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French Bull Kidware @ Cocoa Crayon

Now you finally have a great excuse to toss away all those Elmo, Barbie and Blue’s Clues plastic plates that have been getting on your nerves anyway.

French Bull by Jackie Shapiro is simply the coolest melamine tableware for kids and grown-ups alike. It’s high heat and dishwasher safe, light weight, durable and won’t fade, discolor or chip. It’s also great indoors and out.

Kid’s Set’s $22 bucks @ CocoaCrayon.Com

Sonogram Picture Frame

A modern keepsake, the sonogram frame showcases those very first months of your child’s life. Available in white or mahogany stained wood, this picture frame is a fresh and different way to celebrate new life. Each frame comes with 10 phrases in white, pink and blue that you can choose from and place under your baby’s photo.

Phrases Include:

• “love at first sight”
• “bun in the oven”
• “my ultrasound”
• “it’s a girl”
• “it’s a boy”
• “sneak peak”
• “coming soon”
• “my sonogram”
• “my baby”
• “two peas in a pod” (for twins)

(Via UncommonGoods.Com)

DIY – Cool Mod Kids Table Lamp

This is a cool way to furnish that shady corner of the kids’ room and to have a fun way to show off their best artwork, too boot. Slip a drawing or photos between the double shades to create a one-of-a-kind lamp you can change on a whim.

(Via TheSpottedGoose.Com)

Fantastic Danish Paper Mobiles

Mobiles are a traditional craft in Denmark, but the modern mobile was created in 1954 by Christian Flensted and his wife Grethe. Their first design, the Stork mobile, was a great success, and now flies all over the world.

Depth and color perception are developing in leaps and bounds during Baby’s tender first few months and mobiles add a wonderful point of interest for them as they are lying in the crib. Since their color perception is rudimentary at first, high-contrast mobiles are said to be best.

Flensted Mobiles are created so that the elements are in constant motion while the entire mobile maintains a harmonic balance. Each mobile is carefully assembled, and balanced by skillful hands. They are packed so that they are ready to hang.

Product Links:
Danish Lucky Storks Mobile
Turning Leaves Mobile
Elephant Party Mobile
Flensted Ceiling Mobile: Life and Thread

Modular Euro Highchair

It’s a highchair for babies, a booster for tots, a student chair for teens — and it’s the only one that offers a compatible feeding tray! This sleek hardwood chair delivers greater value than others, because it’s sturdy enough to support an adult.

We are very happy with ours. It allows us to have baby eat at the table (with or without the feeding tray) with us rather than off to the side with the conventional highchairs. And they have made it very easy to raise or lower the seat and step with a tongue and groove slat design.

It comes in a natural or dark cherry finish.

(Via OneStepAhead.Com)

Cool Wall Art for the Kids Room

(Bob Dob Vis a Vis Thumbtack Press)