by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I was one of those naive moms-to-be who swore up and down that my tasteful adult abode would never become plastic toy central. "The baby stuff will stay in the baby’s room," I insisted. Ha. Hahahahahaha. I’ve finally accepted that I can’t...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
If you’re anything like me, you love looking at children’s books as much as your kids do. Okay, so maybe not the one I have to read fifteen times a day. But I do fantasize about some of the illustrators coming over to my house and jazzing up my...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
There is no law that says that A has to be for Apple and B has to be for Banana. Especially if you’re one of those edumacated households with perhaps a mathematician or a chemical engineer at the dinner table. In this case, you’re going to want to check...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I have a confession: I’m a complete and total insect-loving mama. I was raised to appreciate the little buggers with wall-to-wall ant farms in my childhood bedroom and fish tanks full of snails in the backyard. Of course this explains why I practically lept from...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I cannot tell you exactly why I still have my Junior Prom corsage stuffed away in a shoebox between old report cards and notes my best friend passed me in French class, but I do. I mean, I didn’t even like the guy and he cheaped out on the champagne. But...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I’ve never been much of a pastel gal myself, so it wouldn’t have crossed my mind to decorate the nursery in baby pinks and soft blues. But now that I’ve discovered the work of illustrator Brandon Reese I might have to rethink my position.His...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
The poor little cocktail umbrella. It begins its life the adored centerpiece of your favorite frozen beverage, only to be brought home from its tiki bar paradise and crammed into a nighttable drawer. Fear not, cocktail umbrella fans. They now have renewed value thanks...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Sure the race cars, planes, and firetrucks are fun and all, but how cool would you be if you brought homea few monsters for your kid’s wall instead? Very cool, we think. Artist Erica Gilbert of Kept Fresh has created the cutest monsters have ever seen (aside...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Lots of kids go bonkers for bugs. But if you’re like me, you’d rather not be collecting those winged suckers in your house, thankyouverymuch. You can keep nature outside and still enable your child to explore the intricacies of living things, with the...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Sometimes I get tired of being the go-to gal for any kind of creative writing. Need a poem for your second cousin’s daughter’s fifth grade graduation? An apologetic letter to overbearing in-laws? A newsletter for the softball team?I’m the one who...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I always think I’m taking the most beautiful, professional, ready-to-be-blown up to 22×30 photos–only to process the film and realize just how mistaken I was. Not Alicia Bock. A mother of two, ecclectic gardener, and award-winning photographer who...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
There’s a few things you don’t realize the importance of until after you have kids. Okay, there’s a lot of things, but as of late, it’s night lights. I don’t want to jinx myself, but I’m pretty certain our new toddler bed child will...
