Today is your day to feel special. Whether you spend it finding some precious “alone” time or with your whole crew, I hope you have a great one.

He sits up, he has two teeth, he rolls until he gets stuck under pieces of furniture, he eats food (mostly puréed, but food nonetheless) and he is unreasonably pleasant in all situations. He’s half a year old and there is no one on earth capable of resisting his charms.

See previous monthly photos: One Month, Two Months, Three Months, Four Months, Five Months.

Who doesn’t love a bad pun to welcome a new season? I usually think of Easter as the marker of our transition from winter to spring. Typically, most of the snow would have melted and egg hunts could be held in still barren, but slightly defrosted yards. This year, notsomuch – the egg hunt will be an indoor event.

Despite that slight alteration in plans, we’ll still have the usual bunny cake, jelly beans, Peeps and brunch with the whole family. I’m sure there are a million amazing and creative ideas on Pinterest to make celebrating Easter super-complicated and perfectly styled (or just a complete homemade disaster), but we are keeping it real and just want to keep the kids entertained. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Pinterest, but sometimes there’s no need to create anything beyond fun memories.

There have been a lot of family posts lately, but I promise to get back to posting about fun creative projects, decorating updates and other art and kid stuff. For now, you’ll just have to suffer through the cute photos of my kids.

Have a happy happy Easter and splendid early spring.

I posted Freddie’s Four Month photo mere moments ago, and technically he was five months in the photo, so I’m a bit of a cheater. Doesn’t matter because this kid is so sweet it’s crazy – he’s definitely having the best time of any other five-month-old around.

See previous monthly photos: One Month, Two Months, Three Months, Four Months.

Sometimes when I don’t feel like unpacking boxes from our big move (which I haven’t written about yet, but if you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen some updates), I sit down and check out what’s happening on my favorite blogs. I came across these amazing food art images on Handmade Charlotte the other day and couldn’t resist sharing them here.

A woman in Oslo, Norway actually creates a new edible art piece every morning and shares them with the world on Instagram. Can you imagine creating masterpieces like this for your kids every morning? Mom of the Year material, folks, even if you just do it on their birthdays.

Click here for Ida Frost’s Instagram feed. She also has a blog with occasional recipes.

Freddie’s fourth month was a whirlwind of activity and winter sickness for the whole family (and thus his four month photo was taken after he was already five months old). A move into his new permanent home in Minnesota (!!!), a quick weekend journey to Los Angeles for a dear friend’s wedding and countless trips to Target made it a nutty handful of weeks.

See previous monthly photos: One Month, Two Months, Three Months.

I’m slightly, okay completely, addicted to magazines. I scour the newsstands on the regular for my favorite international design pubs, subscribe to an unknown number and always ALWAYS pick up trashy tabloids before I get on an airplane. In fact, I think I stuck with working in advertising for so long because I loved the unlimited supply of magazines crossing my desk. I was so excited when part of my Valentine’s Day gift from my husband was an issue of the new-ish Thirty Two Magazine, a local (Twin Cities) publication.

Started by a husband and wife team and funded by a Kickstarter campaign, Thirty Two is filled with interesting topics, beautiful photography, nice art direction, cool illustrations and graphics, and a really unique (perhaps even a bit critical?) take on Minnesotan culture.

It seems the editors are hell-bent on making the Twin Cities great, encouraging us – Minnesotans – to better ourselves and make an impact on our home state. It’s also sending a big message to others who read it: this place is a helluva lot cooler than you think it is.

You like? Subscribe here or pick up a copy of any of these Twin Cities shops.

Technically he’s three months and three weeks old, but I’m not going to let that stop me from posting my monthly photo of Freddie. I’ll give you one guess who he never takes his eyes off of.

See previous monthly photos: One month, Two months.

I should probably be sleeping, but I just finished updating the Senn & Sons Facebook page over a nice glass of wine and couldn’t wait to share. After reading this post from the brilliant designer who redesigned my website, I was inspired to make a few tweaks to the page. I have some fun new tabs to browse my shop, my Pinterest pins, tweets and even Instagram photos and a fresh new cover photo for a little change of pace.

While I’ve been creating a lot of artwork for homes over the past couple of years, I’ve also been quietly doing a bit of nursery design. I just got some fun pictures of one of my big projects from last summer and couldn’t wait to share them here.

Last spring, Kyle and Christine, an awesome couple from Ohio, contacted me about helping them design a nursery. At the time, I was just coming out of my first trimester sickness and was thrilled to help them out! Since they’re in Ohio and I was in California, I couldn’t be on the ground helping them paint the room, search for the perfect chandelier or test out gliders, so everything had to be either easy to access online, at a national retailer or simply ideas they could put their own spin on.

After presenting three potential directions for the room, we decided on this design board for their daughter’s room:

One of my favorite elements in the room is this awesome yellow chandelier. Can you believe they found this beauty at a thrift shop and spray painted it that sunny shade? So cool.

Their custom mobile by Etsy artist Amanda Zemon is so seriously awesome I think I might have to get one for Freddie’s new room in Minnesota. Amanda did such an amazing job creating this beauty just by taking inspiration from the design board. I especially love the little hearts on the birds, which subtly echo the heart on the adorable Ohio print hanging in the room.

The real show-stopper, though, is the gorgeous wallpaper from Minneapolis-based Hygge & West. It’s so fresh and whimsical and is truly the inspiration for the whole room. (Hygge & West blogged about the room here.)

And because I love clever things, I just have to share this. The room doesn’t have a closet, so Kyle and Christine needed to get a bit creative with how to store sweet Quinn’s clothes. Using the built-in cabinets, they created an open wardrobe and added additional storage by adding bins to the shelves.

And the best part of all? Sweet Quinn! Isn’t she just adorable?

I haven’t really written much about my decorating services on this blog since I can’t take on many projects through the year – I focus mainly on paintings and prints – but after this awesome process and outcome, I might have to change that! If you want to know more about my process, just drop me a note through the Contact page.

{{ My Morning Jacket screen print by Don Clark, Invisible Creature :: Ohio Print by Rebecca Peragine :: Custom mobile by Etsy artist Amanda Zemon }}