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July 27th, 2010
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July 21st, 2010
“Sold Out” Items Arriving Soon
7/21/10 = Our ‘Sold Out’ items have arrived today – yeahhhh!.
For customers who have already placed an order: All ‘back ordered’ shipments have been shipped and you should receive your tracking numbers shortly via email.
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July 13th, 2010
Tea parties are a great idea for birthdays or for a simple get-together for girls and their friends. Girls love the idea of a party where they can dress up in tutu skirts and other costumes to have tea and cookies with friends in a decorated and imaginative setting. Decorating and setting up a tea party does not have to cost a lot of money, but can make the difference in creating a fun and exciting experience for the party attendees.
Costume ideas
The Alice in Wonderland theme is popular for tea parties. Some of the costumes may include tutu skirts, butterfly wings, top hats, and rabbit ears. Children might also dress up as different animals like rabbits or cats to match the story theme.
Tutu skirts can be combined with various other costume add-ons such as rabbit ears and butterfly wings. There is no such thing as a perfect way to dress up for an Alice in Wonderland tea party, so be creative and have fun with the costume choices.
Decorating
The decoration theme should be based on a sort of random and creative design that mimics the Mad Hatter tea party. Decorations might include paper lanterns, various teapots with different colored saucers, and “odd” furniture. The theme typically involves a lot different colors, so as many variations of color as possible can be used for the best effect.
A chess set might be put out with the board and pieces scattered about. Another idea is to decorate walls or other areas with large playing cards. Fake or real flowers are a great addition, and smaller playing cards can be used to decorate flower vases.
Other ideas
Playing the soundtrack from the Alice in Wonderland animated movie sets the musical scene. Food and drink ideas can be as simple as cookies and punch, or slightly more elaborate Cheshire cat, top hat, and clock-shaped cookies with decorative frosting. Gift bags filled with stickers, candy, small mirrors, or toy jewelry make great party favors.
Be Creative
There are many ways to go about decorating and dressing up for the party. Costumes can be as simple as tutu skirts or as elaborate as rabbit and cat-themed costumes. The most important thing is to have fun with the design and preparation of a Wonderland-themed tea party and let your imagination take care of the fine details.
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July 1st, 2010
Want to surprise your little girl with a beautiful wonderland, all her own? Transform her bedroom into a mystical garden with butterflies, bumblebees, and ladybug decorations. Ideas and materials can be found and bought online, allowing you to personalize her private garden with magnificent decals, wall hangings, and mobiles of butterflies, bumblebees, and ladybugs.
Tie back the curtains with decorated ties and ribbons and place a mobile above her bed to allow sweet dreams to flow. You can also paint her name onto the wall, or, if that’s too difficult, buy wall decals of letters to spell it out with ease. Choose the letters in her name, and the bugs that she would most enjoy. Place colored swirled flowers around the walls, and add some buzzing bumblebees next to them. Create a wonderland she will enjoy time and time again.
The options are endless, and you can add so much to her room. You can place a sun, clouds, and many other options of wall stickers to her walls to add a little more to the scenery. Choose baby bumblebees and smiling bumblebees to complete the scene. Give her room a little shine with glitter bumblebees—They can pollinate the glitter flowers. A garden transformation is affordable, beautiful, and unique for your special girl.
You can be sure that you get everything she needs for her imagination to take flight. Decorate with confidence.
Tags: bumblebee decorations, Butterfly Decorations, interior garden, Ladybug Decorations, Wall Stickers, wonderland
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June 30th, 2010
BUGS-N-BLOOMS RELEASES NEW PRODUCTS AND OFFERS SPECIAL DISCOUNT
New products satisfy growing customer demands; discount for 10% off baby items
June 30, 2010 – Bugs-n-Blooms, the premier retailer of bugs and bloom decor and children’s items, is offering a new coupon to save shoppers for more.
Bugs-n-Blooms is a premium seller of butterfly and flower decorations, children’s dress up and imaginative play clothes, and accessories The store is expanding their inventory, offering customers new sizes, styles and products to meet popular demand and customer requests.
The new products will include new sizes of some of the best sellers, such as the two-tone flowers and brown glitter ladybugs. Popular shimmer ladybugs will be released in new colors and a new size. New styles of the multi-layered combo mobile which has a butterfly, dragonfly, ladybug, bee and flower; and mini shimmer ladybugs in green and pink will also be available, which is sure to liven up any bedroom. The retailer is also releasing new tutu skirts with butterfly wings and headbands.
Each of these new products will be available after July 14, and are sure to please customers new and returning.
The new coupon gives shoppers 10% off their entire purchase on baby items. There is no minimum on the amount the shopper has to spend on the purchase they make to redeem the coupon offer. This is one coupon that customers will be able to feel appreciated while using without having to spend a large minimum amount to redeem.
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June 24th, 2010
A bug-themed party makes a fun and unique birthday party. It is a great opportunity to teach children about insects and spark their interest in science. Bug birthday parties do not have to cost much, and they can be a lot of fun for both parents and children.
Decorations
For younger children, it is better to use dragonfly, butterfly, or ladybug decorations that are less “scary.” Older children might enjoy grasshopper and spider decorations as well. It would also be fun to get the children involved with designing and setting up the ladybug decorations themselves with the assistance of adults.
The best place to hold a bug birthday party would be outside, to create more interaction with nature. Napkins with bug designs printed or drawn on them and plastic bugs placed on table covers can spice up the table.
Games
“Pin the spider on the web” could be a modified version of “pin the tail on the donkey.” Just use a web drawn on a poster board and a spider instead of the donkey’s tail. The child who gets closest to the middle of the web, wins.
Another fun game called “run ants run!” would have one child selected as a leader and the rest of the kids would follow the leader around the yard. Minor obstacles can be set up around the yard like cones. Whichever action that the leader performs, the rest of the children have to follow. When the leader yells “run!” the children have to run back to a designated home area before the leader tags them. The last remaining child wins the game.
Food
There are several food ideas you may wish to include. There’s the traditional and simple “ants on a log,” which are celery stalks filled with peanut butter and topped with raisins. Butterfly or other insect-shaped crackers can be used with some type of meat and/or cheese.
There are also several bug candies that can be used, such as gummy worms or spiders. Gummy worms can be mixed with crushed Oreos in a cup for a “worms in dirt” treat. Drinks might include “bug juice punch” which can be as easy as mixing orange juice with green food coloring.
For a bug-themed birthday party, get a bug-shaped cake. Bug cupcakes can be made from something as simple as a regular cupcake decorated with two pretzels for butterfly wings and some frosting for a butterfly body and head.
Tags: bug birthday party, dragonfly decorations, Ladybug Decorations, Nylon Butterflies
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June 22nd, 2010
The following blog was posted by a customer of ours, and is so adorable, we just had to share it with you:
“It’s birthday party week! Last Saturday, we threw Lila’s first birthday party (she turns one on the 28th, but due to scheduling conflicts we celebrated a bit early!). So this week is a series of party posts!
The inspiration for the party theme? Her nickname. We’ve been calling her Lila Bug since she was born. Only made sense to have a Lila-Bug themed 1st birthday party! And we knew it had to be colorful.
The greatest thing about this party was how much help we had pulling it off. EVERYONE pitched in – - which was truly wonderful. So thank you to all of our family and friends!
I have to say that I got a lot of ideas for the party from the TomKat Studio’s blog. Kim does some AMAZING things at her parties and always posts the most beautiful pictures! It’s a great place to browse ideas and choose the ones that work within your time limits and budget. The idea for the marshmallow bug pops came from her post on her daughter Kate’s third birthday party. I just added some black licorice for antennas. The handy step-by-step instructions on the Hostess with the Mostess blog were really helpful, too!
Even though I would have loved to be able to slave over some of the handmade paper items that appeared at Lila’s party (well, maybe… could be the mom guilt setting in), I simply don’t have enough hours in the day. Enter Etsy. If you haven’t had a chance to check out this ebay-type site for makers of handmade things and those that love to buy ‘em, you should. I found tons of sellers that handcraft adorable birthday banners and signs. A quick email to Kelly at Burley Girl Designs and I had a gorgeous ladybug happy birthday banner and door sign!
Although I usually like to use local vendors for things, print costs are often high. Online shops are usually more economic — and TinyPrints has been my online savior for all things stationary. I worked via email with a designer to customize the text on one of their ready-to-pint designs, added a photo of Lila, and the invites arrived via mail in about 7 days. Didn’t they turn out cute?
Last but not least (in terms of the design!), were the ladybug centerpieces. I had seen the wheatgrass/gerbera daisy centerpieces while perusing the Hostess with the Mostess blog’s cute post on a Modern Ladybug Party Theme. I sent the photo to John at The Cutting Garden in Westminster, and he came up with a Baptisia greens/Gerber daisy version. I added the nylon pink and green ladybugs – - ordered from Bugs-n-Blooms online.”
Tags: lady birds, lady bugs, ladybug, ladybug birthday, ladybug decor, Ladybug Decorations, ladybug party, ladybugs
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June 18th, 2010
Let’s face it, we’ve all been there at some point: standing at the door of our daughter’s room and we start thinking, “She might still be a child, but she’s not a baby anymore. Maybe it’s time to redecorate.” But when we actually start thinking about what elements to choose for her room or how to decorate, we are at a loss. But a beautiful design is easy.
First considerations
When it comes to decorating a child’s room, the first thing to choose is a theme, a main motif that sets the tone. And what better theme for a girl’s room than butterflies? Butterfly decorations are not only easy to find and implement, but are also among a common favorite.
To start, peek into your little girl’s favorite books, clothes and other things that can tell you about her taste and style. I’m always surprised how defined my child’s tastes can be at a young age, so this step is crucial and deserves some time.
Once you get her “style,” then it is time to go shopping, and you should start with a nice butterfly-themed wallpaper. The wallpaper sets the tone for the rest of the decoration. Think about it as the “background music” or as the “soundtrack” of a movie you are filming.
Moving inwards
Once you decide on the wallpaper, it is time to move onto the accessories. A nice set of bed sheets, a pencil case, some prints and even a diary, all these little details go a long way into adding richness to your little girl’s experience every time she walks into her room.
You may also consider creating a “focal point” in her room. I personally like to add a small couch to the corner of her room beside her bed. This allows me to leave her desk totally distraction-free so she can focus in her study whenever she needs to.
Some last-minute tips
Get creative and use nylon butterflies on some of the items in her room. These are inexpensive, come in many sizes and provide a lot of flexibility, since you can remove them at any time. They are also a great way to personalize what would otherwise be “cold” or “distant” items, like clothes hangers and trash bins.
When it comes to decorating, most people think in just one dimension, but you can also add some sound. Something soft and calming like the sound of the forest or other background tone that reinforces the butterfly theme can definitely be complete your room.
Tags: bedroom design, Butterflies, Butterfly Decor, Butterfly Decorations, Nylon Butterflies
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May 30th, 2010
Colorful, elegant, fragile — fitting descriptions for butterfly wings. No wonder that children and women love using them as hair accessories: the vivid colors, the elegant design on wings and the seemingly fragile nature of butterflies aptly symbolize who they are.
Girls’ headbands or bows will look more lovely if butterfly wings on top of flowers are added, as though there is a small, pretty garden on top of a girl’s head. These butterflies, made from durable nylon, come in a variety of colors that will match perfectly a girl’s costume or simple white dress.
For a costume party, dress your little girl with her usual ballet suit, put on a purple tutu, get her a large butterfly wing for her back, and, as final touches, pick a wand with small purple butterfly wing and a headband with flowers and butterfly wings. She will look even more beautiful — like a little fairy from a secret, magical garden.
Butterfly wings as hair accessories are not limited to matching a girl’s dress or costume–a bride will look enchanting and elegant with butterfly wings on her veil. A white, nylon butterfly designed with stylish embroidery and shiny, white and silver sequins or beads of different shapes and sizes will turn a simple veil into a majestic one. Every bride should feel royal and grand on her wedding day; and with her princess-like dress and lovely accessories, she will feel like a little girl whose dream of getting swept off her feet by a handsome prince finally came true.
Tags: Butterflies, Butterfly Costume, Butterfly Wings, hair accessories, hairbows
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May 26th, 2010
There’s nothing little girls love more than playing dress up, so when it’s time for your little one’s birthday, why not throw a ballerina party? This girl’s-only affair would require attendants dress up in tights, tutu skirts, ballet slippers and anything else with ruffles or frills.
Of course, there’s more to ballerina parties than tutu skirts. In fact, you’ll need to take a few things into consideration during the planning stage. For instance, when and where will the party take place? How many parents will be able to chaperone? How many children will be in attendance?
Once you’ve answered these vital questions, you can move onto some of the more fun aspects of party planning. For instance, consider the sort of decorations you’ll need to purchase or even make to give the party all of the tutu skirt frilliness it needs. Consider buying some pink tulle at a local craft store and hanging it up around the room or around the backyard. Buy plastic party cups in white, pink or black with party plates to match. And don’t forget the napkins! Little kids are messy, so have plenty for cleanup.
Consider the foods that will be served. If this is a birthday party, make sure the cake is completely decked out in the ballet theme. Other foods should just be simple and tailored for kids. Hamburgers and hot dogs always work.
Buy the tutu skirts, and decorate the area with tulle. The children can have fun dancing and twirling around feeling like little princesses.
In the end, have fun when planning a ballerina party and remember: your kids will have fun, no matter what!
Tags: ballerina party, girl birthday party, tutu skirts, Tutus
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