Caleb's grey nursery with pops of colour

Mum Amy filled her newborn son Caleb's room with lots of beautiful fair trade products from her online store Happy As Larry Designs. I'm completely wow'd by Amy's ombre grey IKEA drawers hack. They look amazing with colourful knobs to match the pixel rug. Read on for all the details from Caleb's gorgeous room.

Room: Caleb's nursery
Age: Newborn
Designed by: Mum Amy (from Happy As Larry Designs)
Location: Perth, WA

Crochet watermelon rug for girl's rooms

Do you remember the cute-as house shadow box with pirate scene styled by Karen from Yellow Dandy? Karen is also a keen crafter and sells these amazing handmade crocheted watermelon rugs in her Etsy store. They are beyond fantastic - just look at the face on Karen's gorgeous daughter Willow. Loving it! More great news from Karen - she is opening her very own online store chock-full of gorgeous clothes, design and fun for kids. Can't wait!

If you love watermelons as much as I do, head over to our watermelon birthday party that we had in January with watermelon cake and more!

Image: Yellow Dandy

Handcrafted Family Tree artwork by MeWe

Michelle Atzemis of MeWe creates beautiful handcrafted family trees that are gorgeous displayed in a nursery or child's bedroom. Actually, as these pics show, this heirloom piece would look great in any room. Here are some beautiful images styled and shot by Nicola of Concrete + Honey.

Each family tree is individually cut from remnant papers, personalised with family names, and sewn by hand. Different colour combinations are available and no two are the same.

To order your own bespoke family tree artwork, head to the MeWe online store.

Images: MeWe

Sunday Collector confetti wall 1-year-old bedroom

Interior stylist and props buyer Briar Stanley from Sunday Collector knows a thing or two about putting together gorgeous, livable rooms. I'm thrilled to share with you the nursery that Briar created for her one-year-old daughter Sunday. It's an amazing space and I'm super-inspired by the amount of DIY, upcycling, vintage and handmade items that Briar mixes with a few modern designer pieces.

image: Ellis Parrinder

I also love the use of the chalkboard and bold grey walls which are a refreshing change from white! The grey colour (Taubmans Inverness) allows the colours in the room to really pop.

Briar was inspired by Beci Orpin's book Find and Keep (see my review of the launch here) to create a gorgeous confetti wall for Sunday's bedroom. You can also see a similar confetti wall looking amazing at Danielle Trovato's daughter's party right here on Bondville. It's an instant celebration in Sunday's room!

Room: Sunday's nursery
Age: 1 year
Designed by: Mum Briar Stanley (Sunday Collector)
Location: Sydney, NSW

Kate Lauren Designs timeless bedding and decor for babies, kids and teens

If you love an elegant, timeless look, and you're tired of the department store and chain store bedding and decor for kids, you just might fall in love with the co-ordinating collections of Kate Lauren Designs.

Based in Brisbane, mother-of-three Julie Parianos has designed a truly beautiful collection of co-ordinating bedding and room decor for babies, children and teenagers.

Each collection is named after one of Julie's children or their friends and includes cot, single and king-size single bedding, blankets, cushions, and lampshades. There is also wall decor, bunting, furniture (gorgeous Moroccan pouffes) and a range of fabric lanterns to mix-and-match.

I am so taken with the Zachary Hunter grey chevron bedding and co-ordinating decor. It's a beautiful and well-thought-through range that will easily take a child through the teenage years. My daughter has tough-to-match mint green walls in her bedroom, and I'm also thinking that the Charlotte Paige set with the blue and grey stripes and spots on white would work well. What are you favourites?

You can find Kate Lauren Designs in the online store as well as stockists across Australia.

Images: Kate Lauren Designs

Kids Room Ideas: Eulalie's Nursery

Today's beautiful room tour comes to you from North Queensland where stylist Claire (of one claire day) has created a magical nursery for her daughter Eulalie. I love the Turkish caravan feel of Eulalie's room, including ride-on camel! There are so many gorgeous DIY ideas here, from an amazing small owl mural-turned-framed-art to simply changing the hardware on an IKEA chest of drawers. Claire's room inspiration started with the divine vintage green drawers and evolved slowly as she filled the room with things she loves. So inspiring.

Room: Eulalie's Nursery
Age: 10 months
Designed By: Mum Claire (one claire day)

Australian Artist Spotlight: Tali Gal-on (Milk and Cookies)

Please meet Tali Gal-on, a multi-talented animator, designer, illustrator as well as short film writer and director based in Melbourne. Let's have a look at some of her great art prints under the Milk and Cookies banner that would work beautifully in a child's special space.

jolie petite chose hanging mobiles, cushions and softies

Kids Room Ideas: Jonty's Nursery

If you've been struggling with decorating ideas for a little boy's room, come and take a peak at the lovely nursery designed by Jess from Joyess Images and Joyess Designs. There are lots of achievable elements that Jess has pulled together in a fresh, cohesive look. Such clever use of the The Wall Sticker Company decal!

Kids Room Ideas: Miles' Nursery

Would you like to take a sneak peek into a real Australian kids room? Miles is the lucky young owner of this gorgeous room. His Mum Lyndall put much love and thought into the design, incorporating sweet bees with the blue and red colour palette. Thank you Lyndall for the generous information on the details of the room. I'm totally in love with it. These beautiful photos were taken by Jess from Joyess Images; enjoy!

The Lowercase Bed Linen for kids

I had a lovely morning at The Finders Keepers market at the Carriageworks in Sydney this morning - finding beautiful products with my friend Jamie who has been visiting from the US, catching up with old friends (hi Alischa, Sarah and Kylie!) and being a fangirl, meeting some of my favourite artists (yes that's you Catherine and Cat!).

One product I had to share with you is the lovely bed linen for kids by Sydney husband-and-wife team The Lowercase. These guys have their finger on the button and create really interesting room decor and paper products products as well as distribute all manner of goodies including Heico lamps, Little Lamb freckle rugs and blabla cushions.

It's the bed linen that really caught my eye. It's original, interesting, cool, and great to touch with embroidery on 100% cotton. Designs include swans, foxes and tigers, making them great for both boys' and girls' rooms.

You can find The Lowercase bed linen and other goodies in the online store as well as at stockists across Australia and New Zealand.

Images: The Lowercase

Made By Mosey nursery decor

I first noticed these gorgeous Made By Mosey decor and nursery products for kids in my friend Kim's online store, and was impressed both with the design and care that has been put into these pieces.

The range includes beautiful baby quilts made from handkerchiefs (do you still have yourse?), mobiles suspended from white painted twigs, and vintage fabric bunting. I love that the mobiles in particular are great for both boy and girl rooms, and I don't think I've ever seen a cooler baby quilt for boys! Lovely work.

Hip Products: Puka Puka mobiles and jewellery

I met Nina Still from Puka Puka at the recent Sydney ABCD Meetup and just had to share with you her gorgeous contemporary mobiles for both adults spaces and for kids' rooms. These pieces are more than just hanging distractions for baby; these are works of art.

Inspired by the landscape around her, Nina makes one-of-a-kind elegant mobiles by hand using non-toxic recyclable polypropylene shapes, wool felt, plywood, nylon thread and polished stainless steel wire. Her hope is that her pieces will bring a sense of peace and tranquility to their owners (both big and small!).

The name Puka Puka comes from the Japanese term "an object floating gently in space". Isn't that lovely. Nina is not just talented, but clever too. Her Blossom baby mobile is designed so that your baby can view the whole mobile from below (so sensible).

When you see Nina's sculptural forms combined with clever colour combinations, it's not surprising to find out that she has studied architecture, printmaking and jewellery. In fact, Nina has also created a gorgeous collection of jewellery made using ceramics and felt that are equally as stylish.

You can find Puka Puka mobiles in the online store, on etsy, as well as stockists across Australian, NZ, Switzerland and the US. You can also customise a mobile to suit your space. Pop over and say Hi to Nina on the Puka Puka blog (let her know I sent you).

Images: Puka Puka

Hip Products: m2matiz barcodes prints for kids

Oh and I LOOOOOOVE this! The clever design team at Melbourne-based m2matiz (see post below) also have a genius kids product that I thought warranted its own profile. These 'barcodes' personalised prints are a unique and contemporary way to display your child's name and birth details. Only for the coolest of kids!

The m2matiz team will custom design a barcodes print to display your child’s name, place in the family, date and time of birth. You can choose from six colours and the artwork is printed on envirocare 100% recycled stock. The prints measure 290×390mm [11.5" x 15.5"].

You can order the barcode prints from Mariana directly via the m2matiz website.

Images: m2matiz

Wall Stickers For Kids

My dear friend Estelle asked me for my wall sticker recommendations for her son Karsten's room. Here are some of my favourite Australian wall decal designers. Let me know if you have any more:

love mae
I have a love mae Christmas tree and the quality is great. Easily removable and repositionable and I like the matte fabric finish.

Mooo
Vinyl Wall Design

The Wall Sticker Company
My friend Linda has this sticker collection on her son Luke's wall and it looks fantastic.

Little Chipipi

My Munchkin Home

Stick Meon
Includes this must-have limited edition from Bondville favourite Aunty Cookie.
Bosco Bear

For Walls
Wall Sticker Shop

Hip Products: Retro Bird Designs bird cages

I was immediately attracted to Retro Bird Designs by their ever-so-cute vintage doll-printed stuffed toys. And when I enquired further, I found out from founder Melinda about the amazing bird cages that they have been designing in Brisbane, along with a whole range of other products including appliqued bird tees for boys and girls, dresses, dolls and jewellery. These gorgeous pieces would be great on top of a nursery dresser, or just propped around the house somewhere for a dash of whimsy and nostalgic-cool.

You can find Retro Bird Designs on Etsy and at select markets around Australia (check the Etsy store profile for details).

Images: Retro Bird Designs

Bondville Big Girls' Bed

My big girl Sophie scored big at Christmas this year. First of all, I just have to gush about the incredible quilt that she received from Nanna. It's a custom-made quilt by Vicki Anderson-Bain (a friend of Nanna's) on the Sunshine Coast, integrating a gorgeous Kristen Doran Matryoshka Doll craft panel and the border of Red Letter Day fabric by Lizzy House. We gave Vicki a colour palette and she went to town creating this incredible piece. We'll treasure it forever.

Then there was the sweet Sophie wall art canvas that arrived from Mooo.com.au as part of a sample of products. Thank you Mooo! It fits amazingly well in her room. The wall art pieces are just a small selection of personalised products from Mooo including stickers, t-shirts, backpacks, invitations, announcements, and a whole host of other stylish goods.

And of course the favourite toy of the moment, Ruby Red Shoes, who arrived from dear Kate Knapp, the artist behind the adorable world of Twigseeds. Ruby is the real-life incarnation of Kate's drawings and is such a sassy addition to the room.

Oh, and the tissue paper poms are the leftovers that I made for Sophie's 2nd birthday party. I simply attached them to her bedroom ceiling with 3M Command sticky hooks. What a lovely sight to fall asleep to.

Thank you so much Nanna, Vicki, Mooo and Kate for all the lovely gifts.

Images: Steph Bond