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Kitsch me like you mean it
I have a thing for chunky, loud, way-too-full charm bracelets, ever since I inherited one from my super cool Great Aunt Bea. Along those lines, the baby-themed vintage-style charm bracelet from artist Crystal Rendon that we spotted at The Baby Gardner. This is...
Give a Mom a Table Saw and Look at What You Get
When both Liz and I were searching for a toy chest for our homes last year, we each ran immediately to Mod Mom Furniture. If that doesn't tell you something (other than the fact that we have similar taste in toy chests), then see for yourself how amazing...
Even Vegans Carry iPods
I'm a podcaster for God's sake and I still do not own an iPod. Even my husband, a certified iPod hater, thinks it's nuts, so much so that he's getting me one for Mother's Day. At least that's what he's threatening to do. But since iPods aren't exactly the...
Cool Mom Picks loves San Francisco!
A big welcome to all of our new San Francisco area readers who caught us on ABC's The View From the Bay Thursday showcasing some of our favorite Mother's Day gift ideas.If you missed it, you can catch the segment here. If you're looking for info on these gift...
LA Humor: Beyond Plastic Surgery Jokes
If you have spent any time on the West Side of LA, you will get a chuckle out of the new kids clothing line Rabbit Kinney. (For the rest of you, there's a hot drag near Venice Beach called Abbot Kinney Boulevard named for the area's founder. See? Now we're all in this...
Hooded animal towels, and they aren’t even scary!
I decided early on in my parenting career to eschew hooded towels with larger-than-life animal heads on top, simply because all the ones I saw scared me. If some humongo, limp-necked terry cloth duck head with threads hanging off the misshapen mouth was freaking me...
For Families Really Really REALLY Into Tattoos
My daughter has reached that very important milestone in a child's life: Adoration of temporary tattoos. And spare me the anti-hipster parent eyeroll please--I remember liking them in Cracker Jack boxes back in the day myself. But they've definitely hit a new level in...
Your Child 2003-2008: An Artistic Retrospective
I seriously underestimated the constant flow of paper coming into our house once my daughter started kindergarten--teacher notes, newsletters, progress reports, to say nothing of her artwork. I know I have to pick and choose among the art projects to display, but how...
Cool Mom Picks and The View From the Bay
Hey, Bay Area CMP readers - got anything to do at 3PM PST today? Well stick the kids in front of the computer with a DVD so you can tune in to watch co-editors Kristen and Liz live today on ABC's The View From the Bay or watch it streaming online if you're in any...
Handmade Dolls for Your Little Doll
Until I got involved with CMP, I confess that I had no idea there were so many wonderful handmade dolls out there. I assumed that you either had a crafty grandma in the family, or your children were pretty much stuck with whatever was on the toy store shelves.Well...
Gifted At Birth: You. And Yeah, Maybe the Kid.
I only wish Gifted at Birth had been around when my daughter was born. A service that delivers newborn essentials then has a premiere NYC doula on call either in person (in the city) or on the phone (everywhere else) to tell you how to use it all? H to the...
Shrinkage. The Good Kind.
I realize that pregnancy does give you some type of justification for those wiggly bits that would ordinarily drive you nuts. But the third time around, I have no patience for the extra juicy thighs or my favorite, the five part wave -- hand, hand,...
Today’s Nursery Decor is Brought to You by the Letter J
Personalized gifts are always a huge hit at baby showers but the problem is, so many of them are kinda lame. (Sorry, fans of personalized picture frames with little dots at the end of every curliecue letter in the name. But lame.) Not so the sweet handmade letter...
Dear Husband, Get In My Head.
One would think that because I run a shopping website, my husband would have no trouble finding me gifts. Every year I tell him to just click on anything in our Baubles and Bags category and he'll be the world's greatest husband. But every year, he ignores me and...
Earth Day Pick: Old Tees Made New
After discovering Courtney Chu's original recycled t-shirt dresses, I am pleasantly reminded that eco-friendly kids wear doesn't necessarily mean expensive organic onesies. Hooray for that! Her sweet, definitively cool kids dresses combine sometimes old and sometimes...
The Rorshack Mobile
I have a soft spot for felt crafts, pun only intended a little. So of course when I discovered UK etsy shop Lupin from brilliant felt crafter Laura Howard, of course I got click happy. The brooches are darling of course, but I really swooned over this abstract felt...
The Perfect Spring Skirt
I was surprised to realize, after having written up Louise Hedley and her wonderful little girls' skirts last year, that she in fact was the designer behind one of my own favorite Spring skirts. Who knew? Not that I'd match my daughter at all - Louise's one-of-a-kind...
Rockabye by Rebecca Woolf: A Shining (Yet Tatooed) Beacon in a Sea of Mom-oir Sameness
When former CMP contributor Rebecca Woolf left us to pursue other writing opportunities, we were terribly disappointed but hugely anxious to see what brilliance she was brewing up. The result: The must-read Rockabye: From Wild to Child. CMP is an Amazon affiliate. We...
Breastfeeding Just Got More Beautiful
It's taken me three children in six years to reach this point, but I'm finally comfortable nursing in public - with a nursing cover. And in my search for the ideal one, I've found that most of them are the same. The JOIA Mommy Cover however blows the others out of the...
Hey, Someone Forgot to Make the Online Invitations Look Ugly
In an increasingly paperless world, online correspondence is rapidly replacing snail mail even for major events. Does evite ring a bell? But I haven't lost my love for beautifully designed correspondence, whether offline or online, and the folks at pingg feel the same...
Tea For The Twos. And Threes.
While I'm not a member of the matchy-outfit fan club, I'm definitely partial to mix and match clothes from Daily Tea, the everyday knitwear from CMP fave tea collection. Frankly with the amount of sleep I get these days, I hardly remember to put shirts on my girls,...