Love the bold graphics of these three nursery rhyme prints from Sub-Studio Design.

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We’re a little bit behind in our holiday preparation, and just started planning to make our gingerbread house.  We went looking for some gingerbread house design inspirations and found some great links.

• How to make mini-gingerbread houses for your coffee mugs [via Design Mom]
• Gingerbread House Showcase via Flickr
• Step-by-step German and Swedish gingerbread houses
• Gingerbread house template via Martha Stewart
• Building a gingerbread house video via YouTube
• Mod gingerbread house with design plans via Ohdeedoh

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Check out Memolio – a new photo service that produces a small, durable, compact photo album of 24 photos that’s easy to share with friends and family.  Each Memolio also comes in an online format that you can embed on any website or blog.  Upload photos directly from your Flickr or Picasa accounts, and use Memolio’s web-based album editing tool to create your very own Memolio in minutes.

Memolio is based in the Netherlands and ships worldwide for free.  I’m looking forward to creating my first Memolio to share with family after the holidays.

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Skip Hop sent us a few of their Zoo Packs, a line of small scale backpacks just for little kids.  I found that they’re perfect for my two-year old because she loves the monkey bag, and the pack is just the right size that it can’t be overloaded.  And while Skip Hop promotes that their Zoo Packs are BPA free, Phthalate free, and PVC free, it’s the banana zipper tag detail that makes it a winner for me.

Skip Hop Monkey Zoo Pack |  $24 at Amazon.com

Remember growing up with your giant box of Crayola’s with the built-in sharpener?  Well, here’s the modern day alternative – 500 Colored Pencils from Social Designer. Available only via monthly subscription, you’ll get 25 new colored pencils every month for the next 20 months. Their website explains the subscription this way:

We believe the greatest beauty of 500 Pencils is that you don’t receive all of them at once, but over the course of 20 months. It gives you new focus as an artist, working with color families and feeling the precious nature of each pencil.

Is there a good little boy or girl who would love 500 Colored Pencils in their stocking?

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Busy parents know how quickly hectic holiday schedules can sneak up on us.  One holiday task that can quickly become a chore is getting out our holiday cards, so that’s why busy moms turn to Paper Culture’s Mail and Message Service.  Just upload your address contacts in one fell swoop, and if you choose, individually message each card. Paper Culture prints it on the card and sends the cards out for only the cost of the stamps! We love this amazing holiday time saver.

What’s more is that Paper Culture offers the hippest, most modern holiday cards we’ve seen.  Read our review on modern holiday card designers.

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Just when it seems that all wallpaper designs for boys comes in cowboys, trains, or space travel themes, along comes Paperboy with designs that will surely appeal to boys from toddler to teenage. When designer and founder of Paperboy, Victoria Cramsie, couldn’t find wallpaper designs for her boys, she set off to create her own. She launched Paperboy with three designs from dinosaurs chasing boys chasing dinosaurs, to animal shadow puppets, to animal skeletons as if you had x-ray vision. While dinosaurs and animals might be the usual subjects of wallpaper designs, Paperboy designs have an edge that’s certainly memorable and unique.

Visit Paperboy to learn more and order online.

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For a quick holiday gift idea, how about stuffing a stocking with a small set of custom personalized set of stationery.  A great gift for moms, grandparents, and even for the kids to write their thank you’s.

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These handmade leather animal bookends would make a great gift idea from grandparents looking for something that Jr. probably doesn’t have yet.  Ducks and roosters are also available to mix and match.

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Shopped around Etsy today and found these unique gifts you probably won’t find at the mall.

• Snowflake Cookies
• Crayon Apron
• Wool Felt Clock
• Silhouette Portrait with Elephant
• Little Car Yo-yo
• Kitty Egg Crayons
• DIY Whoopie Pie Kit
• Perpetual Paris Photo Calendar

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