There is no question about it, child wall murals are a great way to turn an average bedroom into a playful getaway that your child will enjoy for years to come. So, how can you create your own child mural? Here are 3 simple tips to give you some great ideas.

1. Decide whether you will hire a professional painter or do-it-yourself

You can easily find an artist/painter who can create a beautiful child wall mural for an affordable price, but you can also create your own. Making a wall mural for your child is not as difficult as you may think and it can be a fun project for you and the kids to do together.

2. Buy a child mural kit

A good way to easily create your own mural is to buy a kit. You can find them at most large home supply stores or stores like Michael’s. For an even larger selection you can shop online and choose from hundreds of possibilities.

The kits include stencils that can be used to paint horse murals, train murals, and hundreds of other murals.

3. Sketch out your own design

You can design your own child wall mural by doing a simple sketch of some ideas. You can use pictures from magazines to help spark some ideas if you need to.

Your design could be birds, animals, sky, nursery rhymes, cartoon characters, etc. The possibilities are endless. Perhaps you would rather have a sports theme or even race cars. The key is to just be creative and let your imagination go wild.

A child wall mural is indeed something special and will bring enjoyment for years to come. Don’t forget, you can even update any wall mural and add new features as the years go by.

By: Terry Edwards

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If you asked me a year ago if a Painting could physically heal you, I would have said Right?! I even remember when my grandmother at age 100, reminded me of the time when tomatoes were considered to be poisonous. (Don’t think the Ketchsup companies would like that!) So open your mental filters a little, and let me tell you about my journey discovering Paintings That Heal™.

As a professional artist for over 20 years, I licensed art and my designs. I was tired!

I wanted to paint from my heart. After the death of my fiance, my painting ceased! However I received the unexpected gift of “remembering” my intuitive and healing abilities. As a child, I was in the pioneer NC Gifted Student Program (1-12), and my intuitive and psychic abilities were studied by Duke’s pioneer ESP Research team headed by Dr. J B Rhine. So I went back to Duke, and they determined that I am a Medical Intuitive and Healer. I read every healing book I could get my hands on to see if I could “do” the examples and “produce” the required results, I could. So I set about “being” one. Since then, I have worked as an international and scientifically documented Medical Intuitive and Healer. I continue to participate in research to add substance to this “alternative” work.

Since I believe there are no coincidences, 8 years later I had lunch with a friend who needed a painting for the cover of the University of North Carolina’s Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorder’s annual report. The commission was to create a painting of a disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The concept was SO preposterous, that it struck my fancy. I thought, why not!? I was absolutely SURE that Painting a disease was a one shot deal and ONLY created on a “lark”. I mean, can you imagine asking people to come to a Gallery opening to view diseases, emotional dysfunction and mental disorders? Even further, can you imagine the mind of the artist that actually THOUGHT about creating these? I went to Law school for Pete’s sake.

Well, if I’m gonna go out on a limb, I thought, I might as well do it right! I decided the canvas was “the Person”. I said my prayer as I always do before a Healing session, and began. As a medical intuitive I intuitively determined what the disease looked like, so I painted that. Next I was instructed to add specific color, texture, and image whose energies vibrations intensify and amplify the Healing Energies. As the Painting sat drying, my guidance said you’re not finished”. Startled, I ask, what’s left to do? My guidance quickly replied, “paint the Healing Energies to heal that disorder over the original painting”. I figured, since no one but me would know what was happening, I’d give it a try. Then I was intuitively told exactly what essential Healing Energies to channel, direct and infuse into the canvas. What does this accomplish I asked. “The combination of essential Healing Energies mixed with the vibrations of the specific colors, images and textures in the finished Painting, activates the brain to trigger chemicals, and the body’s cellular system to trigger internal frequencies that assists the body in repairing itself”… Hmm, interesting I thought. I painted until I was told by my guidance to stop.

Utilizing a “show me” attitude, we decided to scientifically test the IBS Painting to see if it radiated measurable energy. Now being a pioneer in having the Healing Energies and Healing benefits of my Paintings scientifically and alternatively documented was really a leap of faith and trust in the Universe. I felt like the proverbial chicken trying to cross a traditional medical field road.

In our initial double blind studies using traditional scientific Biofeedback we documented that in as little time as 5 seconds of exposure to a Painting’s Healing Energies, positive changes occur in the viewer’s physical energy fields. Then we tested over 100 more people before and after their exposure to the Paintings with 2 more technologies:

1. State of the art Gas Discharge Visualization Cameras, used by major medical research centers. The GDV Camera (approx 400 in the world), utilizes state-of-the-art optical technology to photograph an individual’s various energy fields through image sensors that read energy levels from an individual’s fingertips.

2. HeartMath system (used by many Fortune 500 companies and by various departments of the federal government), is an interactive computer-based heart rate variability monitor and real-time pulse wave recording that gives a scientific measure of your physiological readings.

These scientific and alternative technologies recorded that positive changes occur in a viewer’s heart waves (HRV), respiration rates, body temperature and brain waves (EEG) and other vital signs. Changes also occur in the viewer’s subtle energy fields. We even collected video testimonials to accompany the documentation that Paintings That Heal™, and Children’s Healing Art™ literally facilitate Healing!

We also discovered that not only were they a healing tool, but the Paintings could also be used as a diagnostic tool. To me, this is absolutely fascinating! Findings continually confirm that people respond to a specific Painting which represents a disorder or issue that was either in their past, or is presently or potentially in their physical body or energy field or in the energy filed of someone very close to them. Some people with multiple diseases or disorders are affected by several of the Paintings. We invite you to our website to determine which ones resonate with you.

Why do these work? Each light ray consists of colors that have different wavelengths and vibrational frequencies that affect your mind, cells, and body chemicals differently. By receiving color, texture and image information through our eyes, their frequencies communicate to our brain to direct the various bodily functions to respond accordingly. The movie “What the Bleep *?!” addresses the issues of input, brain directives, and chemical responses. Not only are you what you think, your visual input matters too! Color, texture and pattern energies and vibrational input are constantly working on your cellular and subtle energy bodies at an unconscious level. The principle of dress for success, painting your environment (home and workplace) and decorating an environment to promote well being, all lend credibility to the fact that subliminal visual input effects and affects all of your health systems. Then add channeled and directed essential Healing Energies into each canvas that I use to facilitate healing in my clients, and you get a Painting that Heals™. The combination of essential Healing Energies, mixed with the vibrational frequencies of the artwork, all activate physical healing responses in the viewer’s body.

What are the benefits of Paintings That Heal™ & Children’s Healing Art™? While some of the Paintings are beautiful, others are not. They all are a Healing Energies “generator” addressing specific needs, and are physically non invasive. They assist and amplify other healing treatments, procedures and prescriptions, and they facilitate ongoing and continuous positive energies and Healing benefits in the environment. These are particularly supportive for indigo, crystal, starseed, psychic kids, children, the elderly, and those in critical, chronic, degenerative, or delicate health situations. To maximize the healing assets of a studio Painting or a Painting that is created just for your needs, it should be placed in a location where you will receive optimum ongoing exposure to the Healing Energies on a daily basis. Once the Painting’s energies become part of an environment, an individual continually benefits from it energetically by means of harmonic resonance. A person’s own energy field will regulate the appropriate amounts of energy that they receive on an ongoing basis. You can not be overexposed.

What can one expect when they are exposed to a Painting? At present, there are no specific guarantees regarding a fixed long term timeframe, and specific healing properties. Research results vary with individual situations. We are able to document definite positive changes in an individual’s bio energetic fields, and in their symptoms. With those given results, we hope, to generate more interest in expanding our long term research program for Paintings That Heal™.

Are Paintings That Heal™ the same as art therapy? No, just being in the presence of the combination of energies in a Painting is what actually alters and heals the viewer’s physical and energetic body. In contrast, the healing response of art therapy is generated by the patient making a piece of artwork. Art therapy work is not infused with channeled Healing Energies.

What does the future hold for these Paintings? We believe that Paintings That Heal™ will have multiple applications, from therapeutic uses such as screen savers (a client on meds for anxiety attacks, used his Painting as his computer’s screen saver, and was able to reduce and later remove his meds) to medical and healthcare healing decor and public murals. We envision “get well” cards that actually create health! Imagine prints and posters in nursing homes that create a positive atmosphere, or artwork that soothes in hotels, and waiting rooms, or a deck of cards that facilitates a healthier physical body for the user. The Paintings’ uses are almost endless. Wherever there is artwork or a design, or a surface to be painted, the potential for healing is available.

Over six years later, the Paintings still retain the same powerful Healing Energies.

By: Brent Atwater

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Children’s Beds

Baby room murals are very popular today as a nursery decor. And why not, they liven up your baby’s room by making it a much brighter and happier room, and the choices are virtually endless. Here is a look at some ideas for incorporating a baby nursery mural into that special room.

While it’s true that you could simply paint your baby room or put-up some new wallpaper, there is an indescribable feeling you get with having your own wall mural.

Your choices can include bright and colorful murals with different shapes and patterns, or nursery rhyme murals, horse murals, circus animals, Noah’s Ark or so many more.

You can design a baby room mural in any pattern you wish. There are no hard set rules, so let your imagination take over. I’ve seen everything from Teletubbie murals to fairy murals and everything in between.

Finding baby nursery murals isn’t that difficult. You can search online at any number of different websites and you will find what you need.

If your budget allows for it, you can have an artist paint any kind of baby room mural you desire. You may even know of an art student or friend who would be willing to do the work at a discount.

There are also a number of mural kits you can purchase to do the painting yourself. Many of these are like paint by number that makes things incredibly simple.

So, if you are thinking of decorating your nursery with something special, consider a baby room mural. I think you will be extremely pleased with the results.

By: Terry Edwards

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When it comes to decorating your home, there’s nothing as challenging as decorating your children’s bedrooms. You want to give them the best - a bedroom that makes them comfortable, that they will love, and that they will never forget. Creating a cozy room for your child isn’t as difficult as you might think - even if you are on a tight budget.

There are two schools of thought when it comes to decorating a child’s bedroom. One is developing a theme for the bedroom. The other is creating a basic background that can be personalized with accessories. If your child is old enough, the best thing you can do is work with him or her to create a room that will satisfy both of you.

Creating a Themed Bedroom for Your Child

Children’s bedroom themes are probably the most popular choice. Kids love to have their favorite characters or interests on display for the world to see. If your child shows an interest in a themed bedroom, keep in mind it’s usually an easy task to accomplish. Start by deciding on the theme…then you can select the right wallpaper. Next choose window treatments, bedding and accessories with colors and patterns that compliment the wallpaper.

The most popular theme wallpapers for kids’ bedrooms include:

• Noah’s Ark wallpaper

• Beach wallpaper

• Dinosaur theme

• Baseball theme

• Space wallpaper

Non-Themed Bedrooms for Kids

If you are looking for a decorating option that your child will like for many years, consider non-themed room decor. You and your children will enjoy the versatility and flexibility that a non-themed room offers, while staying within your budget. Changing the look and feel is as easy as updating accessories, such as wall décor, bedding, window treatments and accessories.

First, start with your wallcovering - choose your favorite wallpaper, border, personalized mural or whatever inspires you. There is a large selection of wallpaper in appropriate colors and textures that you can use to create a background that will adapt to almost any style and age group. You can choose among a wide variety of children’s borders or personalized murals to create just the look that you are after. Then using your child’s collections and toys as props, you can change the look and feel as your child’s interests change.

Some good children’s wallpaper choices include basic striped and plaid wallpapers. These are available in a variety of colorful and tasteful designs and patterns that will make your child’s room as inviting as you envisioned. It is inevitable that your children’s interests will continue to change, so if you choose an adaptable style of wallpaper, then you and your child will be able to evolve the decoration through the years. Non-permanent Peel and Stick wall murals are also good ideas for decorating your children’s bedroom. Since they are temporary, you will enjoy the ability to easily remove them when your child’s taste changes.

Decorating Tips for Your Child’s Bedroom

Kids love to display their stuff, whether it’s stuffed animals, a doll collection, sports gear or posters of their favorite characters and idols. By creating lots of organized space where your children can display their personal items, you will be happy with the organization and they will enjoy showing off their favorite items.

Remember, the first step to creating the perfect children’s bedroom is asking for their input - and deciding if you’re going to create a theme or non-theme style bedroom. Start by choosing the kids wallpaper for your children’s room; then decorate around it - they’ll then have a relaxing retreat they’ll love for years to come.

For more information about wallpaper and borders for kids, visit Shop4Wallpaper.com or call (800) Shop4-10.

By: Mary Malbasa

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Babies

Imagine walking into a room where dinosaurs roam and you are right in the middle of them. You feel like you have been taken back 50 million years ago, but no, it’s only a dinosaur mural.

A dinosaur wall mural can be truly breath taking to look at. On a large bedroom wall the dinosaurs can take on an almost lifelike look to them.

When scaled with large trees, swamps and grasses, these dinosaurs appear larger than life. It is really an incredible child wall mural. Your child will be amazed and captivated.

There is something special about dinosaurs and children. Can you think back to being a child and seeing one of those old dinosaurs’ movies like “The Lost World” or “The Land Before Time”? Dinosaurs give off a sense off awe and amazement.

From a giant T-Rex to a brontosaurus, you can create all kinds of animals with a dinosaur wall mural.

Finding these wall murals can be as simple as doing an online search. There are many websites that specialize in dinosaur murals. You can order them and have them shipped to you directly. Applying them can be as simple as rolling them onto the wall.

The costs of buying these types of dinosaur murals can range from $100 to $600 or more depending on quality. The other options you have are doing them yourself or hiring it done.

Using stencils and drawing them yourself is not as difficult as you might think. There are several kits available that make the process much easier.

So, if your child loves dinosaurs and is seeking some adventure, consider adding a dinosaur mural to their bedroom. It may be the perfect solution.

By: Terry Edwards

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It is a wonderful idea to purchase a Disney Princess Blanket for your little girl if she is a fan of the Princess characters.

There are a great variety of bedding products to choose from and a blanket is a very good bedding product choice since it is a very appealing item to have and an effective way of keeping your little girl warm and cozy, whether that is at home or when she is travelling.

The texture of the blankets are soft, cuddly and lightweight to carry around. They are certainly a perfect bedding accessory for any little girl or adult too. The wonderful colors and designs of the these blankets are effective and rather similar to a large poster or mural that adorn the walls of childrens bedrooms. They can also be washed and used as often as they are required, which adds to their usefulness.

Disney Princess blankets are a suitable bedroom accessory for children and young adults who are fans of the princess characters. They come available in all types of sizes, prices, colors and designs. They are easily available to purchase online as well as in offline stores.

It is a very good idea to shop around and compare the quality of products and prices in order to choose the ideal type Disney Princess blanket for your child, especially since there are so many available to choose from.

If you are interested in reading a variety of information about Disney Princess Products, then please visit this website

By: Andrea Scott

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Decorating a child’s room can get very expensive but it does not have to be that way.

Here are couple tips on how to save a lot when decorating a kid’s room.

One thing to remember when decorating a child’s room is to keep in mind that your goal is to make the room a fun, comfortable and safe place for your child. This is a great goal to have because in many cases what is fun for a child can be pretty inexpensive. Think about it, would your child rather have fancy wallpaper or cheap plastic beach balls hanging from the ceiling. In many cases most kids don’t really care either way.

Children’s books have some fantastic art work and these illustrations are great to hang on the wall. You can pick up children’s books at library sales and garage sales very inexpensively. Even if you have to buy a second copy of your child’s favorite book these books are still relatively cheap.

Once you decide on a book, carefully remove the pages. Buy some cheap frames and hang up the pages of the book in his room. If you dont want to buy frames, simple cut out paper to use as a border and have the child decorate the borders. A great book to uses for a boy is the book “Where the Wild Things Are” there are some really great illustrations in this book.

Consider going with a theme for your child’s room. For example, a beach theme can be done very cheaply. Start by hanging a few plastic beach balls from the ceiling. You can also add a few beach towels and some plastic buckets cut in half and hang these from the wall. Add a net and hang it in the corner with a few stuffed animal or plastic fish and the room is done very inexpensively. You can build the theme around whatever your child has an interest in.

Murals are now very popular but having an artist come in and paint a mural can be pretty expensive. Instead of a mural, buy some large pieces of paper and help your child paint a few pictures. Hang this artwork in a pattern on the wall and you now have some original artwork. Don’t worry too much on how it looks, you get a lot leeway when you hang up kid’s artwork.

By: Robert K. Williams

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If you are at all crafty, you will love the new mural transfer technology that brings us fabulous mural elements that you can customize to your space. Without a drop of paint, you can use these rub-on mural elements to create a custom mural for a fraction of the cost of a hand painted mural. Even if you paint yourself, you will love the effects you can achieve using rub-on transfer murals.

What makes transfer murals special?
Mural artwork has been reproduced with every color, brush stroke and shadow detail visible. These are not stickers or vinyl. They actually incorporate into your wall finish. Simply rub off the transfer paper like a tattoo for you wall! Elements like wrought iron, ivy, vines, flowers, mosaic borders can be combined for unlimited effects Designs are so thin they can be cut and overlapped Simply paint over to redecorate-no removal necessary It’s an easy and fun way to add style to your walls for just a fraction of the cost of a custom mural If you scrapbook, you may be familiar with rub-on transfers. Mural transfers are like scrapbooking for your walls! You can decorate flat or textured walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, mirrors and more without a single drop of paint!

The simple directions are…remove backing paper, place mural on wall, smooth, then rub the design off the transfer sheet onto your wall and lift off transfer sheet.

This is an amazing product, especially when it is in the hands of a person who likes to craft. Anyone can do it, but the remark we hear most from creative type people is “Imagine the possibilities!” This is a fun and addictive product! You will be looking around your house for places to add an element of design!

You will find many designs suitable for you decorating needs and this innovative new product is sure to grow in popularity. Your friends will marvel at your abilities when you decorate using this wonderful new product. From childrens murals to sophisticated trompe l’oeil designs and window vistas, you will be able to decorate your walls with style and be proud of the design you create!

By: Carol Reynolds

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Mesothelioma

Does your little one fantasize about hiking through the deep, dense rainforest and cavorting with the exotic animal friends that live there? Is he or she more comfortable surrounding by plants, tress, and other signs of nature than by the plastic and metal of the concrete jungle? If so, then give your little one nights filled with bright, sunny tropical dreams with a jungle safari theme bedroom.

At the heart of a jungle theme bedroom is a custom treehouse bed, giving your little nature lover the feeling of bedding down in a tropical rainforest each night. The foundation of a custom tree house bed could resemble the rough bark of a giant tree trunk that your little one can crawl inside, while a wooden platform at the top can be a canopy bed draped in the naturalistic forest canopy of large, shady leaves. Custom bedding for a tree house bed might look like colorful piles of fallen leaves or be covered in leafy jungle and animal prints.

Any child who would thrive in a jungle theme bedroom no doubt loves to climb and clamber around like a monkey. You can easily fulfill this need by building climbing bars and/or a climbing wall into the custom treehouse bed.

Green is the primary color of a jungle theme bedroom, with shades of brown being secondary. Create the sense of being deep in the jungle by painting the walls and ceiling with a busy, colorful mural filled with tropical plants, flowers, and trees, as well as plenty of jungle animals to scope out while on safari, including parrots, toucans, cockatoos, monkeys, lions, zebras, leopards, gazelles, giraffes, and more. Add real depth and vividness to the image by stuffing the room with large stuffed animals too.

Grassy green rugs or thick floor mats make the perfect floor coverings for a safari theme bedroom, though an area covered in hardwood (or faux hardwood to protect a child’s typically heavy wear and tear), creates a perfect space for the types of play that require a harder, flatter surface while still maintaining the fantasy image of being buried in the thick jungle foliage. And speaking of foliage, bordering the room in large, leafy plants and tress (be they real, fake, or painted on the walls) create the feeling of being enclosed, covered, and surrounded by the dense forest canopy.

For extra detail, you can also decorate a floor lamp, a television set, or other low-lying piece of furniture as a glowing campfire.

Make the magic of the tropical rainforest come alive for your little one when you transform his or her personal living environment into the natural environment of a custom safari theme bedroom.

By: Joann Means

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Painting murals provides an endlessly versatile and bountiful freedom of creative expression in any room or building anywhere, nowhere more apparent than in a child’s bedroom. You can save yourself a bundle of money and time as well as create more intricate and detailed fantasy realms for your child by simply painting the visionary designs you and your child imagine on the very walls of their bedroom and/or custom theme bed.

A Mural on a Custom Theme Bed?

Why not? Most custom theme beds come equipped with lots of surface area that needs to be painted anyway, one way or another. Rather than covering it with a swath of one or two colors, why not take this opportunity to paint a three-dimensional mural on the outside (and inside?) walls of your child’s custom theme bed. This will invariably give it much more depth and detail that it could ever have otherwise.

A quality custom theme bed often includes other functional elements built in, like dresser drawers, shelves, chests, closets, desk tops, etc., all of which can be incorporated into the mural for further emphasizing the fantasy theme and obscuring the utilitarian nature of the piece.

Murals Can Be Anything

The possibilities of images, dreamscapes, and fantasy creations you can produce with murals are limitless and unparalleled in all the world of interior design. From their favorite storybook characters to faraway places to objects of myth and fantasy, there’s literally no image you can’t reproduce with paint.

You don’t even have to be a fantastic painter, nor do you have to pay hefty sums to hire a professional artist to do the job, so long as the images you create please and inspire your child’s imagination.

Children Love to Paint

You can even have your child help with the painting. Beyond the obvious benefit of turning the renovation of his or her bedroom into a shared family activity, by having your child participate in the mural painting you give them a personal investment in the outcome and a way to place their unique personal stamp on the design, making the finished product feel even more their own.

Murals Are Theme Aid

Whether you paint it freehand or use stencils, mural painting can enhance any theme imaginable. Bring out the details of the bedroom’s theme, especially those details too exotic, fancy, expensive, unrealistic, or otherwise unobtainable with a simple paintbrush and palette of colors. You can literally make magic happen in a child’s bedroom with the simple creative application of paint.

By: Joann Means

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