by Christina Refford | Random Coolness
The first time I packed my kids up for a week of summer camp, I couldn’t get believe all the stuff they needed, even for day camp. And everything, everything, needed a name attached to it, something I unfortunately left to the last minute the first year. ...
by Stephanie Slate | Party Ideas
I love throwing birthday parties for my kids. Love it. But I’m a bit of an over-achiever when it comes to loot bags, generally insisting that there should be something handmade -or at least really, really cool- inside. And that means I spend precious hours (that...
by Betsy | Cards + Stationery
Anyone with kids know how important it is to label every single item they have. How else are you going to identify all the stuff that winds up in the lost and found bin? Over the years I’ve tried many different labeling methods and have usually resorted to a...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Random Coolness
I’ve learned over the years it’s nearly impossible to register for everything that you will need for your new baby. In fact, I’ve got a huge list of items that I wish I had thought of asking for or even just ordering for myself. And up high on that...
by Stephanie Slate | Random Coolness
If you’re like me, then you probably try to have a nice stack of name labels on hand for all those things your kids have to take to camp, school, daycare and everywhere else their busy little social calendars may take them. But when kids start to outgrow those...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
No matter what season it is, I can always find a reason to use our Mabel’s Labels, and with everything from summer camps and lessons, to pool playdates and picnics these days, I’m always putting those handy labels on something.Now if you’ve got a...
by Christina Refford | Storage + Organization
I’ve never been good at labeling my kids’ stuff which means I’ve paid the price in misplaced water bottles, forgotten jackets and other random missing objects. But with three kids going to camp this summer, I’d better get on my game to make...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Camp season is nearly upon us, at least for some lucky mamas. The first place we tend to think to see what’s new in the exciting world of labels is CMP reader fave Mabel’s Labels. Their newest offerings are the Teeny Tags, colorful mini 1.2″ ID tags...
by Carrie | Random Coolness
Since my daughter started preschool this year, I have learned that I should always have a permanent marker handy for labeling everything she brings with her, a process that leaves something to be desired, especially when you factor in that my handwriting skills peaked...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
When I sent my older daughter off to day care, I scrawled her initials on masking tape and stuck these makeshift labels haphazardly on her bottles, thinking that ought to suffice. Oh, how wrong I was. Some of her things never made it home, and those that did were...