A gift for you Television Without Pity wannabe writers
I'm always looking for fun little gifts for hip friends--you know, the kind of under $15 thing that makes a big impression when you wrap it beautifully and present with love, but isn't necessarily the Hope Diamond. We've got a whole category of them in our holiday...
Chat with us about holiday gifts, live!
Need a break to gab with the girls and giggle about gifting? Want to win a gift certificate to one of our favorite online shops? Then pull up a squishy chair, grab a chai latte, and settle in for a cyberchat with the Cool Mom Picks gang at TheMotherhood. On Thursday,...
Alphabet City
We're kind of in love with Joanne Dugan around here. She's an amazingly prolific photographer, with her work in about a zillion ads, the awesome Taxi Driver Wisdom book, and most importantly to us, a magical series of children's books: ABC NYC and 123 NYC, which...
Raise your crayons for the Cool Mom Picks & Etsy ornament contest winners
You talented artists, you! You made it so hard for us to choose among all the amazing entries to our Cool Mom Picks + Etsy color your own paper ornament design contest to support Housing Works, and we have, after much deliberation, finally picked our 8 winning...
More birthdays? Sign us up.
We've been thrilled to have the American Cancer Society as a long-time sponsor on Cool Mom Picks; it's always nice when the people who support us are the ones we want to support right back. And now their MoreBirthdays.com website has taken on new life with a totally...
Prima Princessa presents the Nutcracker on PBS
One of my all time favorite holiday shows is the Nutcracker Ballet, but I didn't imagined I would get tickets to see it with my toddler for quite a long time--like, ten years, at least. Performances are expensive in New York! Which is one of the reasons that Cool Mom...
Home sweet doll home
I have this fantasy every Christmas of convincing my extended family to go together on one big gift for my children. You know, instead of everyone doing their own thing and my kids ending up with a playroom full of blinky-light, noise-making,...
Fingerless gloves find new fans in the smartphone age
Yes, I pretty much love everything from Shokay. Their gorgeous, hand-knit, fair trade items have made it into our baby shower gift guide, our 2010 holiday gift guide--and now, even our Cool Mom Tech gift guide. No, they're not making high-tech electric blankets now;...
Holiday photo cards with flair? Reader Q&A
Can you suggest some more holiday photo card sites? I'm a little bored with the same ole, same ole every year. Or, what about a site for creating your own cards with flair? -Ginger I am fairly certain that Holiday Rule #1 states that you must send out photo cards once...
A kinder, gentler lip balm
Angry winter weather is coming - yes, even on the left coast, where a cold, dry wind comes off the ocean and ages my skin (and forces me to eat leftover pumpkin pies for breakfast. A la mode). This winter, though, I am more prepared - I have Chapstuff. This...