A unique party favor for a forest of one’s own – The terrarium kit
The start of the school year means once again, the hunt for creative party favors and teacher gifts begins. Well we've brought you cookies in a jar, dreidels in a jar, and pickles in a jar. Now we've got a forest in a jar-- made by your very own kid. The Terrarium Kit...
ThredUp reinvents itself and now buying discount designer kids clothes–or selling them–is a joy
You know how it goes: your kids wear their clothes for a ridiculously short period of time. Sure, there's always hand-me-downs, or consignment and Craigslist, if you're motivated enough to try to make some money. But those routes require time and energy that many of...
Homemade soda: recipes as simple as P-O-P
Soda, or "pop" if you're from the Midwest, is not something you tend to think of as homemade. Even as one of the great American culinary traditions it tends to be mass produced and super sized, laden with high fructose corn syrup, and tagged an enemy in the fight...
Esperos Backpacks – Buy a bag and help send a kid to school
During this back-to-school season, it can be kind of easy to forget that there are some kids in the world who don't go to school at all. But you can help--all with the purchase of a super-cool bookbag or backpack from an amazing company. After a trip to rural Central...
Box Play Stickers turn trash into recycled toy treasure
I've always been envious of those crafty upcycle types who can turn a cardboard box or egg carton into an adorable toy or trinket holder. I just don't have enough of the craft gene to make trash look like much more than...well, trash. But now that I've discovered...
Possibly the world’s cutest baby shoes ever. If you like elephants.
When my daughter was a toddler, she suffered from a malady we called "foot claustrophobia". Wrangling a pair of shoes onto that squirming, hyperventilating child was an exercise in futility, until we found a pair that had a high "distraction" factor--a butterfly sewn...
Free recipe card printables that blend classic design with modern technology
On one hand, actual paper recipe cards seems like they could be going the way of the Betamax and the Rolodex. On the other hand, here comes a wonderful stationer creating lovely free (free!) printable recipe cards that actually make use of technology in the perfect...
Avast, me hearties! It’s a pirate rattle! And it’s cute!
Arrr! What could be cuter than a tiny pirate rattle? Why, a tiny baby holding on to a tiny pirate rattle, of course. September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day. But just because you're too little to talk, doesn't mean you can't participate. For every baby who ever dreamed...
ABCs from a time when B was for Balloon, not Boy Band
My mother-in-law is amazing at keeping childhood treasures -- we have everything from my husband's toy car collection to original copies of his favorite children's books -- and we treasure this vintage ephemera so. I love that these old toys and books are just as...
Great organization solutions now that September is here (sigh)
While spring may be best known for cleaning, for me, September is my big organization solution month. As the kids get back to school and we start falling into routines, I feel like if I don't get organized now, I'll never catch up. I went through our archives to put...