Bugs & Blossoms has partnered with David & Margaret Home to make donations for this great organization. B&B has formed a link on their site where customers can donate 1 outfit and Bugs & Blossoms will donate an outfit as well! This is a great program and can only work if people hear about it and pass it on. Bugs & Blossoms. In the meantime, browse for yourself and receive 10% off your first order LUX07. Don’t forget to Donate!! $10 can go a long long way.

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Children’s Room designer and muralist Lou Marshall of Lou Marshall Design and LouLou’s Whimsicals (www.loulouswhimsicals.com) who just lent her talents to the team from ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition for a home remodel in Wilmington, DE.

“Yes, Ty is cute… Paul is great and Paige is a sweetheart. The [stars] were not seen on a daily basis… but working with the Anderson crew and 1000 volunteers was a great experience.”

According to Lou, the Makeover team and volunteers had the old home demolished and the new home completely ready for the family in under 106 hours. Yes, do the math, that is less than five days from old to new. Lou herself, “jumped hard into three kids rooms. Sharks in one bedroom, wood graining in the daughters and graphics on the recreational therapy room for another. I loved every minute of it.”

Along with her recent involvement with Extreme Makeover, Lou’s work has been gaining a lot of attention lately, “I recently received an offer from The Schiffer Book Publishing Company for my own 128 page picture book of illustrated rooms, complete with how-tos and tips. The book will be out Spring 2009 in Borders Book Stores.”

If you would like to learn more about Lou’s work and maybe even have her complete a room in your home in time for inclusion in her new book (your kids could be in the pictures too – Lou reminds us), visit her website at www.loulouswhimsicals.com. You can read more about the Wilmington, DE house at Anderson Homes special project website www.andersonextreme.com.