Cool Mom Picks

Want to come to a baby shower? Because you're totally invited

If you weren't aware, Kirsten Chase, CMP super editor, co-founder, and neverending source of energy, hilarity and abject good taste, is about to churn out baby #3. So to hide our complete panic at...

The handmade dolls you'll want to sleep with yourself

For the most part, I don't spontaneously exclaim awwwww and get all teary when I get a new baby toy for review, but that's totally what happened when I peeled open the sweet little canvas bag to...

Sillydot art - more dreamy than silly

The artwork from San Francisco (by way of Brazil) artist Vera Costa of Sillydot is pretty much made for Nursery Decorating 101 - ten sets of three sweet, happy designs, each of which look great...

Posies takes cleaning the house partly out of the "things that suck" column

I've never equated cleaning my house with achieving zen, but while using Posies Cleaning Products, I can at least take some deep calming breaths while I mutter and scrub.

Apparently dragons are going green. Or...greener?

Last year, I was instantly smitten with the bright, super cool graphic organic shirts from mom-owned Fierce Hugs, so when I found out they added a new line from Dutch artist Dagmar...

When labeling kids is a good thing

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...

You're never too little to be a bibliophile. Only to know how to spell it.

Like tons of practical moms like me, my favorite gift to give or to get is a book. And if you want to get fancy about it, check out Bookworm Baskets, where the great book is just the beginning of a...

Personalized, adorable, affordable. What more do you want in a baby gift?

Personalized items make spectacular baby gifts because it shows you've gone an extra mile beyond the burp cloth sets, beyond the registry essentials. The one catch is, the gift can't be returned. The...

Candles Worthy of that Special Birthday Cake

I tend to spend so much time worrying about the gory details of my kids' parties that the birthday candles are the last thing that I think about. In fact, one year, I almost forgot them. Bad bad...

Don't know much about teratology, but Belli does

I'm conspicuously absent from photos taken after the birth of each of my babies. I know a lot of you mamas knows what I'm talking about. But it wasn't even my complexion that was making me...