Baby Nursery Room Decor Ideas & Free Giveaway

Today's choices for decorating your child's room is simply amazing! There are so many designs and styles to choose from that range from cute character designs to posh modern bedding styles.

With so many choices, what's a mother to do? Should you go contemporary, whimsical, bright and fun, or vintage? Well, that really depends on what kind of statement you want to make with your baby's nursery or toddler's room.

Here's a few things to keep in mind:

• Remember it's a child's room. You want it to be inviting and comfortable for your child. Not a museum where you are concerned about things getting ruined or broken.


• Color plays a big part in our mood, including children. The colors should be fun but at the same time soothing. Keep the really loud colors for the playroom. This site offers great info of how color affects our mood.


• Try to keep the nursery decor simple and inexpensive. As your child grows and their interests change it will be easy to change your decor.


• Be creative. Look for things around your house that you can use to design your child's room. Make Baby Stuff.com had some great nursery decor ideas using everyday items from around the house.

Now to get you started on decorating your child's room we are having a give away! One lucky winner will receive a $45.00 gift certificate that can be used at any CSN store. You can find a list of stores at www.csnstores.com/ourstores.asp. So if you want to use your gift certificate to buy something for your baby's nursery you can, or you can use it on yourself! It's your choice.

Here's how you can enter to win:

1. Visit our site's , then come back here & post a comment telling us which set you like best. Your name will be entered into the drawing for our giveaway.
   Get one additional entry for each of the following:


2. Promote the $45 Gift Certificate giveaway on your website or blog with a link to "Alexander's Playroom"
   (a href="http://www.alexandersplayroom.com/"). Then add a comment on this post with a link to your promotion.


3. Follow Alexander's Playroom Blog by clicking on the follow button, top left next to blogger search box, or by Google Friend Connect in the right sidebar.


4. Become a Fan of Alexander's Playroom on Facebook by clicking on the "Like" button at the top.


5. Follow Alexander's Playroom on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway (you can tweet daily) - Copy & paste:
   Enter to win a $45 Gift Certificate http://tiny.cc/q8tl5 @merry_mama #giveaway


6. Promote the giveaway on Stumble Upon or Digg with a link to this post. Then add a comment on this post with your Stumble or Digg name and / or URL.

You will be entered for each promotion of our contest. So if you visit our site & post a comment here for your favorite crib bedding set, plus promote it on Twitter & Facebook you will be entered three times.

This contest is opened to United States entrants only. The contest ends on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 11:59 pm eastern standard time. The winner will be chosen using random.org. We will be announcing the winner on October 13, 2010 on our blog, Facebook, & Twitter. Good luck!