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Odenwaelder Babynest

November 16, 2008

Last year while in DC over the Christ­mas hol­i­days, we received a lot of com­ments on how warm and snug­gly Oliver looked in his stroller bag.  The stroller bag is a pretty com­mon thing in Ger­many and the rest of Europe, so I thought I’d intro­duce you to the com­pany that pro­duces the baby stroller […]

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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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Goldi Pacifier

August 16, 2008

Look­ing for a paci­fier with­out plas­tic, latex, or sil­i­cone?  Look no fur­ther.  The Goldi paci­fier is made from pure rub­ber from the Hevea Brasilie­nis tree. From the manufacturer’s web­site: This paci­fier is pro­duced from pure rub­ber and is soft, flex­i­ble and free of toxic sub­stances; has no chem­i­cal soft­en­ers, parabens, PVC, or phtha­lates; BPA (bisphenol-A) […]

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