Subscription Boxes for Healthy Living
Our subscription-box series continues with services that let you pamper yourself inside and out.
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A $20 Box of Awesome: La Bella Box
Our subscription box review series continues with La Bella Box, an affordable assortment of boutique items.
Continue ReadingA Delicious Subscription: Knoshbox
Monthly subscription boxes are a delicious trend. Here’s a look at Knoshbox, an assortment of artisan foods delivered to your door.
Continue ReadingWear Your Music
Repurposed guitar strings make great bracelets and help charity.
Continue ReadingGeeky Gifts for Your Geek Dad!
Ever since becoming a writer for GeekMom, I’ve found that there are geeky gifts lurking around every corner, you just have to know YOUR geek. Read about some last minute suggestions for Father’s Day.
Continue ReadingDesktop Gremlins Makes a GeekMom Papercraft!
Our friends at Desktop Gremlins, home of awesome papercrafts that require no knives or glue or tape, have created a brand new papercraft, just for GeekMom!
Continue ReadingWonderCon Highlights Part 2: Fun Finds
I know, I know! Time runs away with you when you park your six kids with your parents and skip town for a comics convention and then come home and there’s all kinds of laundry to do, and suddenly a week has passed since you wrote your WonderCon Highlights Part 1 post and if you […]
Continue ReadingSecret Scents Perfume Lockets
What an amazing gift. I’m talking about the bold and beautiful lockets designed by our own GeekMom artist Brigid Ashwood. More than a piece of jewelry, each one also exudes a delicate fragrance when worn against your skin’s warmth. That’s because the locket compartment holds natural beeswax solid perfume. And each is customizable, letting […]
Continue ReadingBest! Present! Ever!
I’d guess that the year of my best present ever was 1983. I was in 5th grade and I opened an object of great wonder and mystery that rocked my 10-year-old world. No, it wasn’t a Sears AM/FM clock radio, though I do look awfully happy about it in this old picture. It was an […]
Continue ReadingGeekMom 2011 Holiday Gift Guide #7: Miscellaneous
The seventh and final edition of our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide contains everything that didn’t fit under one of the other topics. We have music, videos, and other ideas. What are your last minute holiday gift ideas? Tony Bennett, Duets II $11.88 Bennett is not who you immediately picture when you think “geeky singer” but […]
Continue ReadingGeekMom 2011 Holiday Gift Guide #5: Toys and Activities for Older Kids and Adults
The fifth in our series of 2011 Holiday Gift Guides covers toys and activities for the older kids and grown-ups on your holiday gift list. Some of these are aimed toward the under-18 crowd, but many of them are just as much for grown-ups as they are for kids. What catches your eye? Share your […]
Continue ReadingGeekMom 2011 Holiday Gift Guide #4: Toys and Activities for Young Kids
Fourth in our series of 2011 Holiday Gift Guides covers toys for the younger kids on your holiday gift list. Babies, toddlers, and possibly early elementary kids will enjoy the items below. What are you giving to the young kids on your list this year? Share your ideas in the comments. Batik Kid $18.13 Age: […]
Continue ReadingGeekMom 2011 Holiday Gift Guide #3: Books
Third in our series of 2011 Holiday Gift Guides lists over two dozen books that we have discovered in the past year. Some are for grown-ups, some are for kids, and some are for babies. Some are educational, and some are just for fun. What are your favorite geeky books from the past year? Share […]
Continue ReadingMeet Puff, the Magic Dragon All Over Again
If your family is anything like ours, books are big. And especially books with, well, shall we say, magical elements. And that just happens to fit the bill for the kind of books we see from Sterling Publishing. Sterling has a lovely Children’s imprint, as well as many others, and you’ll often see their logo […]
Continue ReadingGlorious Do-Gooder Gifts
Living simply is important to me. I also love to give gifts. I reconcile this by giving ethical presents whenever possible. You know what I mean, purchases that help out a worthy organization. You can often buy such gifts at your local museum, house of worship, or any non-profit knowing that a portion of […]
Continue ReadingMolecular Jewelry – Elegant Yet Geeky Accessories
I’m not much of a jewelry wearer myself, so I think it’s funny that I keep meeting people who make amazing jewelry that is so perfect for GeekMoms. Awhile back I wrote about Tammy Stellanova and her wonderful steampunk style creations. Today, I have to share the work of scientist-turned-artist Raven Hanna. Featuring designs that look […]
Continue ReadingTrading In Dollars for Darsek with Klingon Monopoly
I have fond memories of playing Monopoly from my childhood. We had our own rules of course, every family does. You could buy a house on any property you owned when you landed on it again, even if you only owned one. I was virtually unaware of the need for a monopoly until I was […]
Continue ReadingNursery Rhyme Comics Knocks My Socks Off
I got my first glimpse of First Second’s new Nursery Rhyme Comics at Comic-Con this summer. Several of its contributors attended a gathering for children’s book writers and artists I’d helped organize, and they had a hot-off-the-presses advance copy of the book to pass around. For me, it was love at first page-turn. Comics creator […]
Continue ReadingLEGO USB Drive
If you’ve got a LEGO fanatic in your household as I do, you will appreciate that what looks like a simple 8-stud LEGO brick is actually a USB drive. Mind you, it’s not an actual LEGO brick (nor is it a LEGO product), but what better way to proclaim a love of all things LEGO […]
Continue ReadingThe Gift Of Wisdom
We recently gave the same gift to two very different people—a seventy-something gentleman who is retiring and a twenty-six year old woman receiving her master’s degree. Both were ridiculously pleased. The gift? Wisdom. That is, a book by that name filled with insights by prominent people who have had at least sixty-five years of […]
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