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Roxymandy July 22, 2015

Little Monkey Designs Personalized Family Name Pillow

Now that summer is here, I just want to be outside all the time! I am a girl who loves her air conditioning, but when I look outside and see the sun I remember how cold the winter was, and I leave my TV behind for the backyard to lounge in the good weather.

We revamp our back deck a little each year and refresh our lounging space according to what we feel like that summer.

This year I decided to do a revamp with a nautical theme in mind. I have outdoor cushions on our furniture, but I find some of the best pillows end up being meant for indoors. That doesn’t stop me – I buy what I love the most, and when it looks like rain I bring everything inside that won’t do well in bad weather.

My husband thinks I am crazy for doing this, but on the other hand he admits that he really likes this year’s set up and pillows.

As a Little Monkey Designs Brand Ambassador I was able to get my hands on one of their personalized pillows to complete my summer look.

They have quite a few options for their personalized pillows, but the theme I chose was a classic design that showcased our little family.

The Personalized Family Name Pillow requires you to disclose your family name (of course!), year for EST (we chose our wedding year) and what your family “population” is. As you can see my answer is 3 1/2! This is because our family includes myself, my husband, our son, and our Yorkie Maverick – he’s the 1/2.

You can also customize the font color, and size of the pillow.

The quality is great – it’s made from a polyester blend which looks like canvas, and the cover has a zipper to remove the pillow from the case.

They are spot clean or dry clean only, and they are available in 16×16 (what I chose) and 20×20.

I think this would be a really great gift for a Bride to Be, or for a baby shower. It’s a great personal gift for someone who has everything, or just someone who would love something special.

It’s pretty comfortable too – this kid just wanted to sleep on it!

Don’t forget to use my code ‘sparkleshinylove’ to save 15% on anything in the Little Monkey Designs store – including sale items!

Visit them at www.littlemonkeydesigns.ca.

Disclaimer: This product was provided to me for review, but all opinions are fabulously my own!

Roxymandy June 23, 2015

Little Monkey Designs Growth Chart + Shop With Our Friends and Family Discount Code!

I love to think of myself as the “Pinterest” kind of mom, but I failed on one point completely. As my son was growing up, we kept forgetting to create or buy some sort of chart to track his growth! My husband was more than a little annoyed when I started using a pencil, pen or whatever writing utensil I could find to make notches in the freshly painted trim in my son’s room to track his growth. That time I used a Sharpie did not go over well.

Fast-forward to last week, and I am now the proud owner of quite a fancy little growth chart from Little Monkey Designs!

You may remember my blog post from last year that I wrote praising some of the fabulous products Diane from Little Monkey Designs has to offer.

I am happy to say I am now a Brand Ambassador for Little Monkey Designs, and this is my first product for review!

There were plenty of designs I could choose for when it came to their selection of Personalized Growth Charts, and I fell in love with this Oh The Place’s You’ll Go Growth Chart.

My husband and I love to travel, and one of the places we have been a few times on our travels is London. Our son’s room is London-themed, and we thought this growth chart would fit in to the theme.

Also, when my son turned one I wanted a keepsake of his first birthday party, so I bought the book Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss and had all of the guests sign the book so we would remember who was there to share that day with us. I thought the growth chart was very fitting both ascetically, and on a personal level.

We certainly have stepped it up a bit from using pens, pencils and Sharpies to mark our son’s growth on the wall! The growth chart is beautifually made, and our son loves to stand beside it just for fun to see if he has grown.

To hang the growth chart, you must measure 40cm from the floor, and then place the bottom of the growth chart at that point. This will give you an accurate record of height! It’s nice and light, so it’s easily hung with a push pin.

Little Monkey Designs also does color matching, and they can often do personalized work so be sure to contact them if there is something you are looking to have made.

Their personalized growth charts are designed and printed in Canada on your choice of either premium 13 oz. matte vinyl or artist grade canvas.

The products used to create these growth charts are high quality and non-toxic, and the chart can easily be rolled up if you want to store them away as a keepsake!

sparkleshinylove readers can exclusively save 15% off anything in the shop including sale items by using the code sparkleshinylove. How awesome is that? Get shopping! There are some amazing products locally made by this shop that are perfect for your own little one, as a gift, or for an upcoming event you might be planning.

To learn more about Little Monkey Designs, or to get shopping with that great coupon code, visit their website here!

Disclaimer: This product was provided to me for review, but all opinions are fabulously my own.

Roxymandy August 27, 2014

Little Monkey Designs Giveaway!

I love having things created just for me. I’m a bit of a diva that way. Something one-of-a-kind is always better than picking up something else that is one-of-a-million copies. Especially since I had my son I’ve wanted to have everything personalized for him so it can be a keepsake later in life just to show him how special he is. And how much he rocks. I know, I will totally need to work on the whole humility thing, because I don’t want to send him into the world thinking that wherever he goes a sippy cup will magically show up with his name etched into it because there’s ALWAYS something just for him.

When it comes to these all so important keepsakes and personalized treasures, it’s best to trust a professional who can design exactly what you want and how you want it.

Little Monkey Designs is a one-stop shop for all things unique, trendy, and personalized with some serious polish! They offer personalized wall art, birth announcement prints, invitations, party printables, personalized growth charts, family tree wall art, and much more.

The options are endless! You can choose how to tweak almost all of the products in the Little Monkey Designs shop, but some of them are so perfect already you may want to purchase them as they are. The wall art is so bright and cheerful. It’s totally the spot where you can find all of your favourite Pins from Pinterest!

Dream Big Little One Wall Art

Little Monkey Designs offers colour match free of charge. You can upload a colour swatch and they will match your design colour to the swatch so it will blend in with your decor perfectly.

Their growth charts are awesome because they can be personalized with not only your child’s name, but their photo can be included as well. I feel like one of these would work much better than the Sharpie lines I have been adding to the closet doorframe in my sons room.

The growth charts are printed on either premium matte vinyl or artist grade canvas, and they come finished with wooden dowels placed through the hems on each end for a finished look, and a matching ribbon as well so hanging them is easy.

Growth Chart

I slacked on making an imprint of my sons hands and feet when he was a baby (I even had the kit – there was really no excuse) and I regretted not doing it so much. If you haven’t done it yourself, another great way to commemorate how incredibly small those tiny feet and hands are is with the Little Monkey Designs Hand & Footprint Wall Art.

The wall art that Little Monkey Designs offers can come in a print or canvas. Some of the designs are so freaking adorable! You an even take care of the printing yourself if you would like, which is a great option for all of you control freaks out there.

Little Monkey Designs can also take your images and have them printed for you on premium gallery wrapped canvases.

My favourite idea is the World Travel Map. You can customize your travel map to show everywhere you have lived and traveled in the world. It’s a really polished way to reflect where you have been!

Little Monkey Designs also offers wedding prints where you can either choose a pre-deisgned print, or have a custom one created to match your wedding theme.

You can choose to have a birth announcement customised or pre-designed with their typographic, photo or illustrative options. Another awesome idea is the chalkboard print! I think these are a great way to commemorate a milestone with personal information posted in a creative way – it’s a great keepsake.

Their invitations are pretty awesome. Much better than the standard ones you can buy in a box, and the cost of customizing them is very reasonable and comparable to buying generic ones in a store. Little Monkey Designs offers custom designed invites as well which I will totally be taking advantage of. It’s really hard to find invitations for a gossip/wine drinking/food binging/no boys allowed party.

Printable birthday decorations can be hard to find, and once you find them they can be very expensive! Little Monkey Designs has quite a few to choose from, and what I love is that they can customize for your event as well.

I think the best part about Little Monkey Designs is their creative services. Many online shops aren’t willing to change or personalize their work. What you see is what you get. Little Monkey Designs will not only give you the option of customizing the products they offer, but they provide branding solutions to companies from the ground up. They are willing to work with you to learn about the marketplace your company is in, your goals, your vision for the brand, and about your competitors to create the product you need to bring your vision to life. They can create logos, brochures, custom graphics, and anything else you need to give your company a boost creatively.

To learn more about Little Monkey Designs, and more importantly to shop the Little Monkey Designs store, check them out at www.littlemonkeydesigns.ca, or click here for their Facebook page!

You can now find Little Monkey Designs products in store at Melissa’s Bowtique in Port Hope, and in Baby World of Stoney Creek in Stoney Creek. Coming soon you will find Little Monkey Designs in a few other local shops – keep checking their Facebook page for announcements!

Now for the fun part – a giveaway! Little Monkey Designs is offering one lucky sparkleshinylove reader a $30 gift card!

To enter all you need to do is like the sparkleshinylove Facebook page here (you are still eligible if you have already liked the page – it just shows you already have great taste!), and comment below this post with what you would use the giftcard for from Little Monkey Designs.

The contest begins now, Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 at 9:00am EST, and will end on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 at 9:00am EST. The contest is open to residents of the US and Canada.

Good luck to everyone who enters! I will announce the winner on the blog next Wednesday!

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