Enter the Ninja

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

Sometimes you just see something and there’s absolutely no reason for you to buy it except for the fact that it’s so freaking cute you just can’t pass it up. (Good thing I don’t find Coach bags so freaking cute, right?)The handmade leather key...

Hare brush! Get it?

by Julie | Random Coolness

That old wives’ tale about heartburn being a sign that your baby will be born with a head full of hair didn’t work out so well for me. I had twenty-seven months of fiery heartburn and three bald babies. But for luckier mamas who’ve got something...

Things to do with kids when you’re too busy to think argh, what can I do with the kids?

by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services

I think of Yojo Mama as that clued-in friend who knows all the hot spots in town. Except instead of tipping you off to a new shoe store, she knows fun places to take an active toddler, which restaurants are kid-friendly and even the nearest diaper changing station...

Last day to vote – Save handmade from the CPSIA

by Cool Mom Team | Meta

Today is the last day to vote at Change.org for “Save Small Businesses for CPSIA”, a proposal from the Handmade Toy Alliance that help to save handmade. If you have a minute (or a few seconds if you’re a fast clicker), hop over and vote digg style....

Well here’s a product that will make you want to throw up

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

I’m not even kidding when I tell you that someone has just come out with “trendy” morning sickness bags for pregnant women. And the best part may be the name: Morning Chicness Bags. The truth is, they’re cute. (If you don’t look at the...

And to all a good night

by Cool Mom Team | Meta

Merry Christmas Cool Moms!Now get off the computer. [card via alternate greetings]

The gift of peace. Literally.

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

With my kids becoming more territorial about their things, I can only imagine the fights that I’m going to have to mediate courtesy of Santa this year. So I’m thinking about preparing in advance for once, and snatching up a personalized stamp for each of...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

I’m not generally a bling evangelist, but if there is a time for all things sparkly and retinal-damaging I suppose it would be the holidays. I’m happy to have come across the Swarovski pencils at Red Stamp Cards–blingy on one side, arty on the other,...

Welcome, eco baby!

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

When a little organic cotton onesie or a mere wooden rattle doesn’t cut it for the new baby in your life, you’ll want to order up the Eco Baby gift basket from Treadlight Gifts which is probably the first gift basket I’ve seen where I’d truly...

Pregnancy weigh-in time! Hooray! Hooray!

by Mir | Random Coolness

Up until very recently, I would have told you that no pregnant woman should even own a scale. I can remember very little of the first year after each of my children were born, but I remember the dread with which I’d tiptoe onto that scale at the doctor’s...

Possibly the hottest gift of the year: The chance to make your very own muppet

by Mir | Random Coolness

In television and film, the miscellaneous humans hanging around in the frame are called extras. In scenes that call for additional bodies of the Muppet variety, those are called Whatnots. And while FAO Schwarz’s Muppet Whatnot Workshop is basically to gift a...

Ponoko – Our new favorite time suck

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

There’s a reason the new online marketplace, Ponoko, is taking the design world by storm. It’s sort of like etsy meets Flick’r meets the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, all with an underlying current of eco goodness.Browse the showroom if you’re...