by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
Car seat covers serve three excellent purposes: They make older seats look new, they cover the ugly fabrics, and they wash up more easily than the existing covers which don’t actually wash at all. Only problem is, some of the fabrics are so wild, they’re...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
I’m happy to say that these adorable little Halloween goodies from New Hampshire’s L.A. Burdick’s Chocolate are definitely treats and not tricks. Each ghostly center is made up of the kind of gourmet hazelnut and dark chocolate ganache that makes my...
by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services
We’ve certainly seen our fair share of personalized gifts here at Cool Mom Picks, but we’ve yet to run across a service such as the one offered by Sweetwater Street. Design savvy owner Lisa Burnett will transform one of her modern designs (or one of your...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I grew up wearing a pair of bright, patent leather red mary janes over white tights and darn if I don’t still carry a torch for shiny shoes for girls. You too? Well Umi Shoes has plenty in the shiny but practical department this fall for little and big girls...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Frequent CMP readers know that whoo-hoo! is about our most favorite phrase in the whole wide world. Whoo-hoo you won a free stroller! Whoo-hoo we’re featured in Real Simple Magazine! Whoo-hoo we just discovered the best ever cupcakes and ate all 12 of them in...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Custom photo confetti? At first I had a hard time imagining what anyone would want with that. Teeny tiny pictures? Wouldn’t they just look like pixelated blobs? But that was before I had a look at some actual Partydotts, oversized confetti featuring up to six of...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Some of us are party-throwers, and some of us are party-goers. I’m in the latter category; just the thought of planning a guest list has me biting off my nails. However, the custom invitations from 1st Comes Love are so wonderful that they’ve got me...
by Cool Mom Team | Family Travel
The last time I checked, becoming a parent didn’t mean automatic revocation of your passport, yet many of us with younger kids are extremely reluctant to leave the country. Not only do we have to make sure we have everything the kids need, it can be hard to...
by Liz Gumbinner | Helpful Services
I find that reading labels is hard enough when I’m trying to figure out which cereal has less fat, or whether sugar is hidden in yogurt using some sixteen-syllable code name. But when you’ve got a kid with serious allergies, keeping an eye out for certain...
