At the risk of this turning into the Fab.com blog (I can't help it!), today I discovered a new textile artist there that I'm so excited about, because she makes the most lovely scarves. And wildly affordable too. The lightweight scarves …
At a time when every American town is starting to look like every other American town, with the same clothing stores, coffee shops (ahem) and fast food chains, it's nice to know there's one that's still alive with a fierce independent sp…
File this one under "Ever-Growing List of Gorgeous Things Celebrities Own That We Never Will." It's pretty much the most beautiful cradle I have ever seen. With the most extraordinary price tag. The So-Ro Cradle ("be calm" in Norweigan) …
I've loved the spectacularly gorgeous, understated kids wear from Shirin NYC since first discovering them a few years ago. This is the kind of clothing I spot in a boutique, and the second I touch the silky cotton, I (attempt to) start j…
A lot of birth announcements seem to be designed with the premise that more is more--more typefaces, more photos, more duckies and bunnies crawling up the borders. Not so with the Hello Lucky! collection of modern cards. This modern birt…
I have a thing for tea towels, but most of the ones I see fall squarely into the Country Living school of design. What, cityfolk don't dry their dishes too? So I was happy to be introduced to San Francisco studio Studiopatro, which makes…
The hipsters have spoken! From Williamsburg to Silverlake, the official motif of the 2011 hipster movement is... the mustache. Specifically, the curly handlebar moustache. If I'm not seeing it on the faces of the kinds of guys who have t…
Leave it to a mom to know exactly what other moms want - a baby book. But not a time-consuming baby book. And maybe it's not really a baby book at all, because that just opens up all sorts of expectations about what goes inside and just …
I always wonder if it sounds pretentious when my children ask for gelato or sorbet. But then I figure, eh. Better than asking for those nasty ice cream truck things on sticks. Which, uh, they also do. When you're five, I guess anything c…
I bought the photo mug for Grandpa, and the Kindle for my husband (lucky dog!), but I've yet to find the perfect card. Leave it to new discovery TinyUs to do the work for me, and even better, for free. All you need is a printer to give t…
M y four year-old daughter is going to be a flower girl in my sister-in-law's wedding. It's somewhat informal and they told us to buy whatever we want. I don't mind spending some money, but I would love to find something that's not so po…
If you have daughters, if you know daughters, if you have ever bought a single Disney Princess gift for someone else's daughters, you simply must read Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Cul…
We were so honored to be this week's guest curators at Supermarket , one of our favorite online resources for anything and everything in great design. Click over for 10 items that we're drooling over all from indie designers--from pretty…
We've long extolled the benefits of a chore chart for kids . It's remarkable the things you can get a preschooler to do in exchange for a little star sticker. (Free child labor!) Now I've found a new chore chart that not only keeps the k…
There's something so precious about that pride of ownership that comes with one's very own storybook, clearly marked with one's very own personalized bookplate. I remember having fond memories of my own bookplates, and I'm so excited for…
This week, I popped into one of my favorite NYC department stores to leave my drool marks on the jewelry cases--kind of like a wolf marking his territory. Hey, maybe if I drool on this case here no one else will buy it? And then they'll …
I have Joe Cocker in my head right now. He's singing You Are So Beautiful to Me , and I'm getting all choked up when his voice cracks at that one point at the end. He also happens to be singing the song to the unbelievably amazing treats…
We were delighted with the Martha Stewart makes Cookies app when it was introduced this past fall for the iPad, and now there's one more reason to like all this four-color, interactive deliciousness--more yummy cookie recipes and a new l…
When I first became a mother of two, my own mom introduced me to the concept of collaborative board games. Think less "I did it!" and more "We did it!" In other words, less "I hate you, I'm never playing with you any more ever again!" an…
I now have a tree filed with beautiful one-of-a-kind ornaments from years of craft fairs and museum shops, and travels to cities everywhere. But if I can't get around the world, I'm glad their ornaments can now get to me, via Etsy. This …
I had not yet felt a great need for mom jewelry. For me, wearing my child's name around my neck felt redundant because frankly, she is hanging around my neck.(After 15 months of breastfeeding and a total failure to ever accept a bottle, …
I don't know about you, but I'm only a few months into school lunch-making and I'm running out with ideas to keep it interesting. Mostly for me. I try to create little surprises in my daughter's lunchbox every day, from slicing her sandw…
Trying to agree on a tea kettle with the sigOth last weekend in a Maine gourmet shop was nearly as difficult as trying to agree on a baby name. The kitchen is more or less his domain (the culinary school degree grants him as much), so he…
Preppy is back, mamas, if you haven't noticed. My once and future idol, Lisa Birnbach of Preppy Handbook fame, is out promoting her follow-up book True Prep ; loafers are everywhere ; and Kanye West is influencing a whole new generation …
