When you live in 500 square feet, even the smallest canine crate can cramp your style.

Take care of Fido and furnishings in one wag of the tail with BowHaus. Created by Seattle-based company DenHaus, it’s a sleek side table well-suited to your Bauhaus-era Barcelona chair, with space inside specifically for your sleeping pooch. Or if your taste points toward the traditional, there’s a wooden TownHaus too.

Your dog’s life just got a little less ruff.

$399-$599 at All Modern Pet, www.allmodernpet.com

When your son comes home from school with pink Crocs and a Barbie lunch kit he didn't leave home with, either it's time to start labeling his clothes—or buy him a subscription to Vogue.

Purchasing your fifth PCB-Free water bottle this school year, think of all the time and money you could have saved with stick-on name labels by Vancouver's Emily Press.

Specially designed to be laundry and dishwasher-safe, the tiny labels will make sure Poppy and  pencil case will always be reunited.

Design your custom labels at www.emilypress.com

For those who’ve ever left a pair of Chanel sunglasses in the washroom of a Petro-Canada, this dose is for you.

That latest edition to Montreal jewellry designer Mercedes La Rosa’s Bijougraphie collection is a spectacle holder ($70) to keep your glasses safely and stylish stowed around your neck. More luxe than librarian, the eyewear chain features the brand’s trademark hand-painted baubles in beautiful palettes and patterns.

That new Chloé pair isn’t going anywhere.

Available online at www.bijougraphie.com

Sliced bread, sugar free gum, nannies-on-call: all great ideas for moms.

Add to the list these brightly coloured silicone baking cups that can be used over and over, and washed in the dishwasher.

And best of all, no eating paper.

$3.47/6 at Nood in B.C. and Alberta or online at www.nooddesign.ca

If your Little Miss Pretty goes straight for your cosmetics bag the minute you turn around, you’re not alone.

Save your Chanel bronzer (and your carpets) from future make-up shake-ups by appeasing her with painted nails.

Hopscotch Kids' non-toxic nail polish comes in kid-friendly shades like Ice Cream, Bubblegum and Teddy Bear pink, and if she chews it off, no problem.

Now replacing that smashed Nars lipstick, that’s a problem.

Available online ($12.99) at www.raspberrykids.com

We're definitely not a smother mother, but neither are we a slummy mummy.

Perhaps that's why we're drawn again and again to the gorgeous wares at Nonchalant Mom.

We can attest personally to the loveliness of the pillows and delicate angel wings of Atsuko et Akiko and are lusting for their new sparkly masks and dressups.

We also love the Fleamarket section for its vintage toddler spoons and forks.

Which we will so nonchalantly integrate into our carefully curated collection of original Beatrix Potter bowls and Birks silver cups… not that we care, or anything.

www.nonchalantmom.com

Girls just wanna have fun, but when their gym kit makes them look like Little Miss Sunshine, you can bet they won't be turning cartwheels.

There's no sitting on the sidelines with Lilikiks, a Vancouver-based girls activewear line that has just launched its online store.

With on-trend colours, super-soft fabrics, and high-end technical detailing, styles like these will take them from tennis to track and back again.

She shoots, she scores!

Shop by sport or by style at their new e-store.

www.lilikiks.com

From fashion writer Derek Blasberg’s freshly penned book for young girls called Classy to Louis Vuitton’s fall runway of nipped waists and full skirts, being a lady is back in vogue (Lohans take note).

And in keeping with the return of ladylike behaviour is carrying a smaller, more structured purse. Covet the Céline classic box bag, but bring home a Rebecca Minkoff now. Her Heartthrob Clutch ($380) is a little Chanel and her Mini Morning After Bag ($575) is not unlike the doctor’s bags carried down LV’s fall runway.

Will it bag us a proper gentleman? Here’s hoping.

At Charlie & Lee, www.charlieandlee.com

Your kid's wardrobe runs the gamet from the practical (grey hoodie) to the ridiculous (remember when she would only leave the house in her Halloween costume for a month?).

Soft, a funky line of cotton clothing developed for children with sensitive skin, is as cool as it is comfortable. Tagless, zipperless and flat seamed, pieces are finished with eco-friendly enzyme washing to give them that soft, worn-in feeling. For a tongue-in-cheek dress-up session go for the unisex Tie Print tee (US$16, pictured).

And to answer your question, yes, an adult line is coming soon.

www.softclothing.net

Who wears the pants in your family?

Why baby, of course.

So they may as well be cute and organic, like the new range of baby bloomers from Vancouver’s Playpants.

There’s “Laundry Day” in organic indigo denim ($24.95) and “Sunday Brunch” in all-natural cotton and hemp, or a wide range of prints for stylish summer crawlers ($15.95).

Now that’s a bum wrap.

Shop online at www.playpants.ca