by Delilah S. Dawson | Fashion
I’m quite the taskmistress with my jewelry. I want it personalized, I want it handmade of quality materials, and I need it to do something fancy, like train white mice for the circus or sing opera. But spinning around is good, too.Naturally, j’adore this...
by Cool Mom Team | Valentine's Day
We’re always excited to learn when there’s something new going on at The Fine Art of Family, one of our favorite-est ever independent designers of heirloom keepsake jewelry. Because it’s inevitably something we will covet. But while not all of it is...
by Cool Mom Team | Editors Best of the Year
Welcome to our annual year-end roundup of our favorite picks of the year! Trying to cull down our favorites is never easy, but this year, with more than a thousand posts to go through…well, let’s just say we could have picked about twenty in each category....
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
Looking around the Shokay e-shop recently, it turns out one of our favorite fair trade purveyors of luxury hand knit baby clothes are doing beautiful things with accessories now too. Kristen and I pretty much gasped simultaneously when we saw their link floral...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
It really pains me to compromise my jewelry choices because I’m a mom, but when you’re chasing after three kids under five most of the day you just can’t wear the same delicate, dangly bracelets that get caught on everything if you’re doing...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
I was just poking around Etsy (I do that a lot) and I came across a link to the KnitKnit shop from Brooklyn artist Nguyen Le. And there I spotted this incredible cameo necklace and just fell in love. Or rather, it looks like a cameo, but it’s actually all needle...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
I know it’s exorbitant. I know it’s indulgent. But when I saw the handmade solid gold globe charms from Heather B. Moore jewelry recently, I just fell in love. You can customize them with teeny diamond (or two or ten) in a spot you choose, which is just...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
You can always tell a great jewelry artist when you want to wear pretty much everything she makes. And that’s just how I’d describe the innovative stainless steel pop-out jewelry from Houston artist Melissa Borrell. Just like those old cool plastic toys in...