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10 Ways To Spend Earth Day With Your Little Ones

10 Ways To Spend Earth Day With Your Little Ones

image via @amberfillerup Our planet is an amazing place, but it needs our help to thrive. That’s why each year on April 22, more than...

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Take Root with Founder Elle Rowley

Take Root, the theme for our new AW21 collection designed in collaboration with Clare Therese, honors this season of nurturing and the sacred responsibility of...

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Happy 10th Birthday, Solly Baby!

Solly Baby is officially 10-years-old! To celebrate our birthday, we've done a little Q&A with our founder, Elle. Settle in (with a piece of cake?)...

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Combating the Black Maternal Health Crisis with Birth Queen

If you’ve read the staggering statistics, you know there’s a Black maternal health crisis in our country.   These statistics barely scratch the surface of...

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How babywearing keeps me close to my ancestors with Olivia

Mother and writer Olivia is the first mama in a new series on the Solly Blog featuring stories of mothers wearing their babies throughout history....

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An Open Letter to My Growing Children

We’ve been lucky enough to have our friend and writer Ka’ala Byndon grace our blog in the past, and we’re honored to have her back...

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The Inspiration Behind SS21 | Made with Liberty Fabric

The Inspiration for Spring / Summer 2021 English gardens are known to be a bit wild and overgrown—yet completely breathtaking and inspiring. As we designed...

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Pregnancy and Motherhood After Infertility with Zoe Bleak

Pregnancy and Motherhood After Infertility with Zoe Bleak

Known mostly across the interwebs for her recent home remodel, Zoe Bleak (pronounced like ‘steak’) is a new mom and practicing renovator/designer. But to those...

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Solly Silver Linings (3/3)

Each of these parents had a baby during a global pandemic. All of them have a story to tell. Throughout the month we'll be sharing...

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Solly Silver Linings (1/3)

Each of these parents had a baby during a global pandemic. All of them have a story to tell. Throughout the month we'll be sharing...

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Social Distancing Gathering Ideas + Everyday Inspiration from Kelsie Mae O’Connor

Social Distancing Gathering Ideas + Everyday Inspiration from Kelsie Mae O’Connor

Kelsie Mae O’Connor is a spontaneous, optimistic Enneagram 7 (aka “The Enthusiast”) who is an event planner extraordinaire and seeker of beauty in all things....

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AW20 with Loré Pemberton

As I created an inspiration board for our AW20 collection, I found myself being drawn to quilted patterns, rural scenes, and there was one huge...

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Belinda Love Lee on Design, Minimalist Parenting, and Covid-19

When you visit Belinda Love Lee’s Instagram feed, you’ll exhale deeply, feeling instantly calmer than you did before (hello, airy, minimalist aesthetic). And then you’re...

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Actionable Ways to Support the Black Community

BLACK LIVES MATTER. We’re all saying it, but now let’s talk about ways we can do the real work of learning and unlearning. Our social...

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5 Tips for Designing a Nursery 

Today we’re happy to welcome Melissa Coleman, aka The Faux Martha, to the blog to share her tips for creating a cohesive nursery. Melissa is...

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Advice for Postpartum Mamas Going Through Separation

The postpartum period is often a rollercoaster of highs and lows, no matter your relationship status. But add in a separation and the ride takes...

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6 Tips for Photographing Your Newborn

Your newborn session might be cancelled due to Covid, but that doesn't mean you have to go without memorable photos of your fresh and squishy...

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What to Do When You Have a Baby + Toddler During Covid-19 (Or Anytime, Really)

+ Take your time. Since you don’t have to go anywhere or be anywhere, you get to truly live in the moment. Let your toddler...

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Solly Baby Crib Sheets Have Arrived!

Hi mamas + papas, I’m absolutely over the moon to share that Solly Baby Crib Sheets have arrived! Over the last 8 years, you have...

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August: Your Guide to Presence in Motherhood

The irony of motherhood is that kids live 100% in the present and yet because they do I have always had this voice in my...

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July: Time

Drumroll. This month’s theme is: TIME. You chose it through our IG poll and now we’re going to get down to the nitty-gritty of how...

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June: Calm

I wanted more calm in my life, but I had always believed that when certain things happened there was a necessary and natural and UNAVOIDABLE...

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May: Identity

I learned a new word. MATRESCENCE. It means the process of becoming a mother. For some reason it feels so validating to have a word...

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Motherhood Through Fostering and Adoption

  To read Ellie Coburn’s story is to witness limitless kindness and love (and to want to foster all the babies!). She is mama to...

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November: Radical Gratitude

For November’s #motheryourself theme, I’m starting a new trend. It’s called “radical gratitude” (because doesn’t that sound like a perfectly obnoxious, new wave phrase?). It’s...

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October: Simplicity in Motherhood

Last month my mantra was to cut the junk in a serious way. We moved into a smaller home, cut our monthly expenses in half,...

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September: Your Guide to Confidence in Motherhood

Postpartum is an easy time to feel like you need more to be the mom you want to be. More sleep, more help, more diapers,...

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Elle's Tips For Bringing Home Baby #2 (or 3 or 4...)

Dear mamas thinking about a second baby or already expecting #2 (or #3 or #4 or #5...) or in the early days and months of...

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Creativity and Motherhood with @gretasschwester

While doing it all is not attainable and we’re relieved to really understand that, enjoying and living what you love most is pure inspiration for...

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A NICU Story with Jen Hawkins

If a good life must include sharing our stories and hearts (it must!), start here with the ultimate love and heartache and the honest, miraculous...

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