Anna Klein Atelier - Anna's Etsy Shop!/アンナ クライン の アトリエ

Welcome to my Etsy shop!

私のエチーショップへようこそ!

It took forever but it's finally open with 1 item! Yeah I wanted to have more ready but this is the only one I have so far... 

オープンするのに時間がかかったけど、やっと品物一つ目を売り始めました...これからもっといろいろ品物を入れる予定です...

"I Did it!" Sticker Chart $15USD

“出来た!”シールチャート　１５ドル

It is printed on a poster paper so much sturdier and BIG(18x24) and each square(72 squares total) is about 1" for nice size stickers:-) 

ポスターは縦４５cmと横６０cmのとっても大きくて、シール用の四角は合計７２個です。

Each square has special illustrations so it's visually fun and kids get to practice names of different things...

四角の中にはひとつひとつ違う絵が書いてあるので毎日名前の練習も出来ます...：）

Here is the special offer! I was noticing some stripes going down in the middle background area and since it's not supposed to look like that I'm getting new ones printed. So if you don't mind the stripes I'm selling them at 30% off:-) All the squares look great so it's really minor but I didn't feel right charging full amount on the tiny bit defective ones... Please use a coupon code "STRIPE" at check out and it will ship the next business day... Also if you live in Southern California and I can easily deliver it because we go to same Church or we have playdates, etc... use a coupon code"LOCAL" to get a free shipping... I want to extend this free shipping offer to our immediate family members also...:-)

プリントした時に、少しインクがぶれてポスターの真ん中にストライプの様な模様が出来てしまいました。今、新しくプリントをし直して貰っているんですけど、このストライプの入ったポスターは割引３０で売っています。近くから見なければ目立たないストライプなので品物にはそんなに大きい問題ではありません。日本にも送れるので、誰かこのポスターが役に立たそうなお子さんがいる方はぜひ注文して下さい：）

I put together a much smaller sticker chart when Madison wasn't always wanting to brush her teeth before going to bed using her favorite Japanese cartoon characters "Anpanman". Ever since she hasn't missed a day except one night when she fell asleep on the way home late from Disneyland.

She usually gets to put one sticker for brushing her teeth and another for letting me or Dave finish brushing... She is really good with numbers now so we can just tell her the date and she will know where to put the sticker plus she is understanding how calendars work so she will move onto the next square every night... 

I originally wanted to make the sticker chart monthly and make it more like a calendar but I quickly had to change my plan due to not having enough time to create 6 months(for this year) worth of 6 different designs quickly... Dave thinks I should have done the calendar way so we'll see... I may create one for next year but my above design will allow kids and parents to be more flexible with when to do it and if they miss one day or one week, that square won't go to waste...

エチー用のポスターをデザインする前にマディソンに作った特別なアンパンマンチャート：）夜遅くディズニーランドから帰って来た時車の中で眠ってしまった時以外一日もかかさずちゃんと歯を磨く事が出来ました：）

Madison is almost done with this one now...:-)

このポスターも、もうすぐでおしまい...：）

Available in Stores:-)

Here are some new styles that you can buy that I designed... Hope you like them:-)

We took pictures of these styles at Target the other day... and got Madison the Peter Pan Cast tee:-)

The Peter Pan/Tinker Bell collection is for Infants/Toddler Girls. 

Next collection is Alice in Wonderland so stay tuned!

This is for D-signed by Disney for Girls.

Below styles we didn't see at the Target we went but that was about three weeks ago so they should be in by now... An anchor is made out of different flowers and butterflies!

We(Art Dept) usually design about 2 or 3 allover prints to be used for the collection and this is the pirate lace I designed...:-) Below styles are the ones that has this print.

Unfortunately my treasure map didn't make the cut... Perhaps they thought it looked too boyish!? Anyways, I wanted to show you because I like it! 

"Olsenboye" available in Women's section at JC Penny! This style is really cute, it's a baseball tee that's really light weight... 

It's about time to talk about our Madison:-)

We've been so busy blogging about our house and our projects that we haven't been good about how Madison's life is and what she is into lately... So here you go!

Madison is picking up so many words lately, probably at school and bible class and often surprises us... For example...

Madison fully understands the concept of time out so whenever she is playing with her Mickey and Minnie they sometimes end up in timeout because apparently they didn't obey or listen to Madison... Some impossible orders she makes though are "Sit up!" when they don't have a back support and slide back down or fall off a chair or "Don't Move!" when they are left on wobbly spots and keep falling off... Tough life of being stuffed toys or Madison's play buddies...

Yesterday Madison wanted to do "Circle Time" with us... This happens at her pre-school where all the kids gather around their teacher sitting on a chair and the teacher would sing, read books, and practice colors/numbers/shapes, etc... and what we discovered yesterday is that maybe each child is called to the front and sings a song in front of her/his buddies... Madison had me sing "itsy bitsy spider" which I didn't do so well as I don't really know the lyrics and Dave did a good job singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". We both also got sent to timeout during her circle time and Madison was super cute about it. How Madison imitates her teacher is soooo cute so we wanted to film it for you but it was getting late and trying to ask her to do it all over again so I can film was not good enough reason for her cooperation...:-) Maybe we will try tonight...

At her Bible class she is learning the books of the Bible song and it shocked us the first time when we heard her singing in the car on the way to a service... Will get that on film as well...
Two Wednesdays ago Madison learned about John baptizing Jesus and apparently after the class Madison recited to her teacher, Kim and amazed her... Every time she talks about the baptism she puts her fingers over her nose so that water won't get in...

As part of Madison and Daddy's summer projects I decided they should grow something together and observe through out the summer. I did this growing up although only started from 1st grade and I know it may be too early, but Daddy can help her and it will be fun plus this past Saturday Madison planted Sunflower seeds in those sowing pots and the next day one of the seeds was already sprouting which I couldn't believe, but Madison was really excited to see that and ever since we've been coming to the dining table and observing every morning... Madison thinks her sunflower sprout is sooo cute! which she says a lot lately...:-)

Words she says a lot lately...:
"Sooo Cute!", "I'm Sorry!", "Thank You Very Much!", "Look at me!", etc...
And the cutest of all, "Oh My Goodness!!", I've only able to heard this phrase once but Dave was the one that heard is for the first time and thought it was just too cute... But wow she is such a copy cat and a great eavesdropper like Daddy and we really have to be careful what we say around her lately... 

Also ever since we introduced Anpanman(Japanese kids show) to try to get her to listen to Japanese she became a huge fan and every other day or so she watches an episode or two on YouTube and now has a good collection of Anpanman toys from Japan in her play area...:-) One of the her favorite toys has been the Anpanman Beverage Vending Machine just like ones you would see on streets in Japan... She would put a plastic coin in it and she can pick from 4 different kinds and it will make noise as the can of juice or tea comes out at the bottom... It was a huge hit at her birthday party also! We really want her to be more exposed to the Japanese language so we actually ordered a region free DVD player from Amazon and should arrive tomorrow. This way my family can send me all kinds of DVDs from Japan and we would be able to watch them! I don't know why we didn't do this sooner and start collecting Disney movies from Japan since those DVDs would come in both Japanese and English!

Every day we are so glad to have bought this house with a pool... Because Madison LOVES it!! One of our goals this summer is to teach her how to swim without any floating devices because she is soooo close:-) On Monday Dave got Madison a set of goggles just like we have so she can open her eyes in the water now and Dave and Madison started this game where Madison would look down in the water and tell Dave which toys to pick and he would dive down and grab it while Madison puts her face in the water to watch... I mean she is holding her breath! for such a long time! I couldn't believe it when I saw her do that the first time yesterday while filming it! Please enjoy!

 

 

 

I'm not sure if we shared these pictures with you... They are kind of cool...:-)

 

 

 

Finally Madison is adjusting to having her own room now... The room is still work in progress but getting there...:-) Bed time routine seems to be working well but wow it takes a while! We love seeing her asleep in her big girl bed and miss her until she joins us in a middle of the night when she wakes up and Dave(since I don't wake up) doesn't want to bother getting her to go back to sleep in her bed and bring her to ours... More and more nights though she has been sleeping in her bed the entire night...

Bonus pics: We got her this play house for her birthday and our neighbor who has a 2.5 year old grand daughter made this sign for Madison's house!! It says the address of the house"3162 1/2 " Isn't it such a great idea!?

 

Madison's Garden - UPDATE!/マディソンのガーデン-中間報告!

So it's been about a month and a half for most of our veggies and fruits trees since we planted them... And that means it's time for our update blog!! 

一番最初のマディソンガーデンのポストから約１ヶ月半が経ちました...

なので皆さんに中間報告をしまーす!!

This one we just planted this past weekend and wasn't with us in the previous post... Asian Pear!! When we first bought this tree it was totally naked, no leaves, nothing! but all those leaves started to come out in matter of a few days and not so naked anymore!

この２１世紀と言う梨は先週植えたばかりなので、今回初登場...　数週間前に買って来た時には葉っぱ一枚も付いていなかったこの木が先週一日か二日の間にこんなに葉っぱを出してビックリ!

Just so you can really compare... This is the picture from our first post on our plants...
比べ易い様に最初のポストに載せたアボカドの木の写真です。

 

 Now our avocado tree looks like this!
最近はこんなに大きくなりました!

 

New addition I think? A peach tree:-) 

これも今回初登場、桃の木：）

 

The orange tree has 3 or 4 little green balls right now but it's supposed take a bout a year for them to be ready so we will keep you posted!

このオレンジの木には今３、４個の小さい緑のオレンジが付いているんだけど、それが食べられる様になるのは来年の今頃だそうです。長い!

Our fuji apple tree had flowers about two weeks ago but I noticed last week that pollination didn't seem to go well so we have low hope on getting to taste any this year...

ふじ林檎の木は約２週間前に花が付いてやったーと思っていたんだけど、どうやら受粉がうまくいかなかったみたい...：(

Our grape vine is heading towards death as we can't seem to decide the final planting location yet...

このブドウの木は何処に植えようか迷っている間にちょっと死にかけてるかも...

It may be because of my pruning work I gave to the lemon tree or just the work of fertilizer but right now the tree is covered with green balls!! I guess in Southern California Lemon trees lemons constantly and you will be able to see flowers getting pollinated, small green baby lemons, fully ready lemons all at the same time all year around. I know you can't smell the picture but these flowers smell soooo good:-) I really think talking to the tree really helped though...

私が剪定したお陰か肥料のお陰か今このレモンの木は小さな緑のレモンでいっぱい!!この地域ではレモンの木は年中レモンが成るらしい。だから一本の木に収穫頃のレモンと赤ちゃんレモンとレモンの花が同時に見られるんだって：）そしてこの花がすっごい良い匂いなんだよ...

In these pictures you can really see the baby lemons!

この２枚の写真に赤ちゃんレモン見つかるかな！

Madison's Square Garden looks more filled up now!

そしてマディソンガーデンも前に比べると混んできました!

This blackberry bush has tons of green berries on it but they don't seem to get anywhere... All our berry bushes seems to be struggling a bit... I guess we would just have to wait for Drew and Kate to tell us in a couple of weeks...
このブラックベリーの凄いいっぱい付いているんだけど、あんまり成長している様子がないんです...

Right next to the cherry tomato we've added heirloom tomato and right now they both have green tomatoes on them...
２種類のトマトもとっても元気に育って、今両方とも緑のトマトが付いています...

I planted these corn on the side of the house but I just recently spread them a apart since they needed more space from each other...
トウモロコシは近く植え過ぎたので昨日 植え直し...収穫がとっても楽しみです...

I was so excited to see the baby cucumbers the other day!
キュウリの赤ちゃんを発見！カワイー！

This picture was taken when we first planted...

前回の写真...

A month and a half later they are bigger and we may be seeing some flowers soon.
インゲンも元気に成長しています、もうそろそろ花が出来るようです。

One on the left is our Japanese egg plant...

一番左にあるのが日本のなす...

 

There is at lease one baby egg plant hanging now...
今赤ちゃんなすが一つ成っています...

These were planted as seeds and thriving! Mixed green leaves and ones on the right are radishes!

種から植えたサラダ用のベイビーレタスミックス！そして右側の固まりは赤かぶ！

The watermelons are having a great time! They were so tiny before...

スイカの成長が一番凄いかも...

 

But definitely taking over the big area we reserved for them! Once the vines grow long enough with the baby watermelons we are gonna slowly lead them off the garden and onto the side...
こんなに大きくなりました!つるがどんどん長くなったら外に行ってもらう予定...

Our front lawn though has been the most challenging... It's looking very patchy and I'm constantly pulling out devil's weeds so after we can get rid of big weeds we will probably have to seed the bold area and give it another try:-)

芝生は思った以上に難しい...雑草のせいでなかなか成長が出来ない芝生です。なるべく全部雑草を取った後、ハゲの所に種を植えてやり直しです。

 

Our Ellie Bean doesn't look too different from a year and a half ago... still pretty much hair-less, but beautiful as always...:-)

エリービーンは１年半後未だに髪の毛無し...でもいつも通りとってもカワイイよ...：）