Forgot the valentines? No you didn’t!
You didn’t forget that the class party is on Friday and you’re baking cupcakes and, by the way, your kid needs 24 cards to share with her friends. Of course you didn’t; you were just waiting for us to tell you where to find the best printable...
Turning your iPhone into Super Nanny
Okay, before you laugh, allow me to tell you why you totally want the Time-Out Application for your iPhone. You can pre-program this iPhone App for up to four kids with associated time-out durations, and then– this is the beautiful part– you can run them...
Central organization even shirkers can’t escape
You know that woman who’s always at school functions, the one who walks up while you’re manning the ticket table or dishing the chili, and says, “Oh, I should’ve signed up to help! I must have missed the flier!” Hopefully her flier...
A naturally gorgeous blanket for your naturally gorgeous baby
The soft, fleecy blanket with a satiny trim is a nursery staple– not only did my kids have them as babies, I had one as a baby, too, about a hundred years ago. And now Organic Blankees is offering up a new and fabulously earth-friendly way to grab your own.A...
Totally doable DIY Valentines Day cards
If the big wall o’ children’s Valentine’s cards at your local big box store fills you with dread, don’t despair. You’ve heard of DIY, but have you heard of DIYBWALHFTWD? This acronym came to us from Three Wheels Design owner Vicki...
Bringing new meaning to the term “animal print”
So you want a canvas or two for baby’s room, and you’re trying to figure out something bright and colorful, with animals, that doesn’t look like the circus threw up on your walls. Leave it to Tiny Decor to find just the right mix of mod and...
The sack lunch, updated
Insulated lunch totes are bulky (and often of dubious origin; some vinyl ones contain lead). Paper lunch bags often rip (and aren’t all that eco-friendly). What’s a gotta-be-cool tween to do? Reach for 3 R’s lunch sac perhaps? Made of washable...
One more incentive for taking on those blank walls this year
We’ve been raving about graphic artist Lisa Masterson’s various works at Avalisa for… well, a long time, and Liz recently marveled over her stunning stretched wall art. So you can probably only imagine my glee at learning that more than 500 different...
The elephant in the room… is adorable
When you think Eames you probably think wood, but for kids raised around the Eames Elephant, they’ll grow up to associate the designer with a rainbow of colored plastics. It’s a stool, it’s a bench, it’s decoration. It’s pint-sized modern...
