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Letters from the tooth fairy – When you care enough to send the very tiniest
Need a little something more special from the tooth fairy than say a dollar under the pillow? We've got just the teeny-tiny thing. We fell in love with Leafcutter Designs teeny-tiny letters from the Easter Bunny a few years back, which would rock any child's Easter...
Recess Monkey’s eighth CD is as fun as a barrel full of you-know-whats
With seven solid releases to their credit (you can read about their last one here), I was pretty certain that we'd love Recess Monkey's eighth offering to the world of kindie music. But what I enjoy most about this trio of enthusiastic educators from Seattle is that...
Bloom strollers blend neon with zen and it totally works
I've often wondered why strollers don't come with headlights. (Seriously, I think about such things.) Well, my wish has actually come true. The new Zen stroller from Bloom comes with--you guessed it--a headlight. But that's only one of the very cool and clever design...
How do you pit cherries? Aha! We have an easy answer.
I know I'm not the only one who's always wondered if there's an easier way to pit cherries. Every year, I wait for cherry season with much anticipation, only to be reminded that with half of my kids needing me to pit their cherries before they can eat them, I'm facing...
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. And no, that's not a giant, delicious donut. Sorry.1. If you've got kids and own a camera, you need this book!2. Sending paper thank-you cards through the mail without lifting...
It’s map time
My 5-year-old showed almost zero percent interest in maps until we went on vacation to a beach town. Suddenly, it was very important that she be the holder of the map at all times.It was ultimately a good thing, even if said map ended up covered in melted chocolate...
Mobiles for when babies outgrow the black and white
While I will always have a soft spot in my heart for those high-contrast, abstract-shaped, infant mobiles, admittedly they don't age well as your child gets older. The folks at CMP favorite Petit Collage have the perfect solution for that quiet corner of your kiddo's...
Quilts go cosmopolitan
Ever look down from an airplane at the panorama below and consider how very much the ground looks like a crazy quilt? Us, too.That's just one reason we're smitten with how these stylish quilts that gorgeous capture the cities and places we love. Haptic...
A fabulous toddler game when you need a break from Candyland.
If you'll be doing some packing before you hit the road this summer, chances are you don't want the kids to help too much, lest you end up with six pairs of socks and no pants in their suitcases. So try channeling their I can help! persistence into a game in...
Bakfiets – Bikes for you and your brood
Let me tell you why I'm Bakfiet crazy: when I had kids, I really wanted to keep up my exercise routine and just have them fall in line. I got a double jogger, which was great. But I really wanted to bike with the kids in tow, I just didn't feel super comfortable...
The cuddliest interspecies squid doll yet
Imagination is in no short supply around these parts. One of our toys can have half a dozen alter egos and we love and encourage the unstoppable creative flow. And so when we were introduced to the Clump-O-Lump crew of stuffed animals that can mix and match body parts...
One of these things is not like another
I'm definitely a devotee of handmade, one-of-a-kind jewelry. And some of my favorite pieces are the ones that can't be replicated at all, because the form comes from the imperfect shape of the stone, like a geode or a swath of quartz. So I love this San Francisco Etsy...
Shop smarter with a whole new kind of reusable bag
When grocery shopping, I try and take my own reusable bags. And I love that now some cities are charging for paper or plastic, to encourage you to BYO. So I love this new company that's offering everything I've wanted in a reusable shopping bag. Check out Reisenthel...
Fresh flowers for every outfit
It happens again and again: one dress-up lap around the living room and the creepy faux-metallic paint on your daughter's "jewelry" is already flaking off and the molded plastic clasp has begun to warp. It's not always easy to find dress-up accessories that don't look...
Just what the future doctor ordered
There's something that seems to be universally fascinating to kiddos, generation after generation, about playing doctor - and by that, I mean the kind with stethoscopes and tongue depressors and a plethora of toilet paper "bandages." My childhood doctor kit was molded...
6 great gazpacho recipes to beat the heat
It's about to start--talk of back-to-school, sweaters, and other signs of fall--but, make no mistake: summer's going strong. The heat is still on and we've got seven refreshing gazpacho recipes to cool you down. It used to be that you could only find tomato based...
Guest Pinner alert! Rachel Faucett of Handmade Charlotte
We've been so obsessed with Pinterest lately, we thought we'd try something fun this month and welcome a guest pinner: the amazing Rachel Faucett of Handmade Charlotte. We've been huge fans of her design blog for ages now, in fact, we featured her own adorable...
The 2012 Flite of the Bumbleride
We love Bumbleride strollers and gear. We've featured their stuff quite a bit because it is consistently fresh looking with updated features, colors and the kinds of accessories that actually get used. Plus their customer service is just--well, nice!Back in 2010, we...
Plush and pillows with the perfect sense of humor
As a professional decorator, one of my favorite spaces to take on is a kid's room. You can go as creative and whimsical as you want; where else could I use every color in the rainbow and indulge in prints that are easily deemed "funny?"Now there's an Etsy shop I'm so...
You’ve got to know when to fold M.
"Free" is one of our favorite words. And now you can spell it out in three fancy dimensions, thanks to this clever series of papercraft templates. And did we mention that they're totally free? And that M is for Monster? Digitprop is a website by parent and biochemist...
The Lego set so cool you won’t let your kids touch it
I've got four words for you: Steampunk. Lego. Monster. Fighters.I haven't even gotten to the part about the castle. Thank heavens I was alone when I found the new Lego Monster Fighters display at Target this week. Why? Because I blurted out HOLY [deleted]....