Thanksgiving is tomorrow and everything is under control, right? If you just yelled at your screen, "NO!" then read on, mamas. I've got four cooking helplines that will provide you with answers to all of your Thanksgiving cooking questio…
In 2006, when we started this site, we were just...having fun. Our aim to support entrepreneurs and the cool things that women were making and sharing online was serious, but the way we originally built our site was kind of hilarious. It…
I miss many things about working in New York, but today I have a totally unexpected and thoroughly awesome reason to miss my old office. Or one in Seattle and San Francisco too. Because today it would have been filled with kittens and cu…
If like me you shed a tear or two or sixty over the sad departure of Domino Magazine a few years back, you'll be happy about this awesome news. Yes, Domino Magazine is back as a print quarterly, so rejoice all ye shoppers and browsers! B…
As we move to empower our daughters, to help them find strong role models (you know, whose accomplishments don't include "twerking"), and to get them excited about their potential, I'm so delighted to find a new website that helps do tho…
If you're like us and visit Gilt every day (fine, three times a day), to find chic new items for your wardrobe, home, or kids, you'll be excited to hear about a new feature they just launched to make your shopping experience even nicer. …
There's something nice about waking up to a little notice in our inboxes that every single thing at Fab , one of our favorite online sale sites, is an extra 25% off today. I hardly know where to begin. Looking around, I don't know where …
Here are 5 of our favorite picks from this week just in case you missed them. 1. Just what we needed: another reason to shop at IKEA. 2. You don't even really need to be a Ryan Gosling fan to get a chuckle out of this. 3. Smart tips for …
If you're like us, then you've got tons of photos and videos on your smartphone that you end up texting and emailing to friends and family fairly frequently. Well, if you're looking for a safe and more efficient way to keep your family u…
One of the things I love about the Cool Mom Picks community is how entrepreneurial so many of you are. Every week we hear from bloggers finding their voices, start-up owners pursuing long-held dreams, mothers returning to work in new ful…
Our kids are easily the most photographed generation ever . While we have to settle for maybe a few old snapshots to help recall our summer holidays--like the ones our favorite parent bloggers are sharing below-- our children will have s…
I've been itching to replace our dark, faux-Oriental rug in the family room for years. As much as I love shopping from the comfort of my home online , there are times when I could use the advice of a real, live sales associate to talk me…
With school out and summer almost officially here, say hello to 4000 new smartphone photos and videos of our kids being adorable at Kindergarten graduation, on the beach, watching fireworks, and running through the sprinkler on the lawn.…
Every once in a while, something amazing comes along in the land of kids and parents that makes me giddy with excitement . And more often than not, whatever that amazing thing may be ends up costing me a lot of money. Not so with my rece…
featured partner As huge fans of natural products, we know first-hand that you usually have to shop at a few different stores--sometimes more--to get the exact brands that you love. So imagine our excitement when we were introduced to ou…
As a runner who lives just south of Boston, and whose husband spent his lunch break photographing sites at the beloved Boston Marathon that ends mere blocks from his office, yesterday's tragic events all hit way too close to home. Like s…
I know these days it feels like there's a new shopping site born every minute. But there's one I've just discovered that's fast becoming an obsession for me, because the products are so sharp, stylish and imaginative. The site is Ippinka…
featured partner As someone who dealt with bullying as a young girl, like so many of us, you can bet it's something I'm preparing to talk to my own kids about. Especially now that almost all of them are in school. So we're happy to be wo…
The idea of a bucket list of sorts is wonderful, although the name itself has always been a little morbid. Still, I've been really like the idea of making lists for myself that don't include things like "lose weight." And now there's a n…
With a business trip covering the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the horizon and nary a sparkle or fun party dress in my wardrobe, I figured I'd use the cool coupon I received in my monthly BirchBox subscription and give …
As we do our best to get back to some sense of normalcy today here on Cool Mom Picks after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, we wanted to share some of the lovely online responses and tributes to the families of Newtown, Connecti…
Like probably all of you, we are completely overwhelmed with sadness about the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings that happened this morning in Newtown, Connecticut. Along with our thoughts that are with the families affected by this…
While overall, I admit I'm growing a little weary of all the membership-only shopping sites (and the subsequent eight million "OUR SALE IS STARTING!" alerts in my inbox each day), there is a new one I'm excited about. I love its focus on…
Here are a few of our favorite picks from the last week, just in case you missed them. 1. This free kids' app is so amazingly simple, which is exactly why we (and our kids) love it. 2. Which app does Angela from The Office use to keep he…