From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Anna und Paul Soft-Sole Baby Shoes

November 11, 2008

Anna und Paul are slightly cooler, soft-soled, first-steps shoes.  They’re also slightly cheaper than Robeez, but still great qual­ity.  There’s a Ger­man web­site that also ships out­side of Ger­many, but requires a bank trans­fer before ship­ment.  The Eng­lish web­site exists, but I had some trou­ble nav­i­gat­ing it, it kept kick­ing me over to the German site.

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Vilac Toys

November 7, 2008

Vilac is an 80 year old French toy man­u­fac­turer mak­ing beau­ti­ful wooden toys that are described as works of art that are exten­sions of their cre­ators’ per­son­al­i­ties.  The Vilac web­sites lists shops and online shops car­ry­ing their toys.  Addi­tion­ally, Vilac is sold by baby-and-friends.com in Germany.

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Pedipeds contest winner

November 3, 2008

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Emily at Princess Gra­nola, who won our shoe give­away. Emily, please send us a pic­ture of Zola in her new shoes when they arrive! Thanks to all who entered. Stay tuned for more give­aways in the upcom­ing months.

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Review: Storksak Claire

November 1, 2008

I’ve been using the Stork­sak Claire for about 11 months now, and while it’s not the per­fect dia­per bag (I don’t imag­ine there is a per­fect one out there), it is pretty great.  It is a styl­ish, prac­ti­cal dia­per bag, described by Stork­sak as a uni­sex back­pack that con­verts into a shoul­der bag.  I wouldn’t […]

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