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A Quick Store Pop In

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Just popping in to share a few photos I took from a quick pop-in I made to the mini mioche Queen West store. It’s so amazing to have the opportunity to design a little line and work on these little collaborations with mini mioche (our 3rd season in a row!). Each and every one of the little pieces that go together to make the end product are insanely gratifying and exciting, but seeing it all set up and hanging in store? Well that is just on a whole other level of amazing, the cherry on top of the cherry on the icing of the cake.

I didn’t have my camera on hand, so iPhone only photos this time around. It’s funny, I explain to the kids what I do (well, parts of it—as it’s confusing to most adults) and that I worked with mini mioche to create 4 more little items inspired by them. King seems to get it and thinks “cool, Momma!”. Harlow thinks it’s “wow, soooo amazing”, she also seems to think everything that comes out of her closet was designed by me or mini mioche and made just for her. I usually just answer that, with a kiss—I’m not quite ready to burst that adorable bubble just yet.

Also, just as important but I think officially unaddressed, thank you. Thank you all, for all of your overwhelmingly amazing feedback and support, every single like, comment, email or a share are appreciated more than a few words on the internet can express. I appreciate you all so very much, thank you for coming back to our little corner on the internet and joining along with everything that keeps growing and coming to life because of it.

And if none of this makes any sense, maybe go back and check out the launch post for this little spring/summer 2015 mini mioche x heart and habit line.

Filed Under: Collaborations, Daily

Mini Mioche x Heart and Habit / Spring 2015

mini mioche x heart and habit / spring 2015 YAY! It’s here!! Our Spring 2015 little collaboration with the ever so awesome, mini mioche hit their stores and is online now! This is our 3rd season running a little collaboration; I could not be more excited and honored to continue to work with my favorite organic, made in Canada, fashion basics line for little ones – say that 3 times fast, I dare you! The response was so good that past two seasons (thank you, thank you!!) that we decided to team up, again!

This year we brought back two best sellers from fall, that also work great for spring and added 2 new styles, all in happy spring and summer colors (come on spring!). Each item is as always made in mini mioche’s amazing organic cottons, and made right here in Toronto, Canada!
All 4 spring 2015 mini mioche x Heart & Habit items are in both their Queen West and Distillery District brick and mortar stores (if you are in Toronto) and available online now!

#mmxheartandhabit pocket empire dress POCKET EMPIRE DRESS : This photo was probably an outtake, but I don’t care – I love it! This little empire circle (think perfect for twirling) dress with contrast sleeves and a little pocket comes in 3 colors – this one just happens to be poppy. Available in sizes 3-6 months up to 6 years.

#mmxheartandhabit cowl hoodie COWL NECK HOODIE: A favorite from our fall collab with mini mioche, but this time it’s in a jersey (basically a long sleeve tee with an awesome hood) for spring!
Available in 3 colors, blue just happens to be King’s favorite color. Sizes range from 6-12 months to 6 years.

#mmxheartandhabit overalls COMFY OVERALLS: They are back and in a just as comfy but much lighter spring fabric, french terry. These are kinda the perfect everyday pant, Harlow and I call it the “sweat pant that doesn’t look like a sweat pant” – or at least I do and she just flashes that smile.
Available in 3 colors, the light heather mint and heather poppy are my personal favs. Sizes go from 6-12 months up to 8 years!

#mmxheartandhabit oversized tee DROP SHOULDER TEE: My personal favorite, because I want to wear it! An oversized tee with a scooped hem, for your little ones! Just look at how adorable it looks on that sweet little munchkin! I plan to make this tee Harlow’s spring uniform, it comes in 4 colors and goes from 6-12 months all the way up to 8 years!

Everything is available on mini mioche (and in both their Toronto stores) right now. Made by mini mioche and designed by me, SO honored and over the moon excited!

Look here to see our past design collaborations and products I’ve designed, because sometimes taking a trip down memory lane is fun.

Filed Under: Collaborations, Daily, Little Style

MINI MIOCHE x HEART AND HABIT / AS SEEN ON

Constantly seeing my own kids wearing little clothing that I designed is pretty amazing. It’s totally humbling to design something and have such a fantastic response (really everyone blew me away on the response to this collab), but seeing kids (not just the ones I own) wearing the items? Well that’s just on a whole other level of cool, and it makes it all much more real. Here are some of the cuties we’ve spotted wearing our mini mioche x Heart + Habit collaboration (in no particular order!).

@andrea.mclaren in the cowl hoodie – @stoneman1980 in the ball dress – @binkymagazine in the comfy overalls

@sarahshabacon in the comfy overalls – that one’s from us wearing the cowl hoodie – @juli_at_mjolk in the ball dress

@minimioche in the comfy overalls – another one from us wearing the scooped tunic

If you haven’t had a chance, there are still some items from this collection up for grabs! And don’t forget to use the hashtag #mmxheartandhabit when you post your little one wearing our duds!

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TOTO KNITS X HEART AND HABIT / GIVEAWAY

Let’s talk about that little sweater collection that I designed with Toto Knits, we truly love every item (go figure, I know). My kids can usually be caught wearing one of the items almost everyday – not always to school though, because things tend to get lost when they go there (and by tend I mean, always).

If you haven’t heard me talk about this collaboration enough, I wanted to take another chance to show you a few photos I love and just I don’t know give you guys a chance to win some of the collection? It’s timeless, with a hint of trend, it’s season-less with a Canadiana style, and generally the styles are pretty unisex. All 100% Organic cotton knit by talented single mothers in Africa, Toto Knit is both wonderfully eco and humane friendly – they are doing great things and I am so lucky to have gotten the chance to work with them!

There are 12 styles in the collection and we: Toto Knits and Heart and Habit want to give one of you a $75 shop credit to shop for your favorite items. Open Internationally!!
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SHE’S SO COMFY

Overalls: mini mioche x heart & habit – Tank: Target – Purse: H&M (last year) – Moccasins: mini mioche

The kids are obsessed with making up new words for the chorus of ‘Fancy’. On the walk home on Saturday, King gave Harlow two theme songs “she’s so comfy” and “she’s so tired”. She dug the comfy version, because she was in her comfy pants (the tired version not so much, even though it was truer than true) – and then they sang “I’m so comfy, you don’t even know” all the way home (better than the original if you ask me).

Harlow is wearing the comfy overalls from our mini collection with mini mioche. She is wearing a size up, because I was worried she would surprise me with a growth spurt in the next couple weeks and grow right outta them if we got her exact size. So they fit a tad big, but nothing a little drawstring tightening and a couple rolls in the hem couldn’t fix.

Filed Under: Collaborations, Daily, REAL LIFE

THE CHERRY ON TOP

It’s ridiculously surreal and down right amazing to see my logo plastered on mini mioche‘s window. I know I am so very proud and excited about the little line mini mioche and I collaborated on and it really is like the cherry on top to see it all come together like this. I have designed and developed many apparel lines and items of clothing in the past, but never have I had the chance to take credit for my work like this and to top it off I get to do it along side (holding hands with? we are totally holding hands) such a wonderful company that I truly adore so much. I am humbled beyond belief and excited beyond words, so don’t expect a lot of typing today, because I truly am beyond words. I played the blogger part (I really dislike taking photos in stores, it always feels so awkward) and snapped a bunch of photos of the mini mioche Queen Street location. If you haven’t been to either of the brick and mortar stores (Distillery District and Queen West) and you live in Toronto, you really must check one or heck why not both. And not just so you can see the mini mioche x Heart & Habit line, but because it really is beautiful and filled with beautiful things – and there is a play area for the kids, which instantly makes it a favorite place for the kids to visit.

Isn’t it great? I absolutely love it, I get goosebumps (not goose-pimples, those are sorta weird) looking over the photos again. The lovely Renee from Re: Creative put together the simply perfect window display to go along with the perfectly simple mini collection.

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