Bring out your child’s inner prince or princess this Halloween, with these adorable costumes that would also be perfect for a princess and prince birthday party, or for dress-up just because.
Kid’s love to dress up, so I think it’s great when I come across Halloween costume ideas that kids can wear over, and over again. I think these Shabby Apple costumes are the cutest.
All of Shabby Apple’s dress up costumes are hand made, which I think is very unique these days.
Check out these adorable princesses. Whether your daughter wants to be a Disney princess, or the princess in her imagination, …read more

This week, I received an email from Tees for Change with a cool discount offer for PlayLibrary readers (keep reading for all the details). 
First, Tees for Change provides an eco-friendly line of T-shirts that are meant to inspire positivity.  The shirts are adorned with messages such as “Choose Happiness,” “Today Matters” and “Practice Kindness,” and they are made of organic cotton and bamboo products for women and men.  Tees for Change also recently introduced a 100% organic cotton baby line with phrases and images I love such as “dream big,” “grow strong,” “laugh often,” and “play often.”

Wal-Mart stores announced today that they have joined forces with Disney to have more than 140 Hannah Montana products for sale in their stores.
Wal-Mart says that they want to be the source for “accessible” and “affordable” licensed products. Since the Hannah Montana tickets were so incredibly expensive, they say they’re trying to give us more access by selling Hannah Montana themed products. I don’t know if Hannah Montana pajamas are as exciting as concert tickets, but I think I get what they’re saying.
Wal-Mart will have everything from Hannah Montana clothing and wigs to food and glass …read more

Are these not the cutest shoes you have ever seen? A Newburyport husband and wife team are hoping you think so!
Joel Rusnak and his wife, Cheryl Andonian, of Newburyport are the brains behind these shoes, which are called Polliwalks. They recently started a footwear company featuring duck, alligator, frog and ladybug-shaped plastic clogs with animal-shaped treads. Imagine the prints these shoes are going to leave on the ground! So adorable.
The Daily News interviewed Rusnak and Andonian about their new shoe company. Here’s part of the interview:
Q: Where did the idea for Polliwalks come from? A. …read more

My daughter loves to wear her hair in a pony tail. It’s one of the only ways she will wear it, so we are always looking for hair things to make her pony tail a little more interesting.
There’s a little shop called Oopsie Dazie that sells unique and creative hair accessories. We received 2 of them and my daughter loves both of them so much. She was very excited to be able to wear something new in her hair and she also said she got a lot of comments from her friends about how cute they are.
She wanted to wear …read more

Here’s a picture of my kiddos all decked out for Halloween. My 8 year old son is a gorilla. My 3 year old son is Spider Man and my 9 year old daughter is a renaissance princess. They are all very excited about Halloween this year. We are meeting a big group of friends and all going trick or treating together. It should be fun!
What are your kids dressing up as this year?

I am having a really hard time with Halloween costumes this year. My kids don’t EVER choose easy costume ideas. They always want to be original and it’s never a costume I can pick up at the local department store. Nope, I usually have to get really creative and hit several different stores.
This year, my 3 year old wants to be a carrot. A carrot!! Where did he come up with that? I can’t even get him to eat carrots and now he wants to dress up like one? Oy. I know I could find one online. I guess if …read more

Okay, so, I’m making my way through the sites that Jennifer mentioned in the comments here, and I started with PsychoBaby and it made me laugh. Okay, the site itself didn’t make me laugh (though some of the products were cracking me up). But I started laughing because it reminded me of a backpack that I was shown the other day. A friend had bought this adorable little pink backpack for her daughter, completely girly with roses all over it. It wasn’t until she got it home that she noticed images of skulls intermingled with all …read more

I keep forgetting to share with you a new site featuring adorable handmade baby gifts! From our favorite island girl comes the Island Baby Boutique. The Hawaiian Print Bibs are adorable and, though we all know how I feel about teeth, I have to admit that the personalized Tooth Fairy Pillow is too cute. I can’t say that I’ve ever heard of a Diaper Shirt, though. Must be an island thing.
So, head on over, and pick up a few very special and personalized gifts for the new babies in your life! Adorable products, …read more

I do believe that this is the first time I’ve ever written about something that just popped into my e-mail inbox, but these were a little too cute not to share.
This little onesie with the word “indefatigable” aptly describes my kids as babies (I’m sure yours, as well ), and it would’ve been adorable having them crawl around sharing the truth of their nature on their chests!
You can check out all of the fun onesies, and t-shirts, too, at their website. They are quite whimsical.