Chasing Fireflies

Whether or not you buy the clothes in Chasing Fireflies is irrelevant (of course the owners probably do not share this opinion), but this review suggests that you order the catalog (1-800-700-9474) and take a mental vacation browsing their beautiful children’s clothing and accessories.

Since my daughter only wears sports uniforms and hideous clothes that look like she stole them from a gang member, my purchasing anything from Chasing Fireflies is highly unlikely.

However, if I had my way (and shared the philosophy of spending close to $400 on a child’s outfit, which I do not), I would buy the Gold Spun Wrap Dress with pale purple petticoat that boasts “heirloom quality.”

In actuality, there are several items I would consider buying like the Automoblox wooden cars. My four-year old son has one of them and loves it. The Automoblox are sold in most toy stores.

The award winning wooden automobiles connect, disconnect, hold plastic people and are generally cool for little hands and big imaginations. Countless times I have found myself playing with my son’s Automoblox.

Relative (to a month’s worth of food in a third world country), they are inexpensive at $35 a car, but it’s a great gift to put on grandmother’s list.

One of the more fabulous offerings from Chasing Fireflies is the Double Dots Tee and Prima Pettiskirt. Seriously, if these were offered in adult sizes I might just buy one to wear around the house. My tomboy, however, would projectile vomit on the layers upon layers of soft chiffon.

If I didn’t have a brain inside my head and wanted to provide immediate gratification to my id, without hesitation I would purchase the 65-set Twig Crayons for $150.

The photograph that depicts the sharpened colored crayons begs me to sell my soul and buy them. However, years of therapy and a dose of good sense tells me I could buy 75 boxes of Crayola 264 crayons for the same price. Experience tells me that my children would scatter the $150 crayons the same way they explode the cheap crayons.

Then there is the part of the story that when the twig crayons cannot be sharpened with a regular sharpener then my overburdened ass would hoof it down to Office Max to buy a pencil sharpener that would consequently break. I would have to return the sharpener for a second electric sharpener that would also break.

After a heated conversation with the store manager, the manager would inform me that the pencil sharpener was made in China and designed to sharpen no more than five pencils at one setting. Anger would overtake me and I would threaten to bomb Office Max and China.

Gosh, what happened? I fell into a tangential pit! But I’m out now and I remember my point….

Order the Chasing Fireflies catalog and let me know what you think of their super-good, yet pricey items.