Babystyle Magazine Holiday Preview

BABYSTYLEMAGAZINE

HOLIDAY PREVIEW ISSUE 2011

CONTENTSIN EVERY ISSUE

9 MEET THE TEAMSAY HELLO TO THE BABYSTYLE TEAM AND THE CONTRIBUTORS THAT MADE IT HAPPEN

A BRIEF WORD FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

WE ASKED THE QUESTION, YOU TWEETED YOUR ANSWERS

YOUR GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST TRENDS OF THE SEASON

10 A LETTER FROM KATE

14 NICE TO TWEET YOU

18 STYLE WATCH

24 BABYSTYLE STAPLEA CLASSIC PIECE IN EVERY MINI FASHONISTA’S CLOSET: HOW TO WEAR IT WITH STYLE

26 MINI LOOKSTHE MANY LOOKS TO DO WITH THE MINI YOU

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28 BOOK CLUBWHAT’S ON OUR SHELF AND WHAT WE WOULD RECOMMEND TO BE ON YOURS

BABY, IT’SCOLD OUTSIDE

56 COPY CATSHOW TO MAKE ONE OF OUR FAVORITE LOOKS YOUR OWN

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SAMANTHA YANKS GIVES US HER SUPER CHICPICKS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON

31 HAPPY HOLIDAYSA COLLECTION OF TRADITIONS AND MEMORIES FROM CHANUKAH TO CHRISTMAS

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58 CELEBKIDS CLOSETA LOOK INTO THE CUTE CLOSET OF ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S HIPPEST BABES

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FEATURES

34 AMELIA PRESENTS

CONTENTS

A PEEK INTO ONE OF MISSISSIPPI’S SWEETEST CRAFT AND DESIGN SHOPS

37 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDEA COLLECTION OF THE BEST GIFTS OF THE SEASON FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

48 THE GUNCLES: TWO MEN AND A LITTLE LADYCELEBRITY DADS, BILL HORN AND SCOUT MASTERSON, SHARE THEIR NEW LIFE WITH DAUGHTER, SIMONE

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meet the team

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KAITLYN KIRBYFOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

HEATHER PETERSONCREATIVE DIRECTOR

GRETCHEN EASTONPHOTOGRAPHY

GRAPHIC DESIGN

LINDSAY FALTISCO

SCOTT KISLOSKIWEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

KATHLEEN SCHMIDTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

MONICA DREGERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

GRAPHIC DESIGN

KATIE KEMP

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a letter from kate

Kaitlyn KirbyFounder and Editor in Chief

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I can’t believe it’s finally here! Yes, holiday season, but the magazine too! For those of you who follow us on Twitter and Facebook, you know we’ve been waiting a long time (nearly eight months!) to bring this issue to you. But, the time has finally come and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

You’ve all showed us great support as we brought Babystyle Magazine from idea to digital copy over the past months and we could not be more grateful. Before this issue was even a photo on a page, we had the best followers, soon to be readers, and creative team and I would like to personally thank all of you for that.

It is our pleasure to bring to you one of the first online children’s lifestyle publications, filled to the brim with style ideas, current trends, and celebrity features. But, be warned: this is just a preview issue, there is much much more to come in August when we launch Babystyle Magazine into overdrive with our premiere Back to School issue.

Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season,

editor’s wishlist



nice to tweet you

WE ASKED...

WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT

THE HOLIDAYS?

WE ASKED...

As an auntie, it’s all about the smiles on my nephew’s and nieces’ faces.

MELANIE NOTKIN, @SAVVYAUNTIE LIZ LANGE, @LIZLANGE

I love the way NYC looks at this time of year. I also love spending time with my children.

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JAMIE GRAYSON, @THEBABYGUYNYC

I love being around family and friends, especially now that I’m an uncle.

Carols, sugar cookie baking, chopping down a tree, and designing a holiday card. NICOLE FELICIANO, @MOMTRENDS

Sipping organic hot chocolate with mini marshmallows, sledding in Cen-tral Park, and shopping for the perfect gifts!

KELLY RUTHERFORD, @KELLYRUTHERFORD

Cooking and baking with my kids, and the music!

KYLE RICHARDS, @KYLERICHARDS18

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FAVORITES!

Goodnight iPadby Ann Droyd (David Milgrim)

Margaret Wise Brown's 1947 classic, Goodnight

texting, but what happens to electronics at bedtime?

You will laugh at the characters tucking in their gadgets and smile as you're reminded that we all need to unplug at the end of the day. Goodnight

nightly routines, as much as we don't want to put

those of the original 1947 classic's. Read this one

don't worry, we're certain technology will still be around in the morning.

Ladybug Girlby David Soman & Jacky Davis

brother says she's too little to play with him and mom and dad are busy too, it's up to Lulu to create her own fun. Armed with a red tutu, polka-dot boots, and wings, Lulu is transformed into a superhero who saves ants, jumps in puddles, and even skips across a twisty tree trunk. Lulu ultimately proves her brother wrong-- there is no task too big for this small superhero. After reading this adorable short story of creating fun that is just-your-size, your little one too

BABYSTYLE BOOKCLUB

TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE BEST NEW BOOKS PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE SURE TO LOVE-- PLUS A FEW FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Duck & Goose: It's Time for Christmasby Tad Hills

Olive, the Other Reindeerby J. Otto Seibold

What’s on Our Shelf for the Holidays:

This Little Piggy Went to Prada: Nursery Rhymes for the Blahnik Brigadeby Amy Allen Poon

Went to Prada features a collection of classic nursery rhymes retold through a Missoni-printed lens. Any budding fashionista would delight in hearing name-dropping stories of Christian Louboutin,

that added je-ne-sais-quoi. If your little one is donning Dior booties and driving a Porsche, this is your next purchase. Because no fashion-forward child wants to hear "Twinkle, Twinkle" unless we're talking about diamonds.

Tickle Monsterby Josie Bissett

get when the Tickle Monster comes out to play. A cute little mon-ster has just arrived from Planet Tickle with the intentions of tickling any child who follows along in this book. Pull on the specially-included tickle gloves and get ready to giggle! Parents read aloud and follow the prompts for tickling, as the little ones laugh, squirm, and smile. So whether you tickle their toes, their neck, or their nose, Tickle Monster is sure to be a favorite in your home and a must-read for those who love to laugh.


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TRADITIONALLY NTRADITIONAL

When I was a little girl, my parents and I would visit my grand-mother every Christmas. We’d

feast on ravioli, baccala salad, crusty bread, and fennel (finnochio) with olive oil. It was a simple meal, yet it marked the beginning of a festive day with my Italian relatives. I loved seeing everyone, but there was one person whose arrival I awaited with great anticipa- tion: Aunt Barbara, who made the best homemade Christmas cookies I have ever tasted. She even made me a care packageevery year with my own stash of cookies. Noone was allowed to touch them. Years later,after I married my husband, he got to try thecookies and loved them.

Once I had children of my own, I wonderedwhat I could do to create holiday traditionsthat would stick with them as they grew up.Since we don’t have a whole lot of familyaround, traditions have gone by the wayside.We don’t have a set date to decorate our tree,we don’t have a big feast with family onChristmas Eve or Christmas Day. For a longtime, I felt like I was shortchanging my sonand daughter. Then I decided to start doing something I had put aside for far too many years: bake homemade Christmas cookies.

Last December, I scoured every cooking magazine, foodie website, and old files of

mine to find a few cookie recipes that my 3and 7 year-old could help make. When Ibroached the idea with them, their faces litup. I fully knew they wouldn’t last throughmy entire baking marathon, but there theywere, stools underneath their feet, watchingtheir mom roll dough, crack eggs, and tryingnot to use profanity when her Kitchen Aidmixer wouldn’t cooperate.

I stayed up until the wee hours to finish everysingle batch: Italian Wedding Cookies,Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, ThumbprintCookies, Hershey’s Peanut Butter Blossoms,and of course, Chocolate Chip Cookies. Ifound solace in being the person who nowmade the unforgettable Christmas cookies. Itwas homage to a time of constants; a timewhen I never thought my parents wouldn’t behere to celebrate the holidays.

When my children woke up the morning ofChristmas Eve, we carefully arranged cookiesin pretty boxes I had purchased. We deliveredthem to lots of neighbors, then friends, andate our own secret stash in between.

happy holidays

story by Kathleen Schmidt

“NEXT YEAR, WE’LL DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.”

Mom, Jacob and Amy are here to deco-rate the Christmas tree! Tell Em-manuel to come down, they brought

dreidels for everyone!”

It’s a week before Christmas and our family isbusy putting up the Christmas tree in anticipa-tion of Santa’s big visit soon. Our good friendscome over every year to help out untangle theChristmas lights, pick up all the loose pineneedles and sing Greek traditional carols whilethe kids play with chocolate coins and dreidels.Yes...it’s your typical “Greek-Orthodox-Protestant-Jewish” Christmas!

Truth is, religion and tradition kinda meshtogether in our household during the holidays.And by that I mean all religions and traditions.I grew up slightly Protestant and my husband’sfamily is Greek Orthodox. Our friends tend tobe Jewish and our neighborhood is a truemelting pot with a variety of culturally diversereligions (Muslims, Buddhists, and even a Hare Krishna walks around the town).

By Christmas Day, our house is overloadedwith typical Christmas ornaments and decora-tions. The tree is in the center of attention, we hang a wreath outside our door and try toplace garland over any possible surface space in the house. You can’t miss the Christian holiday symbols even if you tried. However, there are

speckled marks of ‘ethnicity’ that tend to fog up that one-dimensional image: a decorated toy ship that sits near a window, platters of traditional honey cookies (“melomakarona”), sugar-powdered cookies (“kourambiedes”), and small metal musical triangles waiting by the door to be played and little dreidels spread throughout the house. Small hints.

Little metal triangles? In Greece, it is customfor the kids to go caroling from house to house on the day and eve before Christmas. They carry these instruments and sing the same carol until the perspective person hands over some loose change! In the old days, they were rewarded with sweets and dried fruit, but nowadays a kid would look at you side-ways for receiving such a “lame” prize. Since we can’t very well go Greek caroling on our street, we have them around to make noise and disturb guests’ peace and quiet when they come over to visit us.

Now it’s time to open Santa’s gifts! He has left us a mess of crumbs from eating the beau-tifully decorated sugar cookies the kids made but at least also left us a tree full of presents. By the time my husband and I have settled down in front of the tree with cameras in hand, ready to snap away the joyful occasion, unwrapping is already done!


happy holidays

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story by Monica Dreger

MAHOLIDAY SEASON


happy holidays

YES... IT’S YOUR TYPICAL “GREEK-ORTHODOX-

PROTESTANT-JEWISH” CHRISTMAS!

Yes, that was a mere 15 seconds ago, but at least we still have the entire day left to frolic around and eat our way through a great Greek tradi-tion. We munch on the Greek cookies, eat a tra-ditional Christmas meal of lamb and potatoes and then munch on more cookies.

In the meantime, while we are lying on thesofas in a small food coma, our friends who areMuslim usually come by with their traditional“mamoul” cookies to share. These are small,rich semolina cookies wrapped around a dateand are usually seen in Syria and Lebanon overthe holidays. After a yummy exchange ofcookies, they are on their way to the nexthouse, following their own modern familytradition of bestowing some festive Musliminsight to their neighbors and friends.

The decorated Christmas ship on our window-sill is a traditional Greek holiday symbol usu-ally made of paper or wood, and decoratedwith small, colorful lamps and a few, simpleornaments. They are usually placed near theouter door or by the fire and the bow alwayspoint to the interior of the house. With goldenobjects or coins placed in it, the ship symbol-izes a full load of riches reaching one’s home;We put out the ship and hope.

After a full day of festivities, gifts and feasts, we still have New Year’s to look forward to. That’s when the real holiday begins!

Traditionally, Greeks tend to celebrate the NewYears even more than Christmas Day. In thepast, gifts were exchanged during this day andall the kids and grown ups anticipated stayingup until the wee hours of the morning to awaitthe first sunset of the year. Although we tend topass out from exhaustion around 2:00am, westill await with great pleasure for this night.

My favorite part is the the cutting of the “Vasilo-pita”. This special cake has been baked with ahidden “flouri” or lucky coin inside. Yet beforethis can be found, someone must first cross thecake with his knife and then cut the first slicefor God, then the next for the baby Christ,followed by the Mary, then the next slice for thehouse and after for each member of the familystarting with the eldest. The one who finds the“flouri” in their piece will have good luck allthe forthcoming year; It’s never me.

We usually welcome the New Year the nextmorning sleepily and lazily. One final traditionlasts in order to pay full homage to ourancestors--the pomegranate. We wrap our-selves in blankets, robes, coats and all gooutside while someone smashes a pomegranatefor good luck. Then it’s back in the house toreminisce over the highlights of the past yearand to daydream about all the exciting oppor-tunities for the year to come (and to momen-tarily forget about the pomegranate mess that’swaiting for clean up).y

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little ladyTWO MEN AND A

WRITTEN BY Kaitlyn Kirby PHOTOGRAPHY BY Gretchen Easton


YYou know them as the “Guncles” from Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, but now it’s time to have a look into the life celebrity dads Bill Horn and Scout Mas-terson have created for themselves and daughter Simone in Tinsel Town.

From tutus and ballet flats to military jackets and motorcycle boots, she’s got it all and flashed us an adorable smile to match.

You could not imagine a luckier girl than Simone to have a pair of stylish dads and red-pouted chic Auntie T to call her own. We set out to see how life rolls with the Masterson-Horns’ and were given some great advice on managing the day-to-day as well as bits of what the two have learned in their first year being parents.


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When Simone was born, some very close friends of ours, Dvora and Marcus, gave us this advice. Although at the time, it sounded a bit silly, we’ve found they were correct! We’ve kept Simone on a pretty strict nap and sleep schedule, and in return we have a genuinely happy baby turned little girl.

THE BEST GIFT YOU CANGIVE A CHILD IS SLEEP

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SKIP THE BABY TALKFrom birth, we’ve spoken to Simone without us-ing “baby talk”. Whether its the case or not from doing so, we think shes a little more advanced with her words than some of the other kids her age. Plus, we find baby talk incredibly annoying.

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ADD A LITTLE “SPICE” TO THEIR LIFE

Shortly after Simone started eating puréed veggies, we started adding a little spice to them. We started with garlic and tried a few here and there, even including a little cayenne pepper eventually. We think that by doing so, her system became better acclimated to spices used in everyday cooking. Let’s face it, we don’t always eat at home. We can’t completely con-trol how a restaurant prepares a dish, so why not introduce her stomach to a little spice early on! She really enjoyed her puréed butternut squash with garlic. It was her favorite of all the purée’s!


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NO “DRIVE-THRU” DADS HERE

IT’S YOUR CRIB...

EEvery family is busy, but we didn’t want Sim-one to be the cliche Chicken McNugget kid. We found a wonderful way to offer healthy meals every day on a busy schedule by follow-ing Kathy Kaehler’s “Sunday Set Up”. Basi-cally, you prep all of your fresh veggies and proteins for the week during a few hours on Sunday. We do it as a family and it’s a great bonding experience. And when Simone’s a little older, she can help too! www.kathykaehler.net

WWe realize all parents have different styles and methods on sleep. We chose to put Simone in her own crib and in her own room from birth instead of allowing her to sleep in our bed in a folding bassinet. We felt she would get the most undisturbed sleep that way, and also so would we. And since we weren’t breast feed-ing, it worked for us. Hey, parents need sleep too (when they can get it!). Now that she’s a little older, we sometimes allow a special night that she can sleep in our bed and we watch tv together. It’s a great bonding experience and it’s a lot of fun for her. But then the next night, it’s back to her own room. That way it remains special!


Simone’s Favorite TV Shows

1. Yo Gabba Gabba

2. Dora the Explorer

3. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

4. The Golden Girls

Simone’s Favorite Foods

1. Veggies

2. Grilled Ham & Cheese

3. Sweet Potato Fries

celebkids closet

CELEBKIDS ClosetA LOOK INSIDE THE CLOSET OF ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S HIPPEST BABES


celebkids closet

WWE ASKED SIMONE’S DADDIES ABOUT HER STYLE AND FAVORITE PLACES TO SHOP. HERE’S WHAT WE FOUND...

Favorite Places to Shop

H & MThe Children’s Place

SplendidZara Kids

TargetM. Frederic

A FEW OF HER FAVORITE THINGS

JACKET BY LITTLE MAVEN; LEGGINGS BY CIRCO

SEE YOU IN THE FALL!

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