by Cool Mom Team | Living
Children of the seventies: If you’ve ever crashed out in a bean bag chair in front of the Partridge Family, raise your hand. Yep, me too. Those old vinyl bean bags may be classics, but they leaked pellets and your whole body would stick to the vinyl in the...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Having recently addressed far too many baby announcements, it’s a little disconcerting to think of the percentage that will end in the trash soon after delivery. Not just because of the cost to me, but the cost to the environment. I think like 36 trees must have...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
I’m a journal whore. I cannot have enough blank books in every room of my house, just waiting for me to jot down inspired nuggets of brilliance, poetic stanzas, novel starters, effervescent bon mots. Or a shopping list that identifies that that I’m out of...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
My two year-old daughter’s favorite word this week is together. I can’t complain considering it’s put recent words o’ the week like Dora and fart out of favor. So I imagine she’d love the limited edition "All Together Now" print...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Baby announcements aren’t really intended to announce the baby, nor are they a solicitation of gifts. Let’s be honest, baby announcements are meant solely to knock the socks off your friends and family. The "small but passionate" design studio,...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
The trouble with baby art is that it’s generally not for the baby. Sorry kiddos, we love you, but you have hopelessly pathetic eyesight. Mom-and-pop company Wee Gallery has the market cornered when it comes to blending infants’ ocular capabilities with...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I admit, when I hear "nursery rhyme art" my mind automatically goes to images far too cutesie for any kid over about 6 months. Like old whats-her-name with the codependent lamb. So when clicked over to boy-tique Simply a Boy and caught the canvases from...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
For those of you who are blog readers, you know how it is when you’ve got a favorite blogger – you keep hitting refresh on your feed readers, thinking "Did she update now? How about now? How about now?" Well that’s exactly how we feel about...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
When my daughter hit the coffee table contact stage, we invested in that adhesive padding that not only collected dirt and crumbs, but became a toy for my daughter who would pull it on and off as if to say "Try and keep me away!" An interesting alternative...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
If you accidentally spent all your money on that fantastic-gotta-have-it bedding, your poor little baby might be left to stare at boring blank walls. And as we all know, that’s just not good for brain development and preverbal aptitude tests, now is it. (Ha.)...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
The idea of "going green" sounds fantastic in theory, but trading up to a Prius and installing solar panels on my house is not in my near future. But thanks to The Green Book, I’ve learned that saving the planet is easier than I thought. Authors...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
While your kids are young and impressionable, this is the time to expose them to how much fun art can be. It’s also the time you can teach them that farts are funny, but that’s another story for another time. Artassaince is an ideal way to begin exploring...
