Quilted, collaged, and just plain cool

by Mir | Art + Decor

Chicago artist Kelly Ventura is making beautiful original art with fabric, paper, buttons and adorable stitching that you’ll want to leave on the wall well past the disassembling of the crib. Her Etsy shop, The Urban Thimble, has wearables, as well, but once...

Your Kid’s Name Up in Lights (Sort of).

by Rita | Art + Decor

In further developments regarding the quest to free my daughter’s room from licensed characters, I’ve discovered custom name wall art from City Art Photography. Each letter is a unique original photograph taken of individual letters for a...

Beam me up, mommy

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

My four-year-old loves all things outer space, and these cool retro rocket prints by CMP fave, John W. Golden will provide the perfect inspiration should he daydream of traveling to an outer galaxy. With names like The Solar Streak and Red Cruiser, the prints were...

The Regional Assembly of Text – a store as cool as its name

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

As a bona fide word nerd, I was instantly taken with the name The Regional Assembly of Text, although I had no idea what it meant. (Sort of ironic if you think about it, huh.) As it turns out, this Vancouver-based online shop curated by design grads Brandy Fedoruk and...

The elephant in the room that everyone actually will talk about

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

I always admire parents who aren’t afraid to go a little dark with their nursery decor. And by dark I don’t mean Gashlycrumb Tinies prints up on the wall, but something besides the pastel pinks and blues and yellows that the entire industry seems...

Sillydot art – more dreamy than silly

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

The artwork from San Francisco (by way of Brazil) artist Vera Costa of Sillydot is pretty much made for Nursery Decorating 101 – ten sets of three sweet, happy designs, each of which look great mixed, matched, or anything in between. They’re also made for...

Personalized, adorable, affordable. What more do you want in a baby gift?

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

Personalized items make spectacular baby gifts because it shows you’ve gone an extra mile beyond the burp cloth sets, beyond the registry essentials. The one catch is, the gift can’t be returned. The pressure is on!I can’t imagine a single mama who...

I Saw the Sign

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

Considering everything belonging to my daughter is now also her little bro’s, it’s no wonder she’s become a bit territorial about her bedroom. But trying to find a room sign that I’d actually want to hang on her door is a whole other...

A very nice way of saying, “Shut the heck up the baby’s sleeping!”

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

I cannot tell you how many times my husband has busted through the door after a long day of work only to singlehandedly wake up the baby who I just got to sleep. Talk about grounds for divorce. Too bad I didn’t have the Awake & Asleep friends from lovemedo....

Eat My Chalk Dust

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

We’ve been evangelists for room decor-by-decal (and decal and decal and decal and decal) from the beginning. Just search our site for “decal.” There’s lots. In part because we know that tastes change faster than you can say ooh, look at that...

Reform School Rules, Rules!

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

With my daughter all puzzle-crazy these days, I am adoring the heirloom-quality Cinderella puzzle illustrated by children’s book artist Jen Bulthuis of Fidoodle and accompanied by the classic tale reimagined by writer Shannon Gerard. The magnetic pieces come...

You Light Up My Night

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

We moms of toddlers and preschoolers know that the night light is an essential part of an effective bedtime experience. But dare to try to find one without a licensed princess or smiling race car and you’re stuck with a boring one from your local home...