Oh my gosh.  Zulily strikes again! I have to say I have a love/hate relationship with the Z.  The timed events often have 2 effects on me:

1. Buy now, under pressure, because you only have hours left (and then suffer buyers' remorse)
 or
2. Suffer analysis paralysis and don't buy because there's so much awesomeness to choose from (and then fret when it sells out).

Timi and Leslie Diaper Bag

But sometimes it's option 3:  Buy something awesome at a great price and then dance with glee.  (Like when I got this amazing diaper bag + the stroller to match for a fraction of the retail price)!

Which will it be if I go crazy for this event?!  Here are just a FEW things I'd LOVE.

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I am making progress on Genevieve's room. It's been a long, slow process!  If you remember, I bought her bed back in May of LAST YEAR!  I really need to make progress since Genevieve is only in daycare twice a week until the end of August.  As many of you know, it's near impossible to get anything done (especially painting) with a toddler (and an almost toddler) running around your feet!  I ended up jumping on the chalkboard bandwagon and doing a chalk wall in Genevieve's room- or I should say half a wall!  I've seen many rooms feature chalkboard paint and my inspiration room (which I'll share at a later time) had an entire chalk wall.  I loved the look and really wanted to try it.  Genevieve has chair rail in her room so I figured rather than do one wall I'd go under the chair rail around the entire room.  Then I started painting.  And man, chalkboard paint is dark.  Black. Very black.  And I just couldn't do it!  There is only one window in Genevieve's room and the lighting is quite poor in there (I plan to add a couple of adorable lamps I'll show you later!) so I just couldn't risk it being too dark.  I could just see my almost 3 year old suddenly filled with teenage moodiness and angst due to her dark and gloomy walls! Let's put that stage off as long as possible please.

So I still have a few areas to touch up before I reveal the walls...and the full room reveal will be in quite a while since I'm trying not to spend money on her room (and instead throw it at Nadia's party--with gusto).

And that's where the zulily reference comes in.  Oh my.  Did you see this event?!  I am in love with so many items in it!  And it would perfectly match Genevieve's new room!  Argh- why can't Joe and I be Beyonce and Jay-Z so we could spend a gajillion dollars on Blue Ivy's  our girls' rooms?!  Here are just a few items I'd buy in a heartbeat:

And here are some children spaces featuring chalkboard walls that make me doubt my decision not to paint the entire wall!

I guess I have Zulily on the brain.  If you're not aware of this site, it's a flash sale sight specializing in baby and kid stuff (though they often have womens clothes, intimates, and accessories as well). The deals are pretty good and the couple of times I've ordered from them, they've left me with no complaints (which I can't say about hautelook, but that's another story).  Today they have a $30 credit for $15 at Frecklebox.  Now we love personalized stuff, as we discussed here and here.  But usually I'm too cheap, as I discuss in nearly every post :) to buy the stuff, except perhaps for gifts.  Well this adorable little lunchbox which I'd never pay $30 for, would only be $15 with your zulilly purchase. Which I could totally live with.  If only Genevieve was 5!!  (oooh that means new baby would be 3 and I'd be done with diapers! OR it could mean I'd be pregnant again...this is a dangerous road to travel down so I'll stop here!) I think this would also make a great gift--unique and cute and something the parent probably wouldn't purchase on his/her own!  Go take a look see at both Zulily and Frecklebox--they have all sorts of personalized kid stuff--and let us know what you think!