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Web Coolness - Valentine's Day links, cool Disney picks, and the blogging community mourns
Here are some of our favorite links from around the web this week.
W is for Walrus, Wookiee, and Wrench. Also Wow.
We're suckers for anything that turns the alphabet into an art form, and this poster series takes the cake. Not literally, though. C doesn't actually include a cake, although it does have a cuckoo clock, a camel, and California.
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A baby book for the modern mom
More than 10 years ago, author/illustrator Sara Midda first published a lovely baby book as an alternative to those structured, rigid baby books with all those intimidating lines. (You know the ones.)
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Embrace pregnancy one pretty page at a time
When I was assigned to check out a pregnancy journal for Cool Mom Picks, I jokingly responded that I'd do it as long as I didn't have to get pregnant. Well, here I am (no, not pregnant!) flipping through and suddenly I'm kind of longing to be.
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More than a dozen ideas for Talk Like a Pirate Day: YARR invited!
This Monday is TLAP. That's International Talk Like a Pirate Day, in case you were too busy getting keelhauled to check your calendarrrrrrr. We've been celebrating for years, of course and we've got the pirate underwear to prove it. But if you're on board, we've got some great ideas for gettin' yer grog on.
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4 great craft gifts for kids. Instructions optional.
Maybe it's because I am so lacking in the artistic/crafty gene, but I've always preferred arts-and-craft kits that call for a heavy dose of imagination.
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A long time ago in a notebook far, far away
Our favorite notebooks and Star Wars, our favorite scifi franchise, have finally come together in two beautiful limited edition designs
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Thank-you cards that your kids will love to write
My mom was amazing with personal notes--she always produced the loveliest card, written just-so, perfectly on-time, for every occasion. Her mastery of the art form skipped a generation.
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Leaves of grass, now on your bookshelf
Some books are like cut flowers: I get them, enjoy them, and forget about them. But some books are like lawns, like rich green grass that I want to cultivate and nurture and wiggle between my toes every spring.
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If you're yearning for a glance at a map today that doesn't have scary white swirling shapes indicated up and down the east coast, take a look at these fantastic cartographic posters spotted at The Doodle Roll unrolls before your kids unravel
My handbag is sort of a Mom's Swiss Army Knife. Need a Band-Aid? Got it. Hungry? I've got some mints in here somewhere. But when we get stuck waiting somewhere and the kids are threatening to mutiny out of sheer boredom,
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