Thursday, July 16, 2009

A picture of the June Floor Pillow winner

Here is a picture of the lovely Rachael - her mom won the flowerland pillow for her! Her Mom tells me that she loves it! I think you can tell by the picture that she does love her personalized flowerland floor pillow!

Thanks for sharing the pictures with us!


Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Mom Buzz about Olive Kids

Erin writer of the Mom Buzz shares her thought on Olive Kids!

When my son turned 3, his grandmother bought him a new bedroom set. It's gorgeous, with a "cabin" feel to it. It even has a tent-like canopy on the twin bed. Well, since I only had toddler bedding stuff, I needed to update.

At first I was thinking of going the character route, especially since my son LOVES super heroes. But it just didn't complement the new bedroom set. Then I remembered Olive Kids. I decided to go there and check it out. I fell in love with the non-character selections for boys, with fun themes like Space, Cowboys, Pirates and more. I decided to buy the Ride 'em Twin Bedbox, because the cowboy print would surely complement his new room!

The Ride 'em Twin Bedbox set includes a fitted comforter, fitted sheet, straight sheet, bedskirt, pillowcase and sham. When it came in I realized that the bedskirt would not fit correctly his style of bed. Bummer. And the comforter, with its prefolded end, needs to be pushed down to fit on his bed correctly. It's called a "Hugger". It is reversible, with the other side being a red paisley pattern.

The sheetset fit wonderfully! It has wonderful cream color with red trim and a pattern of cowboys, cacti, covered wagons, and campfires decorating it. The pillowcase has a coordinating red paisley hem that is folded and sewn. And the sham was a red paisley pattern, perfectly complementing the sheets. The sheets are 100% Percale Cotton, 210 thread count.

When all is said and done, it looks fabulous!

Olive Kids gave me a wonderful opportunity to review a personalized item from their shop, suggesting their new framed prints. I visited and thought the Ride 'em Cowboy print would truly complement his new bedding! In fact, you will find personalized prints to match all of their bedding - but it will also fit in wonderfully if you buy it by itself. They have mermaids, pirate ships, planes and more to choose from!

When it came in, with a black wooden frame, it had his name printed on it. It was such a surprise for him and looks great hanging in his room! The print is pretty big, measuring 18.5 x 24.5.

Honestly, I could go wild completely finishing his room with coordinating pieces, like draw pulls, throws, rugs, wallies and more. And with bedding sets in sizes from toddler to Queen, you can count on finding what you want in the size you need. (I was so annoyed when some of those character sets that I was considering prior only came in toddler or full! What about twin?)

The entire experience with Olive Kids has been wonderful and you can be sure I will be back to buy my second son's bedroom set, as well. This time I am thinking pirates!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

New Personalize Plates & Placemats!

We have been very busy here at Olive Kids creating an extra special personalized gift that is sure to make your little ones smile and make meal time easier for you!

Our new personalized plates are designed to match the personalized placemats - they work with or without each other - the designs are seamless!

Parents have told me that they love personalized plates for their kids because it helps at mealtime. Not only does it stop them from fighting over where they are going to sit; it also helps the parent when serving the food.

With personalized plates for their kids they are able to portion out the right amount of food on each plate and if one of them doesn't like peas they can leave them off their plate!

They make the perfect gift for your kids, nieces, nephews, grandkids, friend's kids and for the school friend's birthday party your kids got invited to - that you have no idea what to buy. At only $29.99 they are the right price too!

Beautiful Butterfly Garden

Tractor, Tractors & more Tractors - boys can never get enough!

Wild Animals perfect for little girls and boys!

The perfect setting for a tea party!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Rain Rain Go Away

We are dreaming of Summer BBQ's and most importantly Sunshine here in New Hampshire!

So far this month it has rained 16 out of the last 25 days - we didn't have any rain the first week of June - so basically it has been raining everyday since June 8th! We had a terrible winter (ice storms and record cold) so we were hoping to have a hot sunny summer instead we went from having weather like Alaska to having weather like Seattle... we are still hoping for weather like the bahamas!

The last BBQ's I went to, the cook (my wonderful brother-in-law Bob) had rigged up an umbrella to keep himself dry while he cooked our steaks and grilled corn on the cob. Because it was raining and everyone had to eat inside I wanted to bring some extra fun to the BBQ so I was surprised everyone with a personalized summer placemat; they were the perfect place setting and conversation piece!

After everyone finished eating we went around the table telling our favorite beach story from when we were a little kid. It was great and I loved when my 16 year old son told this story - it was about a very sunny day in July, he was about 7 years old.

I had gone away on a business trip to Newport RI and while I was there I found this wonderful kite shop. I looked around the store for a long time and finally decided to purchase a kite shaped like a dolphin for him. I also bought all the streamers and fun attachments you could add to the string as the kite got higher and higher in the sky.

He was so excited when I gave him the kite that we jumped into the car and drove to Plum Island. We spent hours trying to get that kite up in the sky. When we finally did it was amazing; we flew it till the sun started to set, we didn't want to let it come down because we spent so much time trying to get that kite up in the air. We went out for dinner, talked about our adventure and finished the night off we a special ice cream treat!

It is amazing the memories you can share when you start the conversation with a question to everyone! Mine started with our Personalized Sand Castle Placemats! You can start your summer conversation using our fun personalized sand castle placemats or if you are having a fun 4th of July BBQ with or without sunshine we made some special placemats just for Independence Day!



Remember to enjoy your family and to share special memories!

Happy Independence Day - 4th of July to one and all!

The Olive Kids family

Friday, June 19, 2009

Memories of Summer Reading

Believe it or not school will soon be out for the summer here in New Hampshire. It's later than usual because we had terrible ice storms that took out our electricity, causing schools to closed for more than a week.

At first kids were excited that they didn't have to go to school for another week (it was on the end of winter vacation) but when they realized school would have to last longer in the summer they were not happy.

I can still remember when the bell rang at the end of the day, on the last day of school before summer vacation - it was so exciting. Summertime meant riding our bikes everywhere, hanging out with our cousins, going to the beach with my parents, and staying out till the street lights came on - the good old days.

One my best memories is when we would get one of those steaming hot nights (we didn't have air conditioning) and sleeping was impossible. So my parents would load all 5 kids into the station wagon (you know the one with the fake wood paneling) and we would drive to the beach and lay under the weeping willow tree. My parents would read stories to us until we fell asleep, bookmarking the place they left off for our next night time visit. Then they would pick us up sound asleep and put us into the cars and then into our beds. As each of us got older we took turns doing the reading and helping to pick up our younger siblings! I believe that is one of the main reasons I love to read today!

I can still remember what the bookmark looked like and how excited we were to begin where we had left off the last time we read together.

You can help your kids get the love of reading by getting them their very own personalized bookmark or have one made with your family name for time spent reading together. Loving to read will help your kids in school, it will build up their imagination and you will never hear the words I am bored because they always have an adventure at their finger tips. We have designs for everyone in the family! Priced at only $8.99 it's an easy inexpensive way to help them nurture their love for reading.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Olive Kid Fabric

I do own a sewing machine, really I do. How often I use it is another story! When my kids were little I always made their halloween costume, but now that they are grown I find my self using it less and less. Every once in a while I get inspired to sew (thanks to my grandma) and I will make new curtains or a duvet covers out of fabric I fell in love with while browsing through our local fabric store.

What kind of fun things could you easily make with Olive Kids fabric?

How about some new cushions for a chair you found at a yard sale for you kids room in out of this world stars?
Doll bedding to match your little girls flowerland bedroom...

A fun fabric board made out of our dinosauland footprints to pin notes up on...
How about a tepee made out of our ride em fabric...
Or a sling to put all your kids stuff animals in our wild animals design...


Have you made anything out of Olive Kids fun fabric, if you have let us know!

Friday, June 12, 2009

Personalizes Gift Cards only $3.95!

Did you know that we have a fun line of gift cards that we personalize just for you? We have them in all our fun colorful designs to help you add that extra special touch to your gift.

Here are some examples of what you can say on your personalized gift card made just for you!







Buying you gift card from us not only saves you a trip to the store, more often than not the cards at your local Hallmark store are more expensive and this one will say just what you want it to!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Your kid's Name Lights up the Score Board

We know that boys of all ages love sports! Being from New England we have a lots of serious Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins fans... we also have some transplanted New Yorkers who love the Yankees and the Jets! At least everyone loves the Celtics and the Bruins! It truly makes for some fun sports talk when one team is winning over the other.

At Olive Kids we wanted to make fans of all teams happy with our large framed prints that put your kids names in their very own sports score board!




Friday, June 5, 2009

May Contest Winners!

The winners of our personalized floor pillow are:

Monica B from Davenport Fl - Thank you! I'm so excited! I like the Flowerland pillow! My daughter's name is Rachel

Amy K from Otsego MH - I am more excited than you know!!!! This is the best thing to happen in the last few months--thank you!!!! Out of this world pillow (will match my son Tanner's room--we have all the stuff)!!!!! Amy is going to send us some pictures of his room after she receives the floor pillow she won.

Stacy D from Germantown MD - Hi Kim I am so excited! Floor Pillow Design Choice: Tea Party for Sara Rose - Thanks so much! I am so excited

Casey G from North Augusta SC - still waiting to hear back from her!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

May sale continues in June

Yes I know that I told you that you better order soon because our Personalized sale was ending on May 31st. Well I lied - not really! We were going to end it on May 31st but some of you wrote in to tell us you wished it was lasting longer so you could take advantage of our once in a life time sales. So we talked about it here at Olive Kids and decided that we would extend our Personalized Sale through June (yes it is really going to end on June 30).
Just incase you forgot how amazing the sale is here is a repost!

Watch your savings grow with our FREE Personalization Sale!

Watch your Kids grow our canvas growth charts - now on sale for $45.99!

Time will be running out on our personalized clock sale - you save $5.00 now only $19.99!

Save $10 on our personalized canvas art now only $119!

Save 30% on personalized placemats now only $6.99!

Save 28% on our unframed art prints now only $17.99!

Save an additional $5.00 off our personalized floor pillows now only $45.99!

Save $14 off our fun personalized wooden frame art now only $45.99!

We just introduced our new large wooden frame art and now we you can save $5.00 now only $69.99!

Book Marks are $1.00 off now only $8.99

Be sure to order soon sale ends at the stroke of midnight on May 31st!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

J. Leigh Designz with Olive Kids

Jennifer wrote to me telling me that she had designed her son room around our Out of This World Theme and wanted to share it with us! I asked her if she would review our frame art (because that is just about the only thing she didn't already purchase) so we could get her opinion! She said yes and this is what she has to say about all of the Out of This World collection! She took a sad moment in their life and make it special for her kids - your a wonderful mom Jennifer!

"If you are looking for a way to decorate your child's room in a fun and stylish theme then you need to look no further then Olive Kids! They have fun styles like Sports, Tea Pots & Polka Dots, Cowboys, and many more!

When our family lost our home to a fire 2 years ago I was back to square one with the boys rooms. My oldest had the coolest glow in the dark moon and stars room that was discontinued and I could no longer purchase or replace. My youngest who was 6 months old at the time had a stunning nursery that had a rare collection of Little Suzy's Zoo collector items that took years to collect. So I knew both were rooms that I had to start over from scratch with.

Since it took a year to rebuild our home I wasn't interested in putting my son back into a cutesy nursery. He was 18 months but he was still in a crib so I needed options. I needed something that could go from crib to toddler to young child. I am the type of person that takes a theme and takes it to the extreme. So, I was willing to spend the money if I could find something that I really liked. So, over the year it took to rebuild I looked into every website and every store for a fire truck bedroom theme. I thought it would be kind of ironic to put a fire engine bedroom theme into our house. I had trouble finding what I liked but because of THIS set I found Olive Kids! The set had more then fire trucks so I started to peek around the site and I stumbled upon a rocketship and planets theme called Out Of This World.

I. was. in. love. instantly.
I knew this was the set Gavin had to have! Plus, since they carried the set in both toddler, twin, full, and queen sizes I knew the set could grow with him. I was able to put the toddler set into the crib for use while he was still in his crib.






Thursday, May 21, 2009

We have an out of this world customer!

The Reynolds family had a blast decorating their son's room with Olive Kids Out of This World bedding and room decor! I think you'll agree they did an amazing job!

From Andrea:
I just wanted to send in some pictures of my son's adorable new big boy room! He loves all of his Olive Kids Out Of This World products and we are thrilled with how the room turned out. Even though you guys do not have the Wallies available at this time, I was not to be deterred! I bought the coordinating wallpaper border and cut out the shapes. I then put a small amount of wallpaper paste on the backs, stuck them on, and wiped them down with a wet rag to get out the bubbles. They look so adorable! And, it completed the room just like I envisioned. Thanks Olive Kids for making such cute designs and helping me make a truly special room for my Olive Kid.
Sincerely,
Andrea Reynolds




Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Another Prize winner writes in

Jocelyn took the time to let us know what her and her daughter thought of the prize she won in our April Contest!

Hi Kim,

Alexis and I have recieved the beautiful, framed, personalized artwork that we won in your website contest. It is gorgeous, and we LOVE it! From looking around your site, I expected our prize to be very nice, but was very happily surprised at just how nice and how high qualiy it is. This would make a wonderful, personal and impressive gift for any child, and I highly recommend it. The artwork arrived very quickly and in perfect condition. I have attached a pic of my daughter holding it, and you can see from her smile how thrilled she is.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to win this artwork.

Best Regards,

Jocelyn

Friday, May 15, 2009

April Contest Winners Picture!

Angela O was kind enough to send up a picture of the frame art she won in out April contest!

We received the framed art and I thank you and Hunter thanks you and everyone at Olive Kids. He was excited to see that big box come UPS and when he opened it he was really excited to see the print with his name on it. he loves trains so this was the perfect picture for him.

Thank you again,

Angela Oliver

Friday, May 8, 2009

I mom writes us to tell us


That she did a blog post about her purchase of our dinosaurland bedding, here is what Terri from my brand name baby has to say about Olive Kids:

"STAT.....that's how quickly I need to learn the pronunciations of all the dinosaurs' names. (And, based on how hard it was for me to spell pronunciations, I'm thinking I'm in trouble.) My daughter has taken an interest in the prehistoric set, and I find myself shopping for the big, ugly creatures, when I could be hanging out in Strawberry Shortcake-land. Case in point, we were looking in the toy section of our local superstore last week and when we walked by the barbies, she gave them a cursory glance and said "pretty". Then, she spotted a huge, horrible, dinosaur skeleton from across toy section, and took off running. Her eyes were as big as saucers, and she said "beautiful".

So, being the good Mom I'm trying to be, I'm looking for all things dinosaur. My first stop is one of my favorite shops, Olive Kids. They have 96 items listed in their Dinosaurland and I feel like I've struck gold! Even I have to admit, the Toddler Bed Set is really fun and while you are there, a personalized placemat is a must.

Olive Kids has many themes to choose from, so there is something for every parent's (I mean child's) taste. Stop by and spend some time looking at Olive Kids today.

Now, I'm off to find a dictionary....."

Thanks Teri we are so glad you and your son loved his new Olive Kids Dinosaurland Bedding!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

April Contest Winners

Everyone was thrilled that we had a contest giving away our newly launched oversized frame print and the winners are....

Jocelyn M. from Netcong NJ -

I am thrilled to have won this contest. My daughter is going to love this, she is 3, loves mermaids and is learning to spell her name. I know she will like the mermaid print with a lilac frame to match her bedroom. Her name is I am thrilled to have won this contest. My daughter is going to love this, she is 3, loves mermaids and is learning to spell her name. I know she will like the mermaid print with a lilac frame to match her bedroom. Her name is Alexis.
I will be sure to tell my friends, who I am sure are going to be jealous that I won such a beautiful, personalized prize that I won it from your site.

Thank you for the opportunity to win such a great prize!

Jocelyn


Angela O - Selma NC - Thank you and my son thanks you. I pick FI-TPTX-315 trains and planes and I would like navy frame. His name is Hunter.

Thanks again,
Angela O

Heather N Essex Jct VT - Wow! Thank you so much!!! It has taken me all day to make a decision! Such a touch choice!

I think the Butterfly Garden design in a white frame with the name Kate on it would be a perfect fit for my daughter.

Thank you again!

Heather N

Friday, May 1, 2009

Amazing Personalized May Sale at Olive Kids

We have been listening to you all! We know that times are tough right now and we wanted to make it a lot easier to add that extra special touch to your kids room or to get that extra special gift for the special kid in your life.

Watch your savings grow with our FREE Personalization Sale!

Watch your Kids grow our canvas growth charts - now on sale for $45.99

Time will be running out on our personalized clock sale - you save $5.00 now only $19.99

Save $10 on our personalized canvas art now only $119!

Save 30% on personalized placemats now only $6.99

Save 28% on our unframed art prints now only $17.99

Save an additional $5.00 off our personalized floor pillows now only $45.99

Save $14 off our fun personalized wooden frame art now only $45.99

We just introduced our new large wooden frame art and now we you can save $5.00 now only $69.99

Book Marks are $1.00 off now only $8.99

Be sure to order soon sale ends at the stroke of midnight on May 31st!

May contest prize announced!

To help celebrate the launch of our two new personalized floor pillows Tea Party and Game On we decided to give a few away! We will be awarding 4 grand prize winner a personalized floor pillow of their choice! Be sure to log onto our contest page and enter today!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

A March Contest Winner has something to say!

hi Kim

I just wanted to thank you for the placemats, they are so nice and the boys just LOVE them !

I am planning on doing a review of the placemats in the next few weeks, that is how much I love them!

Again thanks and have a wonderful day!
Susan

Friday, April 24, 2009

New Game On Floor Pillow

Just what your little guy needs to sit on while watching sports with dad or to cuddle up with while reading a good book! Best of all it's can be personalized for him!

Our Game On personalized floor pillow covers all the bases featuring football, soccer, basketball and baseball!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Spring is here in New Hampshire

I orginally posted this on the official first day of Spring but as I was driving into work today with the view of Mt Monadnock (without any snow on it) I decided that I should update it.

Now that Spring has arrived in New Hampshire...

Here are my updated top ten things Spring in New Hampshire means to me!

1. Melting snow (hopefully) The snow is all gone!!!
2. Snow Storms (hopefully not - last year we had one on April 1st) Pheww we made it without any more snow
3. Crocuses trying to push up from under the snow They are now in full bloom with tulips on the way
4. Frost Heaves (do you even know what those are? they make traveling on roads a bumpy adventure!) Still a pretty bumpy road
5. Lots of MUD (we call it mud season) Mud Mud is everywhere
6. Large mud puddles that switch back and forth from liquid to ice - had ice this morning will be 60 this afternoon...that's New Hampshire
7. Wild Turkeys crossing the road on a blind curve while your driving - the deer are out on the roads and we have seen a mamma bear with her two baby cubs in our friends yard
8. Fishing season begins (hopefully the ice has melted by then) - It's official "Ice Out" has happened and my husband caught his first fish - a salmon! It was delicious!
9. Time to sweep up all the sand off the roads and driveways (it always amazes me how much there is) - wow do the streets look good without all the sand!
10. The best for last ....it means that the grass will be green again, leaves will once again be on the trees and sunny days will soon be here! The grass is greener, you can see the buds on the trees ...and it's time to start working on the garden

That is what Spring is all about here in New Hampshire and I love each and every one (except for the late snowstorms)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tax Day & Tea Parties...

Here at Olive Kids we can't do anything about your taxes but we do have an adorable Tea Party design for your little girls! Olive Kids has everything you need to completely transform her bedroom!

Let's set the scene! Your little girl need a bedroom make-over and she loves pink and tea parties...and your wondering how to start?

So you log onto our website and fall in love with our Tea Party Bedding collection (and who could blame you it's beautiful)So now you have the bedding covered (no pun intended) and you start to wonder what else you need to complete the room... What about a Tea Party window treatment ...

Then you start thinking about what color your going to paint the room! We make that easy too with our paint matching link just click and chose your color! If only painting the room was as easy as finding the right color to match the Tea Party Bedding!
add a Tea Party wall border and some wall paper cuts out and you have a Tea Party dream room!
Wait a minute you can now add those extra special personalized touches with ... Tea Party Canvas Art
Or maybe an over sized Tea Party framed print
A Tea Party Clock (that's silent)
and as that special pinch (or touch) to watch them grow every inch a canvas growth chart...
You place your order, go and purchase the paint, paint the room, your order arrives, you put up the wall border, arrange the wall paper cuts outs, hang the curtains, arrange the personalized wall art, make the bed...and abracadabra your daughter falls in love with her new Tea Party room that was made by you especially for her!