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Elio’s Incredibly Cool Indian-inspired Room

This is a small room, and it is actually quite simply decorated, but it is so incredibly cool. The photo wallpaper (taken by the boy’s father, Pieter Estersohn) makes the room actually look bigger and brighter. In the last picture, you can see how the room has grown with the child. Original photo wallpaper is [...]

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Dohar Baby Blankets

Dohar blankets are Indian summer blankets made of three layers of fine cotton. The middle layer is printed and the outer layers are plain, so that the pattern of the middle shows through. Since the outer layers are unprinted, the fabric remains much softer.

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Sigge’s Vintage Playroom

Alec’s little friend Sigge has the coolest playroom. It’s actually his nursery, but since his (bright green!) crib is still in his parents’ room, we’ll call it a playroom for now. Sigge’s parents and I lived and worked in India at the same time, and there are some cool finds from New Delhi, like the [...]

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Moochic Baby

As always, I’m excited when I come across something India-related for baby. Moochic Baby‘s authentic block-prints on cotton are similar to what you could by at Fab India or Anokhi in India. Somehow this technique and these prints just lend themselves so well to baby bedding and there is such a clean crisp feel about these quilts and more, at the [...]

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Kids Book: That’s How I See Things

Since part of our little Alec’s mixed heritage is Indian, I love to find baby stuff from India  for him, so I was extra happy to find the book That’s How I See Things on the fabulous Babyccino Kids recently. The story is about an artist who creates animals as he sees them himself and the book is beautifully illustrated by [...]

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Rikshaw Design

Our little Alec has a very mixed heritage and about half of it is Indian as my husband was born in India. So I love finding contemporary Indian-inspired design for Alec. And Rikshaw Design has timeless, elegant and very genuinely Indian designs that are perfect for children. Gorgeous!

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