I think Teri Dimalanta has super powers. Not only does she have kids, but she also co-runs Kukunest, my favorite organic bedding line. She must have been three people in her last life because she has yet another line to wow us with, giddy giddy. Turns out Dimalanta is an investment analyst turned craftaholic mom. She is most giddy when sewing, painting, designing and making stuff. It was as if turning into a mom 4 years ago ignited the inner artist and crafter.
What inspired these handmade felt creations for little girls’ pretty little melons? The desperate need to tame her new daughter’s unwieldy mohawk with something cool, quirky, and fun. Equally important to creating adorable designs is making the clips functional and safe. These clips are intricately handcrafted with a snap clip sewn securely inside. They are designed to stay on, even on baby fine hair.
giddy giddy’s inventive line of handmade felt barrettes and felt pouches pouches had me at “Hello”. Too bad my girl refuses to wear barrettes because I’d have her decked out in these every day.
How cool would your four year old look sporting this guitar tee on the first day of school? I love Abe Jones and all that they design. They have a great collection for us to drool over. Their tees go from size 3-6 months to 8 years. Some of the Fall collection is already sold out on their site, but they have a pretty big list of retailers to choose from.
Oh, and if you have a girl, remember to check out Monkey Bar Buddies, close-fitting shorts to go under skirts. Wouldn’t want to be caught red-faced and shortless on Friday Flip Up Day.
A lot of schools do not allow flip flops or Crocs. The horror! Even though she has other alternatives, Sy wears her pink Crocs every single day. My sister just got my niece some sassy new Geox for the new school year. Check out the front - real patent leather! Talk about a trend setter.
Hey, if you get to drop your kiddo off at school this week, why not look totally hot yourself, too. I love just about every dress Anthropologie ever comes out with. I love the vintage feel to this “Sudden Downpour” dress. Wouldn’t it look great with some red flats? Of course the trick would be to not touch your child so that you actually look put together past drop off. Oh, and be able to afford the dress as well as preschool. A girl can dream.
Ooh. There’s a fantastic warehouse sale going on over at Olive Juice Kids.
Mom/graphic designer Anita Lee recently introduced me to her sassy line of baby clothes, Colette Kids. I’m so glad she did; her line is perfect for a new baby gift. After years of designing for corporate clients, Anita decided to dabble into the world of fashion as she was expecting her own bundle of joy. Lucky us!
Colette Kids’ infant onesies are made with soft 100% USDA certified organic combed cotton, with sizes from 6 to 18m. The toddler tees are made with 100% combed cotton, with sizes 2T and 4T. All products are made in U.S.A. and individually silk-screened by hand. They are also cute as all get out.
I think Sy would look just smashing in a Ling Ling panda tee and I’m sure Offspring, Version 2.0 would look just as nifty all decked out in a Wilbur the turtle onesie.
I’m always so impressed with moms who achieve both career and child-rearing simultaneously. Add a splash of fashion to the mix and I’m your fan for life.
Ooh and even cooler! Colette Kids is offering a 10% discount for GHM readers (coupon code: gearheadmom10). Offer expires on 7/20.
The Children’s Place is offering our readers $10.00 off all orders over $75.00 through June 14th. Just enter code MSA68 at checkout. Thanks, Children’s Place!
My favorite item to purchase there is socks. Exciting stuff, but I’ve gone through a lot of socks with Sy and I think that Children’s Place has the best ones. They are thick without making her feet hot and they never slide down. That and they actually last the whole year that is emblazoned on the bottom of the sock. I find that their clothes usually run a size small for Sy, but not the socks, they are right on.
Omigoodness, I just got the cutest socks in the mail for Offspring, Version 2.0. I had no idea Karen Neuburger even had an infant line. My favorite chenille wear-around-the-house-at-night socks are from KN and I LOVE them. I honestly wear them every night. I’ve had them since before Christmas and they are just starting to show signs of wear. I will definitely replace them.
Ooh. For all your preggos out there, Japanese Weekend is having a nice little sale. JW is one of my favorite upscale maternity clothing lines. And by upscale I mean expensive, so that means I own one item by them, but it’s really pretty. Thanks for the tip, sister.
I’ve been sorting through Sy’s old stuff getting ready for the next offspring, version 2.0. Poor kid is going to be dressed in stained hand-me-downs from the get go. I do want to get a few new things, I just can’t help it.
Enter the New For Baby clothing line. How cute is that one piece outfit? It feels slightly reminiscent of Star Trek, which is probably why I am so drawn to it. New For Baby has a great line of clothing for the wee ones. You won’t find any trucks, ducks or taglines here. Just rich, vibrant colors in hip, sleek designs. Sounds good to me.
Sy is not a girlie-girl at all. She likes to pick her own outfits in the morning and they generally include stripes and spots and mismatched socks, sometimes with a dress on top for color. She usually looks like the pile from the bottom of the dryer, but I think it’s fabulous. The only princess she knows of is the Paper Bag one. But now, at the cusp of three, she is really getting into dress up. She clonks around in her plastic high heels and refuses to take off her “butterfly wings” that we have. They are a sad pair, those wings. Hand-me-downs like most of her girlie dress up gear, they are torn and limp, threatening to unravel at any minute.
I feel I owe it to her to get her a pair of really fluffy, girlie, pink wings for her birthday. But where to start? I grew up wearing black and listened to New Wave. I don’t know how to be a fairy princess or even where to look. So I called on Dawn from Pink With Sparkles to review her favorite fairy accoutrements for us. Her picks after the jump.
I think the best piece of clothing while pregnant is a skirt. Why there are so few choices out there, I’ll never know. So of course I had to go out and buy this Liz Lange skirt from Target the other day. Knowing that I’ll be hugely pregnant with my second kid during the peak of summer, and too busy chasing the first one to just lounge around complaining of heat stroke, I figured I’d better start collecting any cute summer skirts I can find. Might as well have nice clothes as I pass out from fatigue.
I think that Liz Lange’s maternity collection at Target is often hit or miss. Unlike other collections that Target has, I feel that sometimes her lines come off looking and feeling cheap. But this strawberry colored skirt is designed and made well and just so damn cute, I had to get it. Not that I’ll look damn cute in it. I’ll look crabby and hot and like a giant strawberry.
Side note: It’s on sale at my local Target, but still full price online.
Sy is a huge fan of animals. What two year old isn’t, right? Last summer she went through a phase where she would only wear animal shirts. Luckily, Gymboree had a safari theme going on at the time and she was set. But I was a bit bored by the mundane/overly cute shirts and knew there were better options out there. Enter Threadless. It’s one of Roger’s favorite spots to shop for cool tees online and I had not even thought of it for kids until this really groovy giraffe shirt (no longer available) appeared in my mail box (thanks for keeping us hip, hub!). Threadless.com is an on-going tee shirt design competition. So anyone (that means YOU!) can submit their design and if it gets a high enough score and is chosen by the Threadless crew, it will be printed and sold from the site. They only print a limited edition of each design, so once they are sold out of a certain shirt, that’s it. So if you super love a design, splurge and buy two. I sure wish we had more of our Darth Vadar topiary Death Star shirts, that’s for sure. Because the lines are limited, Threadless introduces new shirts weekly.
When her daughter was born, my friend Shauna got one of these hand-made charms from Tiny Tag Designs. It was one of her favorite gifts to receive and now, to give. I think it would also be a nice gift idea for Mother’s Day, which to all you Dads and Partners out there is on MAY 11TH!
That’s a Sunday.
You’ve got a month and half.
You’ve been warned.
I am a huge fan of Project Runway. Christian’s final collection was all over the ombre trend that’s beginning to bore me to tears. Still, even with that highly sassy attitude, I was glad he won. So I laughed when I was browsing through the new collection over at Tea Collection and saw that even your six month old boy could leap on the dip-dye band wagon.
