July’s contest was all about sharing photos of your little citizens enjoying summer vacation.

Quynh Vu is July’s winner:

Our daughters Sammie and Taylor at Noguchi Gardens in Costa Mesa. They were having a fun time exploring the water fountain and climbing the rocks and out of the blue decided to show a bit of sibling affection. We love Tea clothing because of it’s unique & beautiful design and the girls love comfortable dresses that allow them to explore their world.

Take a look at July’s honorable mentions below and read more about them on Facebook.

Thanks to everyone who participated. Please continue sharing your photos and experiences with us on Facebook! August’s contest will be posted here soon.

Tošo Dabac was a Croatian photographer, whose work largely focused on the streets of Zagreb between 1920 and his death in 1970. A contemporary of other famous European photographers of the time such as Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson, his photographs have been exhibited widely throughout the world.

Dabac’s work portrays the moments of daily life on the streets of Zagreb – people having conversations, commuting to work, walking their dogs, or shoveling snow. Photographing the same locations for decades, his work covers an array of human experiences within one city.

You can find more of his work  here. Or, if you’re visiting Zagreb, stop by the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art to visit his archives in person.

Hey everyone, we’re new to Polyvore too and trying to figure it out. A variety of questions have come up, here are some ideas and resources.

If you’re having trouble seeing your set in our group or submitting an entry to Polyvore:

1. Make sure you’ve submitted your set to the Tea Collection group page on Polyvore.
2. Once you’ve done that, it should be easy to submit an entry right there or submit or create a new entry on the contest page.

If you can’t seem to get your friends to vote for you:

1. On the question of “I entered, but it won’t let me click on the “ask your friends vote for you” – not sure why it won’t work. Tried the same thing and it wouldn’t work for me either. You could point your friends to the contest page and ask them to drag your set into the “Cast your vote section” on the contest page.
2. You have to be a polyvore member to vote and…only members who have created at least three polyvore sets are eligible to vote. So that may be why the “ask your friends to vote” link doesn’t work….

Set notes:

1. Sets should contain six items not six styles with multiple items.
2. You should be able to create and submit more than one set. The contest was set up to allow multiple entries.
3. Feel free to add backdrops, words, props and other things to your contest entries. If Polyvore doesn’t except as an entry, we’ll be sure and figure out a way to include them.
4. If there is an item on our site that you can’t find on Polyvore, use the clipper to add it. For details see: http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/clipper

Polyvore help:

Here are some links on Polyvore to help sections:

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/help.groups
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/help.contests

We very much welcome advice and tips from anyone who’s mastered the art of Polyvore. Please share as a comment here on our blog or feel free to comment on Facebook or Polyvore.

Thanks and continued good luck!

An adventure in a tea cup.  I love it!

found on creativity. the Mind. the Adventure.

Pink Blue Project by Korean photographer JeongMee Yoon.

When his young daughter only wanted to wear pink, Korean photographer JeongMee Yoon decided to explore the connection between consumerism and color preference. How much are girls and boys influenced with their color preferences by what’s available to them? Seemingly a lot. It just reminds us to to notice and make thoughtful choices whenever we can. As designers, brands, people, companies, parents.

Be sure to check out more amazing photographs and projects on his website.

found on LMNOP

Hey everyone, are you ready to Express Your Creativity With Tea? We’re now on Polyvore, which is the leading community site for online style. Using the site’s virtual styling tool, you can create unique sets that are digital collages of clothing, accessories and lifestyle products.

Here’s how it our Back-to-School Express Your Creativity with Tea Polyvore contest works:

1. Join Polyvore if you’re not already a member (or you can sign in with your Facebook account). Then join our Polyvore group.

2. Create a set of back-to-school children’s clothes from teacollection.com. You choose, boys or girls. Or both. We’re giving away a prize for each.

3. Submit your set as an entry in our contest. It’s super easy, you just drag items into the window. Once you’ve created your set(s), you can submit your entry to our contest. The easiest way to do this is right on our contest page.

3. No more than 6 items in a set please. Only items from teacollection.com are eligible for entry. Don’t forget, to enter, you need to join our Polyvore group.

4. Spread the word. Ask your friends to vote for your set. Vote for your favorite sets. Feel free to create more sets and submit them as contest entries. The most popular sets (1 for girls and 1 for boys) will win the clothes in their set. If you win, you’ll get to name the set. Once all the votes are in, we’ll sell the two winning sets at a special price to everyone on teacollection.com. It’s just like merchandising your own mini line of Tea clothes. Pretty cool!

5. Contest ends August 11, 2010.

6. We’ll be posting entries right on our blog so don’t forget to check back here to see all the sets in the contest. And we’ll share updates on our Facebook page too.

Don’t forget to express your creativity and have fun. It’s not to soon to start thinking about your favorite names for your sets. I fancy the Lisa set myself.

We can’t wait to see your sets. Meanwhile…

Check out some of the sets some the members in our Polyvore group have already created.

Create your own Tea Collection set, you could win it and name it by teacollection on Polyvore.com

Boys Motorcycle Set by e2dennis on Polyvore.com

Fall Separates by jellojen on Polyvore.com

At Tea, we really believe in going there and bringing your kids. On the Public Bikes blog, there’s an interesting discussion and observation about biking with your kids and how easy and popular it is to do in Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

PUBLIC wants to “Rethink The Way We Get Around” and we think that’s pretty cool.

We’d love to see more moms and dads cycling with their kids around San Francisco and towns all around America. How about you? Go out and ride or walk or play with your kids this weekend. We’ll see you there.

via The Public Blog» Blog Archive » Dad, Let’s Hit the Road..

Hajduk Split is a Croatian football club, one of the most popular in the country. If you had World Cup fever like we did here at Tea, you learned that the whole world calls soccer “football.” Croatia is one of the countries where they spell it “fotbal”.

Their bold graphics really scored with us.

Photograph by Mandy Loncar

Learn more about the team on one of their Facebook fan pages.

Check out some of the Old World Hungary products the Split Hajduk graphics inspired:

And if you want to play soccer, a great resource is the American Youth Organization where everyone plays. GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLLL!

Check out these adorable crocheted animals by Teeny Tini.
Am I too old to still buy toys?  Because I really want that octopus!

found on Black*Eiffel

Did you know that the Rubik’s cube was invented by a Hungarian? Erno Rubik, an architecture professor and sculptor, invented the game in 1974. Believed to be one of the bestselling games in the world, the Rubik’s cube has sold more than 350 million puzzles. If you think the Rubik’s cube is just for kids, consider this quote from its creator:

“Space always intrigued me, with its incredibly rich possibilities, space alteration by (architectural) objects, objects’ transformation in space (sculpture, design), movement in space and in time, their correlation, their repercussion on mankind, the relation between man and space, the object and time. I think the CUBE arose from this interest…”

Perhaps this is something to ponder while you’re trying to solve the puzzle? Regardless, with its bright colors and swiveling sides, the Rubik’s cube is a fun challenge for any age, and a great toy to throw in the carry on bag when traveling.