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...

Not just a nightlight, a magic nightlight. Magic, I tell you!

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

My kids are in that nightlight phase right now. (They’re also in a Silly Bandz phase, a make me a sandwich and then I won’t eat it phase, and a fighting about who gets to drink out of which princess cup phase. But that’s besides the point.) So when I...

Organization solutions that balance pretty and practical

by Cool Mom Team | Storage + Organization

I’m in a bit of a storage kick these days, trying to get all of the toys and games and stuffed animals and books that are out in our apartment, into something. Anything. Aaaaanything at all. Okay, maybe something pretty. Is that too much to ask for? I think the...

Art appreciation for the preverbal set

by Betsy | Art + Decor

Every few months (okay, every year or so) I take my son into New York City and hit one of the many art museums. After all, who doesn’t want their child to have an appreciation of art? Evidently I’m not alone. New Editions believes you shouldn’t have...

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...

A blast from your past, now available in wall size

by Betsy | Art + Decor

I remember vividly the first time I played Atari. The angels sang in a joyous chorus (in my head) as I spent the next two hours rotating a dial to move a single white line up and down the screen as a square ball bounced back and forth. Pong. Even now the word conjures...

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...

It’s not junk if you display it with love

by Betsy | Books for Adults

When I look around my house I find strange groupings of stuff everywhere. A bin of outgrown Crocs. A shoebox packed with old family pictures. Some coffee table books that never quite made it to the coffee table. Little did I know that these were all just charming,...

Super funky, ultra cool, kitchy fabulous pillows

by Delilah S. Dawson | Art + Decor

No, Noogie, Moosey and Alfalfa are not part of a lovable gang of 1950’s ne’er-do-wells. They’re a few names from the line of totally hip silhouette pillows by Aunt Bucky, now available at CMP favorite Happy Chickadee. And all they need now is the...