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The Spoils of Free Apples

Last weekend, while walking home from the Noe Valley Farmers Market, we stumbled upon a couple (and children in tow) giving away apples from their Healdsburg orchard and rental, The Harvest House. Bonus points to these folks for giving them away in adorable little baskets.

Feature: Bentos for Penelope

"So here I was, a mother of a toddler, dreading making her lunch. The novelty of her eating solids had worn off and since we had always just given her modified versions of what we were eating, my own lunch of a slice of leftover pizza suddenly seemed inadequate. I knew that if Penelope was going to continue to eat lunch, I was going to have to figure out what exactly would be my own carrot on a stick."
 
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Play Food! Group on Flickr

Now for a little something that you can't buy or can make (actually, you can make if you're talented and I'm sure some of these folks have online stores). Regardless, you'll have a tough time deciding which "three-dimensional, hand-crafted non-edible play food: crocheted, knitted, felted, sewn, sculpted from clay, paper-mache, assembled from found objects, origami, quilling" is cutest.

We're torn over which item makes us smile most, but feel determined to somehow, someday become the owners of this cannoli.

Sushi Stuff for You and Baby

Deny yourself something for nine months and watch how much more desirable it becomes. Now, deny yourself something and then try to not go crazy as you see it on baby item after baby item. While we're waiting to see the new trend of mimosa onesies take off, we'll have to settle with the insane amount of sushi baby and children items appearing everywhere. Now don't get me wrong, we love sushi and love the alternative to the usual pink or blue baby animal everything. It's just a little too much when you're craving a hunk of fatty toro. But if we're to get our fill, we might as well do it right.

Here's some sushi-themed items we've found online:

Sam and Bellie recognize the sushi baby stuff demand so well that they offer their baby cloth bib set with matching burp cloth ($25) in two patterns: Sushi and Sashimi. And since every mother-to-be is warned that you can never have too many burp cloths, you can also pick up this two cloth burp set ($15) over at Hip & Little in the same "Sashimi" fabric. The nice thing about Hip & Little's set is that they offer a simple chopstick pattern that we haven't seen elsewhere.