Animal house

by Mir | Art + Decor

Just when I think there can’t possibly be any more ways to make animals into wall art that make me want another baby purely for the decorative accessories, someone goes and proves me wrong. This time it’s Milk Moon Kids, purveyors of limited edition...

Hey, we’re Etsy’s guest curators!

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

Here’s something way cool: Check out the Etsy blog, The Storque starting today and you’ll catch editors Kristen and Liz as this week’s guest curators. Whoo!It was so fun pulling together a collection of our favorite nursery art found on...

Watch your back, Monet

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

My daughter is an art fanatic, and would paint until she was blue in the face. Funny, she’s actually done that, with blue hands, arms, clothes…you get the picture. She’s a four-year-old with paints. So when she tried Mahar Dry Goods’ handmade...

“Helvetica” – It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me spell

by Betsy | Art + Decor

We love helping our readers discover cool and unusual kid stuff, but we love it even more when they return the favor. Especially when it’s something as cool as the ABC Helvetica Film Poster. Many parents put up sweet ABC art in a nursery. This bold and graphic...

Childrens art that tells a story. A good story, too.

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

I love children’s art that seems ripped out of the pages of a classic storybook. So when I discovered that very thing at the newly opened Tutti Studio…instant swoonage. Tel Aviv artist Tutti Shafir’s imaginative children’s giclee prints can...

Bringing new meaning to the term “animal print”

by Mir | Uncategorized

So you want a canvas or two for baby’s room, and you’re trying to figure out something bright and colorful, with animals, that doesn’t look like the circus threw up on your walls. Leave it to Tiny Decor to find just the right mix of mod and...

Girls just want to draw fun

by Cool Mom Team | Books for Kids

My daughters draw the cutest things: Stick-figure women in triangle dresses, bulgy-eyed cats and larger-than-life flowers. Nothing could improve on what they dream up which is why I love artist Carla Sonheim’s new coloring book simply called, girls. Instead of...

If these walls could read

by Rita | Art + Decor

Ever been tempted to rip the pages out of your kids’ books and hang them on the wall?  Is that only me?  Oops. I’m tempted by every single framable children’s book illustration by illustrator Adam Record of Fall Down Tree, a man so cool and...

Now I know my ABCs and I know them cooler than everyone else

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

ABC posters are pretty much the quintessential nursery decor, but that’s not to say it’s easy to find a cool one. I mean, enough with the A is for apple already, right? So I was happy to discover two cool new modern ABC posters: One from graphic designer...

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...