You know you secretly want to have the coolest kid in school...

This is SO rad! At Zazzle you can completely customize down to every detail, the inside, the stitching, the elastic! You can pick designs that other designers have created, (like in the first pic), you can take an existing template and customize it (2nd pic is an example of an existing template), you can create your design using their preloaded colors and patterns (3rd pick) and last, you can upload your own patterns and designs for a completely custom shoe. What is the world coming to?

BTW, you can customize so many other things as well, SKATEBOARDS?! Crazy, check it out.

Uh oh....

This does not bode well for the economy, huh? Although, I have to say, I never shopped there. Everything was too expensive and the few things (t-shirts and whatnot) that I did get from there fell apart. Oh well.

best swim suits I've seen in a long time

It is really hard to find a 2 piece bathing suit for little girls that doesn't look like it is from the pages of Sports Illustrated. There is a very narrow window in life where string bikinis are appropriate, somehow I totally missed it, but that is a different story altogether. I think all kids bathing suits should be 2 piece, for logistical reasons, but call me old fashioned, I think they should be cut modestly. Here are 2 that I LOVE. The hearts are from Old Navy and the zigzags are from the GAP. It's been awhile since they have really nailed bathing suites, but I think this is going to be a good year in this regard. The other 2 are sadly not 2 piece, but so super cute, it may be worth the ridiculous bathroom hassles that these would no doubt entail. Green is GAPkids girls and red is BabyGAP toddler sized.