2-year old Indy in her baby brother's jungle theme room

As many of our readers know, most of the time when our customers send in photos of the rooms they have created with our wall stickers or wall mural stencil kits, it is a room belonging to a family right here in the United States or often to our northern Canadian neighbors. Today, we have something quite a bit different from the norm to share with you: we would like to introduce, Rolf, the father of 2-year-old daughter, Indy, and newborn son, Dylan – who all live in Huizen, Netherlands!

 It is amazing to not only have a father be the one to contact us about the project he completed (typically it is other moms that get in touch with us) using the Jungle Safari Stencil Kit, but also the fact that he and his family reside in a completely different country more than 4,000 miles from here. My Wonderful Walls is proud to have spread their wings to Huizen, which is a small town near Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands.

 The project, which was originally intended for newborn Dylan’s nursery, ended up claiming a spot in Indy’s room as well. The Jungle Safari Stencil Kit was a great option for Rolf’s little ones since it appeals to both girls and boys of all ages. For Indy, who loves elephants and animals of all sizes, the jungle theme could not have been more perfect.

 During the time it took Rolf to complete the nursery and Indy’s wall, he found enjoyment and excitement in the idea that every wall stencil he painted slowly changed the mood of the scene and the overall look of the room. According to Rolf, Indy absolutely loves it, and he knows that Dylan will love it too.

 Before starting the project, Rolf happened to be surfing YouTube for room wall stencils where he found the My Wonderful Walls video. He immediately knew that the company and their beautiful products were the perfect fit for his children, and so he purchased the stencils right away. Rolf found the Jungle Safari Kit easy to use, lots of fun, and is immensely proud of how the project turned out.

It’s becoming more common these days to hear from customers from other countries, and goes to show that My Wonderful Walls has REACHED with the giraffes to new places, and can make wonderful walls not just in America, but also across the globe! We are proud of this success, not only for our company, but for Rolf and his children: Indy and Dylan.

 This shows that our wall stencils, and our wall stickers can help children grow and use their imaginations throughout the world. It does not matter what your cultural background, or where you live, every child can find happiness in the simplicity and beauty of our wall stickers and wall stencil kits. Our goal is to make people everywhere happy, and knowing that a family in a small town near Amsterdam, Netherlands, has found that happiness has given us even more excitement about the work that we are blessed to get to do each day.

 Congratulations, Rolf, on creating a GRRRREAT, well, wonderful room for your children!

In fact, when describing her boys’ personalities, she had this to say, “Their personalities can be seen in the way each of them approaches going downhill on a bike. Aaron, our tenacious and outgoing toddler, sees a hill and races toward it to get as much momentum as he can so he can fly down it with reckless abandon, laughing the entire way. Seth, our cautious and analytical preschooler, sees the hill in the distance, stops his bike, gets off, and starts asking questions about how fast he’ll go, whether or not he’ll fall off his bike, and whether it would be safer to walk his bike down the hill. He reluctantly gets back on the bike after some encouragement, pedals slowly to the start of the hill, and at a snail’s pace – with his brakes on the entire way – creeps to the base of the hill long after his younger brother has finished.”

Laura chose the Transportation Theme Wall Stickers because she believed the stickers would be easier than painting the transportation theme wall stencils, and as different as they are, both of her boys live and breathe trucks and vehicles. According to Laura, her crafting ability is at the level of a kindergartener, and the project still receives the response, “You did this?” from anyone who sees the room.

Seth and Aaron feel ecstatic about their new room, and the first time they saw the completed room they turned and said, “Mommy, you did it perfect!” All in all, they all feel that the room turned out terrific, and she and the boys were thrilled with the entire experience.

In fact, after spending about three hours over an entire weekend – the longest part was waiting for the paint to dry – Laura was extremely pleased with how easy it was to apply the wall stickers. Fun for mom and easy for the kids, there was truly something for everyone throughout the application process. And since the wall stickers can easily be removed and re-applied time and time again, the sticker scenes can be changed with every dream and idea the boys may latch onto next.

Additionally, with two boys that are very active and playful, the durability of the wall stickers is something that Laura is very thankful for. There is none of the ripping or color fading that other decals may fall prey to in this bedroom! It seems only fitting that the Transportation Theme Wall Stickers is the favorite of these two boys who are always VROOMING around!

 Thank you, Laura, for sharing your boys’ great room with us!

When it came time to discuss the redecorating again, because they were also planning on having Molly change rooms to make way for the twins, they wanted to do something extra special. Emily, who knew Molly was a lover of the orca whale, and had collected a few items here and there getting ready for the ocean-room makeover, wanted to make sure that was still what Molly wanted. Her response? “Well Mommy, you know… I love ocean animals AND land animals.”

So, Emily went back to the drawing board, or in this case the Internet, and began searching again – this time with Molly’s help. In her original search for ocean-themed rooms, she found My Wonderful Walls’ Under the Sea Set on etsy.com, thinking it was adorable, and asked Molly to check it out. Unfortunately, after seeing the mermaids, and thinking about Ariel, a known Disney Princess, that was definitely out.

After continuing the search, Molly immediately yelled out, “MOMMY! Go back!! That one has a fox and an OWL!!” Upon further inspection Emily and Molly noticed the Forest Friends Wall Sticker Kit included much more – a rabbit, a frog, a turtle, a deer, birds… and it was decided – there was no looking elsewhere, and according to Emily, “My little animal lover was sold!”

Although Emily, who was 32 weeks pregnant at the time, allowed Jeremy to do most of the work, was unaware that My Wonderful Walls also sold wall stencil kits, she is still pleased with her purchase of the wall stickers. She loves the look and texture of the stickers and the fact that they have different color tones in them. She feels that they add just a little extra pop to the room that painted stencils may lack.

When it comes to Jeremy, who was skeptical about wall stickersto begin with, he comments quite often to his wife, “Yeah, you made a good find with those stickers. I love how nice these stickers are. Not that cheap, plastic-looking vinyl stuff!” Emily was also quite surprised at the helpfulness of co-owner, Stephanie Goins. She wanted to know about paint colors and had emailed the company; she was pleased to receive feedback quickly and completely loved the entire experience.

As for six-year-old Molly, her mom says she “loves the ENTIRE thing…she’s had a lot of fun with the mouse that Daddy hid behind her shoe bucket!” Way to go Emily and Jeremy for creating such a wonderful room for your terrific daughter, and congratulations on having twins!! We hope to help you create a room for them in the future!!

Thank you, Emily, Jeremy and Molly, for sharing your beautiful story and room with us!

Pinterest is a social networking type of website with a unique spin – you connect with others based on your thoughts, ideas and common interests. This can be anything from recipes and style ideas to our favorite: decorating tips and ideas. In addition to the terrific ideas that My Wonderful Walls has to offer, you can find even more decorating ideas and tips to coincide with your My Wonderful Walls theme at Pinterest.

Once you request an invite to become a member on the site, you will receive the invite and can begin pinning your likes to your bulletin board. It is a terrific way for individuals to connect about decorating, and can help you find the perfect decoration ideas to compliment the My Wonderful Walls kits.

Many of us who think about redecorating our homes might clip out magazine pictures or different photos related to our thoughts and ideas about how we should redecorate. However, by using Pinterest you can organize those thoughts and photos and receive feedback from other members of Pinterest. You may even find some new ideas that others have pinned to help you on your decorating adventure.

Furthermore, if you have purchased one of the wall sticker kits, or wall stencil mural kits from My Wonderful Walls, and are proud of the work you have accomplished, you can pin it to your board and share the news with others. Pinterest does recommend, however, that you post your sources. So, for example, in this situation you would add a link leading back to My Wonderful Walls – the place that helped your create such an amazing space with ease!

There is much to say about the advantages of Pinterest and how you can use it to coincide with the ideas you have received from My Wonderful Walls. However, the best thing about Pinterest is that things are organized, and you can easily search for what you are looking for.

In fact, if you log on to www.Pinterest.com now and enter ‘decorating tips’ in the search bar, a wave of bulletin boards with exactly what you are looking for will be coming your way. You will find tips for decorating kids’ rooms, your mantle, your living room, whatever else you could possibly wish to decorate.

My Wonderful Walls would like you to join Pinterest, learn great decorating tips, add what you have learned, and what you have accomplished, particularly if it involves their products. One note, however, is that you cannot use Pinterest to self-promote your products, but you can definitely display what you have created.

Not only that, but you can repin what others have done that you found particularly helpful when creating your space. My Wonderful Walls has joined Pinterest to help promote their customers’ creations, ideas, and concepts with regards to decorating, and now you can do the same!

For for all you Pinterest addicts and prolific Tweeters out there, we’ve got a great 3-day contest going on now through Sunday midnight (Feb 3-Feb 5) that we want you to know about.

What you’ll win:
Your choice of one of these sweet Valentine’s Day Wall Stickers that can be personalized with a message or a photo.

How to enter:
Visit My Wonderful Walls and do one or both of the following:

a. Pin your favorite product(s). You’ll receive an entry for each item you pin (max. of 5). Pinning is easy! Just click the “Pin It” button below on your favorite product page. Then, return to this blog post and leave a comment with your pin link(s). (Note that if you don’t have already Pinterest account, you can request an invite but the process takes several days. You can, however, tweet about this contest and still qualify to win. See below for details.)

 b. Tweet this: “Win a cute Valentine’s Day gift for your sweetie through MyWonderfulWalls http://bit.ly/ysw6wI” and then post a separate comment with a link to your tweet. 

 All entries will be collected, thrown into a hat (we aren’t fancy around here, but rest assured we are official) and drawn at random on Monday, February 6 at 8AM EST. Winner will be announced shortly thereafter and will be notified via email. Winner will have 24 hours to claim their prize.

 Easy-peasy! The hardest part will be selecting your favorite product to pin… as there are probably so many! What are you waiting for? Go get pinning and tweeting… and you could be the lucky winner!

*Due to time restraints and shipping cost, this contest is open to US only.

Since wall stickers are easy to apply, remove, and reposition, they are the perfect decorating option for apartments, dorm rooms, military housing and more! They leave no mess, and require no paint or sticky goo on your walls unlike other wall decals. Wall stickers are truly the easiest way to create beautiful wall murals in minutes.

Here are a few wall decal decorating ideas:

Baby Nursery

Because most wall sticker sets are themed, creating a beautiful and cohesive boy, girl, or gender neutral baby nursery is easy. Bright colors and fun shapes work best in a nursery, and a transportation wall sticker theme or princess theme would be perfect for your little one!

Family Room

Add a touch of color to your family room walls with a daffodil trio wall sticker set or use an impressive tree wall sticker to create your very own family tree! Wall stickers in a family room add pizzazz and make excellent conversation pieces.

Kids Rooms

Right now the most popular way to decorate a kids room is with wall stickers. Dinosaur, fairy, and outer space themes are some of the most popular choices of kids wall stickers available.

Bathroom

Bath time and brushing teeth will be exciting when your child is surrounded by turtles, whales, dolphins, and more from an under the sea themed wall sticker kit! Wall stickers are easy to clean and reposition, making them perfect for a bathroom wall mural.

Holidays

Since wall stickers aren’t permanent and are easily removable, they’re a great way to decorate for the holidays! Valentine’s Day will be here before you know it, so why not personalize something special for someone you love with personalized Valentines Day wall stickers!

You don’t have to be a master decorator or professional artist to create stunning and fun wall murals! Wall stickers were designed for everyone to use and enjoy!

When they decided to change the room’s décor, Aimee decided to allow Meredith to explore her creativity and artistic abilities by choosing the colors and the placement of the wall stickers. Much to her surprise, Meredith not only created beautiful scenes, but even has a story for one, which happens to be Aimee’s favorite.

Meredith decided to place the Princess and the Unicorn, as well as the Castle, over her bed. She created a story that the Princess and Unicorn are best friends who love each other very much. She then decided to place the Dragon above, dropping hearts down on them, in order for them to always keep their love for one another.

Although many who purchase the Princess Wall Sticker Kit paint rolling hills to place the stickers on, Meredith chose not to. While Aimee was slightly nervous as to how the ‘floating’ stickers would look, Meredith’s creativity shone brightly, giving the stickers their own special places and – of course –their own stories.

Although they have used other products from My Wonderful Walls -the Ocean Theme Stencil Kit, to be exact – Aimee was especially thrilled with the wall stickers. She chose them specifically because Meredith could play a bigger role in the creation of her Princess Room than she could have if they had chosen to paint via stencils. The stickers also give her the ability to rearrange them as her imagination grows and changes.

Working together on the project, Aimee found that this was the perfect opportunity for Meredith to be a part of her room makeover. Although she needed her mother’s help placing some of the larger stickers, such as the Castle, Meredith was able to quickly place the smaller stickers – and remove them and reapply them as much as she wanted without them losing their “stick.” Once the room was completed, which only took approximately 30 minutes, both Aimee and Meredith were thrilled with the results, declaring this to be a room ‘fit for a Princess.’

As was previously mentioned, they have used products from My Wonderful Walls, and continue to look forward to using them in the future. In fact, Aimee – who knows the Goins’ family well – has already started planning to redo her son Grayden’s nursery.

She has been amazed with not only the products that come from My Wonderful Walls, but also the people who own and operate the company. She says, “They are great people and genuinely care about how you feel the room turns out.” We here definitely return the sentiment, as it is the amazing people that use our products that make what we do so incredibly fun and rewarding.

The staff at My Wonderful Walls would like to take a moment to thank some of these terrific ladies who we think are blog-tastic!! We would also like to invite others to give this a try as well – don’t worry you will be rewarded, with My Wonderful Walls products of course!!

If you are familiar with My Wonderful Walls, you know we create wall stickers, wall mural stencils and canvas wall art to help decorate your home in a simple, but elegant fashion. While most of our products focus on children, their bedrooms, nurseries, playrooms, classroom, bathrooms, and more, we have found – through our Mommy-Blogger partners – that these products can be used anywhere throughout your home.

In fact, one of our blog reviewers discovered our big oak tree made the perfect addition to her family room over the couch. Check out her site, and what she created with the help of My Wonderful Walls, at That Wife.

 Here’s How It Works –

That blog-tastic mama and several others have contacted us (or we have contacted them) about reviewing our products on their blogs. We offer them a product to decorate their home, and in return they blog about it, post pictures, and often they even give one of their followers a chance to win a product themselves from My Wonderful Walls – it is as fun and simple as that!!

What’s even more fun is that we often feature customers on our website that have sent in photos on how they used their wall sticker kits or wall mural stencil kits. It is a great way to showcase the creative ways that people are using our products and it makes us smile every time we see something we have made bless another family.

Other Blog-Tastic Mamas

We would like to invite you to check out some of these other great blogs where My Wonderful Walls has been reviewed and fun contests have been enjoyed:

The blogging mama of 3 Princes and a Princess 2 reviewed our Perfectly Princess Kit on her blog.

Read the whole review here at 3 Princes and a Princess 2

For the owner of Eco Baby Mama Drama, she found that the Space Wall Stickers were the best fit for her young son.

Read the whole review at Eco Baby Mama.

Children Teaching Mama who reviewed the Transportation Wall Stickers Set, which she used in her two sons’ rooms.

Feel free to give her a visit to read her story and decorating ideas at Children Teaching Mama.

It’s Not Just For Mamas

As you’ve probably noticed, the reviewers we spotlighted were all women. However, if you are one proud blogging daddy and would like to review My Wonderful Walls on your blog, please let us know!! We want to invite all bloggers* to become a part of this terrific opportunity. Thank you so much to all our bloggers – past, present and future!

*Accepting applications for blogs with PR3 ranking or higher and active giveaway participation of 1K+.

If you are expecting a new addition to your family and are looking for unique, affordable ideas for nursery wall art, My Wonderful Walls has everything you need to turn an average room into an exciting baby nursery!

My Wonderful Walls specializes in nursery wall art , including several nursery wall stickers as well as stencils and murals for baby nurseries. Transforming your room into a nursery is easier than ever with their high quality wall stickers and beautiful nursery stencils.

The nursery wall stickers are fun and easy to apply. They are removable and reusable, so you can change up your nursery wall art whenever you’d like! The Splendid Garden Wall Sticker Set is perfect for a girl’s baby nursery. Bright hues of pinks and purples, flying butterflies and birds, and a 6ft tree will make your baby nursery a special place. If you need to transform your room for a baby boy, try the Transportation Wall Sticker Set ! With trucks, trains, planes and hot air balloons, fill the walls of your nursery with all of the exciting things your little boy will love.

Keeping the sex of your baby a surprise? My Wonderful Walls also features many nursery wall stickers themes with gender neutral colors! The Forest Friends Wall Stickers kit features fun forest animals and wildlife in light green and other neutral colors!

Aside from wall stickers, My Wonderful Walls also offers nursery wall stencils! Even if you are “artistically challenged”, these wall stencils make it easy for anyone to paint beautiful murals in their baby nursery! With themes like dinosaurs, outer space, under the sea, fairy princess, and polka dot, you’re sure to find something you will love for your baby nursery! They also offer special stencil paint kits, making it easy to recreate the looks straight from the website!

Your options for creating beautiful nursery wall art are endless with the wall stickers and stencil kits from My Wonderful Walls. Browse some of the customer photos on their website for inspiration, or have fun creating your very own scene.

• In order to become a member on Pinterest.com, you need to send a request for an invite to become a member. After anywhere from a few days, a week, or even longer, you will receive an invite to join Pinterest.

• Next, you begin pinning your ideas to your bulletin board, which you will name when you sign on. On your bulletin board you can pin your thoughts, ideas, and images of things you would like to share with others on the site.

• From there, you can begin browsing at other bulletin boards and repin onto your board what somebody else has pinned, and vice versa – they can repin your ideas on their boards.

Many people have used Pinterest, a virtual pinboard, to plan their wedding, decorate their homes, and even organize their favorite recipes. According to Pinterest, their mission is to connect people from all over the world with ideas and concepts they find interesting, whether it be a favorite book, decorating idea, style idea, or recipe. The company believes their site has something for everyone, and hopes that you will find a common bond with someone else’s bulletin board thus creating a community united by shared interests and ideas.

There are a few guidelines when pinning on Pinterest, beginning with the concept of being nice. You may not like every bulletin board you come across, or the ideas someone else has pinned, but they would like to remind you to be respectful when posting comments and having conversations with others on Pinterest.

Also, in order to make your pins more useful for others, you should post a link back to the original source. You can help others do the same, particularly when you notice they have failed to do this. Unfortunately, for many who would like to, self-promotion is not acceptable at Pinterest. However, you can post a photo of a wall mural you have created and are proud of, but this should not be used as the sole purpose of all your pins.

Furthermore, questionable or offending content is never permitted at Pinterest. If you come across this type of content, you should report them by clicking on the “Report Content” link. As the site continues to grow, they would like your feedback on the site in general. If you have any comments on how Pinterest can be better or more effective, speak up – you never know; they may decide to implement your idea!

So, what do you think? We encourage you to give it a try and even do us a teeny-weeny favor and pin your favorite My Wonderful Walls wall murals today!