Last month we took our Colorful Words personalized growth chart and showed how it could easily work in three very different nursery designs (see it here). We had so much fun doing that and such a positive response from our readers that we decided to take on the challenge again.
This week, we went through our collection of personalized growth charts and were instantly drawn to the yummy goodness of the ice cream themed We All Scream design. It is summer after all! We chose three nurseries, each a different style of décor, but all with a sweet touch that paired well this growth chart.
Modern and eclectic, this nursery is a perfect mix of chic and sweet. The We All Scream personalized growth chart pulls the various colors in the room together nicely, but with such bold lime green walls, we’d hang it on the bedroom door. (Apartment Therapy)
This baby girl nursery is soft and sweet, just like scoops of ice cream, and we could totally see the We All Scream personalized growth chart hanging in the corner by the crib. (Spearmint Baby)
The We All Scream personalized growth chart would be the cherry on top of this vintage circus themed nursery. (via Pinterest)
Which pairing is your favorite? Which of our personalized growth charts should we pick next for another décor challenge?
Get Inspired in Your Nursery: Exposed Brick Walls
If you live in an urban area or an old refurbished building, chances are you’re lucky enough to have exposed brick walls. While they can pose some challenges, we’re willing to look past them and admire their natural beauty and many design opportunities.
We found some amazing nurseries with exposed brick walls and were so in love with them that we had a hard time choosing which personalized growth chart to pair with them so we decided to show two for each!
Bursts of bright colors paired with a chic brick wall creates the perfect balance of whimsy and style for this baby’s space. We’re a little torn and not sure if we’d choose either the Doodle It Up or Animal Crackers personalized growth charts to accent this space. (Cush and Nooks)
Cheeky Dot or Picture Me. Which of these personalized growth charts would you add to this sweet and sophisticated nursery whose color scheme is inspired by its rustic brick walls? (Grey Likes Baby)
The faded brick wall adds a lovely rustic charm to this eclectic nursery design and the white background and various hues of the Balloon Party and Up Up Away personalized growth charts would nicely tie the room together. (HomeStilo)
This combo bedroom/nursery utilizes strong black and white graphics to pop against a dark brick wall so we would choose the Design for Minikind personalized growth chart or simple red Perfect Pennant to complement it. (via Pinterest)
Let us know which personalized growth charts are your favorite with each of these rooms.
Get Inspired: Water-themed Nursey & Kids Décor
From lakes to pools to rivers and beaches, summertime is all about being near the H2O. And for those due this time of the year, your little water baby will feel right at home in a space inspired by H2O.
To help give you some design ideas, we’ve found some gorgeous nurseries inspired by time spent by the water and paired them with our personalized growth charts.
Pretty in pink with accents of coral and seashells gives this nursery a sweet feeling of being by the sea. Either of the Under the Sea or Mermaid Delight personalized growth charts would add a nice touch of whimsy to this otherwise sophisticated space. (Cute and Company)
Adding boats and trucks to this blue, green, and red beach inspired nursery keep it from being too “theme-y,”which is why we’d add theOn the Go personalized growth chart to tie it all together. (The Sweet Life)
The Monkey Pals personalized growth chart nicely accents the watery hues and circular accents of this gender-neutral nursery. (Ok Dani)
A perfect mix of pink and blue brings this sailboat themed nursery together and the My Town personalized growth chart would round out the whole seaside setting. (Project Nursery)
Has a waterside spot inspired your nursery design? Which personalized growth chart would work best
Kids Décor Trend: Chalkboard Walls
Customized décor is something we particularly love (hey, we don’t design personalized growth charts, alphabet posters and photo posters for no reason!), so the chalkboard wall trend we’re seeing in nurseries is right up our alley. We’re crazy about all of the opportunities for personalization it provides – parents can write sweet notes or favorite quotes every day if they want and eventually the little ones will grow up and get to play along.
Here are a few of our favorite nurseries with chalkboard walls and the personalized growth charts we’d love to see accenting those rooms.
Frames and animals and juicy hues give this nursery with chalkboard wall lots of impact and the similarly designed Animal Crackers personalized growth chart would fit right in. (HGTV.com)
We don’t think this woodland themed nursery with sweet chalkboard message could get any cuter – unless of course the Woodland Fun personalized growth chart was in it. (BearFoxChalk)
The welcoming chalkboard sign, aqua dresser, and world map give this nursery a happy, uplifting feel, so the Up Up Away personalized growth chart couldn’t be any more perfect for it. (Love Like Johnny + June)
The Design for Minikind personalized growth chart practically looks like it was made for this stylish nursery with a graphically influenced chalkboard wall. (Moms Best Network)
Did you incorporate a chalkboard into your nursery? Which of our personalized growth charts would go with it?
Décor: 1 Personalized Growth Chart, 3 Different Rooms
Usually we find nurseries that we like in a certain theme or color scheme and pair them with our personalized growth charts. This week we’re doing the opposite and taking one personalized growth chart and showing how well one design can work with a range of nursery designs.
Of course the solid colored pennant-style personalized growth charts easily accent any color coordinated room, but we wanted to choose a patterned chart to show their versatility as well.
We chose the bright hues and uplifting feel of the Colorful Words personalized growth chart and these three completely different nursery designs.
The Colorful Words personalized growth chart perfectly accents the aquas and yellows in this modern woodsy nursery. (Creative Every Day)
This nursery is super eclectic and fun, the Colorful Words personalized growth chart perfectly pulls together all the various hues in the room. (image via Pinterest)
The blues and greens of the Colorful Words personalized growth chart add an ocean of cool to this warm nursery with a Mediterranean feel. (Project Nursery)
Would you choose the Colorful Words with these rooms?
Petitle Lemon In Real Life – Twins Turn One!
Recording childhood milestones and memories is one of the main reasons we design personalized baby gifts. We love helping parents keep a tangible memento of those special times with personalized onesies, big sister shirts, big brother shirts, or 1st birthday shirts and we’re beyond thrilled when our customers let us in on those moments too. Read on for some insight into, Andria the mama of our darling twin’s In Real Life story:
What are your boys’ names & how old are they:
Graham Loren and Eric Jeffrey, age 1 year
What do you love about having twins?!
I love that they have each other. Watching them interact is awesome. They look at one another and just giggle.
What has been the most challenging?
Juggling two kids who are in the exact same stage. I don’t get to just sit and snuggle with one because then I am leaving the other one out. I try to be as fair as possible with my time and attention for each of them.
Most surprising?
Seeing their little personalities develop. I could tell they were different while they were in my belly, but it is fun to see they have maintained those same characteristics now. One is more mellow, while the other is more high strung.
What are your fav Petite Lemon products and why?
We loved the birthday shirts for their first birthday. We also used the free birthday printouts from your blog (click here) and people at the party loved those. The other item we love are the personalized growth charts. We bought each of the boys the Navy pennant chart for their room.
What is your favorite blog right now?
http://karenrussell.typepad.com/
Karen is amazing and real. And she teaches amazing photography classes. I just finished taking her class for the second time.
Your fav Instagram?
@sisterhoodofsecrets
Define motherhood in one word?
Enlightening.
Wonderful, Andria! Thanks for letting us be a part of your boys’ special day and for letting us share it with our readers!
If you own any of our personalized baby gifts, big brother shirtsor big sister shirts, please let us know, we’d love to share your kiddo’s story and photo. Contact us at buzz @ petitelemon (dot) com.
What We Love Now: Fun Birthday Girl Party Themes
Last week we shared three fun birthday party ideas for boys from PopSugar Moms that we paired with the perfect 1st birthday shirts, so this week we’re highlighting three fab parties ideal for girls. And one of our favorite things about these parties?They don’t only rely on the color pink to be ultra-feminine and pretty.
The aqua blue Chic Chevron 1st birthday onesie is an idyllic outfit to wear to this Dreamy Under the Sea 1st birthday party. (Details here)
She’ll definitely be the star at a Breakfast at Tiffany’s-inspired party and a quick change into the Playful Party Hat birthday tee for the cake smash would be a smart wardrobe choice. (Details here)
As if we didn’t think the Four Legged Friendly party theme was sweet enough, our line of personalized baby gifts made an appearance in the goody bags! The Colorful Number 1st birthday onesie would have had tails wagging too. (Details here)
We can’t decide which of these 1st birthday shirts and party themes are our favorite, but we think each would be even more fun with some colorful personalized baby gifts. And of course, big thanks to PopSugar Mom for being such a fantastic source of ideas for us mamas and daddies!
What We Love Now: Fun Birthday Boy Party Themes
With so many kids between all of us here at Petite Lemon, we’re pretty much always on the lookout for fun birthday party themes. We often turn to PopSugar Moms for ideas and found a range of awesome ideas for birthday parties for boys. Of course next week we’ll turn our attention to the girls, but in the meantime, here are three great ideas for boy parties and 1st birthday shirts we’d have our guest of honor wear to each.
The Watercolor Fun birthday tee would be ideal to wear at this surf inspired blue ombre party. (Details here)
The Happy Confetti birthday tee would be a dream match for this Bedtime in the Backyard themed party. (Details here)
The So Cute birthday shirt is a timely choice for the One Year in a Flash party. (Details here)
Which of these 1st birthday shirts and party themes is your fave? Now, to decide on the perfect personalized baby gifts for each!
Red, White & Blue Décor
In honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday, we’re inspired by beautiful baby rooms that incorporate our country’s colors. We love how different they look from each other and none of these spaces looks too theme-y either, so they’re perfect year round – for boys or girls.
Here are four red, white, and blue nurseries we’ve paired with our personalized growth charts.
Soft gray throughout this red, white, and blue room gives it a soothing, sophisticated feel, but we’d add the Roaring Red Perfect Pennant personalized growth chart for an extra pop of color. (Project Nursery)
The amusingly cute Monkey Pals personalized growth chart would fit in really well with this lively, lovely space. (Here Comes Baby)
We love this mod chic nursery with just the right touch of playful whimsy and we think the patterned 1 to 10 personalized growth chart would nicely accent the stripes and chevrons in this red, white, and blue room with light blues and grays. (Lil Sugar)
Red, white, and sky blue can be sweet and feminine too. The Sky Blue Preppy Pennant personalized growth chart would make a subtle, yet ideal piece of functional art. (MisforMama blog)
We hope you were inspired by these red, white, and blue nurseries with personalized growth charts and wish everyone a very Happy 4th of July!
PL in Real Life: One Happy Mama
We work with some fantastic Brand Enthusiasts and are so lucky to read on their blogs how their little ones enjoy wearing our personalized onesies, big brother shirts, big sister shirts, or 1st birthday shirts or have our personalized growth charts in their rooms. Kristina from One Happy Mama (read more about her here) is one of those fab enthusiasts who recently shared on her blog what a joy it has been to have two boys close in age, in addition to an older daughter who lovingly mothers both boys.
We especially love this part of her post:
I’m so glad that they are going to have one another to get rough and tumble with (so they can wear one another out), play Ninja Turtles, take karate classes together and team up to drive their sister crazy. Ok, Caylin’s not too thrilled about that last one, but she knows it’s inevitable. Ha! 😉
(Shown: Jack in Merry Menagerie Big Brother T shirt and Luke in the Color It Up onesie)
Read more about Jack and Luke (and Caylin) at Kristina’s blog One Happy Mama.
Do you own any of our personalized baby gifts? If so, we’d love to share your kiddos’ story and photo, so please email us at buzz @ petitelemon (dot) com.