Ladybug Decorations: Not Just For Little Girls

When you think about little boys playing outdoors on a spring day--picking up bugs and trying to catch butterflies -- it is a moment of precious childhood that you never forget. Consider bringing the outdoors in by decorating your son's room with bumblebees, butterflies, and ladybug decorations so your little one can let his imagination soar.

Mini ladybug decorations are adorable little creatures, covered in nylon with a wire frame, that are soft and bendable. You can put all the mini bugs on the wall or scatter them throughout the room. They can be put on a doorknob with a loop or dangled from the ceiling with a piece of fishing line. They can be mixed and matched with other little bugs to convert a little boy's room into an (indoor) outdoor wonderland.

Hanging ladybug room decorations are larger than the mini bugs, but they are also soft and bendable with hand-painted black dots and glitter on the wings for a special touch. Your little one will welcome the smiling ladybugs into his collection. Put them on the wall or hang them from the ceiling.

One great decorating idea is to create a 3D outdoor wall mural.  Start with a bright blue sky background adding clouds, green grass, a bright smiling sun, and even a pond.  You can add a huge 3D tree, and don't forget the little bugs that all boys love, as well as frogs, reptiles, and birds. How about including a picture of your little one sitting on a tree swing? This idea can be as exciting as you make it.  Ask your little man to help with the painting.  Adding his special touch will make it a fun time to spend together and he will be excited and proud of his accomplishment.

Another great addition is to add stuffed birds, frogs, and other soft and fuzzy animals.  Stuffed animal shaped chairs make a cozy little area for your young man's personal space.

No room would be complete without coordinated bedding.  Bright, cheerful colors with matching throw rugs and curtains can transform any room without much effort.  Big fluffy comforters with matching curtains are a must to complete any boy's room.  Ladybug curtain tiebacks add pizzazz to an already amazing room.  This little accessory can even make a plain set of curtains fun and exciting.

Consider adding different animal wall stickers, hanging bugs, or bend the ladybugs so they can sit on a shelf or a nightstand.  You can affix them to the headboard or sit them on the dresser.  Let your imagination go to work as you create the perfect space for your special little boy.  

Springtime School Room Decor

Springtime is on it's way! The sun is coming out to warm the world around us and a myriad of new life is awakening. The birds are beginning to chirp and the flowers will soon be blooming. Children will be watching beautiful butterflies that have emerged from their cocoons, flitting from bloom to bloom performing the tasks that will spread the pollen from flower to flower and bring spring into the full bloom of summer.

We celebrate the new life that blossoms every year and implores us to refocus and start anew. More than any other time of year, we can feel the hope and promise that the future holds. What better way to celebrate a new beginning than to welcome it into our spaces? From the home to the schoolroom, spring decor will bring liveliness and bliss into the atmosphere.

Schoolrooms can be turned into a wonderfully enchanting springtime garden oasis by using various types of easily applied items to invoke the feel of spring. Wonderful touches like sun and cloud wall stickers, flowers painted on the walls or applied with wall stickers, and even beautiful nylon butterflies in magical flight can make the space perfect.

Decorate your walls with butterfly or springtime alphabet wall stickers for the younger grades, to engage their imaginations while still learning the basics. The children can be involved in the decorating by helping to either decide the location of the letters or helping to place the decor for a feeling of accomplishment in creating such blissful elegance.

In the study of springtime happenings, butterflies are perfect. Butterflies are great way to introduce several science lessons, a variety of art projects and even field trips. From simple sparkling wings, to enchanting and brightly colored jewels adorning the wings, you can find a variety of beautiful, elegant and graceful nylon butterflies to use in your classroom. They simply add a magical  and enchanting feel. The children can each make their own nylon butterflies and add them to the decor of the room. Mixing them in with nylon butterflies you've purchased and attaching them to clear fishing line stretched across the room invites ownership from the children as they have assisted and personalized the room.

Bringing spring into the classroom through topic selection and decor, especially with a butterfly theme, will literally transform your learning environment into a fairytale world that that captures young imaginations. Activating the imagination will bring more focus and enhance the learning experience. Children respond to this environment and will learn more freely, as well as remaining happy and enjoying their classroom atmosphere.

Freebie Friday: Bugs-n-Blooms Product Review and Giveaway

A wonderful customer wrote this review about Bugs-n-Blooms and we thought we would pass it along:

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I am not an artist.  Not at all.  The closest I come to anything remotely creative is writing, and yeah, unfortunately, I can't write up a cutely creatively decorated room for my daughters.  So last year, when I decided I wanted to redo their bedroom, I found the perfect company to help me with my vision.  

Bugs-n-Blooms is a company specializing in little girls' room decor.  They create the most exquisite flowers, butterflies, and other various creations to embellish the boudoir of your little princess.

In addition to wall decor, they also create mobiles, curtain tie-backs, wall stickers, beaded garlands....

.....and my personal favorites, wall alphabet stickers.

The Little One's nursery

The Curly Haired One's room

Some new products from Bugs-n-Blooms are their wearable butterfly wings, tutu skirts, wands, and headbands, which can all be put together into quite the amazing costume for your little one who loves to dress up.

We love the decor that we got from Bugs-n-Blooms.  We've had it for well over a year, and it even withstood a move from our old apartment to our new house!  The butterflies and flowers are incredibly well made, and the stickers came right down with no paint damage whatsoever, and stuck right back up in the new room!  I was personally amazed by that.

And if you're anything like me, which is not creative and a decorating failure, Bugs-n-Blooms has you covered with an entire section on their website filled with decorating ideas, how-to, and step by step instructions on how to hang your decor and bring it to life.

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Butterfly Themed Nursery Ideas

Decorating your baby's nursery in a butterfly theme is a beautiful way to brighten the room for your baby girl. Butterflies are delicate creatures, each unique in their intricate designs and colors. There are creative ways you can bring the beauty of butterflies into the nursery in an elegant way that looks well put together and enhances the feel of the room.

Choosing Items

Choose a few key butterfly items for your nursery rather than overwhelming the room with everything butterfly-themed. Additional items can be coordinated to match the butterfly's colors. Your colors should be bright, as babies prefer these over pastels. Newborns, however, prefer black and white due to the contrast of shades, which is easier for them to see.

Hanging Butterflies

Take small hooks and screw them into the ceiling. Find large butterflies at Bugs-n-Blooms that can be hung from the hooks using fishing line. They'll fly around as the breeze hits them and delight the baby from her crib.

Wall Decals

Use butterfly wall decals to decorate the walls. Bugs-n-Blooms has vinyl wall decal stickers that are custom in your choice of colors. With a large color palette, you can match the decals to the colors in your baby's nursery. You can pick up other decals that work well with the butterfly theme, such as clouds for the ceiling or flowers for the butterflies to sit on.

Crib and Bedding

Decorate her crib with a few butterfly items and solid colors to coordinate. The bedding should be simple with a few butterfly items standing out from the rest. While the crib sheet can be a solid bold color, the blanket can be a colorful array of butterflies. The mobile is a great way to showcase hanging butterflies. Since butterflies are one of the more popular themes for babies, you'll be able to find several selections of butterfly mobiles available at their store, both online and in-store.

Butterfly Rug

Complete the room with a large butterfly rug or several smaller ones. You can find rugs that have an assortment of butterflies on them to rugs that are in the shape of a large butterfly.

Above information provided courtesy of ehow.com

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Sale on Butterfly Decorations, Butterfly Wings, Wall Stickers

Bugs-n-Blooms, LLC is pleased to announce their upcoming 10% off sale, just in time for spring.

The Texas based company is the leading supplier in nylon butterflies, ladybug decorations, adorable dragonflies, bumble bees, and daisy flower decor for your little princess’s bedroom. Bugs-n-Blooms customers will receive 10% off their entire purchase when they use the coupon code in the bottom left column of their website, http://www.bugs-n-blooms.com . 

The company has been busy creating a new line of wall letter stickers. The new stickers will be three tone (light pink, light green, and light purple) butterfly wall sticker letters to match their triple layer butterflies.

In about two weeks we will have available our new triple layer flowers created to match our exclusive triple layer butterflies and our unique butterfly decor. Our triple layer hanging flowers are made with the same soft wire frames and covered with nylon material. The flowers are nicely embellished with sequins and glitter, similar to that of their two tone daisy which is already available. Both of which are perfect for your little girls butterfly and flower themed bedroom decor.

Triple Colored Butterfly Wall Stickers - Match Triple Layered Butterflies:

Whether you’re putting up just a few butterfly stickers and some wall letters, a mural, or a complete nursery or bedroom, Bugs-n-Blooms are here to help. Personalize your girls bedroom with our unique wall letters, and a swatch of swirling tri tone butterflies and sequined flowers and watch your daughters face light up as she sees her bedroom for the first time.

Remember you are getting 10% off on all purchases so get your orders in while the sale is on. Look for our new letter stickers designed to enhance our beautiful hanging three tone butterflies. We offer only quality products and our designs are handmade to perfection, using soft bendable wire, nylon, glitter and sequins. Spell out your girls name with our unique wall letters or our mural stickers which tie in nicely with our butterflies, dragonflies and ladybugs.

Jennifer De Vol is proud of her growing companies ability to take into account her customers wishes and come out with new product lines to fit Bugs-n-Blooms client’s needs. Their amazing line of unique products makes them the perfect choice for nurseries, bedrooms, birthday parties, and even weddings. The company’s designs feature ladybugs, dragonflies, bees, and flowers as well as accessories to make your little girl feel special. You can choose from and array of butterfly wings, tutu skirts, fairy wands, and hair accessories.

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Fun Butterfly Room Decor Ideas

We have unlimited option of colors and patterns to create a Butterfly room decor because butterflies are so colorful. Any color is good for this theme room, even colors you've never see on real butterflies!

Now lets start with the walls ....

First, decide on what color the walls are gonna be for this butterfly room decor. If your Girl has a favorite color, use it. If she's too young to know what her favorite is, just pick any color you like.

Then look for two different shades of paint of that color, a lighter one and a darker one.

Even though any color suits this butterfly bedroom, but since it's a kid's room, it's best to choose colors that are not too dark for the walls. Also try to avoid too bright colors that are not comfortable for the eyes. Use dark and bright colors for accents only, for example to make butterfly wall murals

Measure up from the floor to the height of 1.1 meters and make a straight horizontal pencil line on the walls.  Put masking take right below the line and paint the upper area with the lighter wall paint.After the paint dries, take off the masking tape and place another right above the line and paint the lower area with the darker wall paint.

Other option for this butterfly room decor is to use Butterfly Wallpaper. Hunt for butterfly wallpaper that comes with the color you or your girl wants, or look for simple plain or striped wallpaper and add butterfly wallpaper border as accent.

Now we'll continue this butterfly room decor by filling up the room with furniture. Since butterflies are identical with nature, it's a good idea to use wooden brown furniture for this butterfly theme room. To make the room even more alive, use wood paints to paint.

Now lets decorate the bed ...

For the bedding, look for Butterfly Bedding Set with colors that match the wall's background colors.

Other option to tone down the room a little bit if you think the room is already too crowded with butterflies is to use plain white bed sheet, plain or striped pillow shams with any soft pastel colors, and then add a  

Decorating the rest of the room ...

Now we have done most part of this butterfly room decor and we'll just add some accessories to finish the room. Here are some butterfly room decorations ideas:

• Kids love to play on the floor so rug is an important accessory to add. Pick a Butterfly Rug with colors that match the room's main colors. Soft colored Shaggy Rug will do great too.
  
• Use Butterfly Frame or Flowers Frame for any picture you want to put in the room.
  
• Put a butterfly lamp beside the bed.
  
• Add a wooden wastebasket with pastel color that suits the room. Paint your Girl's initial on it and add some scattered small flowers around the initial.
• Hang some Paper or Nylon Butterflies from the ceiling. Hang it at various heights to make it look natural.
  
• Use butterfly themed switch plates instead of a plain one.
Above information provided courtesy of fun-theme-room-decor.com

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Personalize Your Babys Nursery

Decorators can personalize a baby’s butterfly nursery with adorable handprint butterflies for each month of the new baby’s life. This easy project can be completed in a matter of minutes and will be a great addition to the scrap book once the nursery theme changes.

1. Trace each of the baby’s hand prints on two colors of construction paper.
2. Cut out the two sets of hand prints.
3. Paste them onto card stock or mat board, one color for the upper wings, and the other color for the lower wings.
4. Draw a butterfly body with antenna, then cut and paste to complete the picture.

Parents can help toddlers and older kids personalize the butterfly room by making beautiful tissue paper butterflies to add depth to the bedroom’s walls, and brighten the windows.

1. Stack two pieces of construction paper on top of each other and fold in half.
2. While the paper is still folded, cut one side of wings then unfold to reveal a symmetrical butterfly.
3. Refold the butterflies and cut shapes from the wings as if making a paper snowflake.
4. When finished, paste colored tissue paper or tin foil pieces on the backside of one butterfly to show through the patterns cut into the wings.
5. When all the holes are filled, paste the second construction paper butterfly over the tissue paper to finish off the back.
6. Fold a piece of pipe cleaner in half and twist together over the middle of the wings.
7. Curl the tops of the pipe cleaner to form antenna then tie fishing line for hanging.

Parents and kids will also enjoy scoping out a bunch of butterfly illustrations from magazines and picture books at the used book store. They can clip favorite photos with their child and use the pictures to decoupage accent pieces for the room such as pencil cans, plaques for the wall, a table and chairs, or nightstand. Touches like these make a butterfly theme room feel special and fill it with happy memories.

Above information is provided courtesy of suite101.com

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Wall Decorating Ideas For Kids Bedrooms

We love  to add the personality we love when decorating kid’s rooms. There are so many ways to achieve this from painted wall stencils, wall decals, or kid’s wallpaper.

We challenged ourselves to come up with 10 designs for wall borders for girls’ rooms to help inspire your creativity so here goes….

1) Flowers - OK. An easy one. But, there are so many ways to make this unique. Think pinks and purples for daisies and tulips. Think yellow for daisies, dandelions, and sunflowers. Vertical or horizontal borders make this the ultimate exercise in creativity. We love how the room pictured above from Wall to Wall Stencils creatively creates a border around a window.

2) Butterflies – A stylish way to dress up her room without getting complicated. Envision butterflies around a mirror or a headboard or hanging from the ceiling or attaching to the walls.

3) Insects - Add dragonflies, butterflies, ladybugs, and bees to your walls and paint an cute insect-themed border near the ceiling.

4) Polka dots - A timeless decor element that can be simple and subtle or bold and cheery. Think different sized dots in the middle of the wall for a fun look for an older girl. Removable wall decals are a great solution for something less permanent than paint.

5) Disney characters - Where would we be without Disney? Pooh, Ariel, Snow White, etc. Check Babies ‘R Us or Amazon for their wallpaper border selection for a Disney themed nursery or girl’s room.

6) Ballet slippers - For the lovers of pink! Tiny toes tip toeing across the wall would add delightful detail to a pretty in pink room.

7) Princesses - Crowns, magic wands, and colorful gems for your little princess.

8) Fairies - Flitting across the wall with their cute wings and dainty look.

9) Her Name - Emma or Emily? Sophia or Isabella? Whatever the beautiful name you have chosen for her, personalize her room with her name repeating across the wall in different colors.

10) Suns and clouds - This fresh idea will bring smiles to your little girl every day as she wakes up basking in the sun. Use vinyl wall decals for decor that is easily removable.

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Ode to a Butterfly. The Search for Unique Butterfly Decor Complete

Choosing decor for a baby girl is not as easy as it may seem. Especially when you desire to design a unique kids’ room theme.  There are bumblebees and dragonflies and baby birds that tweet.  Flower themes or polka dots or ladybugs so sweet.   A nature theme could make sense – decorate with clouds, sun, and sky. But for our baby girl, the choice is clear – we choose the butterfly.

Butterfly decor is a popular choice in girl’s room decorating which leaves the biggest challenge as finding unique decorative items to make the theme your own.

Bugs-n-Blooms has a creative solution. They design and create nylon decorative butterflies with soft bendable, wire frames and embellish with multi-layered nylon fabrics, sparkling sequins, color matched glitter, and a crystal beaded butterfly body with color matched antennas.  The butterflies come in great kids’ colors such as pink, featured above, purple, lavender, yellow, green, blue, and white.

And, there are so many creative ways to display these beauties!  Create a collage of wall decor as seen in the lavender, butterfly themed nursery above and accent with flowers, ladybugs and other butterfly wall decals or wall hangings.  Hang them from the ceiling and create a soothing rain forest feel.  If your little girl has a  canopy bed, attach them to fishing line and wrap them around the poles of the canopy to help her doze off to dreamland.

For those less interested in a craft project, Bugs-n-Blooms has easier decor solutions that are just as cute such as butterfly wall letters, message boards, and butterfly wall stickers.

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Decorating Tips To Make Your Life Easier

Decorating Tips to Make Your Life Easier

Well, you've established a budget and chosen a theme for your nursery, now it's time to go out and get all this stuff! Before you do, there are some things you should keep in mind.

First, if you are going to buy wallpaper, look for one that is scrubbable vinyl. If it is scrubbable, it will be easier to clean.

If you have chosen to paint, then buy colors that have a matte or satin finish. This goes for furniture, too. The shinier it is, the more likely dirt will show up sooner. Also, really dark or really light colors are also likely to make dirt more visible. So, if you don't want to spend all your time cleaning the nursery, look for something in the mid-color range.

If you have decided to have carpets in the baby's room, then consider a textured carpet, not to mention a stain-resistant one. A textured carpet will help disguise dirt. A stain-resistant carpet will just make your life a bit easier when your baby spills his or her juice or spits up. You might also want to consider a hardwood floor, since it is much easier to clean.

Make sure any linen you buy for your baby's bed is machine washable. You will be doing a lot of laundry as it is. You don't need to make your job harder by adding items that need special care. A hand-crocheted quilt may be beautiful, but it will also require a hand washing, which means it will never get washed.

You might also want to install a dimmer on the light switch in the nursery. This will allow you to control the amount of light that comes on during those midnight feedings. A bright light might make your little one think it's time to be up and about. A softer light will help them get back to sleep quicker.

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Creative Ideas Using Wall Murals

Creative Ideas It's not always easy to come up with baby nursery decorating ideas. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the creative type, here are some easy tricks to really make the baby's room pop!
It's Easy to Make Wall Murals If you have access to a projector, then get some overheads made of different images and pencil them onto the walls of your baby's nursery. You could do various animals, cartoons, bugs, flowers - even a map of the world if you feel really ambitious! Once the outline is there, bring it to life by painting it in. And you don't have to stick to realistic colors, so make that cat purple and that ant blue!
For those of you who do not have access to a projector, then take a trip to your nearest hardware or art supply store. They will often have stencils that you can use simply by holding them up to the wall and painting. You might want to pick up a palm tree leaf stencil to give your child a tropical baby nursery theme.
Even if something is plain and white, there's no reason why you can't dress it up. Use some brightly colored paint (or not-so-bright-but-it-matches-the-rest-of-your-room paint) to put some playful fun into that white shelf or dresser.
If you picked up some discounted blinds but they're just a blah cream color, make them more suited for your little one's room by gluing a little toy or fun drawer knob to the cord. Just make sure the cord stays out of the reach of your child since they will want to get at it once they start moving. You could also try stenciling an image onto the blinds or curtains.

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Safety Tips For Decorating A Childs Room

You may not be able to check off everything on your child's (or your own!) wish list, but there are a few key needs for each age-group that you should focus on. Safety is an important issue to consid­er when decorating your child’s room. Therefore you should examine furniture, toys, paints, and fabrics before using them to decorate. Even the placement of your child’s bed in relation to the doorway is a decision in which safety comes into play.

Babies:

Babies' needs are crucial but simple: a safe nest to sleep in, a safe place to have diapers changed, and a comfortable spot for you to sit while feeding, cuddling, and rocking him or her. In fact, a comfy rocking or gliding chair is as important as a bed and changing table. Scientific research has shown that babies actually need a lot of cuddling in order to thrive, physically as well as mentally. If you are a new parent, you'll probably be tired and stressed, so make it as easy as possible to spend cheek-to-cheek time with your baby. You'll both be healthier!

A changing table will get a lot of use, so be sure to get a good one. You can make a changing table out of a waist-high chest of drawers, but be sure you add a top with a low guardrail as well as a waterproof pad. A chest may be more versatile later, but it generally is not as safe and, therefore, not recommended. In addition, diapers and clothes will be easier to reach if you opt for a changing table with open shelves below. Choose a unit with a safety strap to go across baby's middle, or make sure you can get at things you need with one hand while keeping the other on your little wiggly worm at all times.

When it's time to decorate walls, remember that, until they're between six and nine months old, babies can't see subtle colors and details. Black-and-white and other strongly contrasting colors work better as do simple patterns. A proven favorite is two dots and a curve within a circle that suggests human eyes and smiling mouth.

If you don't care for vivid color schemes, choose a pastel you'd like to use longer term and pair it with a dark or bright accent hue you can change when your child gets a bit older. Another option is simply to stick with more restful pastel hues throughout the room and provide visual stimulation with age-appropriate toys.

Although newborn babies' sight may be lacking, their hearing and sense of touch are almost fully developed at birth. Indulge them with safe toys in a variety of textures and soft melodic sounds. Crib toys and mobiles that move or play music will appeal to most babies as well as add attractive color and pattern to the room. Just make sure that any hanging toys your baby can reach are safe and that they do not have small detachable parts.

Toddlers: Babies who are old enough to crawl, let alone toddle, are at their most challenging in terms of safety. At this stage they can perceive colors better than infants, but they still lack the ability to understand, say, a storybook scene on a wall. Keep decorating ideas simple for awhile yet, and concentrate on making sure every square inch is clean and safe. For example, no hanging tablecloths, no exposed electrical outlets, no breakable or heavy items on tables and shelves, and no sharp corners on any furniture.

Tots making the transition from crawling to toddling will use any available vertical item to pull themselves up, so choose furniture pieces that are sturdy and stable.

For the inevitable tumbles, make sure floors are clean and resilient or softly covered with carpeting or rugs. If you don't have wall-to-wall carpeting, use slip-proof pads under every rug. Vinyl resilient tiles and wood flooring are more forgiving than ceramic tile or stone, but nonslip rugs can make a real difference on any floor.

Depending on how active or how tall your child is, you may want to make the transition to a low youth bed now. If there's even a chance your child can climb out of the crib, it's time to move on.

Above information provided courtesy of howstuffworks.com

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