by Cool Mom Team | Living
I confess I’m totally guilty of tossing the kids’ coats over chairs, the stroller handle, the exersaucer (the floor) – pretty much everywhere but in the coat closet. Excellent example I’m setting, I know. Maybe I’d be more apt to hang the...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
I’ve decided to forgo the traditional family Christmas picture holiday card extravaganza this year. And thanks to Ruva Cards, my excuse will not be total laziness (for a change), but rather, my desire to show off my daughter’s artistic talent.Designed by...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
Each holiday season, I make sure to stock up on emergency hostess and holiday gifts. They’re the kinds of things you can pretty much give to anyone when you get a last minute invite, or–horror of all horrors–someone hands you a gift and you...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Sometimes you just want a little something to send to a new parent, something with a Cool Quotient that exceeds the price tag. We’ve found that very thing in the limited edition Fill-in-the-Blank Family Tree at Sarah Neuburger’s always awesome shop The...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Living far from friends and family means that the holiday card has the burden of making up for a whole lot of missed milestones. But who can pick just one picture to represent a whole year’s worth of cuteness? Well, now you don’t have to thanks to...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
My son is currently more into electronics than art, preferring robots to Rothko. Go figure. So when it comes to the pictures that we’d all like on his walls, I never thought I’d find what I found from the artist Superoboturbo at Kindergallery. He’s...
by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor
Just in time for the holidays, our blogging friends at Indie Fixx have come along with their very own online boutique, appropriately named the Indie Fixx Shop. Perfect! You’ll have fun browsing the beautiful site for all kinds of very reasonable jewelry, yummy...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Aside from stressing about what toys won’t poison my kids this holiday season and trying to communicate that clearly and effectively to my in-laws, I’ve got our Christmas cards on my mind — what to wear, what should they say, how are we going to...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
While I spend a whole lot of my life online, I understand that not every mother does. In fact, there are some pregnant women who actually (gasp!) don’t have blogs. So how’s a expecting mama to keep track of all those memories? With Expecting Tales, the...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
As a first-time homeowner, I’m faced with the new and daunting challenge of decorating my kids’ rooms. I’ve weighed all my options: Wallpaper? Heck no. Murals? You obviously haven’t seen me draw. Decals it is! And so when the new wall images...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I wish I could afford original Maurice Sendak or A.A. Milne prints for my kids’ rooms, but with #3 on the way, that’s not going to happen any time soon. So instead I’m turning to artist Sarah Jane of Sarah Jane Studios for more affordable but still...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I always admire parents with a great eye – you know, the ones who enter the "my nursery is awesome and yours isn’t" type of contests on AT: Nursery, and actually win. I think their kids are so lucky to get to grow up in such beautiful, artful...