A blog for everything: moderncat.net
Ciaran, Anya, Josh and I just got back from Las Vegas, where we attended the ABC Kids Expo, the largest tradeshow of baby and kid-related gear (albeit with an unfortunately URL’ed one). Imagine Babies R Us but 30 times bigger. There I met with a bunch of my favorite vendors and some new ones. Ciaran will be posting lots of stories about the products that celebs are loving and I hope to post a few reviews of my own – both on CBB and on the new JC Penney mini-site that I was invited to contribute to (launching this weekend). Some lines I learned about include Kaboost, Xeko, and Bright Starts from Kids II.
One of my visits at ABC was to Boon, home of the Frog Pod bath toy scoop and storage amphibian, and many other hip and ingenius products including a great new line of baby feeding items, jewelry, and layette. I met with Kate Benjamin, the marketing director, who has got to be one of the coolest people I’ve come to know in the baby gear world. She told me about her new blog, moderncat.net (I guess moderncat.com was taken?), which is all about products for the modern cat. Yes, it has come to that — blogs for cats with modern design sensibilities (or at least their finicky owners). Then again, less than four years ago people were laughing at the idea of a blog all about the offspring of celebrities. Before you know it, there will be 10 copycat sites and we’ll all be saying we knew Kate when she was a lowly marketing director…
Anyway, if you are a catmom or a lover of contemporary design, I urge you to check out this site that takes modern design, but not itself, seriously. After all, if you are going to have a cat bed in your living room, why not have one made of bent plywood that matches your Eames furniture?
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September 14th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Thanks for posting this Danielle! Since I do not have any children, my cat, Elliott, is spoiled rotten so this will come in handy.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:09 am
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Based on the Research Of Int’l Personality Profiler Kerri Hopkins – Here’s the info on Jamie Lynn Spear’s new Baby Girl
“Maddie Briann” – She’s going
to have both her mom & dad’s personality. Her 1st name will make her more like her mom Jamie – she’ll be busy,
dariing, helpful to her parents, but then she’ll be defiant .. she’s going to have to always be active, she’ll do well
at pretty much everything she attempts and forget giving her a Hallmark Card for her Birthday .. this one’s going to
prefer
her own American Express Card .. she’s going to LOVE spending money .. just like her mom – so hopefully Jamie Lynn
invests well to provide her with a nice big trust fund – She’s going to need it. As for her middle name Briann, this
makes her more like her dad Casey – Casey’s are misunderstood, Caseys and Brianns want to belong, they want to be
loved, but this feeling often escapes them when they’re growing up. They get taken advantage of and wear their heart
on
their sleeve. She’ll be a real sweetheart, but because she feels “left out” sometimes, she’ll have a sadness to her. On
this level, she & her dad Casey can really bond, because he has this same feeling of wishing he was loved more. So
she has a domineering as well as a retreating personality all rolled into one – so she’ll go through life with a split
personality – sometimes she’ll be a force to reckon with – then the rest of the time, she’ll do whatever she can to
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fellow co-workers or relatives . log onto http://www.breakingthenamecode.com