Sales whoo! Special Saturday Edition

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

We’ve rounded up the best sales and deals from this week just for you. Get 15% off all new kid cape styles at Little Capers with “NEW15” or take 20% off everything else with “UNIQUE20” through 6/7/09. For one week only, you can grab a...

A whole new level of gift organization

by Mir | Kids

I pride myself on my “gift closet”–I always have a few goodies stashed for those unexpected invitations, and it saves me tons of time and money to stock up at my leisure (and when things are on sale). But if I had a nickel for every time I had to...

No passport required for this European playground

by Christina Refford | Entertainment + Media

It’s already been ten years that Putumayo’s eclectic playground series has been introducing families like mine to kid-friendly music from around the globe — from New Orleans, Brazil and even a multi-cultural Sesame Street. And now the new European...

Kids dress clothes that make you hope for a special occasion on the calendar

by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style

We probably get more reader requests for cute wedding clothes for kids “that aren’t, you know…wedding-y” than nearly any other. And now that San Francisco-based Velvet and Tweed has opened their online shop, far more parents can breath a sigh...

Move over hippies, tie dye just got cool again

by Mir | Random Coolness

Hey, I know tie-dye. Tie-dye involves buckets, little boxes of dye, and an unholy mess, right?Not anymore, actually. Welcome to 2009, and the Jacquard Products Tie Dye Kit. The dye gets mixed in squirt bottles, the soda ash for pre-soaking your shirts makes the colors...

Free movies for kids all summer. As in, free. No catch. I swear.

by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media

Call me frugal, or cheap, or just a big old party pooper, but there’s just no way I can rationalize taking three young kids to the movies these days when all they really do is gorge themselves on popcorn and bounce around in the big seats.But this...

Cards from Paper Culture: Design totally within reach

by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery

The beautiful new collection of modern cards, announcements and invitations from Paper Culture have me as excited as any note cards we’ve seen in a while. And we see a whole lot of note cards so that’s saying something. The baby announcements are a welcome...

Stamping out lousy gifts

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

There are children, and then there are The Children Who Have Everything, and ack, I never know what the heck to get them for birthdays and holidays and weekend visits. Since I don’t have the money to go bigger (no pony for you, kid) I do my best to go...

What I lack in wine knowledge I make up for with giftwrap

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

My wine snob sigOth has gently pointed out to me that it’s tacky to give wine in those mylar wine sleeves they have at the liquor store. Who knew? But when I showed him the absolutely wonderful PopTags wine tags, he smiled and said, “Now that’s...

The Britax Advocate CS: Car seat safety gets more attractive than it already is.

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

One place we will never ever tell our readers to skimp, not even in this economy, is your child’s car seat. You want the best possible car seat that you can afford, and you can quote me on that. The Britax Advocate CS is a brand new entry into the car seat...