Latest in Art+Decor (Sounds Fancy)
Small space baby gifts? Reader Q&A
My sister lives in Brooklyn and had a baby girl in June. I know that
her living space is very limited and I am having trouble finding cool
gifts to give to the baby. I was wondering if I could get suggestions
on things that would be cool as well as functional in their limited
space. -Melissa
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Trifle brings all the prettiest things together in one place (I wish that place were my house, though)
When my boys were babies, I spent a lot of time looking for cool, original things for them -- clothes and bedding and accent pieces for their rooms. But in a strip mall world, that meant a lot of shopping, and no mama has time for that.
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Room décor for quirkier kids
My son and I are currently in heavy negotiations over the impending redo of his this-is-it-until-you-go-to-college room décor. I've already said no to black walls, but the thing we both agreed on instantly
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Don't need no stinking hammer
If you are like me and have a ton of photos that need to go on the wall, but you lack the motivation to frame and hang them, Stickr has got something to make the process a whole lot easier.
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1000 Markets - You will be bummed they only stopped at 1000.
There are a lot of me-too etsy type online marketplaces cropping up these days, but most of them fall a little (or a lot) flat on execution. But 1000 markets? So awesome I don't even know where to begin.
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Our house is a very very very fine house
My husband has a bit of an obsession with graphic representations of homes, making no effort to hide his loud praise for them when he sees them on our friends' walls.
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Three cheers for custom pennants!
I used to love the show Happy Days--remember Arnold's and all the sports pennants hanging all over the walls? (You do remember Happy Days, right? I can't be that old.)
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Oh, the places we've never been. And the prints to match.
In my want-to-but-can't traveling state, I can easily identify with Jennifer Hill's Places I Have Never Been collection where she takes a city she's never been and develops a pattern for it, using the pattern in fun prints, calendars, and cards.
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These ain't your mama's nursery rhyme illustrations
Sub-Studio design's new nursery rhyme prints are a perfect combination of age-old nursery rhymes from past generations and a bold mid-century illustration style that takes them forward through the next.
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In the pink
There aren't too many pink posters I'd hang in my daughters' post-feminist non-pink bedroom, but artist and graphic designer Robin Rosenthal's counting bird poster would easily make the cut.
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World's best pillow fight pillows (sound effects included)
For years, I dreamt about a playroom -- a place (that wasn't my living room) where my boys could make a mess with their superhero toys and have pillow fights and stand on the furniture without making me insane.
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