Drooling over DwellStudio for Target

by Stephanie Slate | Baby, Kid Style

Looks like it’s the time of year for another cool line at Target to make me –a Canadian– feel a little jealous. This time, it’s the DwellStudio for Target Fall 2010 collection – a whole bunch of gorgeous baby layette items that I’m...

Web coolness – Pumpkin decorating, mobile making, Barbie zombifying

by Cool Mom Team | DIY

Here are some things we’ve liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too. No-carve pumpkin decorating ideas from Amy Atlas. Sign us up!On momformation, Kristen shares an awesome coloring book that doubles as a babysitter. Download this adorable...

Cynthia Rowley Band-Aids – Who said there’s no pain in fashion?

by Cool Mom Team | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing

Got a blister from your Louboutins? Catch your finger on your Dolce & Gabbana trench zipper? Well, you can now tend to your designer inflicted wounds with fashion designer and mom Cynthia Rowley’s new designer Band-Aids. Yes, yes, they’re a little over...

Boys get grubbie, in a good way

by Betsy | Kid Style

The concept of cool boys clothes shifts as kids get older. At first cool is defined by his mom, but mark my words, at some point — for me it was around 7 — your son will start to have very definite ideas on what constitutes cool and what is horrifyingly...

The wit, wisdom, and expensive stationery of Simon Doonan

by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery

Dempsey & Carroll makes the kind of fancypants stationery that you drool over in high end department stores — that is, if you’re the type who drools over fancypants stationery at all. Yes, I am that type. It’s the kind of stuff you want on hand...

Home decor for a steel

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

At the NY Gift Show last week, there were so many fabulous things I couldn’t wait to run back and tell you all about. (These blisters? All for you, dahlings.) One of the very first booths I stumbled into featured the simply wonderful home and garden decor from...

A match made in baby nursery decor heaven. (Is there such a thing?)

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

If I could, I’d spend all day shopping for home decor. But with a gaggle of kids, that whole bull in a china shop analogy springs to mind. Thankfully, I an lean on the membership sales sites like One Kings Lane and their crazy mad discounted prices. And this...

Wallpaper gets unbelievably cool. No really. Why are you laughing?

by Betsy | Art + Decor

In the ’70’s my mom went absolutely berserk with wallpaper. It was everywhere; the walls, the ceilings, even the inside of our kitchen cabinets. Then, for a long time, wallpaper was considered very dated. Well guess what, baby, it’s back with a...

On my Target shopping list: Milk. Apples. Awesome art from Poketo.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Art + Decor

Cool Mom Picks favorite Poketo has a very simple philosophy: Make real art available to everyday people. Which is good, because I’m at my local SuperTarget pretty much every day, and that’s where their latest collection will land on August 10. From water...

Behold the mysterious STEPONBOX

by Delilah S. Dawson | Art + Decor

Talk about truth in advertising: The STEPONBOX is a storage box that also functions as a stool. That you can step on. And a ton more.Available in four Jetsons-esque color combinations, the STEPONBOX is crafted of Polypropylene and Thermoplastic Elastomeric, which in...