Join us for Psycho Baby's Super Sweet 6th Birthday Bash May 1, 2, and 3 at our brick and mortar storefront! Each day, the first 25 families in attendance will receive a surprise gift! We'll have giveaways, sweet discounts and a grand prize raffle, as well as yummy crafts each day from 10 - 2! As special treats you can also meet Spatulatta at 2pm on Saturday, or come to the Storybook Mom's Tea Party Sunday morning at 10am! It'd be super sweet to see you!
Psycho Baby, 1630 N. Damen, Chicago, IL 60647 773.772.2815 Friday, May 1: 10 am - 6pm Saturday, May 2: 10 am - 6pm Sunday, May 3: 10 am - 5pm
As you can tell from the poster with the cupcakes, exclusive emails and b-day tweets, we are like kids in a candy store when it comes to our Super Sweet 6th Birthday! In honor of our big day, we've giving away your choice of 6 Psycho Baby brand tees - irreverent fun for the whole family!
Here's all you have to do to enter: 1. Go to the Psycho Baby Brand t-shirt page, and pick your 6 favorites (onesies count, too!) 2. Tell us what your six faves are as a Comment in this post. 3. We know its jazzy, but please only one Comment per day per person! 4. Entries in our 6 Days of Tees giveaway are accepted through 5.3.09 (our actual birthday!) at 11:59 CST. Winner will be selected at random, and announced the week of May 4th!
Hula Mula, the sister to the punk-rock boys' line Knuckleheads, is bringing your little gal some retro glamour with their summer styles for baby and big girl! From fuchsia dots to black and white stripes, all the new Hula Mula offerings have that old Hollywood feel! Swing tops for when she does the Lindy Hop are paired with cropped leggings so she can get her groove in comfort, while a one-piece jumper just needs to be paired with some big sunglasses and she'll be 'ready for her close up!' The perfect way to keep it glam all summer long, the new clothes from Hula Mula give your little babe bombshell style!
My littlest son Jasper (he's 4) is home with a sad spring fever. So, I did what any other anxiety ridden Italian mama would do, made him chicken soup. Passed down from my sweet Nana, it is also now my cure for everything. I have been asked countless times to share it with friends and family. So,finally, here it is. I hope you enjoy. -Marlo
This is a very hearty chicken soup that my grandmother used to make for me to cure everything. It was her cure for colds, a bad day at school, to seal a long term deal with your boyfriend (Worked for me! Married 12 years and counting!)I have been making it since I was a teenager. My family likes it with too many veggies and too many noodles. I cook a variation of this soup at least twice a month and have my prep time down to 15 minutes. Then, I can read the Sunday paper while it is cooking!
If it is too hearty for you, cut the quantities of veggies and noodles a bit.
Grandma Dargento's Chicken Soup
1 Whole Chicken (Fryer works best )
4-5 carrots, diced
4-5 stalks of celery, diced
1 onion, diced
1 14.5 oz. can diced tomatoes, optional (I like Organic Muir Glen with Italian Herbs best)
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 -1 lb noodles (tortellini's, thin egg noodles, rice or any other of you favorites)
About8 or so cups of water. Just enough to cover chicken.
So, here is the MOST important part. Getting the fat out of your broth.
Rinse the chicken in warm water and place in a pot (I use a 7 1/2 quart Le Creuset Dutch oven that my grandmother gave me a hundred years ago! But any pot will do). Fill the pot with cold water, just enough to cover the chicken. Cold water gives you a clearer broth. Bring to a soft boil, uncovered. I always chop my veggies while waiting for my water to boil. As the water begins to heat, you will see the fat rise to the top. Use a large spoon to skim this off. This part takes a few attempts but is well worth it. You may lose a lot of water while doing this. Don't worry, you can add more if necessary.
After you feel you have skimmed as much of the fat off as possible, add the vegetables, tomatoes (you need less salt if you use tomatoes, nice!), salt and pepper. Add more water if necessary. Cover and lower the heat to the lowest possible setting on you stove for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
You will know when it is ready. Your chicken will be practically falling apart. I use two large spoons to take the chicken out and transfer it into a large bowl to cool. If you lose any chicken pieces, just use a slotted spoon to pick up them up out of the soup. After the chicken cools, remove the breast meat(or dark meat if you prefer). Tear it into rough, bite sized pieces or dice the chicken and add to broth. This is a good time to check your salt and pepper again.
Lastly, cook the noodles in a separate pot of water until al dente. Add to broth.
*I made the mistake in my early twenties of cooking my noodles in my broth. Big mess! It soaks up all the broth leaving you with a noodle stew!
*Another variation that I love is to make is a Spanish chicken soup! Everything is the same, just add a full squeeze of lime juice to your broth and 1 minced jalapeño (seeds removed) with the other veggies. Use rice instead of noodles. Serve with fresh minced cilantro, favorite hot sauce and lime slices. I sometimes serve it with simple quesadillas. Yum!!!
Well, you never know what's going to happen when you put a Psycho Baby, a mythological creature and a camera in the same room! They laughed. They cried. They wanted to see him again and again! We would even go as far as to say that the "Big Big Bunny!" was the most popular animal in all of Bucktown that day! A big basket full of thanks to everyone who came out to our Easter Extravaganza, the Easter Bunny himself and Jessica, who took the cool, crazy pics! Stay tuned for more cool events, possibly involving more giant creatures!
We just wanted to share this photo of lil Gabriel, who thought the Easter Bunny needed a break from all that picture-taking! The Storybook Mom may have some competition in twenty years LOL!!!
Wow, between the little babies in the Easter Bunny's arms, and the two or three that seemed very skeptical of our furry friend, and the kids dressed to the nines in their Easter gear, our Extravaganza was the darn cutest thing we've ever seen! We'll be posting a slide show this week of all the good little eggs that got their photos taken, so everyone can see how 'egg-cellent' it was (sorry - there's just something about fun photos with the kids that seems to turn us into punmasters!! Stay tuned!
It's All About You! Log onto our facebook fan page and join our monthly discussion group! Share your stories and advice with all of our cool, crazy fans! Each month, one answer will be selected and featured right here on our blog! We can't wait to hear from you!
Are you sitting down? Okay, awesome, 'cause this week's Freaky Friday is going to make you dizzy with delight! From 11am - 6pm CST today only , enter coupon code FREAKYFRIDAY at checkout to receive an additional 20% off all the style choices on our Freaky Friday page!
Leave your comments below with your choice for the Psycho Baby of the Month! Be sure to write the child's display name in your post, along with any compliments or captions and at the end of the month, the voting will close and the POM's profile will be featured in a post!
Thank you all so much for your entries in our Psycho Baby of the Month 'contest!' Everyone enjoys seeing all of the lil Psycho Babies bringing the cuteness, and we get lots and lots of mail about how awesome and fun the contest is! While the POM brings lots of joy (yay!), we also know there has been a bit of frustration due to the possibility that the poll potentially opens the door to voting early and often (bummer)! That said, we know everyone's in agreement that the point of the POM is to celebrate all the cool, crazy kids and so we have decided to give the babes a more prominent spot within the blog instead of on the side going forward, which will also live under our 'Contest' tab! The new way to vote is by leaving a comment with the name of the one you are voting for (bye-bye poll!), so that way everybody can share their love of the photo, add a caption and we can generally have more merriment, 'cause the POM makes us all really happy! At the close of each month the comments will close for counting and the winner's profile will be displayed in our blog! We hope you all enjoy the POM's new home!
The new members of the Ugly Doll family have arrived, and we had a sneaking suspicion that they would like a formal introduction to our blog community, so here goes! Readers, from left to right, meet Trunko, Ugly Worm, Fea Bea, Plunko, Peaco and Babo's Bird! With ugly talents such as cookie eating, believing in friends, and aquatic dance, and ugly businesses as varied as car washes and overreacting, we are pretty sure that your little ones will love their new bff's! To meet all of the Ugly Dolls, get ugly and go here!
We know it is hard to choose, but does your little one have a favorite Ugly Doll, or a favorite story involving their Ugly Friend? Let us know in the comments section!
We know everyone loves a great practical joke - but we also know that everyone also loves a steal! It's no joke - take 15% off your order today only at psychobabyonline.com with Coupon Code NOFOOLIN and if you see any good pranks today send 'em through to the comments - we love talk of flux capacitors, UFO's and Liberty Bells!
Join us for Psycho Baby's Super Sweet 6th Birthday Bash May 1, 2, and 3 at our brick and mortar storefront! Each day, the first 25 families in attendance will receive a surprise gift! We'll have giveaways, sweet discounts and a grand prize raffle, as well as yummy crafts each day from 10 - 2! As special treats you can also meet Spatulatta at 2pm on Saturday, or come to the Storybook Mom's Tea Party Sunday morning at 10am! It'd be super sweet to see you!
