I am a huge fan of the Holiday season, but recently I’ve come to a sad realization. The thought of trying to keep my 17-month-old toddler from destroying the Christmas tree is more than I can handle. We just don’t have a place in our home where we can place it out of his reach, and since his normal reaction to us saying “no, don’t touch that” is to touch whatever THAT is then laugh in our faces, I had to come up with another decorating solution. Enter, the Build A Christmas Tree Wall Decal set by RoomMates Peel & Stick Décor!

You may remember my previous post on RoomMates’ fantastic Jungle Adventure wall decal’s for my son’s room (still going strong by the way!) so when they offered to help me solve my Holiday dilemma I was ever so grateful. RoomMates sent me their Build A Christmas Tree Wall Decal set as well as their Let it Snow Wall Stickers set and it was the perfect solution.

Easily applied to my painted walls (removable, repositionable, and reusable too!) I was able to transform the wall behind my sofa into a Holiday treat! Applying the decals was easy; it took all of 10 minutes to get the tree up on the wall. The only thing holding me back was my son getting under my feet while I tried to stand on the fluffy sofa! Two things I noticed while applying (and reapplying) the ornament decals though, first, the ones with thin cut-out sections are quite delicate and need to be carefully peeled off if you don’t want them to tear, and second, solo ornaments placed on the tree blended into the dark green background too much. I ended up putting most of them on the outer branches of the tree instead.

My husband (who sometimes gives my decorating ideas the side-eye) insists that he’s going to put the tree up this year if he has to staple-gun it to the ceiling. Since I don’t see that happening, I’m glad that I have the Build A Christmas Tree Wall Decal set to help us out. My son can grab at this tree all he wants and everything will stay in place. I love it!  All I need now is to add some blinky lights to my living room and the festive spirit will fill my home from now until the holiday season is over.

The Build A Christmas Tree Wall Decal set sells for $35.49 US and the Let it Snow Wall Stickers set sells for $13.49US. RoomMates has a wide range of seasonal wall décor sets for whatever your Holiday traditions require.

Happy Holidays from my family to yours!

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Every now and then I stumble across something and love it soooooooooooooooooooooo much that it becomes my “it” present for the year. When I first saw Alphabet Prints by Penny People Designs (pictured above), I knew I just had to buy one for our little daughter-to-be and for every single child I knew!

These bright, colourful designs are iconicly cool with their alphabet lettering, but what makes them even more special is that you can personalize them with the child’s name. There are several size prints to choose from – 8×10 to 27×39 – and six different colour choices so they’ll match any bedroom or nursery decor.

Two big things about Penny People really impressed me. First, the quality of the prints is higher than I expected (the photos don’t do them justice). The designs are printed on glossy archival photo paper, which looks and feels fantastic. Secondly, Penny People’s customer service was amazing. After sorting out my order I realized I had actually missed someone and needed to add one more print. As you only pay for postage for the first (largest) item, I didn’t want to go back and order through the shop again as it would have added extra postage. I dropped Penny People designer Lindsay Stephenson an email about my problem, and it was all sorted out in no time. Within a week of the initial order I had all the prints in my hot little hands (Lindsay sent them within a day of finalizing the order, but Canada Post can’t be accused of being hasty!).

I honestly can’t rave enough about these prints or Penny People Designs!

As she is as incredibly generous as she is talented, Lindsay has donated a large 13×19 print and three 8×10 prints for our lovely readers to win!

Here are the A, B, C’s of entering: Go straight to the Penny People site to check out all the lovely items they have to offer, and then leave a comment below to let us know what your favourite product is. One entry per person per day BUT if you follow @PennyPeople on Twitter (leave a comment to let us know you have) that’s another entry AND each Tweet and/or blog post about this give-away counts as an extra entry for that day! (Make sure you @spiltmilkmoms in your tweets and include a trackback for your blogposts).  Contest closes at midnight on Sunday, May 24th and FOUR lucky winners will be chosen using random.org.

Good Luck!

UPDATED TO ADD: Congratulations to our contest winners Jessica, Adrienne, Heather & Kara – hope you enjoy your prints!

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