I was getting some swipes and swatches together last week to make a little planning board for my 9yo’s new room. The room’s not new, exactly. But it’ll get a new paint job, I’m making a bedspread, shams, you know, but for a more grown-up kid…Well, something he can grow into… Orange and blue, very boy, totally referencing Pottery Barn and Land of Nod. Anyway, we’ll hang up his old hockey stuff too, which sounds funny, because he’s 9, he’s not old enough to have “old stuff.”

I found his first helmet. It’s blue. Covered with stickers. All the kids get stickers for achievements. Then I thought, this helmet would be great, on a snowman…I imagined how my 9yo, would make it: a little himself, a little Calvin and Hobbes, a little Charlie Brown…Dirty snow and tinker toys…

I’ll probably add a little color… : )