Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Today, April 8th, we are Giving Away...(PRIZE CLAIMED)



An Adorable Painted Canvas of Choice from Criswell Creations

Could you use a fun and delightful painting to brighten up your child’s room? Or to give as a gift to a child you know? If so, you have come to the right place today.

Anne Marie Criswell is a talented Utah artist who specializes in custom canvas paintings and murals for children's rooms and nurseries. If you have a mural in mind for a wall or room in your home, you can find Anne Marie’s contact information on her website here. She will be happy to give you a quote. Go here to look at some of the unique murals she has done.

Today Anne Marie is offering a 12x12 canvas painting such as these to one lucky winner. You can enter to win the canvas painting for you (or someone you know) up to THREE times. This giveaway is open to those who are living in the United States.

For one entry, leave your first and last name in a comment.
Example: Jane Doe

For a second entry visit Criswell Creations’ website here. Look at all of her cute paintings. Then come back to Give Away Today and in a NEW comment tell us your first and last name and describe the painting you would like if you win.
Example: Jane Doe: Tugboat Toot Toot Toot

For a third entry, in a NEW comment tell us your first and last name and describe your childhood room.
Example: Jane Doe: My little sister Traci and I shared a room. We had bright red shag carpet, the walls were pink (as were the bedspreads), and we had a wallpaper strip which displayed all of the letters of the alphabet. After the lights were out Traci would ask me to tell her the “Bobby Story”—which consisted of stories I would create each night about a boy named, you guessed it, Bobby.

The winners of the canvas painting from Criswell Creations will be announced Thursday, April 9th. Please visit us then to see if you are our winner and to check out our new giveaway for the day. And don’t forget to enter a mom you know in our Mother’s Day Contest. For more details, go here.

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Miss Spoken said...

Gina Stratos: My childhood bedroom was shared with my brother and sister. It basically consisted of four white walls, three beds, a dresser and not much else.

Adrienne of Noon To Two and Handmade By Ade Etsy Shops said...

Adrienne Hopkins - Buzzing Bees

kajohnson said...

Kara Johnson- I would like to win the mural with the 2 fairies- for a 8 year old girl.

Emily E. said...

Emily Erspamer- I like the duck canvas and the Noah's Ark mural.

Emily E. said...

Emily Erspamer- I like the duck canvas and the Noah's Ark mural.

Amber said...

Amber Moon the pink and green mushrooms and butterflies.

Adrienne of Noon To Two and Handmade By Ade Etsy Shops said...

Adrienne Hopkins - Christmas morning I followed a red ribbon wound throughout my home leading me to my brand new made over STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE bedroom. Canopy bed, flip down desk, mini picnic table! It was awesome!

Keri said...

Keri Anderson: duck and butterfly painting

Anonymous said...

Melissa Morgan

Emily E. said...

Emily Erspamer

I grew up in a home from the 1870s. It wasn't particularly girly except for some wallpaper with small flowers on it. And it had a play kitchen my dad made for me. My room was large with a fireplace (with a space heater in it). It had hardwood floors that creaked. It also had a faux oriental rug that was made out of wood- it was odd, but most of the rooms had these faux wood rugs.

Lualemaga's said...

Laurie Lualemaga
Flower

Kenton and Marianne Ogg said...

Marianne Ogg: My childhood room was not very themed. I'm the youngest of 7 kids so I got all the "left overs". I did have pink purple and blue butterfly curtains, and we found a matching light at a garage sale.

kajohnson said...

Kara Johnson- My room had red carpet :( There was wall paper on the walls with small pink flowers with a chair rail half way down. I had a pink beadspread that my grandma made me. The best part is I don't like pink. My mom just did the pink to try and make the carpet work!

Kari said...

Kari Rudd- Butterflies and mushrooms

Keri said...

Keri Anderson: I am the "spoiled" youngest child and the biggest point of my room childhood room that I remember is the... well, this doesn't sound too nice but... "puke-green" carpet. It was great, comfy carpet though--and let's just say it went GREAT with the pink walls. I also had the best bed. It was a little twin bed on one of those frames that had all the drawers and storage underneath. Those drawers were my treasure chests, they kept all my toys safe!

Kari said...

Kari Rudd- My sister and I shared a room with Raggedy Ann and Andy wall paper and red carpet.

ccheshire said...

Casey Cheshire: Flowers and Fairies

amandanbo said...

amanda onstott

Brittney Withers said...

Brittney withers: Mushroom & butterflies

Lualemaga's said...

Laurie Lualemaga:
I am number 4 of 9 kids. The 6 boys lived in one room which consisted of 2 triple bunk beds that my father had made. My sisters and I had a bunk bed and my little sister slept on a smaller bed. OUr house was a total of 900 sqft. Super small for a family of 11. Well our room was very crowded with 2 dressers and our beds. We still had lots of fun. Beka my older sister and I would have fashion shows with clothes we would put together and also with sheets. We would have singing contests and found lots of ways to entertain ourselves.

Kenton and Marianne Ogg said...

Marianne Ogg: I have a little boy and I think the Toot Toot painting or the Duck would look great in his room. Its fish themed, so if I won, I would get the Duck painting, buy the toot toot painting, and ask her if she could do a fish one too. Wouldn't that be cute!

ccheshire said...

Casey Cheshire: I always shared my Queen size bed with one of my younger sisters. We didn't have a theme, but we had the nice red/orange shag carpet!

Anonymous said...

Maquel Christopher

Anonymous said...

Janel Case: I actually want the space canvas she painted, my children have a space themed mural we did ourselves! :)

Anonymous said...

Maquel Christopher: The tugboat one.

DottieLou said...

dottie yeates

Brittney Withers said...

Brittney Withers: My older sister & I shared a room down in the basement. We had purple carpet, Ice cream cone border, matching puffy quilts, matching desks.

Erin said...

Erin Freeman Flowers and Mushrooms

Anonymous said...

Janel Case: My room had a day bed, white furniture, and a striped pink and cream wallpaper half way up the wall until the mid room border which was flowers. SOOO girly. I didn't pick it out though.

The Geists said...

Stephanie Geist: Jungle with trees, elephants and monkeys and other animals. The bed would be a tree with leaves handing down from the ceiling and walls.

Christina said...

christina wandry: rocket ship

DottieLou said...

dottie yeates -- i like the three animals in the top banner

DottieLou said...

dottie yeates -- i like the three animals in the top banner

Christina said...

christina wandry: white dainty furniture with awful pink lacy bedding. i did have a fun canopy on my bed!

Anonymous said...

Savannah Wilson

Anonymous said...

Rhonda Shurtleff

DottieLou said...

dottie yeates .. our room was paneling on two walls and paint on the other... white I think ... Holly Hobbie Spreads and Curtains with blue shag carpet.

Anonymous said...

Natalee Wilson

Mikel said...

Mikel Blake

The Geists said...

Stephanie Geist: My room as a child was painted pink, with nothing on the walls, no pictures or posters. I was lucky to get the pink walls. We had a very plain house with no extra paint or picutes to leave holes in the walls. So I would love to have something fun and special for my toddler who is turning 3 in June!!

Anonymous said...

Gene Wilson

Rochelle said...

Rochelle Evans--anything girly!!

Unknown said...

Jamie Rasmussen

Jill T said...

Jill Tew: the airplane or toot toot boat

Aubrey said...

Aubrey Lomax: my childhood room that I shared with my sister had a bunck bed with Straberry Shortcake blankets on it.

Marianne said...

Marianne Davis: mushrooms

Sandi said...

Sandi Lyman
Monkey-giraffe-hippo

Katie said...

Katie Warnock: Duck on the pond

Anonymous said...

Rhonda Shurtleff: I shared my room growing up with 2 older sisters. We had bunk beds & ugly carpet, but my sister painted the walls--two apricot, two lavendar.

Mikel said...

Mikel Blake:flowers

Anonymous said...

Stella Thayn

Anonymous said...

Julia Wilson

Anonymous said...

Beverly Powell

Anonymous said...

Rhonda Shurtleff: moon & stars

Unknown said...

Jamie Rasmussen I would love to win a painting similar to the fairy mural. Anne Marie Criswell is very talented and I wish we lived closer so we could get an actual mural done in our home.

Jill T said...

Jill Tew: it was pink with flowers and blue carpet.:)

Sandi said...

Sandi Lyman
Pink with unicorns:)

Anonymous said...

Ana Mattson

Anonymous said...

Cory Mattson

Rochelle said...

Rochelle Evans--I shared a room with my older sister and we had flower wallpaper, but besides that it was pretty plain.

Jeremiah Burns said...

Kara Burns " Mushrooms

Anonymous said...

Pauline Mendes: Window Mural

Jennifer said...

Jennifer Patrick: Butterflies and Mushrooms!

Jeremiah Burns said...

Kara Burns : my childhood bedroom I shared with my sister. The walls were blue and for the longest time it had multi colored blue shag carpet!

Anonymous said...

Maren Jones

Katie said...

Katie Warnock: My sister Callie and I shared a room. We had matching reversible quilts with pink and white stripes on one side and pink flowers on the other side. We had matching white beds that had pull out drawers on the bottom of them. The walls were white with a picket fence and flowers that my mom painted around the whole room. We had regular white carpet.

Anonymous said...

Pauline Mendes: My Dad make a huge checkerboard made out of carpet on the floor of my room and then created huge checkers so we could play.

Anonymous said...

Savannah Wilson The african baby animals

Anonymous said...

Gene Wilson The rocket ship on is way cute!!

Anonymous said...

Shanna Barker

Anonymous said...

Stella Thayn the bright colored one with the mushrooms

Anonymous said...

Natalee Wilson The bumble bee

Anonymous said...

Ana Mattson--I would love a canvas painting of black and red ladybugs on a green meadow

Crazy Mommy said...

Wendy Heap

Unknown said...

Jamie Rasmussen - My childhood bedroom was simple in decoration but it was in the upstairs of an old home so the character of the room due to the architecture was awesome. I had a built-in nook where I could put my dolls or other toys or I could even hide in there myself. I also had two built-in drawers below the nook that I would use to store books and papers from school. One day a book fell behind the drawer and I pulled out the drawer to climb into the wall to find it and was shocked to find papers and books from the 1950s and later. My father was raised in the same house where I grew up so the papers belonged to him and his siblings. We sifted through the contents and found old homework, music rehearsal pieces and, best of all, love letters from my dad to my mom before they were married.

Melanie said...

Melanie Nelson: I would love either some cute safari animal paintings or a comic race car for my two year old sons room.

Anonymous said...

Cory Mattson--A Canvas of traditional lady bugs with white daisies for my newborn's room.

Amelia said...

Amelia Perkins

Melanie said...

Melanie Nelson: I shared a room with my older sister. The carpet was an ugly red-orange and painted on one wall was snoopy on his doghouse with Charlie Brown standing near by. One year my sister got some of those big wall stickers for Christmas. So, to compliment the Charlie Brown theme we had a big, dancing Beauty and the Beast and other characters on a different wall.

Katy said...

Katy Mcgee

Katy said...

Katy Mcgee: Duck on a Pond

Anonymous said...

Ana Mattson--I remember my childhood room had yellow wall paper and white curtains. I had a shelves over my dresser full of stuffed animals.

Anonymous said...

Sarah Elliott

The Trumans said...

Karrie Truman: tugboat one

Amy said...

AMy M. Wright

The Trumans said...

Karrie Truman: We had the mickey mouse and friends theme goin on growing up. Matching blankets for me and my sister!

Crazy Mommy said...

Wendy Heap: rocket and alien

Amy said...

Amy M. Wright: Mushrooms and butterflies

Anonymous said...

Sarah Elliott
Flower print

Anonymous said...

LeeAnn Grundy

Michelle said...

Michelle Twilley

Anonymous said...

Cory Mattson--I shared a room with my brother in the basement. On moonless nights we used to get very spooked.

Holly R said...

Holly Rader: If we have to pick a canvas pictured, I would pick the tugboat. If we could design one, I would have a racecar one with my son's name on it to match his quilt on his bed now.

Sarah said...

Sarah Clark: monkey, giraffe, and hippo

Mrs. Lundgreen said...

Erin Lundgreen

ashley said...

ashley murray

Crazy Mommy said...

wendy heap: I shared a room with my little sister and we had the GROOVIEST purple shag carpet. White walls, posters, I think lavender bedding. But that carpet - wow.

JACLYN said...

Jaclyn Reynolds

Westover Family said...

Kylee Westover- I love the tree painting but i would love something with a fire truck for my sons room

Sarah said...

Sarah Clark: My childhood room was all about pink and purple. I shared a room with my younger sister. We had two of everything. My stuff was purple and hers was pink.

Holly R said...

Holly Rader: My childhood room at one point had a Mickey Mouse theme. I had a huge Mickey that would read books to you and move his mouth and eyes. Later I had Holly Hobbie bedding.

Anonymous said...

Juliana Wade

Westover Family said...

Kylee Westover- I had a really cute room with vaulted ceilings and a window seat. My mom always decorated it so cute. Every couple of years we would re-do it and we had so much fun going through magazines together finding ideas. My favorite was when we did all my furniture black and had a chic paris theme. Thanks mom!!!

Anonymous said...

Juliana Wade: Flower print

IandS said...

Stacey Morgan: The alien and space rocket

IandS said...

Stacey Morgan: My sister's bedroom was pink so I HAD to choose the opposite and have a blue room. It was still very girly with pretty little blue flowers on the wallpaper.

Leslie Garbanati said...

Leslie Garbanati

Amy said...

Amy Bethers: Tugboat Toot Toot Toot

Leslie Garbanati said...

Leslie Garbanati-Tug Boat..for sure!

Tara said...

Tara Smith: flower print

Kevin and Amanda Hansen said...

Amanda Hansen

Leslie Garbanati said...

Leslie Garbanati-My room was yellow and green. I hated it, but my mom thought it was wonderful. She made my bedspread and curtains to match...I even had throw pillows. I look back now and realize it wasn't that bad at all and I was lucky to have a talented mom to make the cute stuff I had.

Hanson3 said...

Brittany Hanson: The tug boat painting

Tara said...

Tara Smith: I had my own room and everything was pink...pink walls, pink rug, pink bedspread, even a pink phone! Needless to say I hate pink now!

redron said...

veronica sandberg

Hanson3 said...

Brittany Hanson: My childhood bedroom was very girly with flowers and a canopy bed.

JoAnna said...

JoAnna Watson

Jennifer (Fern) said...

Jennifer Ivey: I would love something cute and flowery for my girls!

JoAnna said...

JoAnna Watson

JoAnna said...

JoAnna Watson
I would like to win the painting of the cute zoo animals on the right hand side.

JoAnna said...

JoAnna Watson

My childhood room was nothing special. I had white paneling on the walls with curtains that had flowers on them. When I was about 12, I decided to paint the woodwork the strangest light blue color. I had a hideous dark green rug.

Anonymous said...

Jodi McCuistion

Rowley's said...

Lenae Rowley- Love the Duck!

Unknown said...

Amy Pugmire. I love the one thats pink with flowers on it.

Rowley's said...

Lenae Rowley- My room was lots and lots of Koala Bears.

Sarah C said...

I love the ducky painting. Her stuff is so cute!
momofnoah(at)hotmail(dot)com

Unknown said...

Amy Pugmire: My room was pink and I remember big block letters that spelled my name and thats all i remember.

Sarah C said...

My childhood bedroom was blue with sunflowers!
momofnoah(at)hotmail(dot)com

Googs said...

Ginger Gugelman

Shelena said...

Shelena Shamo

autumn said...

autumn huffaker

Bethany said...

BETHANY KESTNER

autumn said...

autumn huffaker- i like the bees

Becca said...

Becca Baughman

autumn said...

autumn huffaker- I shared a room with my sister jessica and it was plan, white walls and all.

McPherson family said...

Julie Mcpherson

Googs said...

Ginger Gugelman: flower canvas

Becca said...

Becca Baughman: I love the tug boat and the flower

Bethany said...

BETHANY KESTNER: SPACE

rlmquest said...

Rebecca Milne- I have one word for my childhood room- PINK!

Anonymous said...

Danetta Young

Becca said...

Becca Baughman

I shared a room with my older sister and my parents built us an amazing castle bunkbead... complete with a built in fish tank! We loved it. They still have it to this day and plan on setting it up when our kids are a little bit older! How fun!

McPherson family said...

Julie McPherson- Tug boat toot toot toot!
Wow she is very talented. I really enjoyed looking at her paintings. Thanks for the opportunity!

Shelena said...

Shelena Shamo: A giraffe, there was one with other animals but I'd like just the giraffe.

Heidi said...

heidi shirley: hawaiian flowers painting

rlmquest said...

Rebecca milne- Hawaiian flowers or the mushroom motif- Very cute!!

Bethany said...

BETHANY KESTNER: OUR ROOMS AS KIDS NEVER HAD A THEME, REALLY. WE USED OUR IMAGINATIONS TO TURN OUR ROOMS INTO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, DENTIST'S OFFICES, RESTAURANTS AND MOTOR HOMES. WE HAD FUN!

Sandi Edgar said...

Sandi Edgar

Heidi said...

heidi shirley: I shared a room with my sister (till she left for her mission) and until then we had a pretty pink and coral floral print wallpaper, then I changed it to stars once she left. And now that I am getting ready to have a girl in June I really wish I would have kept the furniture I had in there. It was a more antique style.

Unknown said...

Tiffany-Joy Mo: Rocket ship painting

Anonymous said...

Danetta Young: Space w/ rocket, planets and alien

Annalee Taylor said...

Annalee Taylor

Sandi Edgar said...

Sandi Edgar: Tug boat

Unknown said...

Tiffany-joy Mo: I can't really remember much about my childhood room, but remember I shared it with one of my older sisters, i think it was a light pink, we had a sink in our room, with a "jack and jill" shared bathroom with our brothers. We had a lot of fights in that room, but also a lot of fun, we loved having tea parties together.

Erin said...

Erin Trimble: mushrooms and butterflies

Sandi Edgar said...

Sandi Edgar: My brother and I shared a room for a few years. We had awesome bunk beds (I was on top), and had a great collection of animals. (We still fight over who owns the green dragon... )

Luckily we played well together as kids and still do as adults!

Annalee Taylor said...

Annalee Taylor; Tug boat and flowers.

Anonymous said...

Erin Wilhelmsen

The Hall said...

Sheri Hall

Anonymous said...

Danetta Young: My childhood room was very girly, wallpaper had flowers, butterflies and rainbows

The Hall said...

Sheri Hall: Duck!

Annalee Taylor said...

Annalee Taylor; My sister and I did share a room and all I remember is maroon carpet and scratchy walls! I think my grandma made us matching bedspreads too.

The Hall said...

Sheri Hall: I had an L-shaped room with wallpaper of children jumping rope and playing jacks. I LOVED my room.

Kendell's Crusaders said...

Jennifer Keyes: My sister and I shared a room and it was purple with a wallpaper border that had rows of crayola crayons on it. It sounds crazy but was actually pretty cute for back then.

Andrea Hatfield said...

Andrea Hatfield -mushrooms & butterfly

Anonymous said...

Erin Wilhelmsen Space Canvas

Melanie said...

Melanie Egbert: Growing up, my bedroom had patchwork carpet with a flower in the middle. I had rainbow curtains & bedspread.

Angela said...

Angela Hodges: The pink and green one with the butterflies on it. Adorable!

Anonymous said...

Erin Wilhelmsen my sister and I had a room that was two rooms wide and had a partial wall in between. Her half of the room was painted blue and my half was painted pink. It was the strangest looking thing you could ever see.

Kami said...

Kami Porter

Melissa Dudley said...

Melissa Hatt

Jessica said...

jessica winger

Kendell's Crusaders said...

Jennifer Keyes: mushrooms and butterflies

LeighSabey said...

Leigh Sabey

Angela said...

Angela Hodges: My older sister and I shared a room. It was pretty plain. We had brown carpet with white walls. Our beds had white comforters with different colored butterflies on them!

LeighSabey said...

Leigh Sabey: orange and purple flower

Anonymous said...

Kellie Jorgensen

Anonymous said...

Kellie Jorgensen: Bees

Melissa Dudley said...

Melissa Hatt: Duck

Ashley said...

Ashley Harper: I'd love a canvas with a car for a boys room, or if there are only the few choices then the tug boat.

Melissa Dudley said...

Melissa Hatt: I had a blue room when I was little. My mom hand made everything in it!

Ashley said...

Ashley Harper: Growing up I shared a room with my sister, we had pink flowered wall paper, and flowery quilts on our bed. Very girly!

Sylvia said...

Sylvia Brindley~ I like two, the one with the butterflies and the one with the tan background and big flower on it...both are very cute and would look very cute in one of my girls rooms.

Gina said...

Gina Decker

Kami said...

Kami Porter- Jungle animals and Duck

Anonymous said...

Kellie Jorgensen: My parents had 7 kids, 6 of which were girls. We basicly just had beds. We decorated with our own stuff. Dolls, pictures, etc.

The Lemkes said...

Holly Lemke

evitafjord said...

Dawn Young: I like the bumble bees. I really love the monkey shown on the side bar. I love monkeys.

The Lemkes said...

Holly Lemke: Rocket ships and aliens

Jessica said...

Jessica Schmale

Sylvia said...

Sylvia Brindley~ Growing up I had my own room when I got a litle older. It was all sunflowers, the carpet was a lovely orange, lol!! I had just white walls, but everything on them was sunflower theamed. I now have a few of the things up in my kitchen :)

Jessica said...

Jessica Schmale: I love the ducks and the bees

Anonymous said...

Rachel Wilson

Jessica said...

Jessica Schmale: Growing up I always had ridiculously bright rooms. I remember yellow walls, lime green walls and purple. Incidentally today, my room has a teal wall. What can I say? I love the brights.

evitafjord said...

Dawn Young: I shared a bedroom with my 2 sisters most of the time growing up. The one I remember most was painted a medium pink and had a gigantic chalkboard along one wall.

Anonymous said...

Rachel Wilson: monkey, giraffe, hippo

Krista said...

Krista Hirschi: Tugboat toot toot

Krista said...

Krista Hirschi: my room was a strawberry shortcake theme where my sister and I shared a pink bunkbed.

Anonymous said...

Rachel Wilson: my room was a princess room with a canopy bed, I loved it

Chrissy said...

Christine Lockhart - flower print

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