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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Heather said...

Heather Sandoval

Anonymous said...

Melani Clark

Anonymous said...

Melani Clark-- I would love to have a mural of monkey's with purple and green background

Anonymous said...

Melani Clark- My bedroom growing up was all about Strawberry Shortcake!

*Still Memories* said...

Micklena Frampton

The High Family said...

Bobbi-Jo High: flower print

*Still Memories* said...

Micklena Frampton: Tugboat Toot Toot Toot

Trieste said...

Trieste Phillipps: My childhood room had a couple of different designs/themes. I had blown-up crayons at one point and crayon drapes. I loved the color blue so my walls were painted a light blue.

*Still Memories* said...

Micklena Frampton: Pink walls, Pink Carpet, and Pink Bedding. Me and my other two sisters had to share a room so dad built a 3 story bunkbed. AWESOME :)

The High Family said...

Bobbi-Jo High: my childhood room growing up was shared with my 3 sisters and we sadly did not have a theme. there was the boring and just plain ugly panel walls with some pink bedspreads thrown in...

kimert said...

Kimberly Emert - I'd like a mural painting with some kind of flowers and fairies (think Tinkerbell) to match my daughter's room. :)

Trieste said...

Trieste Phillipps: I would want something similar to the butterflies/flowers idea. I would want it to match the colors in my little girls' room.

Lindsey Rowland said...

Lindsey Rowland

ewstephens said...

Emily Stephens

ewstephens said...

Emily Stephens: space ship

Kristy said...

Kristy Pollard: the fern leaf and flowers

Tara said...

Taralyn Parker - I loved the portrait of the baby in her side bar. I would like a portrait of my two little ones :).

ewstephens said...

Emily Stephens: girl- beachy boy- transportation

Tara said...

Taralyn Parker - I shared a room with my younger sister growing up. It had trees and flowers painted on the wall. The carpet was green and we had a big apricot tree right outside our window.

Tara said...

Tara Robertson

EmileeHope said...

Emilee Turner

kimert said...

Kimberly Emert - I shared a room with my younger sister. I don't remember that we ever had a theme though. We shared many a room, too. One room I remember just had twin beds and our toys. We decorated with our own NKOTB posters! Fun memories there.

Aurora said...

Aurora Pierson: I liked the tree mural she did, so maybe something with birds and a tree...cute & whimsical.

M Lee said...

Melissa Pinilla

Anonymous said...

Christina Freese

Kristen said...

Kristen Preston- Tugboat Toot Toot Toot would be perfect for our son's nursery! Love it!

M Lee said...

Melissa Pinilla

jeanine said...

Jeanine Crane: I think the bees are really cute

Aurora said...

Aurora Pierson: When I was around 8my Mom let me pick out new bedding for my room. It had big pink roses and purple flowers on it...I LOVED it! My room also had seafoam green carpet and cream colored ruffled curtains and an antique iron bed. It was a very girly room. :)

jeanine said...

Jeanine Crane: I shared a room with one of my three sisters until I was in high school. We had pink bedspreads and lots of stuffed animals.

Lindsey said...

Lindsey Wells: My childhood room was purple and turquoise. My mom painted it for me while I was away one weekend and it had matching bedding. It was awesome!

Kristen said...

Kristen Preston- growing up, I shared a room with my two sisters. It was a small room, but we made space by having a trundle bed that we would pop out at night for the youngest sister. When all the beds were up, there was no space to walk on the floor. The beds were so close to each other that it was like having one giant bed! We had fun in that room. Our favorite game was to make believe we had been snowed in and making do with what was in our room.

Anonymous said...

Christina Freese-Mushrooms and butterflies or jungle animals

A mother heart said...

aubrey jones

Erica said...

Erica Royer: Flower print

Anonymous said...

Donna Hainsworth
Cute paintings

Unknown said...

Lesly Orf

Anonymous said...

LeAnn Hammond

Anonymous said...

TIffany Skabelund

Anonymous said...

Charlee Goode

Unknown said...

Lesly Orf

I like the mural of the Fairies. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Miriam Bailey

Anonymous said...

Karen Bruns

Anonymous said...

Tiffany Skabelund: zebra pattern anywhere I could put it!

A mother heart said...

Aubrey Jones: fairies or butterflies for my daughters' room

Cindy Price said...

Cindy Price - the adorable duckie

Clements Family said...

Lindsay Clements

Unknown said...

Lesly Orf

My childhood room had pink painted walls, a purple velvet headboard and purple Miss Piggy sheets. I absolutely loved it. My sister and I shared a room and we both still love those Miss Piggy sheets. Fond memories.

Clements Family said...

Lindsay Clements-my bedroom was Care Bears

Jessica said...

Jessica Orchard

Cindy Price said...

Cindy Price - My bedroom was somewhat plain, but I had three brothers and never had to share a room, so that was the best part!!

Lindsey said...

Lindsey Wells: The rocket ship and the alien is my favorite.

Stephanie said...

Stephanie Minielli

Natalie said...

Natalie Gardiner

A mother heart said...

Aubrey Jones: My family moved so many times that I don't have a "childhood room." I had so many in so many houses that when we finally moved in the middle of my sophmore year I wanted to paint my room black. but my mom said no, so I settled with black wallpaper with little green and red flowers all over it on the wall behind my bed with black bedding on the bed. the rest of the walls were grean to match the wallpaper. The efect was really nice.

Natalie said...

Natalie Gardiner: Jungle Animals (Monkey, Giraffe and Hippo).

The Jarrett Family said...

Amanda Jarrett: Flower Print

Jenn said...

Jennifer Speakman

Stephanie said...

Stephanie Minielli - The one with the Monkey, giraffe and hippo (i think it is) white background.

Stephanie said...

Stephanie Minielli - My childhood room was Pink, of course! And it had disney princess bedding! and I remember a bright pink beanbag that my brother and I broke!

Unknown said...

Lindsey Black: My bedroom was pink and white checked with pink carpet (yes, it was cool), and a pink and white bedspread :)

The Jarrett Family said...

Amanda Jarrett: My room was very boring I didn't have much color or choices so I am making up for it with my kids rooms. My little boys room is painted brown, yellow and red is all about cowboys! My little girls room is lady bugs and flowers with mint green and baby pink!!

Unknown said...

Lindsey Black: I would love to have a painting of a train for my son's nursery.

Fox Family said...

Jennifer Fox - I would love a painting of a princess castle and a princess.

hilaryawb said...

Hilary Baker: I would love a painting of either the monkies or of the sea creatures.

Jenn said...

Jennifer Speakman: I would like a painted canvas with sports on each.

Our Family said...

Alisha Harrison- pink flower one- that is adorable

hilaryawb said...

Hilary Baker: I shared a room with my little sister where we had pink walls with yellow trim and painted flowers in the corners.

HO said...

Heather Oleksy: Space Ship and Alien

Our Family said...

Alisha Harrison- my favorite bedroom phase when I was little was a bed with a canopy over it with my yellow bedspread. I also had a lamp that was a doll and the lamp shade was the umbrella she was holding. I just thought that was the coolest

s is for sarah said...

Sarah Kotronis~The alien is really cute!

Jenn said...

Jennifer Speakman: I shared a room with my twin sister in the basement. We each had white daybeds with purple bedspreads that my mom made us. We had one wall that had purple wallpaper on it the rest were white. We didn't have padding underneath our carpet because our basement flooded alot so we had to be able to roll the carpet up during a flood.

Anonymous said...

Laurie Higgs

s is for sarah said...

Sarah Kotronis~It was all about Sesame Street! I had a pillowcase with Ms.Piggy as a cheerleader and Kermit as a football player.

MOMFOREVERANDEVER said...

sandy du bears

MOMFOREVERANDEVER said...

sandy du plain,clean, quilts

HO said...

Heather Oleksy: I had the best room ever for a teenager. It was a playroom on the main floor that we turned into my room. It had NO WINDOWS!! However, it had awful brown paneling. ick.

Courtnie said...

Courtnie Cotterell: I would love flowers with pink, yellow, light green and light blue!

Anonymous said...

Anne Toothaker

Amber said...

Amber Gibson
Thanks for the giveaway :)
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com

Courtnie said...

Courtnie Cotterell: I was the only girl in our family growing up so my room was always pink with flowers. My mom had to have at least one pink room!

Amber said...

I would love to win a faerie mural!
Thanks for the giveaway :)
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com

Lee said...

Lee Bay: I like the safari animals painting

Amber said...

My bedroom growing up was 101 Dalmations themed and I loved it!
Thanks for the giveaway :)
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com

Anonymous said...

Anne Toothaker: I would like a painting with pastel polka dots used to form flowers...for my baby girl's room.

Lee said...

Lee Bay: I shared a room with my 2 sisters. The walls had wall paper with pink roses all over it. We didn't have anything hung on the walls. My mom has a thing about holes in the walls.

Anonymous said...

Anne Toothaker: My room growing up was straight 80's! White walls with floral bedding.

Amber said...

Amber Seely: I like the fairies and mushrooms for a girl. If I have a boy, I'd like a frog and the tugboat.

Andrea said...

Andrea Updyke

Andrea said...

Andrea updyke: My childhood room was Disney. I grew up in FL and my family would go on vacation and do a puzzle wherever we were. I had several Disney puzzles that we completed and my mom glued together and hug on the wall. I loved my room!

Sonja said...

Sonja Long - Happy Duck

Anonymous said...

Monica Gonzalez

Crystal Price said...

Crystal Price

Anonymous said...

Amanda Cingolani

Andrea said...

Andrea Updyke: Rocket ship/alien

Anonymous said...

Lisa Tanner

Anonymous said...

Mary Juchem

Anonymous said...

Brenda Finlinson

Anonymous said...

Ian Finlinson

Anonymous said...

Fern Evans

steph.miles.miley said...

Stephanie Harrison : I loved the mural with the three animals (monkey, girafe, and hippo). So cute!

Anonymous said...

Lisa Tanner: mushrooms and butterflies

Deborah said...

Deborah Andreasen: The orange and pink flowers...love it!!!

Unknown said...

Nichole Lee: I shared a room with three sisters...so it was messy, lots of beds and my wall had some pretty cool pictures of NKOTB! haha

steph.miles.miley said...

Stephanie Harrison : My room growing up had stuffed animals everywhere. I had the walls plastered with animal posters.

Amber said...

Amber Seely: When I was really little, I shared a room with my sisters. We had a green bedspread and curtains with butterflies. And of course, we always drew our 'invisible lines' down the bed to make sure nobody crossed over to somebody else's side!

Heather said...

Heather Demke: Love the fairies mural

Heather said...

Heather Demke: I was addicted to the color purple so I had a room filled with lots of purple stuff from the carpet to the decor.

Amy said...

Amy Sparrow

jenn said...

jenn randolph--tug boat

jenn said...

jenn randolph--my room had pepto pink walls, floor, bedspread, curtins and tons of stuffed animals!

Deborah said...

Deborah Andreasen: Our dad was in the army, so we moved a lot. There were five of us kids then (there are six now) and we always shared a room with at least one other sibling, sometimes two. To make things fair we rotated periodically so that we all had a turn sharing with each other. So I never had a "childhood room," but lots of rooms and lots of memories.

Amy said...

Amy Sparrow: If I win, I would like a sports themed painting. The rocket ship is my fave on her blog :)

Camille said...

Camille Brown

Jess's Journey to the Land Of Skinny said...

Jessica Jensen

Anonymous said...

Michon Draney

Camille said...

Camille Brown: Some kind of sports theme

Megan said...

Megan Grover

Amy said...

Amy Sparrow: My childhood room had floral decor, with a dark oak furniture set. My oldest son now uses the set, which is very special to me.

vboackle said...

vicky boackle

Anonymous said...

Camille Brown: For half my childhood I shared a room with my older sister. After she moved out I had my own room. No theme, just blue.

Anonymous said...

Michon Draney- Space ship

Anonymous said...

Michon Draney- It was black and white with posters of NKOTB all over the wall.

Megan said...

Megan Grover: I would like the one with the tan background and the big green leaft and the purple and orange flowers!!!

Bev said...

Beverly Scholes

Jess's Journey to the Land Of Skinny said...

Jessica Jensen: I love the giraffe, hippo and monkey one.

Jan said...

Janice Checketts: The duck and space ship

Megan said...

Megan Grover: My childhood room had basic neutral walls with tan carpet. I had a teddy bear ballerina border a the top of my wall going all the way around my room. I accented in gloe in the dark stars all over my ceiling. My bedding was pink and green flowers!

Brinkerhoff said...

Marcela Brinkerhoff

Brinkerhoff said...

Marcela Brinkerhoff - The mural with the bees is cute

Jan said...

Janice Checketts: My room growing up was pink, strawberry shortcake curtains and bedspread.

Anonymous said...

Cheri Cooper

Amy said...

Amy Howard: I love them all.....I would chose the flowers or the jungle animals.

Jess's Journey to the Land Of Skinny said...

Jessica Jensen-I had my own room and the walls had posters all over them and the bedspread was maroon and white strips. I don't know what color the carpet was because clothes were always piled high!

Kami Milliron said...

Kami Milliron : I would love to have any of the Airplane Murals. So cute !

Bev said...

Beverly Scholes--Jungle theme animals--

Brinkerhoff said...

Marcela Brinkerhoff - My room had blue shag carpet with a Raggedy Ann theme.

Stevens Family said...

Jana Stevens: pink mushrooms

The Browers said...

Tanessa Brower:I would love to have a mural with some sort of car, or truck on it for my son! His room is a brighter blue on the bottom with two six in orange strips and a really light blue on top. I have been struggling with how to decorate it and what to hang but he loves anything with wheels. These paintings are fabulous!

Kami Milliron said...

Kami Milliron : one of my sisters and I shared a room for a while. We had two separate beds on separate sides of the room. We were the typical " this is your side, this is my side " sisters !

Stevens Family said...

Jana Stevens: All I remember is that we had a yellow and white checked bedspread.

Amy said...

Amy Howard: I thought my room was so beautiful and now that I'm an adult I realize it was quite "buzy". The walls were wallpapered. On the bottom was a blue colored print with small white flowers on the top was rainbows. There was a border in between the two and I can't remember what it was. I had boring brown shag carpet. My bedspread was blue with lace trim.

{amy k.} said...

Amy Martinez: love the pretty flowers

Anonymous said...

Dana Valle

Lacee DeG said...

Lacee DeGraffenried: My room was pink and green with pictures of kittens;ugh!

Bev said...

I just got done decorating my new grandson's nursery with a jungle theme..It has giraffe's,monkeys,elephants and lions. The mural with the 3 animals would be absolutely perfect

The Browers said...

Tanessa Brower: we moved around a lot when I was growing up so I never had a special room but I do remember having a purple and maroon and white floral bedding.

Traci said...

Traci Bird: Fern and Flower

Gosfam said...

Leslie Gosney: The bees are too cute!!

Anonymous said...

Kellie Hull

Lacee DeG said...

Lacee DeGraffenried: I would love a portrait of my little guy and my new baby that's on the way

Anonymous said...

Kellie Hull - Monkey, Giraffe, and Hippo

{amy k.} said...

Amy Martinez: for a few years I shared a room with my younger sister- we had bunk beds and the main colors were the primary colors and we had bears. I remember a big cotton hot air baloon that hung on the wall not exactly sure what purpose it served... but it was fun! :)

Anonymous said...

Meaghen stokes

Gosfam said...

Leslie Gosney: My bedroom as a child had no real decor. I shared my room with 2 other sisters, and since I was the middle child, my older sister had the most say in things. We did have a cold linoleum floor until we got purple carpet.

Lynette said...

Lynette Curtin

Anonymous said...

Meaghen Stokes-monkey-giraffe and elephant

melanie said...

melanie kunz

Kirsten said...

Kirsten Clark

Nat said...

Natalie Erickson: Moon and Stars

Halifax @ Sparkled Beauty said...

Anh Nguyen

juan_hurrican(at)yahoo(dot)com

Anonymous said...

Kellie Hull - I shared a room at different times with both my sisters and, when we were very young, my brother. The decor was usually a hodge-podge of furnature made into forts, grocery stores, or RV's. We had very active imaginations :)

Anonymous said...

Dana Valle ...I love the bumble bees!

Rich and Brianne said...

Brianne Britton: Tug Boat

Halifax @ Sparkled Beauty said...

Anh Nguyen, the mushroom

juan_hurrican(at)yahoo(dot)com

Nat said...

Natalie Erickson: My sister and I shared a room when we were little. We shared a queen bed with a yellow bedspread. I thought it was fun to share a room, until about 12 when I was able to have my own room.

Anonymous said...

Meaghen Stokes--I am preg and due in 2 weeks, my nursery is decorated in a jungle theme with monkeys,giraffes and elephants.
would just love a pix to go with this....

stOOpidgErL said...

Kim Ripley

Carrie said...

Carrie Yu: I'd love something with bumblebees.

beth said...

beth forrest

Halifax @ Sparkled Beauty said...

Anh Nguyen, my childhood room wasn't anything special. I just remembered the books, many books as my dad loved to give me books as presents

juan_hurrican(at)yahoo(dot)com

Carrie said...

Carrie Yu:
Growing up I shared a bedroom with my younger brother. All I remember is that it was messy and it had bunkbeds! When I was 8, I got a room of my own, and it was purple. Not really decorated much other than that.

Rich and Brianne said...

Brianne Britton: Pastel wallpaper that included balloons and clouds. And I had a day bed, which I thought was the most magical thing in the world, with a yellow comforter. And the room had a corner net where all my stuffed animals slept!

Nancy said...

Nancy Taylor

Kathryn said...

Kathryn Devlin: Space ship and alien

Anonymous said...

Dana Valle..my room was a light yellow, and I had this huge white canopy bed.

Krissa said...

Krissa Walters:
I shared my room with my little sister. I was the girly girl and she was the tomboy. Our room had a lot of pink in it. I hated pink there for awhile...but love it now!

Melanie said...

Melanie Egbert: Airplanes

joni said...

joni bennion: flower print

Krissa said...

Krissa Walters: monkeys,giraffes and elephants

Lynette said...

Lynette Curtin: Butterfly/Mushroom canvas

Kathryn said...

Kathryn Devlin: My bedroom started out as Strawberry Shortcake with one wall wallpapered and strawberry pink curtains and bedding. When I got a wee bit taller, we changed the wallpaper to a kittens pattern and swapped all the bedding out for a cocoa color to match my favortie kitten...

Frank, Heidi and Family said...

Heidi Cole: I love the mushroom painting and that would go perfect in my little girl's room.

Aubrey said...

Aubrey Lomax: the flower picture would look cute in my new baby girls nursery.

The Chambers said...

bethany chambers

joni said...

joni bennion: growing up I shared a room with my sister and had a very formal vicorian style room. It had been my aunts room and was now ours but since it had so much history we were not allowed to change anything!

Crowntown said...

Krista Crown - duck in pond

melanie said...

melanie kunz- my son has a car room so some kind of transportation theme would be so cute

Frank, Heidi and Family said...

Heidi Cole: my room growing up had blue carpet and me and my sister shared the room. We each had canopy beds and our bedspread was blue and white checked. I love the canopy beds, but I think we ended up destroying them by jumping back and forth from one to the next.

Lynette said...

Lynette Curtin: I moved a lot as a child so I never had a room that I stayed in for very long. The one time I got to decorate my room I had lavender walls and cherry wood trim on my windows. I loved it and still consider that room to be my 'childhood room.'

kajohnson said...

Kara Johnson

Crowntown said...

Krista Crown - Shared a room with my sister with a daybed and I got the trundle bed underneath.

Emily E. said...

Emily Erspamer

Amanda and Chad said...

amanda lloyd- flowers

Miss Spoken said...

Gina Stratos: Monkey/Giraffe/Elephant

The Chambers said...

Bethany Chambers- Duckie with butterfly

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

Adrienne Hopkins

Amanda and Chad said...

amanda lloyd- had to share a room with 2 sisters! I had the top bunk.

melanie said...

melanie kunz- my favorite color was purple so everything in my room was some shade of purple. I also had rainbow wallpaper w/a ray of... of course...purple!

Keri said...

Keri Anderson

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