Crib Bedding Offers Hard Choices for Soft Goods

So many comforters, so few cribs on the retail floor. Nursery furniture stores always have a difficult choice to make for coveted display space. There are so many styles of coordinated crib soft goods available. Colors, textures, traditional or modern, and bold or neutral are just the beginning of many decisions retailers and parents need to make. For our latest bedding review, The Giggle Guide^® looks at Bacati, The Little Acorn, Cotton Tale Designs, and Trend Lab.

Bacati Bedding Offers Variety and Value

Established in 1998, Bacati Inc. based their business on the idea that home furnishings should be exceptional in comfort, style and quality. Bacati’s in-house designers find their inspiration in time-honored bed linens from America and around the word to create collections that are an excellent value. Manufacturing mostly in India with exceptionally fine workmanship and attention to detail, their selection includes a wide variety of fabrics, including cotton, rayon, viscose, chenille, polyester and poly blends.

Bacati produces a variety of high-quality crib bedding, computerized machine quilts, toddler bedding, bed linens, cushions, carpets and accessories. Their products represent an uncompromising commitment to quality and workmanship in designs that communicate a true sense of beauty.

Bacati’s 10-piece crib sets allow parents to easily create a coordinated nursery. The sets include a musical mobile, valance, diaper stacker, crib sheet, bumper pad, crib comforter, crib skirt, and 3-piece wall hanging set at an affordable price of $119.99 to $129.99 retail. The sets are stylish, offer wide appeal and are an exceptional value.

A wide variety of color palettes and designs are available, including Damask in Pink/Chocolate, Little Sailor, Camo Air, Transportation, Mod Dots and Stripes in Green/Chocolate, Botanical Sanctuary, Mod Sports and many more. Additional nursery accessories include hampers, curtains, changing pad covers, nursing pillows, wallpaper borders, toddler bedding and decorative pillows.

Bacati carries the same style and value in bedding sets for toddlers, kids, tweens, teens and adults. For more information, visit www.bacati.com

The Little Acorn Grows Happy Settings for Kids

“Grow Up Happy” is the motto of the The Little Acorn, a San Francisco-based company led by designer Bridget Kelly and dedicated to creating colorful, whimsical, meaningful, and socially aware products that delight adults and children alike. Bridget has designed for several notable brand names, but in 2010 decided to create kids and baby décor under her own creative label.

The Little Acorn uses positive messages and learning in its products. Designs include words and images that make children smile while teaching them colors, social awareness, acceptance, appreciation of nature, and a love of all things. Little Acorn crafts all their items by hand, with lasting quality that makes them treasured family heirlooms.

The Little Acorn Crib Bedding features exquisite handcrafted sets like The Wishing Tree: a whimsical, gender-neutral design featuring friendly appliquéd owls, turtles, squirrels, and other sweet forest creatures for an enchanted forest-like nursery.

Another gender neutral set is Sweet Pea, featuring beautifully handcrafted appliqués and embroideries in a classic patchwork layout, adorned with tiny hand-embroidered creatures in surprising little places.

Funny Friends has beautiful appliqués and embroideries of wild animals and their unusual little friends in a gender neutral color scheme.

Natureland Fairies is the perfect décor theme for a baby girl, featuring charming appliqués and embroideries of sweet fairies in a magical garden.

The Little Acorn also offers coordinating wall art, pillows, rugs and sleep pods to create themed nurseries. For children 2 to 7, The Little Acorn designs whimsical pillows, tooth fairy pillows, painting reproductions with meaningful and soulful messages, and special bedside rugs to fill a child’s room with happy characters and vibrant colors.

For more information, visit www.thelittleacorn.com

Cotton Tale Designs Reflects Nina Selby’s Love

Cotton Tale Designs by Nina Selby was established in 1990. Nina’s flair for design and display changed the infant product industry. She restyled and originated products that have become standard among bedding manufacturers. Inspired by her love of natural beauty, Nina is a passionate, hands-on designer with years of design experience in all art forms. Crib bedding sets are made using the finest quality materials and are uniquely designed to create an elegant and sophisticated nursery.

The Animal Stackers collection is appropriate for boys or girls in black, brown and camel, with deep, rich red accents. The Animal Tracks baby bedding collection features a combination of soft chocolate corduroy on natural seersucker. Bright textured animals fill the train cars traveling around the bumper on brown and white tracks. The comforter presents all train animals, including the monkey engineer on soft natural seersucker with chocolate corduroy trim.

The Heaven Sent Girl collection is a beautiful combination of pinks and cream. Touches of sheer cloud-like fabrics and soft minky make this pattern irresistible. The quilt and bumper are appliquéd with messages celebrating the joy of birth. “Heaven Sent”, “A Perfect Gift from God”, “The Lord is my Shepherd”, and “I Am Wonderfully Made” are the four embroidered blessings on white linen patches, accompanied by sweet appliquéd angels, sheep and wrapped gifts.

The Penny Lane soft goods assortment is a fun retro pattern in contemporary floral and mosaic dots. Pirates Cove is a unique blend of prints and appliquéd pirates that make a fun-loving, swashbuckling lot for baby’s bed. Poppy is an all-cotton set with contemporary poppy appliqué, featuring woven cotton houndstooth in black and white, combined in a patchwork of black, white, pink, and citrus green.

Spring Fling is bright and beautiful with periwinkle and pink embroidered butterflies and flowers on a garden grid. The Elephant Brigade collection is a unique pattern with a brightly-colored forest and family of elephants. Contemporary yet whimsical, the brigade crosses a landscape of beautiful greens, neutrals and red.

Bedding sets have coordinating nursery décor and accessories to complete baby’s room. For more information, visit www.cottontaledesigns.com

Trend Lab Conjures the Winning Formulas for Nursery Décor

Trend Lab, LLC is a privately held Minnesota-based company certified as a women-owned business by the WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council). Trend Lab was formed in 2001 with the fundamental belief that new parents desired sophisticated, trend-right nursery décor to flow with their home décor.

Trend Lab manufactures an extensive line of crib bedding, featuring great colors and designs that appeal to a wide range of tastes. The Rockstar crib bedding set celebrates the vibrant vibes of guitars, spatter paint and musical notes! Rockstar features a handsome and stylish color scheme of chocolate brown, tan and baby blue, accented with punches of burnt orange. Guitar and musical note appliqués are embroidered onto super-soft chocolate ultra suede, and finished with an edgy plaid frame and soft ultra suede trim.

The Nantucket Collection in pink provides the nursery a summer seaside feeling with madras and mini floral prints mixed with sunny bursts of butter yellow. Paired with traditional pink and white ticking stripe, and softened with sage jersey, this set gives a baby’s room the feel of an East Coast vacation home. For little boys there is Nantucket Blue that’s also as fresh as a sea breeze.

Classic argyle is fun and sophisticated in a contemporary color palette mixed with stripes and solids in the Prep School Blue collection. Tonal blues are richly accented by caramel and chocolate brown solids, and mixed with a wonderful stripe print. The luscious mix of soft cotton, cozy velour, and luxurious ultra suede fabrics create an amazing textural dream for a baby boy. For preppy girls there is the Prep School Pink.

There are several Dr. Seuss-themed bedding sets to choose from, including the One Fish Two Fish Collection that adds a blend of modern design and nostalgia to baby’s nursery. Classic Dr. Seuss whimsy is combined in a stylish spin with sing-song words and a deep primary color scheme. The modern palette includes avocado green, barn red, sunshine yellow, and cornflower and powder blues to help this set create a wonderful world for baby.

The Cat in the Hat, how perfect is that? Dr. Seuss’s classic black, white, and red are mixed with cornflower blue, avocado green, golden yellow, and mango orange in the nostalgic Cat in the Hat collection. A whimsical Cat in the Hat scatter print, black and white diamond print, and black and white gingham seersucker are beautifully complemented with a stylish, bright star-embossed velour.

With many great bedding sets and coordinating décor to choose from, Trend Lab is a terrific choice for decorating the nursery. For more information, visit www.trend-lab.com