Scooby Doo – style icons for a four year old

Velma, Fred, Daphne, Scooby and Shaggy

Have you ever thought of the Scooby Doo crew as style icons? My nearly four-year-old has became obsessed with the dress-sense of both Daphne (red hair, head band) and Velma. Come to think of it, with her bowl-cut, think rimmed glasses and orange roll necks, Velma is the ultimate geek girl icon isn't she? Miss E currently alternates between being 'Daphne', complete with surgically attached headband (which she even wears it to bed) and Velma on the days she's in the mood for wearing socks and plastic play-glasses and feeling a little more demure. Apparently, daddy is Shaggy, Stewy the cat is Scooby and baby sis, Little Lola is Scrappy Doo. So there you have it, the American '70s  cartoon lives on and is still setting trends in our corner of north London. Zoiks!

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Little Punk stick-on T-shirts launch

Toddlers aren't always at their most compliant when getting dressed. Miss E, for example, has VERY strong ideas about what she WILL and WON'T wear right now. At the moment anything with a pocket is IN and anything with stripes is firmly OUT. Helen Keenan, mum to a three-year-old thought a solution around the problem might be to incorporate stickers into the routine. Every kid loves stickers after all. She developed a range of T-shirt range with velcro and fabric stickers so children might actually enjoy the process of getting dressed and has just launched her label, Little Punk London. We love the idea but are yet to try them with Miss E though....it's either going to be a case of LOVE or HATE. We'll keep you posted. From £26.99 each at wwww.littlepunklondon.com

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Baby's first birthday

My baby, Evie Isabel, turned one last week and what a day it was! A milestone for mummy and daddy as well as baby with our thoughts rolling back to this time last year when she had just emerged into the world as a pink, wrinkled 7lb2oz ball of flesh. I had Evie at 1.36pm on 18th May 2009 via elective C-Section at UCLH and she arrived eyes wide open, looking directly at me - it was love at first sight.

The day before Evie's birthday I felt quietly emotional, pondering how our lives had changed in such a monumental way over the past year. Sure, I have a few more wrinkles, I get a lot less sleep and I have much less cash in the bank (alright if I'm honest, it's partly to do with my passion for baby fashion!) but I wouldn't change a thing.

Handily, my love of shopping has been gloriously transferred to my daughter and I thought it was about time I shared my finds. Evie's first birthday, celebrated with family and friends and babies galore, seems a poignant time to launch my much anticipated baby blog. Incidentally, those cute pink shades pictured are by Monsoon baby.

You won't find boring debates about nappies or cracked nipples here (there are plenty of websites doing that very well) but what you will find is a frank, fun-filled account of first time motherhood, packed with fashion ideas with details of interesting finds from hard-to-get labels for your little ones, to the coolest accessories and websites as well as chic tips for busy mummies (hey, and daddies too). Please do feel free to suggest topics and email me ideas - I'd love to hear from you.

Enjoy!

Maggie and Evie xx

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