10 Best: Jigsaw puzzles

Of all the myriad delights that Santa delivered this year, the jigsaw puzzles have proved to be a huge hit with Alfie. We regularly have mammoth afternoon sessions where we have to complete all five and I’m already getting to the stage where I think I might have to buy some more. So, I thought [...]

10 Best: Kids’ travel accessories

If, like me, you’re heading off for some winter sun (read: travelling to the other side of the world for a wedding) with your little one, you’ll be in the market for items to make your life as easy as possible, so you’re at least in with a chance of relaxing on holiday. A Trunki is [...]

BG Christmas Gift Guide 2011: 1 – 2

Welcome to the Bambino Goodies Christmas Gift Guide 2011! Here are our selections for children aged one to two. This is one of the most exciting ages; they enter as a baby and by the end they are firmly a toddler. Our selections reflect these big changes from toys to ride and rock on with [...]

Famille Summerbelle ‘Un Dimanche à Paris’ Wallpaper

Ooh hello! Or better still, bonjour swoonalicious wallpaper! We’re a tad weak for Paris themed interiors – Lu has done a great roundup – and Famille Summerbelle’s ‘Un Dimanche à Paris’ (A Sunday in Paris) is downright covetable in either a blue and red or yellow and silver colourway. Renowned for her divine papercut maps [...]

Rifle Paper Co prints

I just love Rifle Paper Co‘s paper products. A Florida-based studio run by husband-and-wife team Anna and Nathan Bond, it produces quirky cool stationary and prints featuring bears, bugs and blooms, all printed locally on eco paper. The insect series is particularly cool for a child’s room – how amazingly cute are this caterpillar and [...]

10 Best: ideas for a rainbow-themed room

Red and yellow and… Who doesn’t love a rainbow? The thing I like best about them as a theme is that it’s so easy to customise pretty much anything to suit. Painted cot bars. Seven strips of fabric for a curtain. Paper lanterns. All cheap and easy updates. Check out Pinterest for some amazingly creative [...]

10 best: gardening goodies for kids

Gardening goodies for your green-fingered little ones.

10 Best: ideas for a weather-themed room

Ever since I first set eyes on Swedish designer Gunila Axén’s frankly amazing Clouds pattern I’ve been smitten with the idea of a weather-themed room. In all honesty, you could kit out a nursery solely in Axén’s icon design – find bedlinen, curtains, lampshades, cushions and storage in a variety of colours at Little Baby [...]

10 Best: Ideas for a space-themed room

Space. The Final Frontier. And a fantastic theme for a child’s room. There’s so much material out there that I found this really tricky, but here are a few extra terrestrial ideas. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Blast off! On the walls, you can’t go far wrong with Kakemono from innovative French company Carton Chic. Is [...]

Littlephant prints

Lillephant‘s prints will provide a bit of retro-styled fun on your nursery walls: colours, style and characters all have the air of the 50′s about them. In the UK, selected Littlephant prints (including those shown) are available through Little Baby Company at £15, plus £4.45 shipping. While I like them a lot, I am rather pining over [...]

New Season Orla Kiely Changing Bags

I have been stalking Little Baby Company awaiting the arrival of the new season changing bags from Orla Kiely. Having proved incredibly popular since they were added to the collection at Little Baby Company last Spring, this season’s bags look set to fly off the shelves. I am loving the new rhododendron print (above) but [...]

Ideas for a Woodland-Themed Room

Now that we’ve saved the UK’s forests (yay for people power) I thought it was appropriate that we did a round-up of the best ideas for woodland-themed rooms – it seems that children’s designers’ love of this subject knows no bounds. Let’s start with the walls. There’s a myriad of tree wallpapers out there, but [...]

10 ideas for London-themed Rooms

The iconography of London is a great theme for a child’s room. Inspired by Alice Tait’s funky London map, £15, I’ve rounded up a selection of decorative goodies based on the capital’s most famous icons. Firstly, the walls. A London room wouldn’t be complete without some hand screen-printed Lizzie Allen wallpaper. The iconic ‘Red Buses [...]

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 [...]

Stocking Filler Inspiration for Cool Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers

1. Giant animal erasers that will no doubt be played with on adventures through the jungle. £9.95 each Pedlars 2. Shake it up and make a lot of sound with this set of four egg shakers in primary colours. £5.89 Dolphin Music 3. These stroller cards by the wonderful Eric Carle feature animals with textured, [...]

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