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Lucy’s Name in the Sky, Without the Diamonds
Thanks to my husband the pilot, I'm definitely into planes as children's room decor; but that doesn't mean I'll just grab any old picture of an aircraft and slap it up on my son's wall. So when I saw artist Bret Herbert's Skywriter series, I had to pick my jaw up off...
The Journey to Adoption Just Got More Beautiful
While adoptive parents can certainly document a baby's first steps, first foods, and first booger-flnging incident like any other, the baby book pages about prepartum cravings can be a little awkward in their emptiness. So I think it's absolutely smashing to discover...
Sometimes Six More Weeks of Winter Isn’t So Bad
It's only the beginning of February in the Deep South and I've already had it with the cold. But then I was introduced to Kaching Design's new shirts and I realized that maybe I could live with the chilly temps a little longer.San Francisco graphic...
Canine Love
I swear, we don't have a house filled with junk food (so back off, Sanctimommies). Yet for some reason, my toddler already equates each holiday with what crap she will get to eat that day, and candy hearts are on the horizon. Maybe I need to temper Valentine's Day...
Tattoo Valentine’s Card: Next Best to the Real Thing
If the sigOth skipped the flowers this year and came home with a permanent heart on his arm with my name in it, well I'd just be tickled. But since the bicep is already claimed by the outdated tribal armband (yeah, he regrets it) I'd be satisfied enough with the...
Oh Boy, a Boy!
If you're wondering why things are moving a bit slower around there these past couple of days, it's because our right hand woman and senior editor Julie Marsh had baby #3, a boy, yesterday afternoon -- 12:46pm to be exact. We're soooo pleased to announce that Oliver...
Art That Sparks Imagination
When you're looking for figurative art for a nursery, the selection is often limited to happy kids playing with happy animals under a happy sun. But I'm intrigued with taking a more Waldorf approach to the art, in which the kids' expressions leave room for...
Make-Your-Own Valentine
Upon scoping out the selection of Valentine's Day cards at our local card shop, I was nearly eaten alive by the sea of licensed characters professing their love. Eek! I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I think my daughter and I might just be making our own...
Bloomin’ Cute
It’s not coincidental that Bloom: A Little Book About Finding Love, comes out just in time for February's Hallmark holiday. And yet Dutch-born author/illustrator Maria Van Lieshout’s sweet little tome on loving the one you're with will delight kids the...
Upping the V-Day Sweetness Factor
Valentine’s Day is the kind of holiday that challenges progress. In other words, Snoopy is about the most cutting edge character I like on my cards. When there are so many beautiful, vintage-y, lacey tokens of the day to be found, it’s hard to succumb to...
All Natural Teddy
I tend to avoid buying friends and family plush animals as new baby gifts. I figure that like me, the last thing they need is another stuffed bear to collect dust on an already full shelf. But then, browsing online shop Petit Baby, I saw the new organic bears...
Valentine’s Chocolate Gets a Run for Its Money
Let's face it, the last thing I want to be doing February 14 is baking cookies. Especially now that we've discovered the adorable Sweet Lil' Gems Valentine cookies, available exclusively at Tiny McSmall. Bakers Lisa and Margie make each tin of eleven treats to order...
Fine Drooler-y
Now that I understand that every nanosecond of a child's life (especially that first child - sorry siblings) will be photographed and documented, I can make a helluva good case for getting chic with the drool bibs at my friend's baby showers. Plastic ones are nice and...
I Want to Be the Girl With the Most Cake
The sigOth and I had this great idea to save all of our daughter's birthday hats, ostensibly to watch the progression from Elmo to Diego to Toodee, if one day Yo Gabba Gabba licenses their characters to party supplies. The only problem with our plan: We didn't count...
Minimizing to the max
After a day of lugging around The Diaper Bag That Can Hold Everything and Often Does, I am more than excited to head out for a rare night on the town with nothing on my shoulders but a spritz of No.5. Oddly, motherhood has turned me into a clutch girl. Hooray for the...
What Are Other Children’s Albums Missing? Oh Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson
It's rare that my toddler will instantly take to music that she hasn't already seen on TV, but that's just what happened when I pressed play on A World of Happiness. No Wheels on the Bus here, this is an album entirely filled with original messages of kindness,...
Going Nocturnal
Now that I know there are more mobile options than some ugly plush "registry essential" that plays a robotic rendition of Twinkle Twinkle, I'm determined to spread the word to all the new moms out there. Take this artful Wise Ol' Owl mobile by IGE,...
Parachute Pants Not Included
It's the plight of pregnant women everywhere, and I'm not talking about constipation. Damn that belly grabbing! No matter how hard I tried, I could never get people to stop pawing at me. So maybe people will heed the words of everyone's favorite...
Shiny Happy People Dreaming Jam Band
Imagine if the B-52's, Abba, REM and Devo moved into a house with four keyboards and a giant dress-up closet. And then imagine that they sang Beatles and Queen and Carpenters songs and sometimes rapped. Dream Jam Band is like that. One of them is related to Abraham...
Give Me Liberty!
I'm always on the look out for something to do with my favorite pictures, other than frame them. Custom bags, jewelry - you name it, I've got it. But puzzles? Not until now.While it's easy to be mesmerized by Liberty's unique vintage children's puzzles with images...
Lady in Waiting
We've seen a whole lot of handmade felt hair clips, but none that made us grin quite like The Little Lady Clip at Lily-Pie designs. Let's just say Kristen and I had a grand old time coming up with other names for it - although granted The Bathroom Door Clip really...