For The Junior Puppeteer Who Has Everything (But The Really Fancy Puppet)

by Catherine | Toys + Playthings

My daughter loves puppets. I mean, she really loves puppets. She carries them around and tells them stories and engages them in fisticuffs. (Put Bert on one hand and Ernie on the other and smash them together and you get the picture.) So the Puppet Pie Shop’s...

Baby’s First Christmas Gift – Ringo the red nosed teething reindeer

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Toys + Playthings

We all know that babies usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to Christmas presents, mostly because they’d just as soon spend hours chewing on a big red bow than playing with a bunch of expensive toys.So this holiday, let them chew on Ringo, an...

Gonna take a sentimental journey

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

In only five or so years of spousal gift giving, I think I pretty much exhausted the personalized, sentimental guy gifts. So my interest was piqued when I saw the custom map cufflinks from Anne Holman. Using vintage world atlases, Anne will take your choice of...

One sure way to get kids to eat broccoli

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes, Toys + Playthings

Just six months ago, my daughters planted seeds from their organic growing kits, re-potted the shoots in Grandma’s vegetable garden, and late this summer, they were eating their own little yellow teardrop tomatoes. You country folk make take an experience like...

Jewelry making kits that might just make your holidays too

by Cool Mom Team | DIY

This year we’re teaching the kids more about the joy of giving, so I wanted them to think of something they could make for their (mostly girl) cousins. Then along came the jewelry making kits from Bijoux in a Box and bam, problem solved. Designed by mom Nancy...

The Plasma Car: You need one now. I mean, your kids need one.

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

Recently I was introduced to the Plasma Car at a friend’s house. I had to beg my four year-old to get off…and give me a try. And once I did, she had to beg me to get off. I’m not the only one. At the ABC Kids show in Las Vegas a few months ago, CMP...

No matter how you look, at least the mirror’s beautiful

by Betsy | Beauty + Cosmetics

I wish I liked eating salads, but I really, really don’t. I always seem to end up with a honking piece of spinach lodged between my teeth, cliche though that may sound, so I like to carry a compact mirror with me. That’s why Iike the new collection of...

Modern Hanukkah menorahs? Thanks, Jonathan Adler

by Betsy | Living

Jewish kids know all about the Hanukkah miracle but what they don’t know is how hard it can be to celebrate it in cool, modern style. Well I have to tell you, when I saw Jonathan Adler’s collection of modern menorahs and Hanukkah gifts I proclaimed that a...

Herman Miller tops [pant pant pant]

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

Let’s say you’ve got a mid-century modern design freak on your holiday shopping list – you know, the kind of person who has everything already, and what he or she doesn’t have, you probably can’t afford. Now let’s just say you were...

Gorgeous, affordable holiday gifts with one catch – have to order them now.

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

Is it too early to start thinking Christmas gifts yet? Well, not if you have your eye on something from one of our favorite Etsy shops, the mom and daughter-run The Brick Kiln. There’s so much here that makes for charming, affordable holiday presents, but the...