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Sounds a bit ‘secret mission’…but it isn’t. Just a reference to this orange and grey nursery, spotted over on Project Nursery. Anyhow, here it is, all the way from Hastings, England.
It features our Billie pillow (or ‘cushion’ to give it the English vernacular) and a matching Jellycat Aardvark, in burnt orange. Both are in our Billie range, available from our shop. Talking of our shop, enter our giveaway now to win a $150 O&L shopping spree! 
We’re giving away $150 to spend in our shop at olliandlime.com. To enter, just leave a comment, saying if you’d prefer to spend $150 on our George, Billie, or Logan collection. Get an extra entry for each of the following (say which you’ve done in your comment):
 click to see the full George collection  click to see the full Billie collection  click to see the full Logan collection All entries numbered and winner selected at random. Giveaway closes 10am EDT, Wed 2 May. Winner notified by email/posted here. All entrants receive an O&L discount code 
I’ve long been an advocate of sourcing vintage, original chairs for the home. So, when Babble Family Style posted Numero 74′s offering it struck a chord. Here’s a selection.
I picked these beauties to match our George (green) and Billie (orange) collections, but there’s plenty of other color/style choice. Click to view the full Babble slideshow 
Our new website has just gone live! But, before you get too excited, a word of caution; to the naked eye, it looks exactly the same. How so? Well, it’s been completely ‘de-Flashed’. I just invented this term (like it?) to describe the past month’s endeavors, which involved recoding the Flash elements of the O&L website in HTML. A pretty time-consuming job.
But with BIG benefits. Until now our site wouldn’t work on ‘non-flash-friendly’ iPhones and iPads. We’ve waited (in vain) for an Apple remedy, but the time had come to take charge. So, now the O&L website is portable. And you can ‘pin‘ us too; previously images weren’t recognized. iPhone using Pinterest addicts take note. Everyone else; business as usual 
Time for a peek inside another customer nursery. New mom Angela, from Vancouver, WA, kindly emailed in pictures of her son Liam, born January 29, and his fabulous Charlie-themed room. Liam was 10 weeks old recently, but just 3 weeks in the photo below.
Angela told me how she came to choose O&L: “my husband, Warren and I wanted a room that Liam could grow into. In my ‘Googling’ frenzy, I came across Olli & Lime and the Charlie design and fell in love instantly! I really did not want to change the color of the room that we chose for Liam’s nursery and the Charlie design and colors fit it perfectly!”
“My favorite items in the room are his bedding, the Olli & Lime print, and the three photos above his crib. Liam loves to stare at patterns and darker shades, so his bedding is perfect for that. In fact, one of his first smiles came while looking at the bumper in his crib.”
“The photos above his crib came from avintageposter.com. We wanted something that had a child feel to it, but could also grow with him. I love the numbers print, because my husband is a wiz at math and has made it his personal goal to teach Liam calculus before he is out of high school!” The Charlie 123 print (right-hand pic) is on sale now for $15!
We’d just discontinued Charlie, so we had to track down some of the items Angela needed. “Karen was amazing and helped me with my Olli & Lime purchase. It’s 5 months later and I still have so many good things to say about her GREAT customer service! I have never experienced such helpfulness from a company, until I found Olli & Lime.”
It was our pleasure Angela! Thanks so much for choosing Olli & Lime, and for sharing these amazing photos of Liam (8 weeks here) and his nursery. Talking of photos, these were taken by (appropriately named) friend, Charlie Boucher: charlieboucher.com 
Thought I’d share three very different pieces of wall decor that caught my eye last week, All are connected by an animal theme and all would look great in or out of the nursery.
I spied these stylized African Mammal prints on Coochicoos. This limited edition portrait set by Josh Brill was available from Lumadessa. I say ‘was’ as they’re marked ‘sold out’.
There’s an 8-bit revival going on, echoed by Google Map’s April Fool’s release. I love this adhesive vinyl alligator – spotted on Apartment Therapy – and designed by Puxxle.
And finally, these cardboard ‘trophies’. I can’t recall exactly how I stumbled upon these, but I’m pleased I did. We are SO getting one. Check them out at Cardboard Safari 
How did I miss this?! Another nursery featuring our Egg ABC wall art. In fact, it was this nursery that inspired the inclusion of our wall art in Abigail’s room, posted on Monday.
This nursery has plenty of online pedigree. Originally posted by mom Amanda on MODG, it also won Apartment Therapy’s ‘small kids, big color‘. And it belongs to baby Gavin…
Though I’m more than a little late to this party, and our wall art (below) only plays a minor role, I just had to share it. The bold blend of aqua, green and grey creates real drama.
And the furniture choices are fantastic. Unbelievably, the dresser above (which I adore!) was a $30 Craigslist buy, sanded, stained and painted to achieve a fabulous end result.
Check the orignal MODG post and read all about the room in Apartment Therapy’s Nursery Tour. Thanks to Amanda for making O&L a small part of this amazing room 
On Monday, one of our long-term retail partners, Rosenberry Rooms, posted an interview with yours truly on their blog; ‘very Rosenberry’. Thought you might like to take a look.
I share how we started and what makes us different. I even reveal my favorite TV show and what we do at the weekends…though, if you’re a regular, you’ll know that already.
Thanks to Rosenberry Rooms for featuring us. Do check out the interview, and make time to visit their store, featuring most of our collection, plus plenty else you’ll like 
Topical timing for Easter Monday, as I just spotted our Egg ABC wall art in a recent post – Abigail’s Yellow & Grey DIY Nursery – over on O&L favorite, Apartment Therapy.
Mom Janna had originally posted pics of the nursery on her own blog, TWSST, in January. At this point, before Abigail arrived, it appears she was affectionately known as “baby t”.
Although our Egg range has been discontinued, this teal-colored ABC wall art is available to buy from our clearance section for just $15! Thanks to Janna for choosing O&L 
Sticking with bunnies, here’s the offer I teased yesterday. We’re giving a FREE Jellycat bunny to anyone who orders a Logan 3 or 4-piece crib bedding set this Easter weekend.
Just visit the O&L shop – today through Monday – choose our 3 or 4-piece Logan crib bedding set and we’ll add this super-soft ‘cordy roy’ bunny to your order, free of charge!
As I said two weeks ago, our Logan bedding has been so popular we’ve sold out! So orders – complete with free bunny – will ship late April. Have a great Easter weekend  |
  
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