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March 24, 2011 Decal Love

Painting. Some people love to paint. Some people don’t love to paint. Some people hate to paint. My husband hates to paint. I dislike painting. Therefore between the two of us, there will be no painting. Although I adore murals and eventually one day want to create a Dr. Seuss Mural in my child’s playroom, for now we shall skip this task. Instead I have decided to use wall decals-which is basically my new obsession. There are so many choices out there among websites, stores, ebay, etc. that you won’t have trouble finding what you are looking for. And it’s fun because if you change your mind, or screw up, you can just peel the decal off and start over! Some are pricey and some are very affordable, just depends on what look you are going for. What I found also was that a lot of expensive decals can be found on ebay or amazon for much cheaper. While my husband and I are pretty site on having a rock and roll theme in our boys room with rock and roll themed decals, here are some more ideas that I fell in love with.

This beautiful and sweet decal above was found at DecalDelight for $66. It’s so cute and would be perfect for a simple, classy nursery! For a girly girl’s room the decal below is adorable for $16! I love that they put the decals on the dresser but you wouldn’t need to do that if you didn’t want to! Having girly words like those posted along the walls would be appropriate too!

On HomeSweetWalls I found decals below that you can customize with names and colors of your choice. The price range for these are normally anywhere from $20-$50.

Also fun? A Star Wars themed room with fun decals like the ones below! These were only $24! How awesome. My husband would love this!

Although a little more expensive at $60, the bubble decal below is AWESOME! I absolutely love it! I think I would separate the bubbles, placing them all around the room. Although it may seem like $60 is a lot, it really would be all the room needs! You can find this at LewasDesigns.

Another idea I like is to have the alphabet around my child’s room, whether it be their bedroom or playroom. Remember I’m an educator so I like these things. My idea is to have the letters be the border in the room. I found some cute and cheap letter decals at DecalStickers that are shown below. ($29 for the alphabet! Not bad price for a border around the room!)

A site that I found called VinylDisorder is REALLY cool. Here I found some really unique decals, like the Beatles’ signatures which you can stick around the room if you are doing a Beatles themed or rock and roll themed room like my husband and I are. This site is also super cool because you can customize your decal. It can be however big you want it to be, whatever color you want and it can be made into a wall decal or a window/car decal! For example the picture below, the customer is making this decal into a bumper sticker, and those are the colors he could choose for the font color.

Lastly here’s a cool site that sells video game decals! You can get Donkey Kong, old school Mario or new Mario! Although I don’t really want to expose my kid to video games RIGHT away this is a really cute idea! Click here to see more.

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March 21, 2011 Rock on Baby!

As I sit here and ponder the amazement of the human reproductive system, I have to wonder what my husband and I have created. Although it’s early in my pregnancy, my baby already has an assigned eye color, skin tone, hair color and GENDER! It is truly amazing. And I am not one of those people who can wait. As soon as I am able to know what sex my baby is, I will. I know that in the good ol days when my mother had me and my brothers she wasn’t able to find out the sex of her future children and had to prepare for a baby, not prepare for a gender. Although I know that is normal, I just can’t wrap my head around it. How can I not find out? I don’t know if I have that kind of patience, or if I even want to be that patient. With the cute things out there nowadays I just cannot wait to shop! Not only shop, but decorate my baby’s room! My husband and I already have a slight (okay, HUGE) idea that if we have a boy we are going to go with a “rock” room. This may consist of having pictures of various rock bands, famous guitarists and drummers (my husband himself is a drummer in a band) framed in the nursery or be covered with The Beatles. I found some awesome ideas out there that I had to share!

Above is an awesome Beatles Yellow Submarine themed room that I absolutely love. Ever since my hippie high school days when I would watch The Yellow Submarine in the dark, not exactly sober, I always imagined what it would be like to step into Pepperland and this room sends you right there. Notice the little boy is included in the mural “Beatle-lized” in between Jeremy the Nowhere Man and the Beatles.

Here’s another neat idea if you don’t want to go too crazy with painting! Here the bathroom is transformed into the Submarine (I think they should have painted it yellow but the blue looks nice too) and have the Beatles poking their heads out of the windows. Cute idea!

This mural above and below which is in the Empik Cafe in Ursus, Warsaw is way more intricate and much harder but wow would the effort and hard work be worth it! I love this mural and would love it! What a great way to expose your baby to good music and artists from the start!

Below is a picture from The Decemberist’s album in tribute to Led Zeppelin and since it is my husband’s favorite band of all time I thought it would be only appropriate to pay homage to them by having some kind of cool mural in the baby’s room! I don’t think in reality we would really ever do this mural, but I still think it’s awesome! Maybe someday.

Of course one of the problems people run into is that they rent and do not own and when you rent you can’t paint! That’s not an issue either! I found some awesome wall decals that you can buy that you can stick on your walls, peel off easily and reuse! This way you not only have to do the work of painting but it’s foolproof and reuseable!

This drum set chalkboard wall decal is super cool because, well obviously your kid (or you) can write on it! I think that’s pretty neat and I don’t know who hasn’t wanted to put their writing on the wall! I think it would be neat to get this and write the lyrics to a song or some songs that you enjoy across the drum set. You can find this product here.

You can also find decals more like the above that are more “childish.” You can customize it to say Tobey’s Band, Alex’s Band, or whatever your child’s name is. This could be really cute and of course you don’t have to put all the sticker decals on one wall like in the picture above. You can put something on each wall and put “Rock it!” over the door frame or the window. You can find this at Create-A-Mural.com.

If you want a more simple look you can always have decals like the set above which features a guitarist, bass player, singer and drummer. Get this here.

Another idea that my husband and I have is to make “collage” walls with either stickers, record covers, and.or posters. Above are decal stickers of various punk rock groups. My husband has a large collection of records as well as posters of his favorite bands Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue, etc. that we could frame on the wall. Here are some ideas of cool collage walls. As you can see we jacked this idea from going out to eat at TGI Friday’s! Haha, but hey, it’s a great idea!