It all started with the original site Chic Shops, which is a guide to chic and unique shopping sites for woman, and then Chic Shops BABY was created to give the same service to moms and families with babies.

Chic Shops BABY is a nicely designed site, which is easy to navigate making it a very practical tool when you’re on the lookout for cool things for babies or moms to be. The site also has a forum, and allows you to save your favourite stores and make reviews of the shops. Creating a free account gives you access to these features.

I love the way some creative minds uses worthless waste to create beautiful things. It’s like they take what you throw out one day, and sell it back to you the next day, only it looks fantastic when you buy it back! It’s ingenious!

Wee Can Shop has a great selection of recycled accessories. They’ve got trendy bags, purses, coin pouches and jewelry, all made out of recycled materials.

Soda Can Necklaces

One of Wee Can Shop’s wonderful recycled accessories are the Soda Can Necklaces. They are colorful and eye-catching and shows clearly how “one man’s junk is another man’s gold”. The necklaces are available in three different designs and they are all handmade from soda cans.

The Soda Can Necklaces cost USD 14.99 a piece.

Ecoist

Ecoist is one of the most creative and environmentally friendly labels Wee Can Shop has to offer. Ecoist make accessories from soda cans, candy wrappers, newspapers and food packaging, and takes advantage of the original colors and textures of the materials in making their products. Fair Trade manufacturers make Ecoist’s accessories, and unbelievably enough; one tree is planted for each product sold.

Ecoist bracelets cost USD 11.99, coin pouches costs USD 21.99/25.99 and wristlets, handbags and shoulder bags costs between USD 27.99 and 47.99.

Besides the recycled gifts and accessories Wee Can Shop can offer, they have lots of other cool gifts for kids as well. For instance they have the Constuction Eating Kit, String Dolls and “Frozen Smiles” denture ice cubes.

Giveaway - Win A Soda Can Necklace!

Wee Can Shop has been generous enough to give away three Soda Can Necklaces to my readers. The lucky winners will be able to choose freely between the three different designs, Dr. Pepper, Coca Cola and Diet Coke.

If you’d like to enter the Soda Can Necklace giveaway, all you need to do is to send an email to marianne@alifemoreinteressting.com, with your name, address and choice of necklace.

Last chance to enter the giveaway is June 5th.

Note: Your information will be used for this giveaway only, and will not be shared with anyone. Only US citizens can enter the giveaway, and only one submission from each household will be accepted.

Dimples And Dandelions has a superb selection of lavish lamps and chandeliers for the children’s room. There are over 300 lamps and chandeliers to choose from. Pink girly ones and lots of different ones with frogs, animals, teddy bears and sport themes on them.

If you are looking for a chandelier for a boy, you should look through the girl section as well because they’ve forgotten to put the blue teddy bear chandeliers and the green frog chandeliers in the boy section.

The three chandeliers in the picture are from the Artisan Collection, and all lamps and chandeliers from this collection are all handcrafted.

The Drip Clips Paperclip Holder comes with twentyfive drop shaped paper clips, and costs USD 7.99 at Perpetual Kid.

Via Outblush

The aquarium consists of six fishbowls connected to each other by tubes which allows for fish to swim freely between the fishbowls.

It’s on the pricier side but if you have $5,500.00 USD lying around the aquarium can be purchased at Opulent Items.

Pee&Poo not only works well as cuddly plush toys and toilet training buddies, they have also been well received by the adult designer plush fans.

Pee&Poo are sold as plush toys, key rings, stickers and clothing. All products can be bought at Pee&Poo, or through a reseller. Resellers can be found here, under “Återförsäljare” in the top menu.

The plush toys duo package, with Pee and Poo, cost USD 32, and the key rings cost USD 7.5 each.

Pastel Toys

Pastel Toys are heirloom quality wooden toys handmade by disabled adults at their own self-sustaining community, a kibbutz, in Israel. It is quite a special community which manages to make the life of these disabled adults rich and meaningful by giving them work they can manage, somewhere to live and support from a community of people with similar situations as their own. So Pastel Toys are not only beautiful fresh colored wooden toys, but also a product of a community well worth supporting. Many of Pastel Toys products can be found at Giggle. (Enter “Pastel Toys” in the search field.)

Pintoy

Pintoy construction toys look beautiful with their natural and painted wood. There is everything needed to create a great big construction site in this series; a crane, a digger, a dumper truck, loaders, trailers, a set of construction equipments consisting of pneumatic drills, compactor and Compressor, wheelbarrow, pick and shovel, 2 traffic cones and 2 barriers. There is also a set of workers consisting of three workers and a Forman. You’ll find the Pintoy construction toys at Just Playing Toys.

Heirloom Rattles

A nice wooden heirloom rattle, that will last a lifetime and can be inherited by the baby’s own kids, and grandkids, in the future, is priceless. The walnut wood rattle from Nico & Zoe and the handmade heirloom hardwood rattle from A Toy Garden, are both simple, beautiful rattles made by natural wood, with round shapes and smooth surfaces. These are great ideas for baby gifts if you’d like the gift to stay in the kid’s family for generations.

Ostheimer

Ostheimer keeps the feel and look of wood in their toys, by only applying transparent paints and not totally rounding the figures edges. The surfaces of the toys are still smooth and soft to handle. Ostheimer wants kids to use and develop their imaginative abilities when playing with their toys, and this is why the silhouettes of all the figures are simple, and the details are very few. In this way they create a perfect environment for the kids to play in, without giving all the details, so the kids mind will work on creating their own little world for the figures! Ostheimers figures can be found at Myriad Natural Toys & Crafts. The Nativity story figures could make perfect gifts for the advent calendar, resulting in a beautiful Nativity scenery Chritmas eve.

Sevi

The well-known company Sevi has long traditions in making quality toys. Amongst their selection in wooden toys they have series of musical instruments. The instruments are colorful and full of cute details. You can find the Sevi instruments and other toys by Sevi at Au Bois Jouli.

Eco-friendly Wooden Puzzle Toys

The smooth, round edged wooden puzzle toys from Craftbury Kids are so elegant end cute, and will look fantastic on the shelf if the nursery or kids room. The natural wood is beautiful, but if you desire some colors, you could paint the different pieces in different colors of tox-free paint yourself! These puzzle toys are available in Pig, Tortoise, Rabbit, Lion, Cow with calf, Ocean with boat and fishes and Farmhouse with animals and a field with trees.

Skipper Pirate Yacht

Graham And Green has an aesthetic pirate-themed traditional wooden toy yacht. It is made from plantation grown hardwood and sail is made from genuine sailcloth. It is a beautiful toy of fine quality. (Via Notcot.)

Plan Toys

Plan Toys in general are great toys. I love the look of Plan Toys, and the attention the company gives to detail in their toys. They simply make beautiful designed children’s toys with a very modern touch. Oompa Toys has a great selection of Plan Toys.

You choose your background from the Pnigg gallery, which is filled with loads of beautiful images, and then, after having put the right text on it, you can send it by e-mail or share it on the web.

There is a small fee if you want to have your invite printed on paper, or to have it send by SMS. The cost is USD 1.5 per 20 SMS and USD 1.5 per paper card, including postage.

You can also choose to use an image from the Pnigg Plus+ gallery, and the cost for this is USD 10 per custom invite.

Via Coochicoos

You can buy the Blackboard Wall Clock at eco-artware for $80.00 USD.

The teddy bear pendant has movable joints and comes in three versions; plain silver, silver with pink crystals and silver with clear crystals.

The silver chain is closed with a lobster clasp, and it has a small Dior D hanging of the end of it, as a small charm.

All three Tedior versions come in a white and silver Dior box.

You can buy the crystal-encrusted Tediors for $230.00 and the plain silver Tediors for $180.00 USD, at eLUXURY.