Babies like watching mobiles, and the visual stimulation of the spinning shapes helps to hone their focus and concentration. Bring these laser-cut bamboo forest friends into the kids' room and it just might make changing time—or bedtime—a little easier.
This simply shaped maple veneer mobile makes like a modern flock taking flight above your baby's bed. It's just one of the many lovely things on display at Bookhou, a beautiful shop based in Toronto, which offers a selection of handmade, small-batch items from tea cozies and coasters to benches and chairs to paintings and sculpture.
California-based LiveGood produces and manufactures everything in its line of eco-friendly bedding in the United States—from the threads, to the fabrics, to the buttons. We especially love their Endangered Species line of baby pillows that features an image of a lion, penguin, elephant, sea turtle, or whale screened onto white cotton sateen using water-based ink.
Hanging mobiles make for merry little children, and these delicate designs will delight the kiddos and brighten up their rooms. Designer Heather Frazier cuts these, along with garlands, wall hangings, and other paper goodies, in her Portland, Oregon, studio, and she can also do custom orders for more adult affairs like weddings and parties.
Kids' toys run the gamut from good-looking to garish, educational to, well, questionably useful in a young one's life. But you can never go wrong with a classic set of blocks, and millergoodman's graphic geometric prints make these basics even more fun. Your tot can turn these bright rubberwood pieces over—and over and over—in the box to create a new design (the Shapemaker Flickr pool has some finished masterpieces), then rearrange them again for a brand new look.
