New goodness at Zid Zid Kids

Zid Zid Kids is one of my all-time favourite children’s design companies as you can tell from my Label Love post last year. I’ve been hanging out and checking back for new products ever since I discovered them. Marrakech-based due Julie and Moulay have been super-busy, decking out the kids’ space in the city’s new Four Seasons [...]

Hot Shop: Mes Habits Chéris

Happy to bring you another shopping opportunity from across the Channel. Mes Habits Chéris is an emporium of delights stocked with familiar French brands Le Toy Van, Lalé and Mimilou, plus BG Euro faves Kidsonroof, Bakker Made with Love, Isak and Sukie. There is a lot of extremely covetable stuff on this site – I’d recommend [...]

Hot shop: Burp!

Hurrah for another online boutique and yay for it being British. Burp! is the Hampshire (Farnborough, to be exact)-based brainchild of Kate & James Hayden-Ellis who, like so many parents these days, were bored with the traditional baby offerings and took matters into their own hands. The result is a small but lovely selection of goodies [...]

Stacking Rings

Sometimes you see a product which blows your socks off. These Stacking Hoops from Play to Z are one such product. Taking the classic stacking rings toy and mixing it up with treasure basket principles a brand new sensory toy is born. There are twenty different stacking hoops made of diverse tactile materials including banana [...]

Hot Shop: Little Home

I do so love discovering a new online shopping destination and Geneva-based boutique Little Home is one such place. Featuring furniture, toys and accessories for small people, there are goodies from big brands such as Vilac, Moulin Roty and Momoll, labels we love (think Atsuyo et Akiko, Donna Wilson, Famille Summerbelle) and new names like [...]

Airdeje playmat

Finding a playmat that isn’t completely offensive to the eyes, but will also keep baby entertained is one of the many tricky challenges faced by new parents. We have the fabulous Danish Ubang Babblechat green and red quilted mat that Nat featured way back, but I can only find it available in pink now. I [...]

10 Best: ideas for a circus-themed nursery

Who doesn’t love the circus as a motif? It’s an absolutely brilliant theme for a child’s room as it combines vibrant colour, animals and (providing your offspring isn’t a coulrophobic) clowns. Here’s our pick of big-top buys.   For the walls, I give you two equally fabulous paper options. 1) The muted vintage sketches of [...]

10 Best: percussion instruments for toddlers

As I mentioned a while back, we’re lucky enough to attend a Music for Aardvarks class every Friday. One of the toddlers’ highlights is when the teacher, Emily, brings out her rainbow parachute full of percussion instruments, plonks it on the floor and they can shake, bang and clash to their hearts’ content. I come [...]

Normann Copenhagen New Born Box

Tired of all the dull new baby gifts on the market? Danish design company Normann Copenhagen (they of the squishy rubber washing bowls) to the rescue! I am absolutely loving this cute gift set containing Ole Søndergaard’s classic laquered wood Plane (plus wire so you can hang it as a mobile) and a long-sleeved cotton [...]

Fairtrade Fortnight: 5 cool ethical toys

We’re still in Fairtrade Fortnight, so what better excuse to hunt down a few toys with a conscience. First of all, I’ve featured them before, but I make no apologies for revisiting Bholu Bubalahs. These gorgeous wool-felt creatures are made by Gujarati women, from designs by local children (bholus), whose education part of the profits [...]

More Cool Stocking Filler Inspiration for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

Following our stocking fillers for under a fiver and stocking filler inspiration guide, here are nineteen more delights starting from £2.25. 1. Designed and sized for small hands, they can shake it shake it shake it with these wooden maracas by John Crane. £3.50 a pair at Nubie. Get 15% off with the code XMAS15 [...]

Dunck by Skip Hop

We do love a multitasking product here at BG and US designers Skip Hop are wowing with this set of three floating bath ducks ‘Dunck’ which are stackable for easy storage, and also act as rinsers – surely the kids can’t shriek their heads off when I’m rinsing out their hair with these cuties? Carrying [...]

Hope and Eden

I love happening across cool home-spun businesses and Hope & Eden is one such discovery. Inspired by her two daughters (you guessed it) Hope and Eden, the Chelsea School of Art-graduate owner (big yourself up and put your name on the site, lady!) started making soft toys to keep them company and the range grew [...]

Skip Hop Treetop Friends Update

Last month we showed you a super sneak preview of Skip Hop’s new collection Treetop Friends based on designs by Sandra Issakson. At the time we thought they wouldn’t be arriving until 2011 but we were tipped off this morning that the first few products have landed at Peanut & Pip. Perfect Christmas gifts for [...]

Mamissima

Call me selfish,  but I do so love it when a hot discovery is local to me. Enter Mamissima, a petite boutique in the funky North Laine area of Brighton, not far from the fabulous Dinky Vintage and Toby Tiger. I first happened upon its charms when I was pregnant with Alfie, as it stocks [...]

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