Babystyle Magazine Holiday Preview

BABYSTYLE MAGAZINE

HOLIDAY PREVIEW ISSUE

2011

CONTENTS IN EVERY ISSUE 9

MEET THE TEAM

SAY HELLO TO THE BABYSTYLE TEAM AND THE CONTRIBUTORS THAT MADE IT HAPPEN

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A LETTER FROM KATE

A BRIEF WORD FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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NICE TO TWEET YOU

WE ASKED THE QUESTION, YOU TWEETED YOUR ANSWERS

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STYLE WATCH

YOUR GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST TRENDS OF THE SEASON

BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE

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BABYSTYLE STAPLE

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

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MINI LOOKS

THE MANY LOOKS TO DO WITH THE MINI YOU

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BOOK CLUB

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COPY CATS

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

HOW TO MAKE ONE OF OUR FAVORITE LOOKS YOUR OWN

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SUPERLUX 10

SAMANTHA YANKS GIVES US HER SUPER CHIC PICKS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS

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BY BELL SOTO

A COLLECTION OF TRADITIONS AND MEMORIES FROM CHANUKAH TO CHRISTMAS

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CELEBKIDS CLOSET

MILLY MINIS

A LOOK INTO THE CUTE CLOSET OF ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S HIPPEST BABES

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AMELIA PRESENTS

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

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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

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A COLLECTION OF THE BEST GIFTS OF THE SEASON FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

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

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meet the team

BABYSTYLE MAGAZINE KAITLYN KIRBY

HEATHER PETERSON

FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

SCOTT KISLOSKI

GRETCHEN EASTON

WEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

KATIE KEMP

LINDSAY FALTISCO

GRAPHIC DESIGN

GRAPHIC DESIGN

KATHLEEN SCHMIDT

MONICA DREGER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

VISIT US ONLINE WWW.BABYSTYLEMAG.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION: HELLO@BABYSTYLEMAG.COM

EMAIL THE EDITOR: KATE@BABYSTYLEMAG.COM

FOR PRESS INQUIRIES: PRESS@BABYSTYLEMAG.COM

FOR ADVERTISING: SALES@BABYSTYLEMAG.COM

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a letter from kate

SKIRT BY JCREW; SHIRT BY RALPH LAUREN; NECKLACE BY ELVA FIELDS

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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,

Kaitlyn Kirby Founder and Editor in Chief

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editor’s wishlist

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editor’s wishlist

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nice to tweet you

WE ASKED...

WE ASKED...

WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS? YOU TWEETED...

MELANIE NOTKIN, @SAVVYAUNTIE

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

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LIZ LANGE, @LIZLANGE

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

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

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JAMIE GRAYSON, @THEBABYGUYNYC

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Carols, sugar cookie baking, chopping down a tree, and designing a holiday card.

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NICOLE FELICIANO, @MOMTRENDS

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

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KELLY RUTHERFORD, @KELLYRUTHERFORD

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Cooking and baking with my kids, and the music!

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KYLE RICHARDS, @KYLERICHARDS18

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JCREW

STELLA MCCARTNEY

MINI BODEN

BAN.DO

RALPH LAUREN

New Year

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THE CHILDREN’S PLACE

design . craft . curate 1006 van buren ave. oxford, mississippi

ameliapresents.com

babystyle staple

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babystyle staple

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UR US YO T E E TW ITES! FAVOR

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

Goodnight iPad

by 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 Girl

by 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

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Tickle Monster

by Josie Bissett get when the Tickle Monster comes out to play. A cute little monster 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.

This Little Piggy Went to Prada: Nursery Rhymes for the Blahnik Brigade

by Amy Allen Poon

R AD FO E R T S A MU RENTS A P H IS STYL

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.

What’s on Our Shelf for the Holidays: Olive, the Other Reindeer

by J. Otto Seibold

Duck & Goose: It's Time for Christmas

by Tad Hills

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TRADITIONALLY

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happy holidays

story by Kathleen Schmidt

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hen I was a little girl, my parents and I would visit my grandmother 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 anticipation: Aunt Barbara, who made the best homemade Christmas cookies I have ever tasted. She even made me a care package every year with my own stash of cookies. No one was allowed to touch them. Years later, after I married my husband, he got to try the cookies and loved them.

Once I had children of my own, I wondered what I could do to create holiday traditions that would stick with them as they grew up.

Since we don’t have a whole lot of family around, 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 on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. For a long time, I felt like I was shortchanging my son and 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 3 and 7 year-old could help make. When I broached the idea with them, their faces lit up. I fully knew they wouldn’t last through my entire baking marathon, but there they were, stools underneath their feet, watching their mom roll dough, crack eggs, and trying not to use profanity when her Kitchen Aid mixer wouldn’t cooperate.

I stayed up until the wee hours to finish every single batch: Italian Wedding Cookies, Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, Thumbprint Cookies, Hershey’s Peanut Butter Blossoms, and of course, Chocolate Chip Cookies. I found solace in being the person who now made the unforgettable Christmas cookies. It was homage to a time of constants; a time when I never thought my parents wouldn’t be here to celebrate the holidays.

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When my children woke up the morning of Christmas Eve, we carefully arranged cookies in pretty boxes I had purchased. We delivered them to lots of neighbors, then friends, and ate our own secret stash in between.

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happy holidays

A UDDLED HOLIDAY SEASON “

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om, Jacob and Amy are here to decorate the Christmas tree! Tell Emmanuel to come down, they brought dreidels for everyone!”

It’s a week before Christmas and our family is busy putting up the Christmas tree in anticipation of Santa’s big visit soon. Our good friends come over every year to help out untangle the Christmas lights, pick up all the loose pine needles and sing Greek traditional carols while the kids play with chocolate coins and dreidels.

Yes...it’s your typical “Greek-OrthodoxProtestant-Jewish” Christmas!

Truth is, religion and tradition kinda mesh together in our household during the holidays.

And by that I mean all religions and traditions.

I grew up slightly Protestant and my husband’s family is Greek Orthodox. Our friends tend to be Jewish and our neighborhood is a true melting pot with a variety of culturally diverse religions (Muslims, Buddhists, and even a Hare Krishna walks around the town).

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

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story by Monica Dreger 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 custom for 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 sideways 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 beautifully 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 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 tradition. We munch on the Greek cookies, eat a traditional Christmas meal of lamb and potatoes and then munch on more cookies.

In the meantime, while we are lying on the sofas in a small food coma, our friends who are Muslim usually come by with their traditional “mamoul” cookies to share. These are small, rich semolina cookies wrapped around a date and are usually seen in Syria and Lebanon over the holidays. After a yummy exchange of cookies, they are on their way to the next house, following their own modern family tradition of bestowing some festive Muslim insight to their neighbors and friends.

The decorated Christmas ship on our windowsill is a traditional Greek holiday symbol usually made of paper or wood, and decorated with small, colorful lamps and a few, simple ornaments. They are usually placed near the outer door or by the fire and the bow always point to the interior of the house. With golden objects or coins placed in it, the ship symbolizes a full load of riches reaching one’s home; We put out the ship and hope.

Traditionally, Greeks tend to celebrate the New Years even more than Christmas Day. In the past, gifts were exchanged during this day and all the kids and grown ups anticipated staying up until the wee hours of the morning to await the first sunset of the year. Although we tend to pass out from exhaustion around 2:00am, we still await with great pleasure for this night.

My favorite part is the the cutting of the “Vasilopita”. This special cake has been baked with a hidden “flouri” or lucky coin inside. Yet before this can be found, someone must first cross the cake with his knife and then cut the first slice for God, then the next for the baby Christ, followed by the Mary, then the next slice for the house and after for each member of the family starting with the eldest. The one who finds the “flouri” in their piece will have good luck all the forthcoming year; It’s never me.

We usually welcome the New Year the next morning sleepily and lazily. One final tradition lasts in order to pay full homage to our ancestors--the pomegranate. We wrap ourselves in blankets, robes, coats and all go outside while someone smashes a pomegranate for good luck. Then it’s back in the house to reminisce over the highlights of the past year and to daydream about all the exciting opportunities for the year to come (and to momentarily forget about the pomegranate mess that’s waiting for clean up).

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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!

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TWO MEN AND A little lady

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WRITTEN BY Kaitlyn

Kirby

PHOTOGRAPHY BY Gretchen

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You 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 Masterson 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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THE BEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS SLEEP 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.

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SKIP THE BABY TALK From birth, we’ve spoken to Simone without using “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

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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 control 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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Every family is busy, but we didn’t want Simone to be the cliche Chicken McNugget kid.

We found a wonderful way to offer healthy meals every day on a busy schedule by following Kathy Kaehler’s “Sunday Set Up”. Basically, 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

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We 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 feeding, 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!

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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

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CELEBKIDS Closet

A LOOK INSIDE THE CLOSET OF ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S HIPPEST BABES

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

A FEW OF HER FAVORITE THINGS JACKET BY LITTLE MAVEN; LEGGINGS BY CIRCO

Favorite Places to Shop

H&M The Children’s Place Splendid Zara Kids Target M. Frederic

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