Last week we presented our five favorite girl nursery designs and next week we’ll share our favorite gender neutral looks, but this week it’s all about the boys! Again we turned to Project Nursery for some new décor inspirations and we think you’ll be in love with these rooms as much as we are.
We’ve paired five of our most favorite nurseries designed for boys with our personalized growth charts.
This travel themed nursery will surely inspire little boys to explore the world and the colorful room, like the Up Up Away personalized growth chart, is super uplifting. (Room here)
How fun and quirky is this navy, green and orange nursery?! Several personalized growth charts, like Doodle Delight and Animal Crackers, could easily complement this eclectic and colorful design. (Room here)
The Roaring Red Perfect Pennant personalized growth chart adds a perfect extra pop of red to this sophisticated vintage airplane themed nursery. (Room here)
Hung on a closet door, the Woodland Fun personalized growth chart would add a dose of whimsy to this nursery with a chic, modern woodland design. (Room here)
Pops of orange and green make a big impact in this adorable fox themed nursery and with so much going on, the Chartreuse Perfect Pennant personalized growth chart adds a simply perfect touch. (Room here)
What do you think, which of these is your favorite nursery design for boys? Check back next week for our gender neutral rooms with personalized growth chart pairings.
Our Petite Lemon Family is Expanding
As you know, Petite Lemon’s creative designers don’t just come up with unique personalized baby gifts, our designers are also moms and dads. And in the last year, several have welcomed new babies into their families and expanded our own little Petite Lemon family along the way. It’s especially fun to see their wee ones in the personalized onesies, big sister shirts, big brother shirts, etc that they’ve created.
Our fab designer Muffin dressed Charlotte in her own Merry Menagerie Big Sister Tshirt design, perfect now that little bro Ezra (shown here in his Graphic Fun onesie) is part of the family.
Hillary, our amazing Creative Director, often used daughter Lily as inspiration for many big sister tshirt (and coordinating big brother t shirt) designs, well before little sister June was born last summer. Both Lily and June make excellent models for our personalized baby gifts, don’t you think?!
(sisters June and Lily in Petite Lemon Monster Monogram tees)
Another of our super talented designers, Julia, used her own design to dress big sister Claire and little sister Charlotte in matching Doodle It Up Little Sister and Big Sister Shirts. Talk about sibling love!
We’re so lucky to have such incredible designers and their adorable wee ones to inspire our personalized baby gifts.
Designer Spotlight: Karl
We love shining the spotlight on our fabulous mommy and daddy designers who create the best personalized growth charts, big brother tshirts, big sister tees, 1st birthday shirts, etc that will become treasured baby keepsakes for our dear customers. So far we’ve highlighted a few mommy designers and today we’re sharing some inspiration from daddy designer Karl.
Karl created the Busy Bulldozer Big Brother Tshirt and used his three boys for inspiration. He says, “When I’m working on a design I think, ‘what would my boys wear on their shirts? What excites them?’ My designs tend to come from their world, which involves Cars, Dinosaurs, Monsters, Dirt, and Noise. Lots of Dirt and Noise!”
As parents of boys, we can totally relate! Which big brother tshirt design would your little boy love most?
Designer Spotlight: Hillary
You’ve seen her adorable Handmade by Hillary DIYs projects and our Creative Director is such a driving force behind so many of our personalized growth charts, alphabet posters, and tees, that we are super thrilled to feature Hil in our designer spotlight series this week. Here’s a little background on her inspiration for the brand new Stamped Style Big Sister Tshirt and Big Brother Tshirt design.
Hillary said, “I loved designing this shirt. The aged feel of the type gives it a unique look. I love that the type on the shirt is so big. It’s very eye-catching. I love designing for Petite Lemon. I get inspiration from everwhere: watching cartoons with my little girl, magazines, Pinterest, other designers, etc. Design is everywhere and it’s fun to notice the little things throughout the day that stand out to you.”
Designer Spotlight: Pauline, aka Muffin
We love our designers, they not only keep our line of personalized growth charts, alphabet posters, and tshirts fun and fresh, they’re just super cool people! This is one of the reasons we wanted to shine the spotlight on them and their designs. This week it’s Muffin, who gave us the new Merry Menagerie Big Brother Tshirt and Big Sister Tshirt, whose animal-tastic font is sweet and playful.
This is what inspired Muffin to create the Merry Menagerie Big Brother Tshirt and Big Sister Tshirt:
I am kind of obsessed with fonts. I love the way that a font can feel, each of them differently. Some fonts feel modern, others more classic. Knowing that I was designing for a kids tee, I started looking for playful fonts. When I found this font I very quickly began to see animal shapes out of them. I added an eye here and a whisker there and before I knew it, I had several animals shaped from the letters. This tee shirt design actually came very easily to me.
I have a five year old daughter who is the inspiration behind a lot of my designs. When I was designing this tee she came into my office (because I have the joy of working from home) and said, “Hey, that’s an owl!” Having her look at my designs helps me to make sure I’m on the right track. If she can see what it is, then I know I’ve done my job!
Is there a personalized growth chart or tshirt design you’d like to know the inspiration for?
DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT – JULIA W.
On our blog we talk a lot of about our talented mommy and daddy designers and how they work hard to create our unique line of baby keepsakes, including personalized growth charts, alphabet posters, and personalized tshirts for kids. Well we thought it was time to give you a little inside look at the inspiration behind some of the designs by going straight to the individual designer.
This week we asked designer Julia W. about her inspiration for one of our newest big sister tees, the Sweet Treat Big Sister Tshirt, which is truly sweet indeed. Here’s what she had to say:
I have always had an affinity for doodling. I spent my childhood doodling in sketch pads, in the margins of my homework…basically any writable surface. Once in college, I took plenty of “serious” art and design classes, but I would always find myself going back to my “doodly” ways, creating things free-form, from my own imagination and not following any particular set of artistic rules. Working for Petite Lemon has now legitimized me as a professional doodler, which is pretty much a childhood dream fulfilled!
I came up with the style for the Sweet Treat tee from a (what else?!) doodle that I did while sitting next to my 18 month old who was taking a bath…I’ve learned to multitask! I am particularly excited about designing for children since I had her, and her sweet, youthful energy brings out my own. Even better: I started designing this tee shortly after I found out I was pregnant with my second baby which is due this June! You better believe I’ll be dressing them in Petite Lemon Big Sis/Lil Sis tees soon!