I have very fond memories of my childhood especially my star wars decorated bedroom including the Star Wars bedding. If you are over the age of 30 and have no idea what I’m talking about then you missed something special during your childhood, it’s not too late! For those that do know what I’m talking about then you will remember well all those star wars bed sets depicting heroic Luke’s, Leia’s and Wookiees against puffy white space-scapes, great memories.

Although Star Wars is still popular and many of the figures, weapons and vehicles are still on sale, it isn’t as popular as it was in my childhood. Maybe the reason for this is that there are so many other heroic figures to collect now, from TMNT to Indian Jones, in fact the more I think about it when Star Wars was released all those years ago there was nothing else to take away my attention.

All grown up and with children of my own I feel it is my job as a parent to not only educate my children in the ways of the force but to make sure they have a great childhood like I had. With the release of Star Wars Clone Wars getting my kids into the original movies wasn’t that hard but trying to create a full Star Wars bedroom wasn’t going to happen as long as our boy and girl shared a room. Jump a few years on and a bigger house now is the time to get my boy’s room all done up like my old bedroom.

It is a real nostalgic trip buying all the star wars stuff again from lampshades to wallpaper to star wars rugs. The original Star Wars bedding I had travelled with me for a few years and found new life in my first own place. It didn’t last long there however as it was very soon apparent that bringing girls home to Star Wars bedding wasn’t good. So we had to buy our boy a new Star Wars bedding set as mine had long been replaced with boring patterns.

The choice of characters on the Star Wars bedding in my day was a bit limited but getting any of the characters on the sheets these days is easily done with all the popular characters we love,  Yoda, C-3 PO, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader to mention just a few. Before you rush off however and buy Star Wars bedding for your kid make sure you know if they follow the either the dark side or the hero side, just because I liked Darth Vader doesn’t mean my boy did.

Obviously we had to get more than one set of bedding so this gave us the opportunity that I never had and that was to own 2 sets of star wars bedding, a set from both sides of the fight. We had Luke Skywalker set and a Darth Vader bedding set. For me that was an easy decision but with others on offer like Yoda and C-3 PO there are a great many ways to go, especially since they are available with different coloured backgrounds to fit into and bedroom decor.

So if you remember the Star Wars (or feel you missed out on something in your childhood) there’s nothing better than to decorate your child’s bedroom in a theme that helps both of you dream about saving the galaxy with Star Wars bedding.

There never seems to be a wrong time to get a childrens digital camera in my opinion. It always makes for a great Christmas gift or surprise treat from Santa if your children haven’t even considered it as a present. It can also make for a nice birthday present for just about any youngster in the family.

However with all the modern day technology making all digital cameras smaller or having better cameras included with a mobile phone is buying a childrens digital camera worth it these days?

When you consider what a childrens digital camera is and start to compare the functions and statistics of the camera with other digital cameras you have gone too far. You have missed the point of what a digital camera is to a child. It’s something that is similar to what their parents have and something they will mimic you doing, putting a camera to your face and saying ’smile’. For this reason I do still think a chilrends digital camera is worth it but it should be bright and colourful, it should be rugged and the most important point it should be cheap. Let’s face it any toy played with long enough is going to come a cropper sooner or later so why pay a fortune when it could soon be in the recycling pile. It shouldn’t be bought because of its wonderful functions or it’s in built memory capacity, these are all superfluous to what it really is, it is a child’s toy.

When your children reach seven or eight (maybe older, maybe younger, depending on your opinion) the camera that they want, and more often than not get, couldn’t really be called a childrens camera. In fact it will most probably be called a mobile phone with a camera inbuilt. For me however I still prefer giving digital cameras as Christmas gifts. It’s not that the cameras attached to mobile phones are poor, although they often are; it’s more of an attempt to get them interested in something as a hobby. Photography is something I have done as a part time thing for many years and I’m saddened to see the subject reduced to a mobile phone. So whenever I get the opportunity to buy a gift for one of my children or any of the children in my extended family I often buy them a camera. So for me there is nothing wrong about buying a childrens digital camera as long as it’s something that benefits the child and their development.

I have very fond memories as a child loving and taking the best of care with my Winnie the Pooh books. They were always read sitting at a table to avoid pressure on the spine of the books, and always returned to their safe location whenever they were not being read.

Today however there are so many different Winnie the Pooh merchandise that taking care of them all is very hard to do. I still insist that our children look after their books properly, not just their Winnie the Pooh books, as well as some other belongings they have in their bedroom. One item however that seems to be replaced the most is the Winnie the Pooh rug they have on the bedroom floor.

You may think this an odd piece of merchandise to replace often as carpets in a bedroom on the whole stay in good condition longer. However with children of different ages sharing a bedroom and a combination of unfortunate accidents we have replace that particular rug 6 times in less than 10 years.

Two were replaced due to accidental damage. The 1st accident occurred to the rug depicting Winnie the Pooh on his own, that had playdoh trampled into it enough so it no longer looked like a Winne the Pooh rug but more like an abstract painting. The second rug was the replacement for the playdoh covered rug and that was unfortunately disentangled by the vacuum. It seems there was a loose piece of carpet which I didn’t see while cleaning their room.

So with the two accidentally recovered rugs we move onto the reason for the four remaining replacements. These were simply replaced to reflect the changes in age of our children. When very young it seemed perfectly fine to have a rather large Winnie the Pooh sitting on a rug but as the children grew older Winnie was replaced by other friends. So now not only was it a Winnie the pooh rug but maybe a Winnie and Lumpy or Winnie and Tigger or even Winnie and Piglet rug. For some time we did have two rugs in the bedroom but one of those was a hopscotch Winnie the Pooh rug that was used often enough to eventually annoy us with their fighting over the game and the constant thump, bang, thump as they hopped and skipped across the bedroom floor.

All of these rugs were very easy to buy but as time passed they only got more and more popular and therefore more available. Obviously the best place to research the different types and sizes of Winnie the Pooh rugs available is right here on the internet but just because you see it doesn’t mean you will all ways find the same one in your local high street shops. EBay is a great source for discovering new and unique styles but it certainly isn’t your only source. Amazon have a small selection of modern Winnie the Pooh rugs and similar to eBay it also has a few of the older style, and a little plumper, Winnie if that’s what you would preffer, I know I do.