by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I find myself missing clocks these days. You know, clocks? Actual things with two hands that don’t glow in the dark from your DVR box or flash 12:00 after the electricity goes out? So when I saw this wooden clock, I felt this little pang of must have it. The...
by Barbara | Books for Adults
I say we all need more poetry in our lives, but poetry so often seems to be one of those tricky things, like an exotic fruit. You enjoy it when you come across it, but it’s not part of your regular consumption, especially when you are a harried mom. Which is a...
by Stephanie Mayers | Art + Decor
Anyone who knows me well knows Rose, my best friend who has held the title since her family moved onto my block the summer before second grade. It’s because of her that I have a strong respect for the role that all the BFF’s out there play in our...
by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Adults
If you have daughters, if you know daughters, if you have ever bought a single Disney Princess gift for someone else’s daughters, you simply must read Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. (Quick! Before you...
by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech
Happy Mother’s Day to all you cool moms out there! When the pancakes are all eaten and the house miraculously cleaned without your help, here are some posts for you to lie back and enjoy while the kids massage your feet. They were all culled together for their...
by Stephanie Slate | Art + Decor
I’ve always had a soft spot for fabric sewn onto paper. Strange thing to have a soft spot for, yes. But it’s just so pretty! Take the beautiful custom Welcome New Baby custom prints from etsy shop, cozyblue, for example. A tiny fabric bunting is...
by Christina Refford | Cards + Stationery
With Teacher Appreciation Week, it’s time to celebrate some of our favorite people in the world. Even this homeschooling mama has loads of teachers, coaches and instructors in my kids’ lives, making this a week I care a lot about too. And while Teacher...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
I’m a self-professed journal addict, which means I often feel as though there will be a sudden shortage and I must buy all of them just in case. (You fellow journal addicts know what I mean.) But I only have an eye for cool journals that won’t completely...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Art + Decor
I still remember when my mom painted a mural in my room. I was five, and it was a 70’s-style jungle scene. I got to help. Seven years later, I took up the muralist’s brush myself and even helped pay my rent in college by whipping up Snoopy nurseries and...
by Barbara | Kitchen + Dining
Sprucing up for spring usually doesn’t include my kitchen utensil container, but I have long been a convert of silicone spatulas. And these swirly, pretty, funky spatulas are exactly what my kitchen needs right now. Silicone spatulas are not...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Just when I thought an artist couldn’t do anything new or inspired to the good old but very played out alphabet decor, artist Lorena Siminovich of Petit Collage wows me with her brand new poster prints. These new ABC poster prints are making me wish I had...
