DINOSAUR BEDDING - NOT JUST FOR BOYS!

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Let's take a trip back in time to prehistoric days when beasts bigger than some modern highrise apartments roamed the jungles. Most kids think that circus elephants are huge and they are correct, but how do we go about introducing them to be ancestors of these pachyderms? One way to educate them and have fun doing it would be to decorate their bedrooms in stylish dinosaur bedding sets reminiscent of pictures right now of Jurassic Park!

Tweens and preteens will be interested in the history and the adventure associated with the history, the wonder and charm of dinosaurs on their sheet sets as well as their walls and comforters. If you already have a jungle mural left over from the toddler bedroom theme, remove the contemporary animals that you might find in the zoo from the mix and substitute a Brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and others on their bedroom walls.
You don't have to have an predominantly emerald green color scheme to use prehistoric lizards and other creatures from the caveman (or cave girls) in your decor. There are dinosaur sheet sets and decorative accessories in contemporary colors of blue, red and maybe even some feminine styles in pink! Children need to know more about cave dwelling and the stoneage than what they learn from the Flintstones cartoons and realistic dinosaur pictures on the bedroom walls may be the best converstation starters!

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FAIRY BEDDING SETS FOR PRETTY PRINCESS BEDROOMS

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Fairy bedding sets are for the little girl that's not quite ready to let go of their teddy bears, baby dolls and stories of fairy tale princesses. For the young girl at the juncture between the preteen or tween years and the more sophisticated tastes of the teenage years, delicate beauty can sometimes suffice.

A responsible mom may not have been able to use her decorating ideas for her girl's bedroom earlier in the game with expensive or dainty accessories. It would be very disappointing to buy high end comforters, bedding or hand-painted furniture only to find them covered in finger paint or globs of play-doh.


However, the day may come when the sticky toys of children's games have been tucked away. This may be the best time for decorating with those silky fabrics and furniture with fine finishes before her girl decides she wants a style of bedroom decor that sets most parents' nerves on edge.

Fill the tween years with fairy bedding sets and decorating ideas for fairy wings and fluttering butterflies quickly before she reaches for the dark side of teen bedroom decor. Ornate iron beds with headboards painted with fantasy fairy princesses on swings combined with light and airy fairy bedding sets in pastels will delight mother and daughter.

Keep the colors of purple, pink and white with highlights of sparkling gold with fairy comforters and quilts made with preteens in mind. Or if you like hot pink more than pretty pastel colors, Laura Ashley has a lovely designer bedding collection for teen girls with touches of hot sugarplum pink as well as turquoise blue that will provide opportunities to accessorize and decorate your flower fairies bedroom with unusual and exciting color combinations.

Return to Tween and Teenage Girl Bedding and Bedroom Decorating Ideas for more advice on how to successfully achieve bedroom decor that will fulfill your daughter's fantasies.

Aprilia of the week is back!

After a long time of no submissions for the Aprilia of the week I decided to cancel that feature. But now I got a few submissions and enough special Aprilia's to last a couple of weeks so the Aprilia of the Week feature is back! I will also be building a gallery of past Aprilia's of the Week. So send in your Aprilia now!

The first Aprilia of the Week of 2008 is from Richard Rimmelzwaan from Holland.

• Please introduce yourself first. Who are you and where are you from?

Richard Rimmelzwaan age 35 from Holland (king okkie for bikefriends)

• Did you add any mods to your bike?

It’s a Mille that I transformed to a Tuono, 2004 swingarm, modified suspension,evo exhaust with chip and pipercross airfilter.

• Why did you buy an Aprilia and what do you like so much about it?

I chose the tuono because its big,has a lot of power and looks good.

• And what don’t you like about your bike?

Suspension and wind protection could be better.

• If you could ask Aprilia to design a new model what would it be?

They already did with their new concept: the fvs1200, build it please!

• ·And finally do you have any motorcycling tips for the readers of Aprilia News?

For Dutch motorcycle fans www.motor-forum.nl (with a rsv,tuono topic and a topic about my transformed mille) and for international fans www.apriliaforum.com

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Slovenian SXV van den Bosch video

The slovenian riders of Moto Magazin tested the 07 SXV550 VDB and made a nice video of the bike on the track. Even for the people who can't understand slovenian its worth watching just because of the sound of the SXV. Check out the video and the review here

Black Dorsoduro

Spotted at the Bike Expo of Padova. Its also on the Aprilia website. I like this version a lot more than the white/red/gold version. High res pics at Apriliaforum

Aprilia's Racing department gallery

Our Italian friends at Motociclismo.it have posted a nice gallery full of pics of Aprilia's racing department. It shows some great details of Aprilia 125 and 250 GP bikes. Check out the pics here

AMA supermoto SXV video

K&N airfilters (sponsor of the Aprilia AMA supermoto team) has uploaded a very nice video on their website featuring Darryl Atkins on his AMA supermoto SXV. Definately a must see. Go check it out here

RSVR vs 1098s

Motorcycleusa tested the 2007 RSVR against the Ducati 1098s. They liked the RSVR but it's way down on power compared to the 1098s. But what do you expect with a 10 year old engine vs a 2 year old engine. They also shot some nice videos of both the bikes on the track. Go check out the review and the videos here

Dakar Cancelled

As you may know the organisators of the Dakar rally cancelled the rally because of the terrorist threat in mauretania. It's a shame that the greatest desert rally in the world gets cancelled because of this. Its even more sour that the organisator does this when the drivers are almost at the start line. They where doing approval tests with the bikes and 2 hours later the rally got cancelled. It's a damn shame.

The Canon Kamera-Express Aprilia team is gutted and will be returning home this week. Aprilia News wishes them all the support in the world.

Aprilia Mana road test & Aprilia Factory video

Motors tv is a french tv network which only airs motorcycle related tv programs. They have uploaded a very nice video on youtube in wich they test the new Mana. At the beginning of the program they also show the Aprilia factory and design department. Also a very nice completely black SMV750 Dorsoduro.

Definately a must see video! Check it out here

Canon Kamera-Express Aprilia team ready for Dakar

The Canon Kamera-Express Aprilia team is totally prepared for the Dakar 2008 rally which will begin this weekend in Lisboa Portugal. Henk Knuiman visited the Aprilia Factory 2 weeks ago to test the hand build factory tuned engines which will be used in the RXV. He also trained with Aprilia testdriver and enduro specialist Stefano Passeri to set up the bike with a heavy load of fuel. Also the suspension specialists from Marzocchi finetuned the suspension for the harsh conditions in the Rally. Stefano Passeri was surprised by the great job the team did with building this bike. The RXV450 is already in Portugal and the service truck left today for Lisboa.

Stay tuned for more Dakar news.