Beautiful dresses for a beautiful girl

I would love to see my little girl wearing dresses by our featured labels but I'm not sure if it's a phase (she's 2!) or maybe she just wants to be like her older brother but I can't for my life get her to wear one! And believe you me I have tried every trick in the book as her whole wardrobe is full of wonderful retro frocks in all colours and styles but to no avail. Considering this you can imagine how excited I was to see these wonderful pics in our inbox. Stella is a gorgeous little girl from Adelaide and as you can see she has quite a good taste in clothes and she loves wearing beautiful dresses! Her mum, who is a loyal customer of ours was so kind to share some pics with us of her daughter. We think she is looking absolutely stunning in her Dotline dress by nanoou and her Red striped Mermaid dress by Danefae.

History lesson anyone?

When I was in school I was really into the subject of history and especially the Nordic Mythology. Growing up in Sweden I guess that was something we had to learn about and I loved all the different stories about the good gods and their various battles against the not so nice ones. So it is rather funny now that one of our labels, Danefae gets their inspiration for their designs from those tales and other Nordic heritage characters.

This week we have welcomed Danefae's new collection that has as always great colour combos and striking prints. Check out the bright, multi striped Sleipner Tee for girls. Sleipner was Odins (the boss of all gods) eight legged horse. The Viking tee with Thor's hammer will for sure become a favourite with the boys. Thor was the god of thunder and lightning. He drove his carriage across the sky and that was what the humans heard as thunder, and when he banged his hammer lightning flashed. He certainly had a temper that Thor! This Viking tee made us laugh as he seems to be doing Yoga, hmmm not too sure if that was on the weekly schedule of a viking, but it is designed with humour which we love.

Attention all animal lovers!

Let me tell you about this wonderful quarterly online magazine called lmnop. It's free (always a good thing), it takes no time to download and it's full of unique and individual baby and kids products from all over the world. Issue 3 is out right now and it is all about the animal kingdom. Gorgeous toys and gadgets and of course fashion!

On the front cover you will find cheeky little Emma wearing the Pink Bird in Tree T-shirt by Danefae and Strawberry skirt by Ej sikke lej. Browse a bit further in the mag and you will come across a cute Owl feature. Lucky us as we love owls so we were more than happy to contribute to this great theme. Check out Owl PJ's by Snoffs and Big Owl Tee by Ej sikke lej.

Ps. When you are done reading lmnop head over over to one of our absolute favorite sites - Babyology to see a great post about Plastisock.

Shopping for baby

I hope that you all had a wonderful Easter with your families and friends. Personally I had to move house so the Easter bunny got a bit lost and only delivered a very small amount of chocolate eggs. A slight disappointment for my kids but for my waist it was a success:)!

While I was knee deep in boxes a great magazine called Shopping for Baby hit the shelves. It's an annual publication where you can find absolutely everything that you could possibly need for your baby. The mag is gorgeous and they have really done their research into what's useful, stylish, practical and just pure fun for a new little person. Check out the unique Snoffs Pram mobile (the editors fave!), we have it in four funky colour combinations, the ever so popular Viking Tee by Danefae and the one of a kind Peace tee by Plastisock. It sold out within a couple of days and unfortunately we couldn't get our hands on any more (we tried very hard, trust me) but don't despair we have got the short sleeve version instead and it's just as great!

Best mates

This is a favorite photo of mine that I thought I share with you. It is of my son and his best mate in their very cool Danefae viking shirts. If they could choose they would love playing together all the time but unfortunately they live 1 and 1/2 hours drive from each other. Both boys dig this top so we had to get them one each and don't they look dashing! They usually have a chat on the phone about once a week and isn't that interesting to listen to:) What I can hear is a lot of strange noises, giggles and sound effects but for a 4 year old it probably makes all the sense in the world!

It is certainly a great privilege to have good friends and family that you can share everything with - silly stuff, fun stuff and serious stuff. We hope that you all will have the opportunity to have a fun filled and relaxing Christmas with good friends and family, taking a break and feel fresh for the new year. Although we operate as normal over the Christmas period at Baby goes Retro we will definitely take the chance to put our feet up and enjoy the Christmas spirit:)

Merry Christmas!

Fun in the sun

I can tell you that we were very excited this month when the summer issue of My Child hit the shelves at our local newsagent. All our clothes represent happiness, fun and playfulness and in the magazine that has indeed been captured beautifully. A gorgeous fashion shoot of toddlers and kids playing on the beach wearing fresh Pink bird and Striped singlets by Katvig and adorable Blue nutty skirt by Ej sikke lej. We couldn't be happier with how it turned out!
Also featured in the fashion news in the magazine is the very striking Viking shirt by Danefae. My son has it and not that I'm biased or something but hey, he looks handsome as anything wearing it.

One of our absolute favorite websites for keeping up with what's hot right now for babies and kids is Babyology which also gets a mention in My Child. We love the blog format of the site and that Mandi, the owner seem to have an incredible knack of finding the grooviest little things out there.

Little viking

As I have previously mentioned in Small but determined my 18 month old daughter has already developed a flair for fashion, but so has my soon-to-be 4 year old son as well! He knows what he likes and dislikes and unfortunately sometimes we don't really agree on what's a cool outfit and what's also suitable weather wise. I had big problems last summer convincing him that flannelet pyjamas in 35 degree heat is not such a great thing, while now in the middle of winter I can't get him to wear socks or that above mentioned pyjamas for that matter! It's a no win situation for mum.
Anyway, he has really taken a shine to Danefae's viking Tee collection, which I'm of course is over the moon about (see you later Spiderman etc, the cool vikings are taking over!) He got his T-shirt the other week and put it on straight away for an excursion to our local shopping centre. But he wasn't quite satisfied with his outfit and suddenly his face lit up and he said; "Mummy, I know what's missing.." and ran into his bedroom. After a few minutes he came out with this horrific plastic Viking helmet, with horns (chrissie present from last year) on his head. Great I thought, he looks like he is playing dress ups rather than making a fashion statement. But what can you do? He thought it was the perfect accessory and with a 3 year old you have to choose your battles so off we trotted, me and my little gorgeous viking.