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Nope. Not an I-O-U... but a gift card. Of course! A fawn&forest electronic gift card.

Click here, fill out the information, add to your cart, enter your digits + a sweet email containing good news will instantly be sent to your loved one. 

Happy merriment for all.

Christmas is 10 days away (gasp!) and Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday December 21. There is still time to shop online (which is my only choice right now in cold+snowy Portland!). Gabrielle of the amazing blog Design Mom has put together a fun + thoughtful selection of guest gift picks, with her own comments, which is a lot of fun!

To check out Gabrielle's picks, click here and be sure to visit her blog, Design Mom!

Thanks Gabrielle!

I am having a lot of fun with these Guest Gift Picks! Ez from the blog Creature Comforts has a cozy + fun selection. To view her picks, click here. To visit her blog, Creature Comforts, click here.

Thanks Ez!

Check out the new feature in the Gifts+Ideas section: Guest Gift Picks by some of our favorite bloggers! Fun!

Jaime from Design Milk (design-milk.com) kindly chose her top picks - awesome! To check out her picks, click here.

Thanks Jaime!

Give handmade family heirlooms. Memories are irreplaceable. Save them, already!

We've got options:
1. Famille Summerbelle Family Tree (available in 3 amazing colorways) pictured above, right.
2. Good Stock Fill-In The Blank family Tree
3. Miss Natalie Heirloom Growth Chart shown above, left.
4. Notion Farm Tooth Fairy Kit
5. Alyson Beaton Baby's First Words ABC set

What a lovely time of the year to celebrate family + preserve memories.

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The ultimate mother-daughter gift? The handmade tea set by Kata Golda.  It's amazingly lovely. Not only is it soft-white glazed stoneware but it is incredibly cute with Kata Golda's signiture whimsical illustrations.

Hours of play + a family heirloom all in one gift. Available in 3  different sets (illustrations). Pig Party, pictured above.  Bunny + Horse also available.

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Give handmade.... organic cotton baby toys! My latest discovery?

1. Organic cotton teething toys soak up all the drool when they get chewed on.
2. Both the Teething BonBon and the Speesees teething "chew" toys are easy for babies to grasp.
3. Traditional fabric + plastic toys (you know the ones) for baby to chew on are about as healthy as MSG.

The Teething BonBon  by Dress Me Up is a fawn&forest top 5 best seller. Enough said, it's a brilliant twist on the old standard. Designed by a mom, of course. Dress Me Up  also has a lovely selection of other organic cotton goods.

Speesees, designer of amazing organic cotton baby + toddler clothes has recently debuted their trio of organic cotton "chew" toys. Owen, my 5 month old has been test-chewing through them, and from the looks of it, thoroughly approves! His favorite?  Hop.

Give handmade... ABC posters! Learn you ABC's and animals at the same time with Ink+Wit and Decoylab.

Ink+Wit's ABC's (pictured above,left) is off-set printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper and printed with soy inks in a lovely yellow, blue + silvery-grey colorway. Love!

Decoylab's ABC poster are available in 2 colorways: pink+blue and orange+green  silk screened on 80 lb. Finch Opaque Bright White Uncoated Paper using environmentally friendly water based inks. Fun!

Woo! It's "Give Handmade" week here on the Notes. F&F is stocked with oodles of handmade items made by talented designers + craftspeople. Today? Wood baby toys by Earnest Effort (pictures above left) and Little Alouette (above right).

It's no secret that babies like to put stuff in their mouths. Skip the plastic + piercing noises and go for wood. All natural!

The teething rattles by Earnest Efforts make a gentle noise + are available in variety of woods. My 5 month old's favorite? Walnut.

Little Alouette makes the most delightful wood teethers, available in 3 shapes, made of maple. Owen's pick? The Waldorf Handle Teether.

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Happy Friday! Cool socks = Nix. A totally fun nod to the old-school tube socks, all star style. Fits baby/toddler size 2-7 + Nix socks actually stay on the feet. Babies can wear the Nix as "knee highs" and toddlers as regular socks, a total hit. They earn a thumbs up in our house!

Available in a 2 pair pack, $16. Cushy, cozy + fun. Go Nix!

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Best gift for the easily amused? Perhaps for an 8 month old who likes to laugh? Hand puppets have endless possibilities. You can keep your cool & maintain your love for fine European toys all in 1 gift. No, not Elmo! Esthex!

Cute Esthex hand puppets are made of wool felt in the Netherlands, available in 3 cute characters shown above. Thumbs up at $19.95 each.

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And what about your sister/cousin/best friend who just found out she was pregnant... what's the best gift to give her? Not a pair of skinny jeans, that's for sure! A better idea: Essential Organizer's 40 Weeks+, a handy tool that simplifies the process of preparing for a baby.

And at $19.95, it's the perfect gift to give + receive!

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Best gift under $20 for the hungry tot? The Boon Mealtime Collection, of course! Boon makes mealtime fun:

1. Snack Ball :: Snack out of a ball, enough said. $6.49
2. Squirt :: Baby food dispensing spoon. Fun + potentially even more fun for baby! $7.99
3. Benders :: "Bendable" spoon. Ya, the neck of the spoon totally bends! $5.99
4. Fluid :: Ergonomical sippy cup. Of course. $5.99
5. Catch Bowl :: Voted the best bowl to drink cereal milk out of. $6.99

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Rockabye Baby is absolutely brilliant, transforming timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. Nirvana in a lullaby version? Sure! Coldplay, Bjork and U2? Amazing. The lullabies will most likely chill Mom + Dad out more than the baby, which is what all new parents need.

And for those veteran Moms + Dads who know the theme song of the Bernstein Bears and Roary the Racecar, Rockabye Baby rock  lullabies will make them very, very thankful. 

And what does Rockabye Baby sound like? Be sure to click on any of the records for a short sound clip. Pricepoint? $16.95.

The kids will have no choice but to save their coins with the Not Neutral piggy bank. There is no drain hole on the bottom of this piggy! Old school style where you have to crack the bank to get the money out....how cool is that?!

Available in 3 cool patterns: count, pretty and chick. Woo!

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The Moop Market Bag is the official, unofficial diaper bag. In a nutshell, it's perfect. Spacious enough for all the ruckus of babies + children, and yet still holds the integrity + style of an amazing bag.  The Market is made of heavy weight organic cotton and has enough pockets inside to make you feel organized + accomplished, with one big open space in the middle for all the rest

Give Momma a Moop.

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... Or best gift for the kids who won't stop drawing on the walls. Why fight it? It you can't beat 'em, join 'em? Whatever the case is, the Chalkals wall graphics by Estela Lugo are a great gift for all kids big + little. 

Chalkals? Chalkals wall graphics are like giant stickers you can stick to your wall that have a chalkboard finish and made of vinyl. Available in 8 cheeky designs, my pick would be the newly released set of Mushrooms. Funky fun.

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Okay, so maybe your 3 year old does not have to be an art-snob to think the alphabet card set by Ida Pearle is crazy cool. Gifting the child with a bit of art with an injection of ABCs is a good idea. Artist Ida Pearle's intuitive talent depicts children interacting with the alphabet :: (B) bouncing a ball (T) playing with a train and (L) licking a lollipop.

The ABC set includes 26 cards that would very thoughtfully fill up that big blank wall in the playroom for only $44.

Nice.

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What to get a baby with chubby legs? While insanely cute + cuddly, the baby with chubby legs is sometimes hard to shop for. What will fit? Will it look cute?  Will it fit?? Next to letting the chunky thighs go naked in all their glory, the organic Yoga Pants by Speesees are absolutely the best pant for the chubby baby leg.

It is not so much the width of the leg (as Speesees size runs parallel to other brands) as it is the cut of the pant that flatters the chubby baby leg. The slight flair on the bottom of the pant as well as the roomy rump provide the chubby baby with style and comfort. Made of a heavier organic cotton interlock that does not hike up or get stretched out.

So, skinny babies would look cute in the organic Yoga Pants too, though, I would not know. I have a chubby baby. And no, that is not my baby in the image above. Owen is much, much chubbier.

Complete the gift with this onesie by Little Lark.

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