by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Thanks to my husband the pilot, I’m definitely into planes as children’s room decor; but that doesn’t mean I’ll just grab any old picture of an aircraft and slap it up on my son’s wall. So when I saw artist Bret Herbert’s Skywriter...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
When you’re looking for figurative art for a nursery, the selection is often limited to happy kids playing with happy animals under a happy sun. But I’m intrigued with taking a more Waldorf approach to the art, in which the kids’ expressions leave...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Now that I know there are more mobile options than some ugly plush "registry essential" that plays a robotic rendition of Twinkle Twinkle, I’m determined to spread the word to all the new moms out there. Take this artful Wise...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
No one tells you when you start buying cute hair clips for your daughter–probably long before she’ll even keep them in her hair for more than two seconds–that you might want to consider some way to put them away properly each night. As in, not a pile...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I had the great fortune of receiving a lovely personalized Ida Pearle print from my gorgeous and brilliant CMP co-editor upon the birth of my son. [Co-editor’s Note: I’m funny, too.] So when I learned that Ida had recently released a set of alphabet cards,...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
While I love having two daughters to shop for in the wardrobe department, I absolutely love picking out nursery art for little guys. I suppose my tastes run a bit darker than the average girl’s – more demented space aliens, fewer happy ballerinas. Needless...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Piggy banks? Isn’t that like sooooo every year since 1582?For a fresher take on money management I’m loving the idea of trading piggies for birdies with this modern silver and pewter helicopter bank found at CMP fave boutique, Flying Peas. The propellers...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
My son is currently more into electronics than art, preferring robots to Rothko. Go figure. So when it comes to the pictures that we’d all like on his walls, I never thought I’d find what I found from the artist Superoboturbo at Kindergallery. He’s...
by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor
Just in time for the holidays, our blogging friends at Indie Fixx have come along with their very own online boutique, appropriately named the Indie Fixx Shop. Perfect! You’ll have fun browsing the beautiful site for all kinds of very reasonable jewelry, yummy...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
As a first-time homeowner, I’m faced with the new and daunting challenge of decorating my kids’ rooms. I’ve weighed all my options: Wallpaper? Heck no. Murals? You obviously haven’t seen me draw. Decals it is! And so when the new wall images...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I wish I could afford original Maurice Sendak or A.A. Milne prints for my kids’ rooms, but with #3 on the way, that’s not going to happen any time soon. So instead I’m turning to artist Sarah Jane of Sarah Jane Studios for more affordable but still...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I always admire parents with a great eye – you know, the ones who enter the "my nursery is awesome and yours isn’t" type of contests on AT: Nursery, and actually win. I think their kids are so lucky to get to grow up in such beautiful, artful...
