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Monsters, Monsters, Everywhere!

March 8, 2009

While surf­ing the net for kid’s toys, I keep com­ing across mon­sters!  They are seri­ously cute, although I’m not sure who loves them more, the par­ents or the kids.  Here are some of my favorite mon­sters I’ve come across: Mr Mous­ta­chio costs €40 and is avail­able at La Mai­son de Lola Terry and Tina, Bunny Blue […]

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HABA Toy Food

February 12, 2009

I’ve always loved toy shop­ping, even before I had a child. Choos­ing gifts for nieces and nephews and think­ing about what I would have loved (or what I DID love) at their ages gave me a thrill. And I know wasn’t the only adult wish­ing I could spend an after­noon play­ing with that Bar­bie Corvette […]

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Mutsy EasyGrow Review and Discount

January 6, 2009

Some­where between the ages of twenty months and two years, my son decided that shov­ing smushed-up green peas and sticky banana goo into the vinyl crevices of our high chair was his favorite form of per­sonal expres­sion. We used the Chicco Polly, which served us well for more than a year, but as soon as […]

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The Best European Car Seats

December 19, 2008

Accord­ing to the Ger­man con­sumer rat­ings mag­a­zine Stiftung War­entest, these are the top five car seats in each cat­e­gory that have earned either a “good” or “very good” qual­ity rat­ing.  The num­ber in paren­the­sis is the score received, the lower the score, the bet­ter the car seat did in tests.  When fewer than five seats […]

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The Mooncup Reusable Menstrual Cup

December 9, 2008

I’ve been try­ing to live a greener life, so in that spirit, I fig­ured it was time to give up all the tam­pons and san­i­tary pads I was throw­ing away every month and try out one of the reusable men­strual cups that are on the mar­ket. While the DivaCup is quite pop­u­lar among Amer­i­cans, I […]

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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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Glueckskaefer wooden puzzles

October 20, 2008

Some­thing else I ran across in Nikolai-Eck dur­ing my visit to Leipzig, were Glück­skäfer nest­ing toys.  These are beau­ti­ful, Ger­man pro­duced, heir­loom qual­ity, wooden nest­ing puz­zles.  Glück­skäfer has been in busi­ness for over 60 years and believes in pro­duc­ing qual­ity over quan­tity.  For Ger­man speak­ers, they’re avail­able from the Glück­skäfer web­site in Ger­many.  They’re also […]

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Janoschik Toys

October 14, 2008

Last week, I found the most amaz­ing toys in a reli­gious run shop, Nikolai-Eck, at Niko­laikirch­hof in Leipzig (if you’re in the area, def­i­nitely pay it a visit). I’ll post about them over the next few days. First up is Janoschik Toys (Ger­man site, Eng­lish site). These are seri­ously cute wooden toys in the shapes […]

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Gourmandise, the sexiest nursing bra ever?

October 6, 2008

Gour­man­dise is a French lin­gerie com­pany that makes pos­si­bly the sex­i­est nurs­ing bras I’ve ever seen.  I have not been able to track down any infor­ma­tion on the com­pany, as appar­ently there are a lot of things described as “gour­man­dise” in French. For Eng­lish and French speak­ers, the ivory/praline ver­sion is sold by Mamanana.com, a […]

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LulaSapphire.com

September 8, 2008

One of my favorite Euro­pean online shop­ping sites is the UK-based Lula Sap­phire. In addi­tion to car­ry­ing great prod­ucts from the likes of Boob, Dwell­Stu­dio, Ida-T, Katvig, Man­hat­tan Toy, Stork Sak, Swad­dle Designs, and Zutano, among many oth­ers, they claim to be the first car­bon neu­tral mother and baby retailer in the UK. They deliver […]

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