stamped on our products.Children's Murals
A favorite picture of your child at play with friends can be fabricated into a fun fabric mural designed into a bedspread, shams, duvet, shower curtain or a Roman shade as shown.
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Fabric mural scene #1
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Fabric mural scene #2
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Fabric mural scene #3
The design of the clothes from the picture become clay tiles to be used in a laundry room, tub surround, playroom, or on a solid wood handpainted and airbrushed cornice with background scenes selected from our scenery page.
Additional clothes tiles may be seen in our Children's 3Dtile section.
For 4 hours each Sunday morning I am with my 30" clients for a tea party. The tea set we use can be made with your suggested handpainted designs - flowers, child's name, frogs, etc.
A story book requested Sunday after Sunday is a book about firemen and their dogs as well as photos I have taken related to fires. The following rods were designed with these interests in mind - a whimsical rod with "fire animals" they love.
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Dalmation and firefighter curtain rod decoration #1.
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Dalmation and firefighter curtain rod decoration #2.
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Dalmation and firefighter curtain rod decoration #3.
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Dalmation and firefighter curtain rod decoration #4.
This picture relates to the animals on the rod and their footprints. I placed it on red, yellow, and gray mats to give suggestions as to good colors of field tile possibilities. Take what is shown and design your own. Dalmations could be used on the rod and black paw prints as the tile mural.
A lot more design is shown with the shelf holding Spark,the fire dog, and several dalmations.
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Dalmation by a fire hydrant.
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Dalmation curtain rod with fabric mural.
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Dalmation curtain rod with dalmations and fabric mural.
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Dalmations scene from dalmation curtain rod #1.
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Dalmations scene from dalmation curtain rod #2.
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Spark, the fire dog.
Another love of these little ones is playing with their friends. We call this next rod "neighborhood friends". Small lights light up the house windows and trees to help with the fear of the dark they talk about with me. The lights are on a dimmer and can twinkle. The double slide rods allow for sheers and draperies as a window covering.
This shows just the neighborhood which can be made into a cornice with a double or single slide track. The houses are painted with stains and acrylics, with woodburning, power hand tools, woodburning, chisels, scroll and saber saws used to achieve a top quality product.
This picture shows two 2" PVC rods each with a slide rod covered with children playing.
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Neighborhood houses on a curtain rod.
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Neighborhood houses with children playing on a curtain rod.
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Closeup of neighborhood houses with children playing on a curtain rod #1.
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Closeup of neighborhood houses with children playing on a curtain rod #2.
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Closeup of neighborhood houses with children playing on a curtain rod #3.
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Special bracket with projecting boy fishing detail.
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Children playing on the curtain rod.
The picture (above bottom center) shows the special bracket with the scroll saw used to cut the boy fishing so we can have him project 1/2 to give additional detail.
A good test for our twinkling lights was this installation on a dimmer in a busy den 8 years ago — no bulb replacement needed to date.
This is a very pleasant way to enter a room – to have lights around the room on the initial dimmer light switch. Very soothing to rest in this room with the lights low and sparkling over the mirror, hidden in silk ivy "growing" out of a pot of dirt.
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Dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #1
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Dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #2
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Dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #3
My little clients love "home". They personalize rooms with "my kitchen", "my bedroom", "my house". A child does not see "mansion" versus "shack", they just see their current place of residence as "home" because that is where Mom and or Dad and brothers and or sisters are. I designed this "dollhouse" for a fun reminder when in their bathroom as "home". It can be the colors of their actual rooms. The color scheme can be coordinated with neighborhood rod – you decide that for us to follow. It is placed on 3" tiles to give you an idea as to size. It is very easily installed on tub surround as completed rooms. We have handmade furniture and accessories, painted, glazed and fired to decorated "room" walls and floors. Easily installed and easily removed when our adhesive is used and instructions are followed.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #1.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #2.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #3.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #4.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #5.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #6.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #7.
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More dollhouse relief tiles with furniture #8.
Next is a fun cornice with characters from our story "The Swamp Rose©". A booklet of the story accompanies the cornice as well as twinkling lights (on a dimmer) which give the feeling of fireflies to the little one whose heart needs that extra light to feel safe until sleep comes. The faint light also helps envision the characters as the story is read. Splash Gordon©, Neon©, Peepeyes©, Freggy Leggs©, Lilyana©, Bugsly©, Buddy Luv©, Rosie Boa©, Annie Conda© and Copper Penny©. This "story cornice" is dedicated to all the creepy crawlers I encountered at Pine Trail Camp in Saugatuck, Mi., where I volunteered as a camp nurse years ago. There is also a tub surround backspash of flying frogs with a coordinated fabric handpainted to trim shower curtains or window treatments.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #1.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #2.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #3.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #4.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #5.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #6.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #7.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #8.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #9.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #10.
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Storybook frogs on a cornice #11.
This is the first of the "Please read me a story" window coverings for children. The swamp blue sky has firefly lights that are on a dimmer and can twinkle over photos I took from a boat in the Cypress Garden Swamp. You order and arrange the characters you choose on the shelf below these photos. You also select the photos you want used. The denim valance was added to complete our window covering to tie in with Bugsly and Bubby Luv's worn jean clothing, a part of the story. I used 3 pair of old jeans to fabricate this valance, as well as panels of our handpainted fabric to match Copper Penny turtle's shawl. For DIY's we have patterns and instructions that are shipped with assembled rod and brackets. Easy installation- 2 screws in each bracket, 2 screws in photo board.
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Curtain rod with small frogs and lily pad brackets #1
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Curtain rod with small frogs and lily pad brackets #2
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Curtain rod with small frogs and lily pad brackets #3
Also shown is a natural wood without lights, as well as a plain rod with small frogs and lily pad brackets. This is to show you another color for you to design with as well as a more simple rod with a slide track. You specify what you would like.
2 wall sconces are available to go with our handpainted fabrics, or your own selection of fabrics.
We handpainted this valance with colors to match the tub wall surround that has frogs, umbrellas, or ovals, and scallopped it to tie onto small frogs on rod.
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Frog tissue holder accessory
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Frog bath accessories
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Frog nightlight accessory
Accessories are available in the form of tissue holder and bath accessories, and nightlight.
Switchplate covers in your custom colors.
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Frog tile relief #1.
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Frog tile relief #2.
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Frog tile relief #3.
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Frog tile relief #4.
For a tub surround you can select Hugsly and Lilyana alone on lily pads, and above them: flying frogs with umbrellas, or small frogs on plaid tiles, or leaping frogs – whatever you and your little ones decide together. Have fun with them choosing – this is their bathroom. These are their friends at bathtime.
I listen closely to my 30" advisors as to what they like to have read, what they would like to have in their rooms. I watch their eyes sparkle with the importance they feel when I praise them and talk to them as if they are little adults. A 3 year old knows the score – they are far more tuned into what is going on around them than we give them credit for. They love laughter in their story reading person's voice, they love to have a story read with positive situations from their world to relate to – this is the purpose of the booklet that accompanies the "Story teller rods".
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