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I think it's way more fun to think outside the box, especially when said box comes in the form of the uber cool, simple yet sleek kid's cubino chair (shown at top left and bottom right in brown/pink, brown/sky blue, brown/green, $99) from Monte Design Group, headed up by modern-minded parents to three trendy youngsters, Ralph and Michelle ...

... is definitely the place to be these days, especially if it means that countrified companies like Sweet Grass Farm are offering up all natural, wholesome, organic, chemical-free lotions and potions for baby's bitty parts. Their all new FarmBaby line packs love, nourishment and 24/7 round-the-clock care into its healthful products - and leaves ...

Buds are blooming on the trees, bunnies and birds are doing their crazy love dances on the front lawn (not with each other - but you know what I mean), the smell of rainy freshness is in the air, and saving a planet that looks so deliciously dewy this time of year is on our minds. Well that, and it's Earth Day, so what better time than the ...

I see every cool city Gwen Stefani's ever traveled to. They're all over her luxe L.A.M.B. City-Names Slip-Ons (shown at top left, $60, on sale for $54) available exclusively at Spunky Sprout, a contemporary, thoroughly modern, one-stop online shop that specializes in all things fabulous for fashion-forward tots (think Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Leni ...

 ... And maybe gets in a little tummy time, too, while simultaneously using both eyes in tandem to focus on a fuzzy Toucan and smiley orange monkey hanging from the Rainforest Rock n' Play (shown at left, $149.95, on sale for $104.95) from Cosmotot fave and local yokel, One Step Ahead. This combination play mat, baby gym, crawling hill and ...

With so many retailers riding shotgun on the bio-friendly bandwagon, it's no wonder parents are at a loss when it comes to making a single store their one-stop organic shop. Thanks to Nubius Organics - think of them as conservationists with good fashion sense - it takes just few picks and clicks to outfit your whole abode with eco-friendly, ...

When anything from modern innovator, Boon, hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's more than amore. It's more like dumbfounding amazement brought on by products so cutting edge, so streamlined, and so artistically space agey, that you and your toddler will be entirely too gobsmacked to engage in the usual spit-and-toss mealtime madness. Why you ...

Little earthlings will be happy to hit the bath water sans endless prompting from mom and dad (the promise of cheapie drugstore soap bubbles usually does the trick at our house), when they get a load of Pottery Barn Kids' silly Space Alien Bath Wraps (shown at top left and bottom right, $29). Each 100% cotton terry hooded wrap is cushy and ...

No one will be able to resist talking about this friendly-faced pachyderm, especially considering it's a lamp, too. The super sleek, uber cool 3-D Elephant Lamp (shown at left, $69.50) from ingenious Scandanavian designer, multi4m, is inspired by one of the animal kingdom's most intelligent and sociable creatures - which basically means it's a ...

As far as being a modernly minded mama goes, I don't know that I'm exactly the first person you'd think of as a poster parent for the movement. A cheerful, motley, comfortable and completely approachable bohemian combination of all things artfully eclectic, fashioned with vintage style and a contemporary twist is more my thing, and is reflected ...