'dandelions' silkscreen by Sara Kugelmass from kids deserve art

This set of silk screened dandelion prints by artist Sara Kugelmass is on wood panels. Each is 12" x 12" with a 1" depth, and with a key hole cut out on back of each panel for easy and secure hanging. Skårt prints are all 100% handmade using eco-responsible materials such as FSC sponsored sustainable wood, water based paints and  eco- friendly, low VOC sealants.

Kids Deserve Art is a mom-owned online art gallery. Haley-O started the gallery after her first child was born in 2005. She always had a love for art, and a strong belief that cultivating children's appreciation for art can significantly enrich their lives. While searching for art for her daughter’s nursery, her mission became clear: she wanted to bring genuine art into children’s lives, while supporting the artists in her community. And so, as the saying goes, Kids Deserve Art was born.

The pieces in the gallery -- which include paintings, growth charts, coat hooks, light-switch plates, drawer pulls, tote bags, and more -- are all created by professional Canadian artists. Kids Deserve Art is a part of Haley’s personal website Cheaty Monkey, which is also a celebration of kids and the art of motherhood.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Dandelions silkscreen by Sara Kugelmass from Kids Deserve Art (origin: Canada)

Starting bid: $40.00

'daisy, rhino and the sock monkey' painting set from kids deserve art

Daisy the Cow and Rayme the Rhinoceros are 8x10", and The Sock Monkey is 6x8". These adorable and totally unique paintings will add creativity and character to any child’s room! Keep them all for yourself, or give as a gift. All are hand-painted on stretched and mounted canvas, ready to hang.

Kids Deserve Art is a mom-owned online art gallery. Haley-O started the gallery after her first child was born in 2005. She always had a love for art, and a strong belief that cultivating children's appreciation for art can significantly enrich their lives. While searching for art for her daughter’s nursery, her mission became clear: she wanted to bring genuine art into children’s lives, while supporting the artists in her community. And so, as the saying goes, Kids Deserve Art was born.

The pieces in the Kids Deserve Art gallery -- which include paintings, growth charts, coat hooks, light-switch plates, drawer pulls, tote bags, and more -- are all created by professional Canadian artists. Kids Deserve Art is a part of Haley’s personal website Cheaty Monkey, which is also a celebration of kids and the art of motherhood.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Daisy, Rhino, and the Sock Monkey painting set from Kids Deserve Art (origin: Canada)

Starting bid: $25.00

'monster trucks' painting set from kids deserve art

Both of these cool, brightly-coloured paintings of trucks are 8x10”, hand-painted on stretched and mounted canvas and ready to hang.

Kids Deserve Art is a mom-owned online art gallery. Haley-O started the gallery after her first child was born in 2005. She always had a love for art, and a strong belief that cultivating children's appreciation for art can significantly enrich their lives. While searching for art for her daughter’s nursery, her mission became clear: she wanted to bring genuine art into children’s lives, while supporting the artists in her community. And so, as the saying goes, Kids Deserve Art was born.

The pieces in the Kids Deserve Art gallery -- which include paintings, growth charts, coat hooks, light-switch plates, drawer pulls, tote bags, and more -- are all created by professional Canadian artists. Kids Deserve Art is a part of Haley’s personal website Cheaty Monkey, which is also a celebration of kids and the art of motherhood.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Monster Trucks painting set from Kids Deserve Art

Starting bid: $20.00

'dragon' coat hooks from kids deserve art

This hand-painted hook set is 6.5” high by 30” wide, and features our popular dragon character that enlivens any child’s room.

Kids Deserve Art is a mom-owned online art gallery. Haley-O started the gallery after her first child was born in 2005. She always had a love for art, and a strong belief that cultivating children's appreciation for art can significantly enrich their lives. While searching for art for her daughter’s nursery, her mission became clear: she wanted to bring genuine art into children’s lives, while supporting the artists in her community. And so, as the saying goes, Kids Deserve Art was born.

The pieces in the Kids Deserve Art gallery -- which include paintings, growth charts, coat hooks, light-switch plates, drawer pulls, tote bags, and more -- are all created by professional Canadian artists. Kids Deserve Art is a part of Haley’s personal website Cheaty Monkey, which is also a celebration of kids and the art of motherhood.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Dragon Coat Hook from Kids Deserve Art - colours may vary (origin: Canada)

Starting bid: $30.00

'princess and the pea' canvas-mounted painting from kids deserve art

One of the most popular girl paintings at Kids Deserve Art, this 16x20" piece is hand-painted on stretched and mounted canvas and dusted with a touch of fairy glitter. Ready to hang.

Kids Deserve Art is a mom-owned online art gallery. Haley-O started the gallery after her first child was born in 2005. She always had a love for art, and a strong belief that cultivating children's appreciation for art can significantly enrich their lives. While searching for art for her daughter’s nursery, her mission became clear: she wanted to bring genuine art into children’s lives, while supporting the artists in her community. And so, as the saying goes, Kids Deserve Art was born.

The pieces in the Kids Deserve Art gallery -- which include paintings, growth charts, coat hooks, light-switch plates, drawer pulls, tote bags, and more -- are all created by professional Canadian artists. Kids Deserve Art is a part of Haley’s personal website Cheaty Monkey, which is also a celebration of kids and the art of motherhood.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Princess and the Pea canvas-mounted painting from Kids Deserve Art (origin: Canada)

Starting bid: $30.00

signed 20th anniversary hardcover edition of 'sleeping dragons all around' by sheree fitch & nimbus publishing

Sheree Fitch’s celebrated lipslippery poetry and Michele Nidenhoff’s colourful illustrations combine to make one of the most delightful children’s books ever published in Canada. In this classic children’s book, a girl wakes up in the middle of the night and wants some cake.

But to reach the refrigerator, she has to tiptoe past a host of sleeping dragons—like Priscilla in her pink pantaloons, the punk rock dragon Fagan with spiky green hair, and Beelzebub (who sleeps in the tub). When she stubs her toe, the dragons wake up, and she has to think fast to befriend the dragons.

Sheree Fitch has won almost every major award for Canadian children’s literature, including the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work Inspirational to Canadian Children. She has over twenty-five books to her credit. Fitch’s home base is the east coast of Canada. She dances with dragons daily.

Nimbus Publishing (blog here) produces more than thirty new titles a year on a range of subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces—children’s picture books and fiction, literary non-fiction, social and cultural history, nature photography, current events, biography, sports, and cultural issues.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

A signed copy of Sleeping Dragons All Around (hardcover, 20th anniversary edition) (origin: Nova Scotia, Canada)

Starting bid: $25.00

custom, handmade child's play pants by mike adamick

These adorable toddler or small child play pants are based on a gorgeous oliver + s pattern, and will be custom made to the bid winner's specifications (sizes, gender, colours) by Mike Adamick -- a dad and self-proclaimed seamster who prowls San Francisco's fabric and thrift stores, hoping to find castoff outfits or fabric scraps he can refashion into clothes for his daughter, Emmeline.

He knows there will come a day when she decides it's just unbelievably tacky to wear a dress made out of used sport coats -- "I mean really dad, as if ..." -- but until then you can usually find him in front of his trusty Kenmore, his daughter perched on his lap, the two of them happily sewing as the gentle whir of the machine tints the world around them with joy and magic and promise.

When he's not sewing or finger painting with Emmeline, he regularly writes for National Public Radio, The New York Times, McSweeney's, the San Francisco Chronicle and his own blog, Cry It Out: Memoirs of a stay-at-home dad. He is addicted to musicals, reruns of the Gilmore Girls and cage fighting.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Handmade toddler/small child oliver + s play pants (Origin: San Francisco, California)

Starting bid: $35.00

signed first edition: The Dread Crew, Pirates of the Backwoods

Get one of the last remaining first editions of The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods - literally from the very last box of 24 hardcovers lugged away from the Nimbus Publishing warehouse in the trunk of author Kate Inglis's car. She'll sign it for you as you like, and will send it with complimentary Nova Scotian sand sprinkling and maple syrup residue.

 photos courtesy the lovely mommymae

The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods is recommended for antsy boys who long for glory, for spritely girls inclined to reach out for adventure, and for good-humoured grown-ups who like the smack of limburger and jalapeno calzones with a dash of junebug pepper. This book is not recommended for genteel folk with fears of heights, uncontrolled speed, thievery, thuggery and general recklessness.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

First edition signed by the author, Kate Inglis (origin: Nova Scotia, Canada)

Starting Bid: $20.00

Ahoy, matey! Pirate ship decal set

Wordcandy Vinyl Art by Allison Adams is is about making children's spaces that are fun, bright, and creative. Each piece is made of high quality vinyl that can be applied to any smooth surface. Stick them to walls, doors, cars, windows, glass jars, metal, wood, concrete, virtually anywhere you want! The final product looks like paint without the mess!

Turn your kids' bedroom into a little pirate's dream come true with the Ahoy Matey Pirate Ship Vinyl Decal Set.

The Ahoy Matey set comes complete with the following items:

Pirate ship measuring 32" wide x 44" high
Water 23" wide x 6.5" tall
Treasure Map 10" x 10"
Parrot 3" wide x 5" high
Anchor 6.5" wide x 7.5" high
Treasure Chest 10" x 10"
Ahoy Matey 17" wide xx 3" high

Dashes and X marks the spot to place how you like leading to treasure chest. This set comes in colors pictured unless otherwise specified. The base of the ship is only available in black, but the sails and mast may be customized to the color(s) of your choice. Instructions on how to apply included with every order.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Ahoy Matey Pirate Ship Vinyl Decal Set by WordCandy Vinyl Art (origin: USA)

Starting bid: $30.00