Company Memo: Cityscapes, Holiday Parodies, and Gifts for Good

I love how Lorae gives us all the things we want and reminds us of what we need: easy ways to give back this holiday season, tangible reminders of the places we love, breaks from reality one belly laugh at a time. This holiday season—and always—I am grateful to have her friendship in my life. And, of course, her amazing finds. Thanks, Lorae, for a wonderful (and funny!) Company Memo.

Commemorate: Paper Cut City

I am always looking for unique gifts for people to commemorate a moment in time, and this company definitely fits the bill. Welcome Paper Cut City. The concept emerged from their love of travel and architecture, and wanting to document the cities they fell in love with. They started an Etsy shop with their unique paper cut outs and helped people share many of their favorite moments or places. I noticed their list of cities is still growing (sorry Charlottesville and Chapel Hill) but they have all the usual big city suspects to choose from. Wouldn’t this be a sweet way to brighten someone’s wall this Christmas?

Give: Daymaker

Cool Mom Picks is one of my favorites sites to stay up on what’s hip in parenting. This week they introduced me to a wonderful way to give back this holiday season through an organization called Daymaker. Daymaker started as a pilot platform sponsored by some instrumental non-profits to help foster holiday giving, and three years later this once-pilot program has morphed into a community that provides year-round giving from donors in 50 states to non profit partners all over the country to children in your community. Non-profits work with Daymaker to highlight the needs and wishes of at risk families and children to find the magic through our giving. Through Daymaker’s website site you can sponsor a child’s gift this holiday season. Your can search by state, city, gender, interest, age or family size. Not to sound lazy, but this is a win-win way of giving: you don’t have to go run another errand, or wrap another gift—you can sit down with your kids and read the profiles of the children, choose your gift, purchase it, and Daymaker will make sure that your gift gets to your child in need. ONLY issue, in order to make sure that your gift is received your must place your order by December 15th! Um, today. Do not fear, if you miss the Christmas deadline you can also use this site year round to sponsor a birthday gift, back to school or times of natural disasters.

Gift of Time: Mon Amie Watches

Mon Amie Watches is another fashion company with a cause. They make beautiful time piece gifts that allow you to impact others. Through a partnership with WE.org, Mon Amie invests a portion of all proceeds to sponsor projects in Kenya—items like education, food, clean water systems, health and opportunity. The watches are well made with leather finishing, colorful faces and select finishes. They also have a TRACK YOUR IMPACT tool to allow you to see what your purchasing is directly helping with. There are 5 watches to choose from each impacting a specific cause:

The Health Watch helps a women receive prenatal care in Kenya.

The Education Watch provides school supplies for one classroom.

The Food Watch provides school lunches for one child for two months.

The Opportunity Watch provides financial literacy training for 10 women.

The Water Watch provides clean water for a family for 2 weeks.

Babe Fashion Fix: GAP Outfit Box

Are you a Stitch Fix gal? Do you hate shopping? Do you struggle to put together cute outfits for your little ones? GAP has just made things easier for parents and gift givers everywhere. I am a little biased as a corporate GAP alum, but their clothes were awesome for my kids and I appreciated how they steered clear from the hokie appliques that drove me crazy in infant wear. They have created GAP OUTFIT BOX which is a curated fashion subscription service for children ages 0-3T. The box arrives quarterly and is based on your selected style preferences. You will receive 6 mix-and-match pieces of clothing for $70 (estimated $100 value) and you can pick and choose the items your keep. There is no styling fee and you have 21 days to return any of the items for refund if you’d like. Just like Blue Apron and many other you can always cancel or pause your subscription at any time. This could also make a great gift from a great aunty or uncle any time of year.

Watch: Home Alone: The Mom Version

I know I’m not alone in feeling like I am seriously running out of time, and we don’t to any major traveling for the holidays, but this weeks clip had me dreaming for sure. Take a few moments and appreciate this parody that What’s Up Moms this season. Oh and if you are over the age of 30 and grew up in the 90’s you need to watch this one too! These ladies have made a business of video tutorials for mom and were just named one of Forbes top parent influencers of 2017!

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