Mermaid Paradise - Won!

Well our 10 year anniversary grand prize winner ended up having her son Hayden 3 weeks early! Even with that wonderful event happening early she still had time to email us and to send us some wonderful pictures!
Here is what Laura has to say about decorating her daughter's room in Olive Kids Mermaid design!

Hi there, Great timing! We finished redoing Taylor's room this past weekend and I will send you pictures by this Friday.

It turned out great!! Originially her room had two pink walls and two mint green walls. We kept the pink and then painted the mint green walls with an awesome turquiose color (one of the coordinating colors that was recommended). She is so proud of her big girl room.
The quality of the products are fantastic! And the colors in the Mermaid pattern are even better in person than online.

Thank you again and I will get those photos to you soon! Laura :-)

Hi Kim, Again I am so sorry for the delay in getting these photos to you. Hopefully these are what you were you looking for. As you can see in the photos we painted two walls with pink and two with turquoise. It looks awesome! Taylor loves her room!

I also sent a couple of photos of Hayden with his blanket and pillow. Thanks, Laura

Pictures of Grand Prize Winner- 10th Anniversary Prize

I can not express to you how excited Laura was when she found out she won the grand prize of an Olive Kids Room. It turns out that Laura was expecting her next child and they had just started decorating the nursery for the arrival of their first son. They were trying to find a way to make their daughter's room special so she didn't feel left out! These are the pictures she send us of her daughter getting her prize!

10 year Anniversary Contest winner update!

Here is a little note and picture send in by our 1st place winner - it's Timothy cute!
at 9:06 AM, Sandra D wrote:

Kim,

Just wanted to send you a quick note to thank you and everyone at Olive Kids for the great items that were from the 1st Place Winner set. The items were a very nice quality and great for kids. My nephew loved everything and had to give a couple of people your web site address to check it out.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Sandra D

Blessings Abound

I met Jacqueline the mom behind Blessing Abound on Twitter. She is a wonderful mom to 4 children, whom she home schools in Alaska. On her blog it says "from the land of the midnight sun", It must be an amazing thing to see the sun at midnight although I can't sleep unless it is pitch black. Can you imagine having 4 kids and the sun out at midnight! She is an amazing women and after reading her blog it became apparent to me that Olive Kids was a perfect fit for her readers.

This is what she had to say about Olive Kids
"As a child, I always wanted to have a cutely coordinated room. Now as a parent, I get excited to decorate my kids rooms with themes but not any generic and tacky "popular character of the week" theme will do. I look for something special that will reflect the interest of my kids that they will enjoy for years to come. Olive Kids provides the unique, adorable and creative children home decor and design that I'm searching for! All the designs are tasteful and yet stays visually appealing to kids, just like what a child's room should be. They have a complete collection of classic bedroom bedding, art, and accessories in playful themes that kids are sure to love. What's even better, is that you can add that extra touch and personalize many of the items they offer!"

I had the chance to personalize a wall clock for one of my kids and I was thrilled to pick out the Patchwork Ponies Clock for my oldest daughter, Elizabeth. It is a lovely design that is a delightful addition to her girly pink room as we gradually build on to her pony themed bedroom. She is a horse fanatic and her eyes lit up when she saw this clock. She couldn't wait for us to hang it up and display it in her room. We have been teaching her how to tell time and she has been more focused now than ever to learn how to tell time correctly. The clock runs on two double a batteries and it runs quietly without the annoying tick tock of some clocks that may leave my kids restless at night. It brings us one closer to step to finishing and decorating her room just the way she likes.

She had over 340 people comment on her blog most of them new to Olive Kids! Thank you Jacqueline for sharing Olive Kids with your readers!

Olive Kids featured on Pink & Posh

Jeri from Pink & Posh feel the same way we do about kids room being decorated with cartoon or movie charachters this is what she has to say about Olive Kids!

"Inspiring my children to be creative and use their imaginations is a daily routine for my family. We love to play outside, visit the library and even enjoy a play or ballet every once in a while. (my husband not so much on the ballet, unless our daughter is in it...LOL) We hoped to bring some of these kid friendly aspects from our adventurous lives into their room decor, but while searching for bedding and decor, we noticed that every children's bedding store has at least 1000 different options of TV & movie character themed sets, and very few options for those of us who don't want "Hannah Montana" or "The Wiggles" sprawled across our children's bedrooms. Thankfully, the family that owns and runs Olive Kids understands a family like ours and believe me, they understand your family too!

I got to test out one of their throw pillows and shams for my daughter's room and all I have to say is YEAH! They are a perfect match to her "shabby chic meets vintage retro girly" room collage. I'm sure you can imagine we started with somewhat of a theme, but as she got older, she "learned" her own style... so here we are... and now we have even more to love! So in true Pink & Posh style, the lovely people at Olive Kids are hosting a girly Pink & Posh TEA PARTY for those of you with little girls who love PINK!"

Make your Kids Valentines Day extra special

We all know that Valentines day is the most fun when you are a kid. You and your mom go to the store and purchase your favorite Valentines day cards to give to the kids in your class. Then you have to decide which on to give to each class member - you don't want to give the wrong card. Heaven forbid you give a card to a boy that makes him think you "like like" him when you really don't like him at all but your mom is making you give him one. (Or maybe that was just me :)

Then you have the special valentine card collector that you made in your class. I remember making them out of shoe boxes, brown paper lunch bags and even making one out of paper mache! I always bugged my mom to make heart shaped sugar cookies that I could decorate with frosting and those sweet tart hearts with saying on them. Which we did!

At the Valentines day party we ate lots of sweets, put our valentines day cards in each other special valentine mail box and couldn't wait to open all our card. Our parent usually kept them around for a couple of day; till we lost interest and then throw them away.

This Valentines Day you can keep that special feeling around all year by getting your little valentine one of Olive Kids personalized Valentines gift!

You could get this personalize Valentines Day Placemat to set their place at the tableor maybe this personalized Valentines Day Book Mark - to help mark the day
They can watch the time pass till the next Valentines Day with their very own personalized Valentines Day Clock!

The choice is yours but we know which ever one you pick you kids will love it!

Canvas Art Grand Prize Winner

Jennifer from the Dirty Shirt Blog won our grand prize in our December Canvas Art Contest! Jennifer won canvas art and canvas growth chart, she picked the Mermaids design for both.

She was nice enough to share her thoughts on winning and pictures of her daughter's with the prizes!


When she found out she won:
"Wow I am in shock. I have not been this lucky for a long time :) Thank you for offering the giveaway. I am so excited about the prizes I would love to have both (both, I can't believe I won both) in the Mermaid theme with the name Abigail
And I would love to have a quote and pictures up on your site :-)

Thank you again,
Jennifer
The Dirty Shirt"

What she said after she got the prizes:
I received my prizes yesterday thank you so much. I am going take pictures with my Abigail getting the items if that is ok for you.

Thanks again I love Olive Kids!!!

Jennifer
The Dirty Shirt"

Here are the pictures of her beautiful daughters.

We were featured on Steals and Deals!

Abby Meyer who is the women behind the steals and deals blog, loves Olive Kids. She asked us if she could feature Olive Kids on her site and we of course said yes! We also provided a give-away of a personalized placemat, book mark and name tag for the readers of her blog. She had over 100 people comment on Olive Kids (you can see the comments by clicking on the steals and deals link in the right hand sidebar).

The winner said we could share her comments with you and she supplied some great pictures of her adorable daughter.

Sara wrote: Dear Olive Kids,

My name is Sara K and I was chosen the winner of the Steal & Deals giveaway during the 12 days of Christmas.

I received my winning package yesterday and it is FABULOUS! My daughter absolutely loved seeing her name on the bookmark, bag tag and placemat. The colors are bright and quality is great.

Thank you for providing such an awesome giveaway!
Sincerely, Sara

Hello again!

Kim,
I think about you all every evening when I’m setting my daughter’s spot at the table and we use her precious new placemat. Sorry about the delay! My precious daughter was far less than cooperative when I tried to get her picture with her placemat and other goodies. I appreciate your supporting one my favorite blog sites as well. Your company is great! Here are the photos I was able to get. She does really love her placemat & so do I. She not only uses it at dinner time but it is PERFECT for her to use when she plays with play dough!

Thank you all again for the great prize!

Sincerely, Sara

December Contest Winner! Vickie M

Our customers love Olive Kids personalized floor pillows! They write to tell us how soft they are and how much their kids love dragging them all around the house. So we decided that it would be a perfect contest prize for December. We had 3 grand prize winners!

Here is what Vickie had to say when she found out she won!

Thank you very, very much!!!!!!!!
They are all beautiful!
I choose:
Design: Mermaids
The child's name: MADALYN

This is what she had to say after receiving the personalized floor pillow!

Just wanted to let you know we received this beautiful pillow today, & to thank you again. I wasn't expecting such a big, softer than soft, beautifully monogrammed, cuddly pillow! Madalyn is going to be thrilled! Almost wish I had had my name put on it!!! It is GREAT! Many thanks again!!!!!!
Vickie M

I thank her for her kind words and she followed up with this email!

From: V mcGrew
To: Kim Poirier
Subject: Re: Congratulations!

Thanks, Kim, you made my day too! Of course you can use what I wrote & change it around any way you need to. I can't say enough good things about your company. I wish everyone could see & feel the beautiful pillows. They are really outstanding, much better than anything you could find in a store. M
Vickie

We love hearing from our customers and thought you'd like to see what they have to say also!

What's Rockin Mama have to say about our drawer knobs?

Olive Kids… Accessorize Your Child’s Room in Style

Up until a few months ago, my son didn’t have his own room. He “lived” with mommy and daddy in our one bedroom apartment. During my pregnancy, I spent a lot of time obsessing over researching baby products (what else do you do when you’re on bedrest?) I remember the twinge of sadness I felt because I knew we weren’t going to have a room for my son and I didn’t know how long that would be our situation. I know that seems trivial and I’m just grateful to have my son but part of me felt like I missed out on the fun of decorating my son’s bedroom.
My son is 18 months old and I’m so happy that he has his own room (finally!). We’ve had so much fun painting his room in vibrant blue, transforming his closet into a magnetic chalkboard, and adding decor to make it his own. I absolutely love the vibrant colors and kid-inspired designs offered by Olive Kids. If you’re like me, then everything has to match! Coordinating colors and designs is easy and affordable.

Kristen from A ordinary life loves us!

Well maybe love is to strong of a word, she likes likes likes our products a real lot! If you don't believe me just read her words below and I know you'll agree!


"Many of you already know about one of my favorite companies Olive Kids. When we decided to switch Kai into a big girl bed we knew we needed a fun and easy solution. My first thought, Olive Kids bedding.

The fun and bright patterns were sure to make for an easy transition. They carry toddler bedding and larger sizes. Kai of course went from her crib into her big girl bed so it was an easy choice. But just think a mini-set of this adorable bedding. Any child will LOVE it! You know why I really love Olive Kids? They don’t carry traditional characters you find in stores, these characters are meant to inspire a child. They are easy to relate to, and well aren’t we tired of that whole trendy character thing anyway. Just take a peak at all of the amazing designs.

We of course picked the Flowerland Bedding. Colorful flowers and adorable bugs play on a patchwork of yellows with faux stitching on this delightful kids bedding! Kai loves her buggy sheets, or so she says. And what I love is this bedding will last! It’s so comfortable and colorful she won’t be growing out of it anytime soon! So Mom’s if you are looking for wonderful and unique items for your child or even personalized items be sure you head on over to Olive Kids where things are classic, simple and stylish. "

Here is a picture of Kai's new bed, doesn't it look wonderful!

Mama Speaks and the world listens

We love working with the women behind Mama Speaks! They have been Olive Kids supporters from the beginning and we also know that their readers love us too!

Here is what they had to say about Olive Kids Personalized Floor Pillows!

"Pillow Perfect

Bedtime can be a source of contention no matter what age your kids are and if you're anything like me you'll try anything to make the end of the day more enticing. Lovies galore, special books and bedding that you can't resist crawling into. Olive Kids is one of our favorite go-to's for creating kid friendly spaces in the home and their new personalized floor pillows [$60, currently on sale for $48] will aid in happy slumbers.

These oversized plush pillows are certain to bring on a reason to snuggle. The 100% cotton, buttery soft outers feature Olive Kids classic, fun graphics with the name of your choice embroidered below. The outer can be zipped off to wash and encases a gusseted, quilted, 100% cotton cover with sterilized polyester fill. While you'll find this pillow perfect for bed time don't be surprised if it makes it way all over your house. Movie time, game night, magic carpet ride. It will work for everything and then some.

One bit of warning though, I've already been reprimanded a time or two for zonking out on my wee ones pillow, so you might just want to buy two! Allow yourself a bit of extra time too. All pillows are made to order, so could take around 2 weeks to arrive."

We're glad we were able to provide you a little extra zzzz time we can all use it when we can get it!