The Yo! Gabba Gabba infatuation has reached a fevered pitch in my household, as my 19 month-old can now say “DJ Lance Rock” better than she can say Grandma. Which is no slight to Grandma. In fact,…

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Continue reading → Yo! Crochet, Crochet

Oh how we swoon over the pretty things in life.

We’re guessing you will too with these picks of our favorite things to make the nursery, kids room, or playroom as awesome as you want it to be.

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• New Kids on the Block N Rock, Pop Music Memorabilia Entertainment Memorabilia
• Kids Ceiling Fans Home Lighting
• Garbage Pail Kids Animation Trading Cards Collectibles

Continue reading → Editors Best of 2008 - The coolest art, decor, kids furniture and kids bedding

If you’re a sleek-lines-and-minimal-fluff sort of a mom, you’ll want to check out Nashville artist Michalle Sessions’ gorgeously simplistic prints for your progeny’s room via her shop, LJ Ink.

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Continue reading → So that’s what all those blank walls in the nursery are for

Let’s pretend I’m having another baby, and as long as we’re pretending, let’s pretend I had a budget transplant! Okay? So we’re pretending, and I’m heading over to tiny Décor for a couple of the…

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Continue reading → Big dreams of tiny Décor

I have this dream. In this dream, my house is always organized, dog hair is contained on the actual dog, cushions are kept on the couch, and I frequently host elegant cocktail parties attended just…

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Continue reading → 1,2,3,4 Tell me that you love (my napkins) more

I can’t stop staring at this bamboo mobile by Petit Collage available at Branch Home, and I’m just looking at a picture. In real life, those laser-cut bamboo birds each have a different pattern cut…

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Continue reading → Rock-a-bye birdies, made of bamboo

Talk about getting a bang for your nursery decor buck: The whimsical set of mini hand-painted artwork are not just wall art, they’re ornaments. Personally, I’d hang them in the baby’s room, but sneak…

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Continue reading → Deck your halls all year long

Last year, my daughter had a blast creating custom place settings for each guest at our Thanksgiving table. The setting for her little brother had a school bus on it. The setting for my stepmother’s…

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• Thanksgiving Holiday, Seasonal Collectibles
• Thanksgiving Holidays Postcards Collectibles

Continue reading → Making the kids set the Thanksgiving table this year

With certain types of decor, your standard glittery, tinsel-y holiday trimmings just don’t fit. They’re festive, sure, but sometimes you just need something simple, something sophisticated. Something…

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Continue reading → Deck the walls with pretty things

I love to choose sentimental, personal gifts that say something more than “I dropped $50 on you.” (Hello, gift cards.) Problem is, sentimental, personal gifts can border on cheesy if you aren’t…

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Continue reading → Pictures of you

One thing we haven’t seen a whole lot of for some reason is cool kids wallpaper. And then we discovered Rollout, a creative design studio in Canada, which is doing some truly dandy things with…

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• Kids Ceiling Fans Home Lighting
• Garbage Pail Kids Animation Trading Cards Collectibles
• New Kids on the Block N Rock, Pop Music Memorabilia Entertainment Memorabilia

Continue reading → Rollout - Some enchanted wallpaper

I admit it, I’m a sucker for just about any convert-the-kid’s-art-into-a-keepsake service. And while art2believe will take your child’s drawing and turn it into a stuffed doll, they’ll also also turn…

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Continue reading → Dolls as cute as your kids artwork. There’s a good reason for that.

When I was pregnant, I painted three pieces of furniture out in the cold because I was so freaked out about what the paint fumes could do to the bébé. But when you’re pregnant is precisely when you…

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• Paint Guns Sprayers Painting Supplies Sprayers Building Hardware Home Improvement

Continue reading → Painting without fear. Or formaldehyde.

When it comes to interior design, let’s just say that my spirit is willing but my flesh is weak. I admire fabulous design, but possess neither the knack nor the bottomless pocketbook to bring it to…

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Continue reading → Design Online: Making your home more like the one you imagine and less like the one it actually is

One of the great things about having a baby now as compared to even four years ago when I had my first is the ton of choices parents have as far as nursery decor. Take the mobile, which is no longer…

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• Baby Face By Brand, Company, Character Dolls Dolls Bears
• Baby Dolls Dolls Dolls Bears
• Grand, Baby Grand Piano Musical Instruments

Continue reading → Paper Mobiles - Design Meets Function for one very happy baby

When planning my firstborn’s nursery a few years ago, I did what many before me have done: I looked at a dozen uninspiring paint chips in muted shades of yellow, sage and ecru, and even contemplated…

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Continue reading → Colour Lovers: Saving babies from bland nurseries since 2004

I can’t believe I’m already starting to bookmark holiday gifts but yep, that’s just what I’m doing. And right in time, I discover Happy Chickadee, an online shop featuring absolutely wonderful…

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• Baby Ornaments Christmas Current 1991-Now Holiday, Seasonal Collectibles
• Baby Dolls Dolls Dolls Bears
• Novelties Gifts Golf

Continue reading → Gorgeous baby gifts in the $20-30 range? Totally.

I’m already on record as not being a fan of fluffy pastel nursery decor.  How are children supposed to develop good design sensibilities if you don’t show them the way?

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Continue reading → As the crow flies

Chicago artist Kelly Ventura is making beautiful original art with fabric, paper, buttons and adorable stitching that you’ll want to leave on the wall well past the disassembling of the crib. Her…

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Continue reading → Quilted, collaged, and just plain cool

In further developments regarding the quest to free my
daughter’s room from licensed characters, I’ve discovered custom name wall art from City Art Photography.

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• Posters, Wall Scrolls Naruto Japanese, Anime Animation Art, Characters Collectibles
• Posters, Wall Scrolls InuYasha Japanese, Anime Animation Art, Characters Collectibles

Continue reading → Your Kid’s Name Up in Lights (Sort of).

My four-year-old loves all things outer space, and these cool retro rocket prints by CMP fave, John W. Golden will provide the perfect inspiration should he daydream of traveling to an outer galaxy.
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• Outer Limits Sci-Fi, Fantasy Trading Cards Collectibles
• Outer Limits Science Fiction Collectibles

Continue reading → Beam me up, mommy

As a bona fide word nerd, I was instantly taken with the name The Regional Assembly of Text, although I had no idea what it meant. (Sort of ironic if you think about it, huh.) As it turns out, this…

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Continue reading → The Regional Assembly of Text - a store as cool as its name

Taking my kids to a paint-your-own-pottery place is not in
my job description. The drive there, the
eternity spent as my children pick out the “perfect” piece to paint, my toddler–oh my toddler– in…

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• Porcelain, Pottery Bells Decorative Collectibles Collectibles
• Pottery Mexican Latin American Cultures, Ethnicities Collectibles
• Pottery 1940-Now Native Americana Cultures, Ethnicities Collectibles

Continue reading → Thomas Claire: Taking the Pain out of Painting Pottery

I always admire parents who aren’t afraid to go a little dark with their nursery decor. And by dark I don’t mean Gashlycrumb Tinies prints up on the wall, but something besides the pastel pinks and…

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Continue reading → The elephant in the room that everyone actually will talk about

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…

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Continue reading → Sillydot art - more dreamy than silly

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…

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• Baby Dolls Dolls Dolls Bears

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

Today is my birthday and it’s a big one. Oh how I wish I had the guts to make use of one of the bad party buntings, aka “festoons of gloom” from UK shop Twisted Twee

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• Happy Birthday Barbie Barbie Dolls Barbie Contemporary 1973-Now Dolls Dolls Bears
• Birthday Vintage Greeting Cards Paper Collectibles

Continue reading → Not your average birthday party decor

Considering everything belonging to my daughter is now also her little bro’s, it’s no wonder she’s become a bit territorial about her bedroom. But trying to find a room sign that I’d actually want to…

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Continue reading → I Saw the Sign

Considering everything belonging to my daughter is now also her little bro’s, it’s no wonder she’s become a bit territorial about her bedroom. But trying to find a room sign that I’d actually want to…

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Continue reading → I Saw the Sign

I cannot tell you how many times my husband has busted through the door after a long day of work only to singlehandedly wake up the baby who I just got to sleep. Talk about grounds for divorce.

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Continue reading → A very nice way of saying, “Shut the heck up the baby’s sleeping!”

We’ve been major evangelists for room decor-by-decal from the beginning. Just search our site for “decal.” There’s lots. In part because we know that tastes change faster than you can say ooh, look…

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Continue reading → Eat My Chalk Dust

Despite my insistence that it would never happen, the toys have in fact eaten our living room whole. I evidently can’t keep the toy animals and crayons and blocks and play silks restricted to the…

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Continue reading → Can It, Kids

I am not of the mindset that children’s furniture should be serious - or any furniture for that matter. Give me some bright lime green plastic dining room seats over a set of stern Teutonic…

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• Dining Room Chandeliers Home Lighting
• Living Room Furniture, Large Appliances Furniture, Appliances Fans Collectibles
• Kitchen, Dining Room Furniture, Large Appliances Furniture, Appliances Fans Collectibles

Continue reading → Jellio Furniture - Roald Dahl Would Be Proud

With my daughter all puzzle-crazy these days, I am adoring the heirloom-quality puzzle illustrated by children’s book artist Shannon Gerard.

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• Quality By Publisher Golden Age 1938-55 Comics Collectibles

Continue reading → Reform School Rules, Rules!

We moms of toddlers and preschoolers know that the night light is an essential part of an effective bedtime experience. But dare to try to find one without a licensed princess or smiling race car and…

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Continue reading → You Light Up My Night

We don’t come across too many wallpaper options for nurseries, or at least ones that we’d feel comfortable recommending. With all due respect Peter Rabbit, I love you, but I don’t need a repeating…

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• Rabbit Animals Collectibles

Continue reading → One Way to Get Out of Painting the Nursery: Wallpapers

When it comes to growth charts, we’re the pencil on the wall type of family. Believe me. It’s not like we love to write on our walls, but we have yet to find a growth chart that is both functional…

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Continue reading → Oh How Fast They Grow

I really do love my kids’ names. Considering how many fights my husband and I got into before we finally nailed down Quinlan and Drew I might have them plastered all over their walls except for the…

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Continue reading → Wooden Name Signs We Can Get Behind. Finally.

What do you get when you mix modern sensibilities with the ancient art of letterpress printing, then sprinkle the top with a dash of whimsy? The sweet yet minimalist designs of Dee & Lala.

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Continue reading → Letterpress cards for moms that don’t scream LETTERPRESS CARDS FOR MOMS

Say “bean bag chair” and my mind flashes back to 1975, an image of a shiny vinyl blob sitting on shag carpeting. I can even conjure up the squeaking sound it made when I landed on it.

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Continue reading → Not Mrs. Brady’s Bean Bag Chair

Personalized gifts are fantastic fir new babies, but there are other ways for a mama to know you ordered something especially for her bambino besides having it monogrammed. A great new pick: The…

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Continue reading → Wonderland Meets Wallpaper

I wish I had that kind of eye so that I could cluster fifteen framed pictures altogether on a nursery wall and make it look like it does in the pages of Metropolitan Home or Apartment Therapy. But…

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Continue reading → Cluster Cluck

I love the idea of reviving 60s-style psychedelic prints for kids bedding. It makes so much sense when you consider the wild colors, and the cool repetitive graphics. And no, I don’t mean tie-dye.

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Continue reading → Kids Bedding to Spare You From Care Bears

It isn’t often that the kids and I both love a piece of furniture. To them, furniture isn’t something to covet but something on which to climb, or at best, throw their stuff.

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Continue reading → I Like This Bookshelf, Sam-I-Am

We’ve all wished for more hours in the day, but I think mom and artist
Rebecca Peragine of Art and Philanthropy must have actually found them.

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Continue reading → Art + Philanthrophy. A Combo We Can Get Behind.

Oh Petit Flaneur, where have you been all my gift-giving life? This brand new Toronto-based design shop is doing super fabulous things with a combo of natural or reclaimed materials from local…

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Continue reading → Blocks To Knock Your Socks (Off)

When I discovered the mixed media on wood frames from Jessica Pisano, her butterflies reminded me of my grandmother Dorothy’s house. She collected
photos and paintings of butterflies, as well as the…

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• Spider Insect, Butterfly Animals Collectibles
• Real, Unmounted Insect, Butterfly Animals Collectibles
• Beetle Insect, Butterfly Animals Collectibles

Continue reading → Butterfly, Butterfly Fly Away Home (Which is Actually a Really Dark Rhyme When You Learn the Words)

A note to my neighbors: I truly am sorry. I have tried to explain to my children that dandelions are weeds. Weeds that you do not want in your yard

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Continue reading → Just Put Your Lips Together and Blow

I’m all for handing my girls a box of crayons and a ream of paper and
letting them while away an afternoon creating works of art.  The only
problem?  Their cumulative efforts result in a…

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Continue reading → I Have a Picture Pinned to My Wall

I’d love to decorate my walls in big black and white framed photos of my kids. But until I start taking super fantastic pictures, I fear that’s not the best idea.

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Continue reading → From Snapshots to Art