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!

Imprintable Baby Shower Invitations

We recently added the cutest imprintable baby shower invitations to the website. Personalized baby shower invitations have really become popular but they can be costly. More people are looking for economical ways to do-it-yourself. If you are one of those people these imprintable baby shower invitations are for you.





You can get the professional look of a personalized baby shower invitation without spending a fortune. The invitations are available in many adorable styles and are easy to use. All you have to do is setup the margins in your word processing program, create your baby shower invitation message, and print. It's as simple as that.



Your guests will be so impressed with these imprintable baby shower invitations and you will save a ton of money that can be put toward planning the rest of your baby shower!

New Baby Gift Registry!

We are happy to announce that our baby gift registry is now active! We have been working on adding the gift registry over the summer and it is ready for all you expecting mommies to add your favorite baby products from our site to your wishlist.

The gift registry is easy to setup and use. There are detailed baby gift registy instructions for both the expecting parents and gift buyers.

Besides using the registry for a baby gift list, you can also use it to help your party hostess plan your baby shower by adding items from our extensive selection of baby shower favors, invitations, and tableware. We have added many new designs and themes.

So what are you waiting for? Check out our new gift registry and start shopping!

Baby Animals Diaper Cake Free Giveaway

Don't miss the chance to win one of our new Baby Animals Diaper Cakes. Stop by Blissful Bee Blog to read the awesome review of our store and enter the free giveaway.

Baby Animals Diaper Cake Giveaway

Unique Baby Gifts - Baby Animals Diaper Cakes

We just finished designing our newest baby animals diaper cakes. These adorable diaper cakes make a unique baby gift and are great for a baby shower centerpiece.

The Baby Ducks Diaper Cake is designed with an assortment of cute ducky baby items including a soft hooded bath towel that is perfect for newborn babies. The neutral colors make it a perfect baby gift for either a boy or girl.



The Baby Bear Diaper Cake includes a soft & cuddly Baby Gund "Need a Hug" bear, as well as practical baby items. Also designed with neutral colors, it would be an exquisite gift for a baby boy or baby girl.



If you are planning either a ducky themed or teddy bear themed baby shower, either one of these diaper cakes would make a fantastic table centerpiece!

Father's Day Craft Ideas for Toddlers

I can't believe Father's Day is right around the corner. I have been searching for easy crafts for Alexander to do for his dad. I found some great ideas that are really simple for toddlers and you don't need a lot of supplies.

Familycorner.com had a quite a few craft ideas but these were my favorits:

This keychain is really simple and can easily be modified to reflect dad's favorite interest. Such as substituting the footballs for golfballs.



I really love this salt dough paperweight, it's a great craft for any age. I was having some trouble linking to the web address (as with the one below also), so just copy and paste into your browser to get there.

http://www.familycorner.com/family/kids/crafts/dad-rocks-salt-dough-paperweight.shtml



Parents.com had this adorable desk organizer that would make a great gift for dad's desk.

http://www.parents.com/holiday/fathers-day/crafts/desk-organizer-for-dad/



You can find a whole list of great crafts by age at DLTK Kids. This cute mobile is so versatile. If you really want to get crafty, you can change the designs to reflect one of dad's interests or use little pictures of your child rather then shapes.

$50 Gift Certificate Giveaway Winner!

Thanks everyone for participating in our giveaway. I loved reading all of your nursery crib bedding choices. The winner of the $50 CSN store gift certificate is Nelsby. Congratulations & have fun shopping!