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

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!