
The Valentine’s gift baskets that should never ever be called gift baskets.
Gift baskets have a bit of a bad reputation. Most of them reek as corporate or impersonal, which are the last things you want your sweetie to think about your gift on Valentine's Day. But then there's New York Mouth, which is doing such cool, curated, and dare I say...

The water bottle that never leaks. Ever.
I'm kind of floored to admit that the new Active Top Smart Drinking System from SIGG absolutely refused to leak no matter how much I abused it. This new line of bottles for adults and kids has a liner that's eco-friendly, BPA-free and phthalate-free, plus it's...

Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas: 17 sweet gifts you can make yourself
Next in our series of Valentine's gift ideas, ideas for gifts you can make yourself. Whether you're super crafty, a maestro with the convection oven, or just handy with construction paper and the kids' leftover glue sticks, here's a great array of 17 DIY Valentines...

Lotus Everywhere Crib: Puts “travel” back in travel crib
I'm always amazed to see the vast improvements in baby gear even since my littlest one, only two, was a baby, which gives me hope that they will one day be able to manufacture sleep for us parents. Ha. Until then, I'll just take little advances, like what the folks at...

5 tech picks you won’t want to miss this week
Here are a few of our favorite tech picks from the last week, just in case you missed them. 1. Store and organize your smart phone photos once and for all with this amazing app. 2. A princess app that gets our stamp of approval. When you download it, you'll see why....

Last minute Super Bowl recipes? We can help!
If at this particular moment it has just struck you that you have a houseful of people showing up tonight for the Super Bowl--or perhaps your spouse just alerted you to that fact at this particular moment--don't worry, we can help with the food! Here are a ton of...

Organize your life the old-fashioned way: gorgeous personalized day planners
We're all about getting organized digitally, but there's a certain appeal to writing down your plans in a gorgeous paper book that you can stick on your desk, or drop in your tote, then refer back to forever. These three customized day planners fit the bill for...

8 Valentine’s cards for boys (and girls!) that aren’t too sickly sweet
For those boys--and girls--who prefer bugs and dinosaurs to pink doily hearts, we've rounded up some of our favorite Valentine's cards for the kids to hand out to their classrooms. After all, I tell my kids that love comes in all forms; why should their Valentine's...

Utterly adorable little girls’ dresses from Sailor Rose
My daughter, like me, is addicted to dresses. Oh, occasionally I find she's dressed herself in MC Hammer pants and a sequined tee (she's a style maker, what can I say). But mostly, she adores dresses--and I adore her in them. When I find pretty dresses like these, my...

The Sesame Street Downton Abbey video. Hilarious!
Considering how addicted we are to Downton Abbey, we just couldn't wait to tell you about the new Sesame Street Downton Abbey parody called "Upside Downton Abbey" that will air next week.The parody, which stars the Dowager Countess of Grantham and Carson the...