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, I think these costumes fit the perfect picture.

They also have prince costumes, which would make a great pair for a sister and brother.

All of these costumes sell for $80 each. They look like well made costumes your kids could wear again, and again.

Images Shabby Apple

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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.”

When you buy an eco-friendly T-shirt from Tees for Change, a tree is planted through a partnership with Trees for the Future.

What do you think?  I loved the idea of Tees for Change when I read about it, so I was very happy to have the founders offer a 15% discount to PlayLibrary readers who place an order by August 31, 2008 through the Tees for Change website.  Simply enter the coupon code PLAY at checkout, and you’ll automatically get 15% off your order.

Enjoy!

Images: TeesforChange.com

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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 frames. Here are some of the ways the items will be highlighted:

Theater ads. Ads for the goods will screen in cinemas with the concert movie, as well as with other G-rated movies.

•Dedicated display. Wal-Mart set up mini “Hannah Montana Shops” in 750 stores to display the clothes and accessories.

•Unusual offerings. The bakeries have cupcakes and cakes. Vision centers sell frames for glasses.

 

I love the idea of Hannah Montana cupcakes!

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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. Joel, my husband. He’s a terrific designer. Years ago he was a toy designer; for the past 18 years he’s been a footwear designer, and for several years he’s been a freelance footwear designer. He’s had an idea to design animal-shaped shoes for kids. He’s been looking at it for a long time. We started looking at this and said this is really good, and we thought about bringing it to another company and said, wait a minute, you know, we could do this ourselves.

Q: You got things up and running fast. How did you manage that?
A. Industry connections and calling on favors (laughs). Plus because we’re a small company, we can move fast. It’s not like a big company where we’d have meeting after meeting, and discuss it over six months. There’s only five of us.

Q: What about the name. I understand your son Isaac came up with it?
A. Joel and Isaac and I were in our office brainstorming what to call them. We were thinking about how some were shaped like frogs and you could walk in water with them, and Joel said ‘How about Polliwogs?’ Isaac said no, how about Polliwalks?

Read the rest of the interview here.

Right now, Polliwalks can be purchased at Stride Rite. Eventually Toys r Us, Etoys.com and Shoebuy.com willl be carrying them. I think these are going to be a big hit with kids. What kid wouldn’t love animal shoes? And ones that leave cool prints on the ground. Awesome idea!

See more pictures below the cut.

Be sure and visit the Polliwalk’s website for more information.

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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 the purple heart one pictured here first. That was her favorite and then she wore the brown “love” clip the next day. They both looked adorable in her hair.

Here’s a couple of pictures of her wearing the purple heart in her hair. I love the unique design on it.

Oopsie Dazie hair accessories would make great stocking stuffers or gifts for your girl to give to her friends. I’m going to order a few for my daughter to give out at Christmas time. It’ll be something different and something they won’t get from anyone else. Oopsie Dazie hair clips would also be perfect for those holiday pictures that are coming up.

If you are interested in finding out more about Oopsie Dazie, head on over to their website. You can see their photo gallery, get information on hosting an open house and just see what they are all about.

My daughter’s already asking when we’re going to get more. I’m going to let her peruse their site and pick out her favorite ones. She has a birthday coming up. The more girly things she gets, the better.

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What are your kids dressing up as this year?

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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 he wants to be a carrot that bad, why should I stop him?

In honor of Halloween, I thought it would be fun to make a list of Halloween costumes of your favorite toys. You know, like Darth Vader, Bob the Builder and those ever-so-popular Disney Princesses. I hope you enjoy them and let me know what your kids are dressing up as this year.

1. Pikachu Pokemon Costume

2. Darth Vader(TM)Costume

3. Kid’s Sesame Street Elmo Costume

4. Thomas The Tank Engine James Child Costume

5. Green Ranger Muscle Torso Child Costume

6. Ariel Mermaid Deluxe Child Halloween Costume

7. Bionicle Vakama Hordika Child Costume

8. Bob the Builder Child Costume

9. Thomas and Friends Candy Catcher

10. Hulk Muscle Child Costume

11. Rapunzel Barbie Costume

12. Spongebob Squarepants Child Costume

13. Cars: Lightning McQueen? Halloween Costume

14. Toy Story Disney Buzz Lightyear Deluxe Child Costume

15. Cinderella Standard Child Halloween Costume

I’ll have to do another list of these because there are SO much more!

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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 of the roses in the print of the fabric. That cracked me up. (Yes, I know, it doesn’t take much!)

Anyway, looks like there are some cute and fun (and most definitely unique!) products over at PsychoBaby. I especially like the hat featured above, though all my kids came out with more than their share of hair. I wonder if they carry one for Bald Man, though.

Thanks for the tip, Jennifer.

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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, and you get to support a friend, what could be better?!?

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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.

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