Clara Hranek, 8 years old – Brooklyn NY, USA

With two parents being bloggers, Clara is very tuned in to taking in the world around her. She loves going out to eat, watching cooking shows (Mad Hungry Food, Jacques Pepin, and Gordon Ramsay being her favorites), and traveling, as long as a swimming pool is involved. Yolanda…

Spring shopping – Get inspiration from 5 moms in 5 cities

  Tada!shop is a great place to shop, especially for who likes to mix and match : young designers, hard to find labels, high end fashion, established brands, high street fashion. I picked up products from Talc, Atsuyo et Akiko, Namhee, J.Crew, flora & henri, Kit + Lili,…

Trade Show report : Playtime New York

    This second edition of Playtime New York featured about  60 children's brands and some maternity wear. A fair amount of excellent US brands : Dagmar Daley, Atsuyo et Akiko, Jess Brown, Kicokids, Lucky Fish, Lucky Wang, Makie, Nico Nico, Winter Water Factory, Wovenplay, as…

Griffin, 11 years old – Charleston SC, USA

Kelly Roper is a natural light child photographer (www.kellyroperphotography.com) whose black and white, quiet photographs, are in real contrast with our fast moving and hectic world.  Mother of Addison, 13 and Griffin, 11, Kelly says about her son : "Griffin keeps us laughing…

Der Kleine salon, Vienna

        Der Kleine Salon is a children's concept store in Vienna,  featuring some of the coolest brands of the moment : Mini Rodini, Bobo Choses, Popupshop, Atsuyo et Akiko, Wovenplay, Soft Gallery, Bangbang, ESPno.1, The Brand. If you are really too far to Austria, you…

The wonderful gift list of tada!shop

Love cushion by Maison de vacances   Tutu by Atsuyo et Akiko   Momiji Doll     Always surprising us with fresh ideas, tada!shop asked 10 kids to list their favorite x-mas gifts. Stella (12 years old) chose the Momiji doll, Kenzie (2 and half) picked up the funny u-luv…

"Kayo, a kids concept", Antwerp

  . . Opened in December 2008 by Min and William, "Kayo, A kid's concept" is a very inspiring store based in Antwerp.  Inspiring by its amazing mix of products, exquisite brands selection, creative window displays. The whole concept was created with the kids in mind : displays…

Interview of a blog author and magazine editor

Rachelle Wilde is the author of Kenziepoo blog and editor ofLa Petite Mag. Rachelle is nuts about everything related to children's design. She created her blog to help and inspire moms, or soon to be moms, about nursery decor and childrens items. "Moms everywhere want the best…

Violette Sears, 4 years old – New York, USA

Violette Sears is a New Yorker, and a sister of two brothers. She speaks French, English, Spanish and she is in Chinese immersion school since last year. Nathalie her mother is a consultant in strategy and global expansion for luxury fashion brands (after running networks for…

Courtney, 6 years old – Summit NJ, USA

  Courtney is the middle child in a family of three girls.  She loves to do art more than anything in the world, so I couldn't help adding a picture she drew...she has talent, no doubt about it! Her mother Hadley Peterson is the co-founder of Tada! shop.…

Indispensable Tada!shop…

+ + + = my selection of the day at Tada!shop   An online heaven is born with Tada!shop Going beyond the image that you click on to make a purchase, Tada! gives real sense to internet buying with "create a look", a function that allows browsing categories horizontally until…

Violette, 3 years old, Brooklyn USA

            Violette loves to disguise herself in many different characters, and to mix and match clothes and colors. No doubt this is coming from her French mom, Laure Fischbach, an artist/multi-tasker and object maker of great talent whose collaborations include Pomme,…