Lemon Llama Kids Boutique

Lemon Llama Kids Boutique in Avon, CT offers an on-trend mix of American and European Lines and specializes in customer service, combining fashion and fun! ❤️ They also happen to stock the “Books To Bed” collection of book-and-pajama gift sets (including mine! 🥰) Visit their store OR shop online! @lemonllamakids

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Beautiful flower arrangements

The first part of summer was spent obsessing over the upcoming garden walk 😳. Then, a surprise appendectomy (not sure if there’s any other kind?). Finally, I can slow down and enjoy playing with flowers from the gardens. 🌻🌹🌸🌺 Did you know you can put hosta leaves in cut arrangements?! (info shared from my MIL! 😮) But, phlox? Not so much. 😕

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Capture the beauty

I can never QUITE capture with photos the beauty I see (my husband and oldest son are the photography experts), but the moon was so beautiful last night, just peeking over the treetops, surrounded by luminous clouds. It reminded me to take a deep breath of warm summer air, heady with the smell of flowers and damp earth, and appreciate the moment.

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Hmmm....shall I add on a children's library??

I don’t have a single space in my home for this pendant light, but isn’t it MAGICAL?! I’m so enamored with it(!) that I might have to save my pennies and hire an electrician and construct an addition… 🤗 It just seems SO RIGHT for a children’s author’s library… which I don’t happen to have at the moment, but…! 🤔

(PS: For my husband who sees my feed: Don’t worry, hon, I haven’t bought it! [yet!])

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Gardening Tip

I have an awesome gardening tip for keeping allium blooming well into mid-July. 💜☀️ First: the Ambassador is the strongest, longest blooming variety I’ve found. Second: swipe ⬅️ left. (And shh!)

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What plans?

I’m supposed to be at my family’s lakeside cabin, celebrating a fun-filled Fourth holiday BIG with family and friends 🎇🎉… instead, I’m recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Bummer. 🤕❤️‍

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Garden Walk

Yesterday, a couple hundred people came through my gardens — and I realized that some people actually “get” me (even though said people are never my own family. 🤷🏻‍♀️ )!

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Roto and Roy!

Cover reveal of the first book in my newest series! 🚁🔥 Illustrated 🎨 by the incredible, amazing and award-winning @devas_t !!! 💫 Preorder TODAY from your favorite retailer! (FYI, @harveystales handles personalized, signed copies — shipped right to your door. 😊)

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Make me a home?

I was browsing a local nursery when I spotted this sweet little Japanese maple. And, she batted her long eyelashes, and begged to come home with me. “But, I have no place to put you,” I told her, sadly. 💦 “Then, perhaps you could simply carve out a lovely new garden bed — and make me a place?” And, so I did, and now we will live happily ever after.

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