Today marks the official beginning of autumn, which happens to be the official season for nature’s best blushing bounty, the apples.

In a previous post, we tooted our metaphorical horn in favor of the apple’s steadfast position as one of the healthiest, fiber-filled fruits around (and our apple chalkboard wall decal‘s usefulness when organizing a few of the apple-inspired items on your family’s autumn agenda). Everyone knows that what matters is truly on the inside – especially when it’s fiber and vitamins wrapped in juicy sweetness – but we’re also impressed by the apple’s shape as a classic style icon.

In New York City, the apple’s voluptuousness has provided many painters and sculptors with the space necessary to capture various artistic perspectives of city culture. Jewelry designers, both burgeoning and bigwig, know that apple pendants can either hold boatloads of rhinestones or shine with minimalistic glory as curvy, three-dimensional beauties in static sterling silver or gold. Even certain rappers-turned-fashionaires know that, of all the shapes a gal could want her jeans to create, the apple is one of the most agreeable.

And then there’s our new line of removable, reusable peel and stick wallpaper, which begins with three apple designs in subtle-but-sophisticated colors. To add a touch of fruitful autumn style to any room, be it a child’s playroom or your very own dream kitchen, simply cover one wall with peel and stick wallpaper and create a focal point you’ll enjoy long after the apple orchards are closed up for winter. For a few room-specific ideas, read on.

Cover the blank wall space between your cabinets and the kitchen counter with peel and stick wallpaper patterned with green Granny Smiths set in serene blue. Don’t worry about working around the toaster’s designated electrical socket – simply cover it, mark the area with a pencil, peel away, and trim a precise hole allowing the socket to peek through. Re-stick the reusable wallpaper and smooth with your hand to finish the job. Use any leftover wallpaper to line pantry shelves, turn a narrow connector wall into an apple-tastic accent wall, or provide an adorable background behind the photo collage on the fridge.

Teachers, pediatricians, and farm stand owners, give your home office a dose of effortless flair and design an accent wall decorated with peel and stick wallpaper covered in classic red apples. Whether you’re revamping a tiny professional’s nook or a spacious office-slash-guestroom, you won’t need to spend time slathering on the glue or primer to get the job done. Simply peel, stick, and use the included squeegee tool to smooth each wallpaper sheet. Should you make a mistake, it’s no biggie – just peel away and re-stick once you’ve scouted a better spot.

For a tasteful child’s bedroom decoration, add a peel and stick wallpaper headboard on the wall perpendicular to the bed. Use scissors to create the perfect square or scalloped shape, then stick and re-stick until you’ve designed a perfectly posh bed. If your child has already inherited Grandma’s Chippendale headboard, snip the removable, reusable wallpaper into wide bands and add them to a plain wall in a recurring sequence of stylish stripes. Line bookshelves or bureau drawers with any leftovers.

Got your own peel and stick wallpaper design idea? Tell us about it! Leave a comment or send an e-mail to hello@wallcandyarts.com.

After the sports drought of summer for gridiron fans, pro football and college football come back each fall to save us from despair just in the nick of time. With so many teams to follow – Penn State, USC, Alabama, Titans, Chargers, Ravens – I’m always challenged to get organized and keep track of what team is playing, at what time, and on what channel…this is hard work! And that doesn’t even include the fantasy players I follow.

Back in the day, I spent time scrawling in pencil on the drywall in the basement or taping up sheets of legal paper until the place looked like a scene from the film Seven. But now, with Wallcandy Arts peel and stick chalkboard wall decals and large stick on white board panels, I can just use the large adhesive decals to keep track of everything. I jot down that the Giants play the Redskins on Monday night and the Titans’ Chris Johnson just rushed for over a hundred yards last week and is on track for a single season title. Life is good! Or, I can erase everything and start from scratch if the Ravens are on a losing streak and I don’t want to look at that ugliness.

Even better, I can peel the material off and place it back on the original backing for transporting to my friend Brian’s house when we watch games there. Because there’s no risk of leaving behind mess or residue on the walls, I’m safe from scuffing up the wall and enduring the wrath of his wife and mine. With Wallcandy Arts products, there’s never a problem.

They’re large and can be removed easily and taken to the office to put on the wall near the community fridge… and then removed if the boss objects. (When he or she leaves for the day, just put it right back up and keep on bracketing – it works for me!)

I also like to use WallCandy’s reusable Frames wall decals – they add a retro Polaroid look to pictures of my boy, Derek Jeter, or anybody I think will bring me good luck during the run to the Series. Kurt Gibson and Lou Gehrig are favorites, too.

These removable wall stickers are tailor-made for the sports fan, so check ‘em out!

I’m old enough to remember shaking blank Polaroid photos to try to speed up their developing, which was like watching a picture fade in reverse. Shaking them was as effective as tapping your feet to make a long line move faster.

And I’m delighted to discover that old-style Polaroid film has been brought back from the dead in the Digital Age by some photography enthusiasts in the Netherlands!  Appropriately, they call themselves The Impossible Project.

The genre is super hot. Lady Gaga, recently signed on as Polaroid’s Creative Director, just posed for a giant Polaroid portrait. You’ll find it at the MIT Museum, which houses iconic photography memorabilia dating back to inventor Dr. Edwin Land.

And now, WallCandy Arts adds its stylish tribute. These removable wall decal Frames turn any wall into a nostalgic scrapbook. They look just as fashionable with 8 x 10 color enlargements taken 10 minutes ago as they do with vintage black and whites from your grandparents’ wedding album. If you are feeling extra creative, we recommend running your photos through editing software or free Web editing apps, such as Rollip.com, to give them a subdued Instamatic look.

Completing the scrapbook or bulletin board theme are pieces of yellowed Scotch tape and push-pins. The blank white area underneath the photos are meant for your witty captions with Dry-Erase markers — the same ones you use for your office whiteboard.

Some WallCandy Arts designs are clearly targeted toward specific ages and genders. For example, unless your hubby still wears Batman underwear, it is unlikely he’d be choosing these RACE ME race cars for his Man Cave.

The beauty of Frames is that they appeal to every  demographic.  Here are a few occasions and locations where decorating with them would be a huge hit:

WAYS TO USE WALLCANDY FRAMES

1. Dorm Room Decor: While your roommate sticks up the same cliched shots of James Dean, John Belushi’s Animal House college spoof, or (yuck) trendy guerrilla icon Che Guevara, you can show off the fun places you’ve traveled or hope to visit one day.

2. Birthday Parties: Doesn’t matter if the guest of honor is 1 or 100, frame the cutest moments of his or her life in wall decals.

3. Graduation Parties: These are going on all summer long! Kindergarten class photos will make your grad’s friends smile.

4. Wedding Anniversaries: We hardly open up our wedding albums any more, let alone share them with new friends. Make them the central focal point!

5. Bridal Showers: Decorate the house with action shots of the honored couple!

6. Bar and Bat Mitzvahs/First Communions: Any “This is Your Life” is an excuse to line the walls with a Time Machine tribute.

7. Adult Halloween Parties: Put blank frames up on the wall with categories for a costume contest: Funniest Costume, Sexiest Costume, Funniest Couple, Scariest Couple, etc.  Take digital shots and print out 8 x 10s on your printer and have people vote for the winners.  Give out WallCandy Arts decals as prizes

8. Going Away Parties: When a friend or family member moves, it’s another “This is Your Life” moment.

9. Childhood Bedrooms: Great place to showcase favorite family vacation pictures.

10. Office Decor: Show off the kids to your co-workers or your family vacation pics.

11. Playroom Decor: Kids are fickle. One day they love the Wiggles or Teletubbies. The next day they are “too old” for those characters and are Sesame Street sophisticates. Frames are ideal for displaying magazine pictures and children’s artwork, too.

As with all WallCandy Arts decals, there are no limits to where your imagination can take you.

We’d love to see how you’ve used WallCandy Frames. Please send us your photos and stories about your favorite decoration projects!  Share them on Facebook or drop us a line here.

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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If you type in “How to Fix a Wall” on the YouTube searchbar, you’ll get 368 video listings for drywall and spackle and putty. But our guy avoids the mess and has a lot more fun with the WallCandy method.

Our Monster Patrol characters, like all our wall stickers, are thick and durable and won’t show any pesky and unsightly air bubbles when you smooth them with your hand.

I love this guy’s revelation that he doesn’t even know the real way to patch a wall. Whether he’s joking or not, there definitely is a sharp decline in the modern male’s knowledge of home and car repair compared to our fathers and grandfathers.

Dockers, the khakis company, just launched its sarcastic “Wear the Pants” campaign inferring that men need to go back to their traditional ways.

Hey, there’s no harm in taking an auto repair class or spending a few more hours at Home Depot a week. But there’s no need to give up the decorating component of home improvement.

My sources say that most women dig guys who are into wall decals.  What do you think?

By the way, all guys who sign up for our newsletter get a free $10 coupon for any WallCandy product.