Kids' tales: David Kirk has mesmerized children with his eye-popping illustrations and witty, rhymed verse in Miss Spider picture books and baby animal tales guaranteed to garner a giggle. Target stores snagged him to design a collection of clothes, home and garden products fashioned from bees, grasshoppers, ladybugs, butterflies as light and airy as his tales. Miss Spider step stool, $14.99, rocker, $19.99, storage bin, $12.99. Due in stores in January.

Partay: If your New Year's Eve party needs a boost that the finest bubbly just doesn't deliver, how about a motorized mirror ball, known by the uncool as a disco ball? The John Travoltas in the crowd won't be able to keep the shimmy from their hips. The 8-inch motorized ball can be attached to a strobe or spotlight to scatter rotating flashes of light on the floor and walls and freeze dancer's gyrations. $19.99 at Radio Shack stores.

Princess pretty: Delicate pink rose petals floating within the double-net blue skirt of this tutu attached to a long-sleeved cotton "onesie" transform any average baby (if there is such a thing) into a instant princess fairy. By Beary Basics. $40 at Ellabella at Shops of Camargo, 7811 Laurel Ave., Madeira. 561-0842.