by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
We’ve had a thing for funky coat hooks around here lately, it seems. (See also: Elephant hook, j hook, and rock star monkey hook). And now there’s another one that’s just meant to love. In fact, it’s all about love; it’s the LOVE double...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
How can we resist falling instantly, madly in love with a card company called Pretty Bitter? We can’t. And we didn’t. Which is why you’re reading about them today. We’ve already told you about their awesome Man Notes. But the fabulously cynical...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
We couldn’t leave you mamas with sleepaway-ready kids out of Happy Camper Week on Cool Mom Picks, so we found some camp stationery we couldn’t resist. And, hopefully, neither will your kids. Which really is the point.The Camp Kits at Red Stamp may be just...
by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech
This review comes courtesy of an exceptionally cool dad, Nate, my own sigOth, which I insisted on since he won’t let me near the camera. Grrr. -Liz I can say without exaggeration that our apartment has been overrun by the most obnoxiously adorable everything in...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Admittedly, I’m terrible at keeping a record of what’s going on with my kids other than the pictures and stories I post on my own personal blog. But now that my daughter is old enough to draw her own pictures and tell her own stories, I couldn’t help...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
BPA-free baby bottles and pacifiers. Natural wood teethers. Organic baby food. We think a lot about what goes into the mouth of babes, but what about the soaps we use to clean off those bottles, nipples, spoons or pacifiers?Exactly. Fortunately two moms were one step...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
It’s challenging enough trying to figure out what to do with a screaming baby who requires your undivided attention 24-hours a day, but add a job (and blog reading and spousal attention and Project Runway) into the mix and you’ve got a whole other...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Honestly, I didn’t understand the appeal of the pull toy until after I had kids. I was like so, they just….pull it?Sure enough, yes. And sure enough, kids go nuts for them. Nuts being the perfect segue for what may be the most beautiful pull toy maybe...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
When you spent every waking moment of your pregnancy searching for crib sheets in just the right shade of persimmon, and tormenting yourself over the weave of the nursery rug, you’re not going to put up some poster on the wall, right? All the better if the...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
If you like the idea of traditional themes for a nursery like firefighters, astronauts, or fairies, you might have found that a lot of what you’re seeing out there isn’t quite your cup o’ tea. We’ll let you in on one of our secrets: If you want...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
My kids are masters of The Heap. Think: The coat that just missed the peg on the entryway wall. The wet towel they couldn’t get onto the rack in the bathroom. The backpack they left carelessly on the floor because. . .well, where is that supposed to...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I don’t do themed nurseries. In fact, I don’t do nurseries at all. The typical baby decor out there is way too baby-ish for me and I really don’t want to redo the kids’ rooms each time they grow out of one obsession and into another.Crib Rock...