Exclusive Sneak Preview: Line Your Walls with Sunny (and Sticky) Optimism!
Jun.27
OK, so the zillion-gallons-a-day oil spill is bumming you out?
Or maybe you’re a little melancholy because most of your favorite TV shows are in reruns?
WallCandy Arts has the perfect thing to cheer you up: SUNSHINE!
Hey, I don’t know about you, but I when I was real estate shopping for my current house, “natural light” was one of my top criteria. There’s something about the sun — both the real version and the children’s art incarnations — that instantly makes us smile.
Check out the latest removable wall decal design called “My Sunshine!”
It’s called MY Sunshine because you or child takes ownership over where the vibrant rays will shine. The fuschia, red and yellow sun (wasn’t Superman born under a different color sun?) will instantly infuse optimism into your child’s bedroom.
The removable, reposable, remarkable sun — along with the blue cloud accessories — would make a splendid addition to any wall decal mural. I especially think “My Sunshine” is a perfect complement for WallCandy’s Season Tree (a gorgeous blooming tree teeming with birds and butterflies), the vibrant Blossoms collection, and Deerly Beloved, frolicking woodland creatures so cute you just want to pinch them!
Hey, without sunshine there can be no photosynthesis. I remember a first grade science experiment where we took one beansprout plant and put it on the windowsill and another beansprout and put it in a dark closet. Both seedlings were given equal amounts of water and love.
Not surprisingly, the closet-imprisoned beansprout grew up sad and lonely. The sunshine-infused plant had tons of self-esteem.
Brighten up your child’s room with “My Sunshine” and please share pictures of your murals with us — especially if you incorporate the sun with other designs. We LOVE to showcase our customers’ creativity in our Inspiration Album!
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Pixie Dust Countdown: The Top 9 Fairies of All-Time!
Jun.13
Let Entertainment Weekly worry about the “Top 100 Movie Characters” and let Rolling Stone worry about the “Top 100 Rock Album Covers.”
In honor of our new “Sweet Dreams Fairies,” we’ve researched America’s most fascinating fairies and are eager to present our latest rankings to you….
NUMBER 9: DWAYNE “THE ROCK” JOHNSON
Most of us have fond memories of scoring a few bucks everytime our gums bled as a kid, but how many of us had our teeth knocked out by mean-spirited professional hockey players? In this 2010 destined-to-be-a-classic movie, wrestler-actor Dwayne Johnson plays an NHL star with an affinity for punching out smiles. He’s sadistically nicknamed the “Tooth Fairy” on the ice, but he goes too far when he tells his girlfriend’s daughter that there is no such thing as the tooth fairy. “Oh yeah?” says head Tooth Fairy Julie Andrews, “Now we’re going to punish you by forcing you to work on our staff!”
Yes, Julie Andrews has such power. Only in the movies.
NUMBER 8: GRAFFITI ARTIST SHEPARD FAIREY
It’s not so much that we admire the urban graffiti artist best known for defacing buildings with Andre the Giant stencils (another pro-wrestler fairy connection!) and later, creating those famous Warholian red-white-and-blue Obama prints that tout HOPE and CHANGE. Shepard earns his spot on the list for courageously forging on with his Fairey surname despite the years of playground and locker room torment he must have endured.
NUMBER 7: FAIRY PENGUINS
The smallest members of the penguin family, the 16-inch Fairies are usually found frolicking off the coast of Antarctica, Souther Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. They snack on anchovies, kril, plankton, crab larvae and sea horses. They don’t bother chewing anything and swallow their food whole. Their feathers often have a blue tinge, which makes them absolutely the cutest members of the penguin family, too.
NUMBER 6: PIXIE THE TATTOO ARTIST
She’s a tough cookie on TLC’s reality series, “L.A. Ink,” but she’s got a family-friendly side. Some of her body art includes cupcakes and the Care Bears!
NUMBER 5: PIXIE OF THE X-MEN
Brandishing translucent dragonfly wings, Pixie is able to distract her friends and enemies with her magic hallucination-inducing Pixie Dust. The dust seems to have different effects on different characters. Sometimes it causes people to see unicorns or teddy bears. Other times, brightly colored bubbles. Pixie is able to teleport herself and large groups to far-away destinations. Her magic skills are so widely respected that she’s even begun to give Doctor Strange formal training.
NUMBER 4 : CINDERELLA’S FAIRY GODMOTHER
Years before electric hybrid cars and Volkswagens refitted to run on discarded French fry oil, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella transformed an ordinary pumpkin into a royal chariot. Wish she would do something about the BP oil spill.
NUMBER 3: GLINDA, THE GOOD WITCH OF THE NORTH
Our sources tell us that not only was Dorothy’s savior in the Wizard of Oz a “good witch,” but she was also a good fairy. And it is gorgeous Glinda who is the first Oz character to stand up to injustice whenever and wherever she sees it.
NUMBER 2: TINKERBELL
Forget about Peter Pan. If you want true street cred with Boys Who Never Grow Up, you have to reinvent yourself as a video game!
NUMBER 1: SWEET DREAMS FAIRIES
Hey, you didn’t think we were going to rank the SDF girls any lower, did you?
What I love about the Sweet Dreams Fairies, besides their ability to drown out nightmares with “Confection Protection,” is the retro ice cream man feel to the graphics. It’s Candy Land. It’s Sammy Davis Jr.’s “Candy Man.”
At a time when cupcakes are BANNED at elementary school birthday parties, I admire fairies willing to take a stand and celebrate who they are. When you are in the fantasy world, lollipops and jelly beans are so much more fun and colorful than broccoli and asparagus.
Although the parent in me compels me to add that in the real world, your girls should eat their greens first and then dive into the cupcakes (in moderation).
It should be noted that Sweet Dreams Fairies, like all our stylish removable wall decals, contain absolutely no calories!
What’s Your Fairy Name?
Jun.6
Names are very important. Some parents fret over those “1001 Baby Names” books or even bring in consultants before committing to a boy’s or girl’s name in the delivery room.
Names shape personality. They define us on resumes and job applications based on people’s preconceptions of who they have met with the same name. And of course, some names sound sexier than others. Would you rather date a Benjamin or a Mortimer? Would you rather date an Amber or a Mildred?
In honor of WallCandy Arts’ recent immersion into Fairyland — check out our cute Sweet Dreams Fairies removable wall decals — we thought it would be fun for our customers to find out what their Fairy Names would be if they ever sprouted wings.
British artist Sue Edmunds, who designs customized fairy sculptures like the one above, created a Fairy Name Generator that will instantly convert your name into one respected by woodland creatures everywhere. Sue does not handle the logistics of legally changing over your birth certificates or driver’s license, but her delightful device will determine your strongest talents and give you fashion advice for pulling off the look.
To test out the Fairy Name Generator, I plugged in the name of WallCandy Arts CEO Allison Krongard, who created the Sweet Dreams Fairies.
Should Allison ever opt for the witness protection program, here is her Fairy identity:
Your fairy is called Gossamer WillowglowShe is a caster of weird dreams.She lives in spiderwebbed wonderlands and insect grottos.She is only seen in the light of a full moon.She wears tiny black spiders on her dresses. She has delicate green coloured wings like a cicada.
So go ahead and explore your inner Fairy. You know you want to!
(BTW, if fairies aren’t your thing, Sue Edmunds also offers a Vampire Name Generator for the Twilight crowd. We don’t have a line of vampire wall decals, because quite frankly, we’re in the business of crushing nightmares — not creating them!)
