Guest Editor: Gabrielle Blair from Design Mom

Gabrielle Blair is a designer and mother of five (Ralph, Maude, Olive, Oscar, and Betty), who also goes by Design Mom and keeps a blog by the same name. She is also one of the founders of Kirtsy, a place to find cool things. She loves really good ideas and pretty paper products. And root beer.

Kirtsy This | Posted: 15 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

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• Organic Teething Bon Bons

  

  Designed by Tressa Brotsky of Dress Me Up. It’s hard to beat sugar and plastic free.

  $11 at Fawn & Forest | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 14 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Steinmannli Stacking Game

  

  Forty pieces of granite in a sturdy wooden storage box are the materials of a game involving stacking and balance, steadiness and risk-taking. Made and assembled in Switzerland in a facility employing physically and mentally challenged adults. Steinmannli is the new Jenga.

  $99 at Fitzsu | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 14 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Animal Rubber Bands

  

  These colorful, functional, rubber bands come in a set of twenty-four. They’ll hold their shapes – no matter how, or how often, you use them.

  $8 at Wishing Fish | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 11 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• One of a Kind Illustration of Your Child

  

  Chantal Bennett, a Brooklyn-based artist, will create a custom illustration featuring your child as the main character. Choose from three categories: animals, toys or flower fairies — or suggest your own. Pretty much a bargain for good custom illustration.

  $99 at A Winsome Portrait | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 11 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Airplane and Truck Pancake Molds

  

  Because they’re just as easy to make as round pancakes, but somehow they taste so much better.

  $10 at Zaccardi's | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 10 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Emoticon Pillows

  

  $42 at Art Lebedev Studio | Buy

  (For a set of six.)

  Kirtsy This | Posted 10 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Max in the Box

  

  Max in the Box is a stool, a chair, a dollhouse, or a flying pterodactyl. That’s a stretch, but it is a piece of furniture your kid can stack, nest, and turn to create lots of different things.

  $250 at Modern Seed | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 10 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Mobi Designer Lunch Bags

  

  PB&J never looked so good.

  $5 at Mobi Designs | Buy

  (For a set of 20 sandwich bags)

  Kirtsy This | Posted 09 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Wooden Bowling Set

  

  You’ll find this at Target in the summer toys aisle, and it’s much prettier in person. (I hear it’s even marked down to $15 in store.) How can you resist?

  $20 at Target | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 09 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Audrey at the Library

  

  $50 at Little Big Pants | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 08 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Baby Shoes DIY Kit

  

  Possibly the cutest little shoes a newborn could wear (oooh, and they’re Italian). Plus you can brag about how you made them yourself. Or even better, get your sister to make you a pair. Because you have a new baby, and don’t have time to be making shoes.

  Available in lots of styles and colors. Size 0-3 months.

  $31 at Creakit | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 08 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Shoeslaces Inspired by Japanese Fabrics

  

  $8 at Spoon Sisters | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 07 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Arne Jacobsen 3107 Rocking Vats

  

  “Once upon a time Arne Jacobsen designed a lovely little specimen of a chair and called it the 3107. Chapter 2: design shop e27 created rocking vats that attach to the 3107 in less than 5 minutes and create an unbelievably simple — and beautiful — rocking chair.”

  $140 at Charles & Marie | Buy

  Kirtsy This | Posted 07 Jul, 2008 by Melissa Summers

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