosie quite obviously knows what is in style, and her shop is just full of the most lovely, classy jewelry!

It has been fun to see that at we’ve grown older, we still have many of the same interests. One of those interests is baby wearing. Rosie knows everything there is to know about baby wearing, and I have loved learning from her. She also makes beautiful slings, and if you are lucky enough to be related to her, you have very likely received one as a gift. (Sorry for those of you who aren’t lucky enough to be related to her!)

Rosie is a generous friend, an attentive mother, a considerate wife, and a really fun cousin. By far my most favorite thing about her is her contagious smile and her cheerful, optimistic attitude. I am sure that she has had a bad day, but I have never seen her act like it. Every single time I have ever seen her, she is smiling. (I think my family and friends would like me a whole lot better if I was more like that!)

Now, even if you are not a jewelry fan (seriously? who isn’t?), you have got to check out Rosalynn’s blog! She has the most fabulous blog! It is full of the most gorgeous, classy DIY projects that are both inexpensive and easy enough for even me to try! I love looking at them and thinking, “I could do that!”, even if I never actually do sit down to make it.