Smart art makes a smart baby gift

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor, Baby

When products claim to make your newborn baby smarter, I can’t help to be skeptical. Sure, I want the best for my kids but part of me wonders whether I really need a bunch of special educational toys and other gear to give them the upper edge. But the Smarts...

It looks so wise, because it’s so smart

by Betsy | Art + Decor

Of course my child, like yours, is an absolute genius, but even he wasn’t able to tell time when he was a newborn. So why get one of this adorable bamboo Baby Owl Clocks for the nursery? How else can you regale your friends with stories of how you were up from...

The writing’s on the wall, literally

by Betsy | Art + Decor

Telling your child to grab a marker and go scribble on the walls is right up there with asking them to run with scissors. Unless you’re talking about Idea Paint, which basically turns any surface into a dry erase board. It’s easy to apply; just prime a...

Trifle brings all the prettiest things together in one place (I wish that place were my house, though)

by Susan | Art + Decor

When my boys were babies, I spent a lot of time looking for cool, original things for them — clothes and bedding and accent pieces for their rooms. But in a strip mall world, that meant a lot of shopping, and no mama has time for that. I wish Trifle had been...

1000 Markets – You will be bummed they only stopped at 1000.

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

There are a lot of me-too etsy type online marketplaces cropping up these days, though most of them fall a little (or a lot) flat on execution. But 1000 Markets? So awesome I don’t even know where to begin.1000 Markets is beautiful, it’s navigable, and...

Our house is a very very very fine house

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

My husband has a bit of an obsession with graphic representations of homes, making no effort to hide his loud praise for them when he sees them on our friends’ walls. I wasn’t entirely in his camp until discovering the handmade little city...

You know those professional baby photos you had taken? Might want to actually hang them some time.

by Cool Mom Team | Living

I’m on a bit of a framing kick lately; instead of buying new artwork we’re trying to make use of the photos and odd bits of ephemera we have around to liven up some of the blank walls. So when I discovered the gorgeous handmade frames from O’Brien...

Light switch plates – the most neglected part of your child’s room decor

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

My friend tells me she’s looking for some robot-themed stuff for her baby boy’s room and I start poking around Etsy for her. Next thing you know, I’m drooling over these robot light switch plates from Robot Candy. One is cooler than the next, from...

Everything old is new again. And then framed.

by Betsy | Art + Decor, Baby, Kid Style

“Say, is that a 1950’s original Davy Crockett costume beautifully framed on your wall?” “Why yes, yes it is.” Petrie Point Designs has taken recycling to a whole new level with their Petrie Pint vintage collection. Susan...

Big brands doing cool things – Kmart Design, not an oxymoron

by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor

Earlier this week, I was part of a group of design and parenting bloggers flown out to Chicago by Kmart and plied with chocolate fondue, before meeting the talented and extremely passionate Kmart home design team who gave us a big sneak peak as to where they’re...