Make your picture worth more than a thousand words

by Mir | Cool Tech

It’s all well and good when I shoot a picture or two off to my parents from my phone while the kids are at an event, but then sometimes I forget (or don’t have time) to type in a complete explanation. Later, my dad calls me up and says, That was great, but...

Children’s party invitations – now a piece of cake

by Stephanie Slate | Cards + Stationery

Is it strange to be excited that an online correspondence site has just introduced children’s invitations? Because I am. Downright giddy, in fact. I’ve professed my love of Paperless Post before and now that there’s a whole new set of designs...

Wallpaper is back, baby

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

When I hear the word wallpaper, it conjures up really bad images of this odd looking flower pattern that completely covered my bathroom wall growing up. It a nutshell – it scares me. But thanks to advances in technology and design, wallpaper is again becoming a...

Turn your kid’s object of affection into an object d’art

by Betsy | Art + Decor

My son had a stuffed elephant named Tussle that went with him everywhere. In fact, he never knew it, but there were actually two Tussles in constant rotation, just in case one went missing. Tussle has long since moved to the “big happy farm where stuffed animals...

Baa Baa Black Sheep, have you any reclaimed wool for upcycled art projects?

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

One of the stand-outs to me at this year’s overwhelming Toy Fair show weren’t actually toys at all, but the lovely handmade wall art from CMP fave Cate and Levi. Like their original, one-of-a-kind stuffed animals, the critters are pieced together...

Oh, The Pictures You’ll Take!

by Catherine | Cool Tech

My daughter loves Dr. Seuss. She also loves the camera on my iPhone. Put these together and you have a four year old in Seussian snap happy heaven, and a mother who can’t check her e-mail or play Words With Friends when her kid is around.The Dr. Seuss Camera,...

Want Your Enfant To Passez La Baguette? There’s An App For That

by Catherine | Cool Tech

I have this fantasy of one day living in Paris, in some old, sunwashed apartment on one of the old arrondissements. Trouble is, although I read French – a hangover from graduate studies – I don’t speak much of it, and what little of it I do speak is...

Bedtiming – Making sense out of sleep training

by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults

After a few weeks of a ridiculous lack of sleep, I decided it was time to do something about it. And do something I did–with much success–thanks to Bedtiming: The Parent’s Guide to Getting Your child to Sleep at Just the Right Age, an awesome sleep...

Girls will be girls at Tollipop

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

I love little prints of little girls (as anyone familiar with our art archives probably can garner). So when I saw an entire of gallery them from Kirsten at Tollipop I immediately started bookmarking. Kristen is a real artist, writer, and creative visionary who sells...

Kid safe utensils for future foodies

by Cool Mom Team | Living

Of all the things to gawk at, at the sprawling Atlantis Resort last weekend, there was one thing that seemed to catch the eye of every editor there–the bright, kid-friendly cooking utensils in the Kids Club.Sadly when I found info on the nested mixing bowls that...

Child labor – yet another benefit of parenthood

by Cool Mom Team | Kitchen + Dining

I have to appreciate any shop with the cajones to put out something called the Child Labour Collection; but then again, I’d expect nothing less from our irreverent friends across the pond at Twisted Twee. I’m laughing at the silkscreen tea towel featuring...

Whatchoo talkin’ bout, Emma?

by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery

I am dying over the awesomeness that is the “Say What” personalized stationery gift sets from past CMP pick, Just Jenn Designs. Just email the designer a good headshot of your child (or dog or BFF) that can be easily silhouetted, and she’ll send you...