How about a funny cartoon portrait of the kids to adorn the livingroom wall instead of the usual pretty photographs?

Designer and Illustrator Ryan Feerer creates funny personal cartoon portraits of people and their favorite things based on a photo.

Underneath is a couple of examples of portraits which Ryan Feerer has made for Randy and Brent.

You can get your cartoon portrait at Ryan Feerers website (contact him for price), or at Elsewares, for 125.00 USD.

Two kids together in one portrait costs 50.00 USD extra at Elsewares.

This is Randy. He’s into coffee and cookies and sharp dressing.

This is Brent. His favorite things are this t-shirt and his old tricycle.

Remember when you were a child and had to write your name in all your schoolbooks? If you’ve saved some of those books you might scoff a bit at the childish handwriting, especially if it was a book you really loved.

My Retro Baby to the rescue! If you have young children already in school or soon to be enrolled you can have them stamp their stuff with these rubber stamps. It looks nicer and is more fun. There are lots of different “faces” available for these stamps, e.g. with glasses, freckles, plaits or afro and you can of course personalize the stamp with the name of your child.

The retro rubber stamps cost $ 24.00.

The Frog and the Princess is an online store filled with luxury for children. They’ve got a great selection of furniture, unique and personalized products, tutus, shoes, decor and accessories for the childrens room.

The selection of tutus is superb, containing a great number of tutus and tutu costumes of different colors and shapes. Amongst the costumes you’ll find a ladybug costume, a mermaid costume and several princess- and fairy costumes. Some of the tutus can be personalized with the child’s name and the price is between $35 and $410 USD.

Two of my favorite items in The Frog and the Princess store is the Pumpkin Iron Carriage Crib, which looks like something straight out of a fairytale, and the Swarovski crystal baby hat which is adorned with the baby’s initial in Swarovski crystals. The hat would go perfectly with a pair of Swarovski adorned shoes and the Initial Bling Bling Rattle.

The price of the Pumpkin Iron Carriage Crib is a mere $4500 USD (free shipping though!), the baby hat costs $22 USD, the Swarowski adorned shoes cost between $109 and $134 USD and the Initial Bling Bling Rattle costs $98 USD.

Giveaway – $50 Gift Voucher!

The Frog and the Princess kindly offered to sponsor a giveaway, and will give one lucky winner a $50 gift voucher to their store!

Send an email marked “The Frog and the Princess” to marianne@alifemoreinteresting.com, together with your name, if you’d like a chance to win. Remember to send from an e-mail address that we can reply to, or provide a reply address in the email.

Last chance to enter the giveaway is August 31st.

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

THE GIVEAWAY IS OVER AND THE WINNER IS….

E-glue makes cool wall decoration stickers in lots of different designs, sizes and color combinations.

Their giga-KITs are phenomenal. They are, at the time being, available in savanna-, farm-, under water- and skeleton pirate themes. These kits are full of their fun designs, and maybe the best thing about them is the possibility to choose the color combinations yourself! There are several main colors and secondary colors to choose from, so there’s a good chance of finding colors which match the rest of the room. I would think the kids would love to get to choose the colors themselves as well!

E-glues also has a product called artiKIDS which allows for the customer to send in a kids drawing, which then can be made into wall decals! artiKIDS is, like the rest of e-glues decals, available in many different sizes.

Drop by e-glue for more information or to purchase their products.

Tim Biskup’s wonderful clothing & gift line GAMA-GOO has a wide selection of clothes and accessories for woman, men and babies.

One of the beautiful products made using Biskup’s fascinating characters is the GAMA-GOO baby quilt, handmade by San Francisco designer Sarah Larson from irregular GAMA-GOO tees.

Each quilt is unique and the T-shirt fabrics make them very soft, comfortable and durable. The quilts are 33 x 24 inches in size.

Via BoingBoing.

Love those Ralph Lauren polos? It is actually possible to create your own personal versions of them. At Ralph Lauren Polo they allow for customers to choose both T-shirt colors, signature pony logo or personalized monogram along with what color you’d like for logo or monogram. Makes a nice gift for someone special.

For babies and infants there are different designs of long and short sleeved polo’s, girls and boys coveralls, and newborn blankets. For older kids there’s are long and short sleeved polo’s, shirts, swimsuits and caps. Besides this there are several garments available for adults as well.

Via UrbanBaby Daily

Tummy Talk LLC has made a wonderful pregnancy album. Unlike most other pregnacy books, which are either made for journaling, photos or memorabillia, the Tummy Talk allows you to keep all those memories in one place. A finished pregnancy book filled with precious memories is a great keepsake for the whole family. Continue reading ‘Tummy Talk – A Practical Pregnacy Album’

Got a little Superman running around the house? He can become SuperPaul, SuperEric or SuperPeter with a little help from Ellie Bellie Kids who makes fine capes with the kid’s own letter sewn onto it.

The capes are made out of 100% cotton and are available in a black/aqua or orange dotted/orange.

Besides the personalized capes Ellie Bellie Kids offers cute two-colored reversible tutus for little princesses. The tutus are available in four fresh color combinations.

I love to tidy up in my mothers attic from time to time. My mother has kept a lot’s of toys and clothes from when I was a kid, and it’s almost like Christmas Eve when I’m opening cases and bags to have a look at what’s inside. I find myself opening lots more cases and bags than needed for tidying up. Who can resist opening that bag with baby clothing? I never stop being amazed by the memories connected to old clothes.

I have recently discovered several ways of keeping those memories without putting them into bags and only seeing them once every five years or so.
Continue reading ‘Kids Memory Blankets’