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Dana

Dana Holmes is a proud Brooklyn mom and founder of Metro Mom Club, a source for urban moms who want to stay stylish while raising thoughtful, brilliant, bad ass city kids. She has been writing about etiquette, occasions, gift ideas, trends and family fun for more than a decade and has been interviewed by the New York Times, Associated Press, TODAY in NY and many, many more.

AdviceProduct Reviews

These last few days have been BRUTAL to say the least. But I had one lucky turn of fate that has made it an Arctic blast in a good way. No, I didn’t drink or drug myself into a state of false euphoria. Those days are long gone. Ha. I had the chance

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Kiddos

I just got the latest Tea Collection catalog and couldn’t resist picking out a few of their greatest hits. Although they tend to be a little too “gypsy” for me in general; they do have some adorable clothes for kids that are well designed, well made and fun for the kiddos

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geometry trend
Inspiration

No, I’m not talking about STEM toys. You’ll see a post on that soon enough. I’m talking about tessellation taking over every aspect of our well-designed lives. It only makes sense. We’re so overloaded with chaos as city people that a little simple touch of clean and classic geometry goes

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Moms

If you were to tell me 10 years ago that I would be writing about the awesome stuff at Talbots I would have laughed in your face. But, I always say,  “if you never find yourself feeling like  hypocrite, then you’re never evolving” so, here I am. While flipping through the

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AdviceFeaturedKiddos

Before I had a baby I swore up and down that no child of mine was going to sit in front of a screen regularly. Well, times have changed in my house. We still don’t watch TV every day, or even on most days. But the few times a week when we

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