It's holiday time! And around here, that means our editors have been burning the midnight oil to bring you our 6th annual Holiday Gift Guide featuring more than 150 (!) truly inspired gifts for all the special people in your lives --plen…
We've already have described how much we love Birchbox from the day they launched since, well, who doesn't love a hot pink box filled with amazing high-end cosmetics samples delivered to their door each month? So it will be no surprise t…
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Cool Mom Picks is dedicated to bringing you the best deals and coolest finds, but we reserve lots of special goodies just for our subscribers. Like this mega-package of back-to-school goodies, which is up for grabs in our subscriber-only…
Sitcoms have to be seriously good to get my attention at the end of the day. The kids are asleep and the house is quiet, so if I'm going to watch some telly instead of calling it a night, then it had better be worth my time...and crack m…
I love finding the best activities and spots to check out in my city. When a site does all of the legwork and offers me a list of proposed activities to check out each week, what's not to love? That's why I'm digging the new site The Fam…
Planning a kids' party isn't for the faint of heart, even though the end results ( adorable cake-face photos! happy wee ones! ) are always worth it. Let's face it: life is crazybusy . So I can totally see why more and more parents are tu…
We all know that personalized items make a baby's or kid's gift ten times more special. While many of the big catalog stores offer custom embroidery, they'll usually only personalize their own brand's items--which is kind of limiting. So…
While we love tracking down hostess gifts for all those summer weekend invitations, it probably doesn't end with Labor Day. Especially with the holidays (eep!) coming up. So I love this fabulous, affordable gift that feels a little more …
We know our readers have style, but we offer extra swagger to our subscribers. For example, we're offering prize packs to eleven subscribers this month, including the mother of all statement strollers. You could use one of those, right? …
If your kids are like mine, then getting something in the mail with their name on it completely makes their day. However when it's filled with arts, crafts, and everything you need to make them, well, I'm pretty sure it would make their …
We're showering even more our subscribers with love this month with our monthly subscribers-only giveaway--in the form of six prize packs from one our very favorite companies, Serena + Lily ! One grand prize winner will with a fabulous l…
[ updated with corrected info] There is something so special about children's clothes with history. Hand-me-downs aren't just a frugal choice : there's often meaning in seeing your child in his grandpa's favorite college sweatshirt. And …
If you're like me, then you've got a couple of boxes in the attic with a few of each of your kids' baby clothes. Every now and then I wonder what exactly I'm going to do with them when I pull them out in ten years and they're all dusty a…
Lost drawstrings are up there at the top of all the annoying scale for me as far as clothing mishaps go. In fact, I just spent the last month frustrated that a small silk drawstring belt came out of a silk dress; I couldn't figure out ho…
We are so happy to wish you all a Happy Father's Day. We sincerely hope it's filled with all the love he deserves, whether you're all spending the day together, or making heartfelt Skype calls to all the dad-types scattered around. (Psst…
Babysitting coops, in which a group of parents agree to exchange babysitting services with each other aways sound like a great idea -- until you realize that someone has to keep track of who babysat whom and manage a complicated point sy…
This month, subscribing to Cool Mom Picks is especially cool. Because when our next newsletter goes out, you'll have a chance to win a really awesome subscriber only giveaway. This month, five-- yes, five -- Cool Mom Picks subscribers wi…
We wish a truly heartfelt, very happy Mother's Day to all you cool moms, stepmoms, grandmoms and great-grandmoms of the world. We sincerely hope you get to spend the day surrounded by people you love, doing whatever makes you happy. Whet…
I've recently gotten to better know Stacey Mayesh , a bona fide stylist to the stars. And a really nice one at that. You've no doubt seen her work if you've read Vogue , Marie Claire , I nStyle, Lucky ...and she's styled the likes of cel…
I'm on a mission to find a birthday present for one of the smartest, sweetest, most wonderful little guys I know. That's never an easy task. But Creative Kidstuff has made the process much simpler with a special new section on its websit…
Just in time for Mother's Day, we're so excited about our newsletter subscriber giveaway coming up this week. Or rather, giveaways. Three lucky Cool Mom Picks subscribers will each win a $150 gift certificate from our friends at Julian +…
In the search for custom photo Mother's Day gifts, there's a fine line between creepy and cool. (Hint: you do not want to wear your baby as a hat.) But bespoke scarves from one of our favorite hip accessory designers? We think that's coo…
We adore you, our Cool Mom Picks readers! (You know that already, we hope.) But to be sure you're extra especially happy, we've created a super short, simple survey about our site to help us make it even better for you. As busy moms ours…