Sweetest stamp I've ever seen

Um, do these Craft Pudding stamps not make you want to have like a dozen babies already? Well, maybe not twelve, but at least one named Noa, one named Olivia and one named Isis. Oh, and a boy! I wouldn’t mind Alexi.

I’ve used them before here, but I recently ordered a Sebastien one and the stamps have since become one of my go-to gifts. Magda hand-carves each wooden stamp based on the photo you send her. We chose Max’s striped turtleneck as the base, and she perfectly captured my son’s lopsided grin, the contour of his chubby chipmunk cheeks and his happy-go-lucky hair. In fact, it’s possible I like his stamp self even more than the real life version of him.

With ours, we personalized thank-you card envelopes, valentines, photo backs and Post-its. We’ve even made labels with it (a great solution if your kid’s name is Audrey, Owen or Grace, or any other of last year’s top names). And now that my son’s learned the word “mine,” I think we’ll start stamping his books. And his crackers. If that works, I may even consider getting a “Mummy” stamp, and labelling the bed. The whole thing.

Custom name rubber stamp, $23 US, Craft Pudding.

—Melissa, CF’s associate editor