Some people like to go over the top with their bedroom styles and designs and it can often be a little overbearing! Well we have been on the lookout for the biggest and smallest bedding accessories the world has ever seen and have posted them all on here for you to have a look at!

Worlds Biggest Bedding Pillow

World's Largest Pillow

This pillow was manufactured in Shanghai, China on 29th May 2009 and set the new record for the largest cushion in the world. The bedding pillow measures in at 10.08m (33ft 8in x 33ft 8 in) and was made by Shanghai Konglong Textile Ornaments Co., Ltd.

World’s Smallest Teddy Bear

World's Smallest Teddy Bear

Some of us just can’t get to sleep at night without our teddy bear by our side and so German artist Bettina Kaminski created “Mini the Pooh”. At just 5 mm tall, it is the world’s smallest Teddy Bear! Very very cute but you couldn’t really snuggle up to it at night.

World's Biggest Teddy BearMr Beans' teddy bear!

Where there is small there is big and we found the world’s biggest Teddy Bear! Well, its either one of the two above so you can make your own mind up! You would definitely feel protected if you had this teddy bear in this room.

The second picture is an 11 ft teddy bear which is thought to be the world’s largest and was recently sold at an auction in Solihull last September.

World’s Largest Bed

American basket ball player Shaquille O'Neal's bed

This huge bed measures in at 4.572m*9.144m (15 x 30) and is situated at the basket ball player’s home in Orlando.

BiggestBed to Travel the World

This bed travelled the world and was set up in London, Shanghai, Paris and New York for a cross continental bed jump lasting 16 hours. The 30 double mattresses and huge super sized duvet was used to create the bed for people to have a quick bounce on their way to work.

If you are looking for bedroom accessories including pillows, mattresses, duvets etc visit Duvet and Pillow Warehouse today for more information and products. We don’t sell beds and pillows as big as these but we don’t need too as we pack our products with super soft fillings to make your sleep a good one.

Parents nagging at you that you aren’t doing enough school work? Are you being made to sit in and read reams of revision books that are not so appealing to you, while sat opposite your television and PS3?

Well we have a quick fix solution to have them thinking you are working super super hard every night after school.

Now while we are keen to promote lots of fun in children’s lives we still encourage you to work super hard throughout your study period to achieve the best results possible. So we recommend that you use this book as you are coming close to the end of your study period for the night to show mum and dad just how hard you have word, and they should give you a little bit of a break.

That way, you will be showered with more treats throughout your exam revision period, have less arguments with your parents that you are not doing enough work, and may get an hour or two at some point to play on your PS3 without the fuss or hassle.

However, don’t use this pillow ALL the time. You should still revise and do as much work as possible to get the grades you want and deserve!

As you can probably tell, we love pillows and duvets. In fact anything to do with bedding, we know about or search the world to find what is going on.

And because we are not selfish, we take all of our information and write it in this daily blog for you to read and enjoy!

From informative articles to funny stories and top tips, there is something for everyone and you should consider visiting us daily to see what fabulous treats we have in store.

As we have just launched our brand new website, we thought we would start off this week with a Funky Pillows article to give you a bit of a giggle and to keep you coming back to our blog for more.

Luscious Lips!

This funky pillow stands out a treat and would look fabulous in a girls bedroom or apartment.

 

 

 

 

 

Lego Pillow

The pillow is fab and funky and stands out a mile above the rest. Can’t imagine it being the most comfortable pillow to lie on, can you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Synthesizer Pillow

If you can’t work a real synthesizer just buy a cushioned one and pretend you know what you are talking about!

 

 

 

 

 

Nintendo Pillows

It’s really rubbish when you don’t have a games console but all your friends have and you have not a penny in the bank to buy one of your own.

To make it feel like you have a little bit of something you may possibly want to consider these Nintendo consoles pillows.

They look cool, but will possibly get a little boring after a day or two and you will probably crave the real thing once again.

 

 

 

 

If you are interested in getting your own pillows whether they are feather or memory foam, visit the brand new Duvet and Pillow Warehouse website today at www.duvetandpillowwarehouse.co.uk.

How one of the pillows would look like

Having to deal with breast cancer and undergoing breast cancer surgery is painful, but members of the Elizabeth Villas Have a Heart Dolls aim to make it a softer experience.

The new group-which consists of about 16 residents from the Elizabeth Villas in the Village of Caroline-meet on a regular basis to make heart shaped pillows for recovering mastectomy patients. 

“I started this group because I was in a similar group back in Illinois-also called Have a Heart,” said Carol Bonebrake, the group’s leader. “It was started in our church for breast cancer people. I felt so strongly about it that I wanted to do the same thing here, and the neighbourhood decided they would join me.” 

Although Bonebrake is not a breast cancer survivor, she has close friends and family who have had the disease.

“Breast cancer patients are very sore after the mastectomy, and they use these pillows to protect the area that is tender,” she said. “They can also put it in the back of their head during chemotherapy, and to hold or rest their arm.”

And each time the group meets they make about ten fleece pillows.

The pillows are made of fleece decorated with fringers, and come with a tag that reads, “Made with Love.” 

The group doesn’t charge for pillows, but will accept donations to purchase materials.

“I am very passionate about this,” Bonebrake said. “Not only is it a comfort from the warm, fuzzy pillow, but also an emotional and psychological comfort.”

And the response from the community has been overwhelming.

“People will get them for their mother or sister,” she said. “It has been very rewarding.”

Former breast cancer patient Kathy Batman who was diagnosed with the disease in 1987 is now a member of the Have a Heart Dolls.

“I was very lucky because I caught it early,” she said.

After undergoing surgery she was checked every six months.

However, one year later a pre-cancer was found in her other breast prompting her to have it removed and reconstructed.

“I am a positive person,” Batman said. “First of all I was shocked and I was angry that my body betrayed me. I was 40 years old.

“The second time round I kind of knew what to expect,” she said, “If you move your arm you could feel the pain in your fingers-that’s how sensitive you are afterward. I wish I had a heart-shaped pillow instead of the small moon-shaped pillow I had.”

Love and support of family and friends got Batman through the disease.

“They supported me wonderfully,” she said.

Now she helps out with the Have a Heart doll.

“I wish this group had been there (for me),” she said. “The pillows are so soft, and (it helps) to know that someone made this thinking about you.”

Believe it or not but some people struggle to get to sleep at night and toss and turn throughout the night to try and get a decent night’s sleep.

Well some lovely people from around the world want to make sure that you get a decent night’s sleep each night and have designed so creative inventions to get you saying zzzzzzzzz!

Chillow Pillow

The Chillow Pillow is designed to keep the pillow you sleep on cool throughout the night.

The liquid gel simply keeps at a temperature so that you are neither too hot or cold and have the perfect night’s sleep, and all you have to do is fill it with water.

 

 

 

 

Japanese Dream Machine

The Japanese Dream Machine allows you to manipulate what you dream about each night. For example if you fancy a night of fairy tales and faraway castles, you can change the scent, the music and images the machine gives out so you hopefully drift off into a beautiful sleep with your handsome prince.

Snore Backpack

Yes this creative tool has been designed to stop you snoring while you sleep. Simply attach the backpack and lie in bed on a block of foam and try and sleep. Great concept, not so sure about the design!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comfy soft duvets with 60 per cent off

Duvet and Pillow Warehouse have a wide selection of pillows and duvets for you to choose from to keep you super warm and comfy this winter.

Their bedding collections are beautifully designed to a high quality to ensure you feel relaxed and able to drift off into a comfortable sleep.

And with 60 per cent off many of their bedding products, you will fall straight to sleep knowing you have high quality products and extremely affordable prices.

For more information visit www.duvetandpillowwarehouse.co.uk

Erik Batty

A thrown pillow landed an Edgwater resident in jail on a charge of battery on a law enforcement officer, police said.

Erik John Batty, 39, was arrested after an officer responding to a disturbance call was on the receiving end of a hurled pillow he suspected as being a possible biohazard.

Batty’s father, George Batty, called the police after his son became combative when he went to check on him Sunday afternoon at the Driftwood Mobile Home Park on South Ridgewood Avenue.

When Edgewater Officer, Miles Lawler tried to speak to Erik Batty, he started yelling at the officer, Lawler said. After ordering Lawler out of his residence, Erik Batty is accused of throwing the pillow, which the officer was able to deflect.

Due to Erik Batty having numerous diseases, Lawler suspected the pillow miht contain biohazards, so he arrested the man, a report states.  

Erik Batty was being held Monday at the Volusia County Branch Jail on $1,500 bail.

Chinese Stone Pillow

Do you like hard pillows or soft pillows? This might be a random question to ask but it may just depend on where you grew up!

Homemade pillows were used in ancient Egypt, medieval Europe and early America. In the mid 19th century, the Industrial Revolution and the evolving textile industry changed the way pillows were produced.

From homemade and hand-embroidered, they became machine-made. Bed pillows were stuffed with goose down or feathers to make them more cosy and comfortable.

However, in China pillows were very different. First they were smooth stones and later, by the late sixth century, they were rectangular blocks made of wood, jade, bronze, procelain or other ceramics. Most had a curved top surface for the head.

Porcelain pillows were made from the 10th to the 14th century, then were gradually replaced by pillows of other materials or even European-style stuffed pillows. Porcelain and other hard pillows were decorated with animals, plants, people and mountains and even geometric designs. Some had colourful glazes. Many were shaped like animals or small children.

Many collectors today do not realise that the decorated rectangles were pillows or headrests. They are sometimes called ‘opium pillows’ because opium users liked to lie on their sides using hard pillows. They claimed after smoking opium for a while, even a hard pillow felt ‘like a cloud.’

Nowadays it is hard to find the very old, hard pillows, but 19th-and 20th century replicas are available. The pillow shaped like a child is so popular as a decorative item that it is still being made.

For more details about buying your very own comfy soft pillow visit Duvet and Pillow Warehouse today.

We thought we would post this rather strange and obscure bedding pillow that has been designed to breathe with you while you sleep to allow you to have the perfect night’s sleep each and every night.

The concept is very cool but we think it is a little bit too freaky for our liking and are going to instead stick to our feather pillows and memory foam pillows at Duvet and Pillow Warehouse.

 

Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo.

Mission outreach leaders at First United Methodist Church are leading a project to make more than a thousand 12-inch square pillows for soldiers in Iraq by November.

Co-chairperson of mission outreach, Vickie Witthaus along with Jackie Kelly, were inspired to suggest the local project after watching a television programme featuring New Jersey school children who were making pillows for soldiers.

Witthhaus said, “They interviewed one of the soldiers who received one of the pillows, and he made this comment, ‘It means somebody back home cares.’ I wanted to cry when I heard that.”

Witthaus was extra keen to make the pillows after she found out that most often soldier don’t have any pillows to lie on. “They sleep on rolled up clothes.”

In total 1,000 pillows were made by the children in New Jersey, “so we want to do two more, and make 1,002 plus.”

The pillows, however, can only be 12 inches in order to fit into a (soldier’s) backpack.”

She is hoping that local school groups or clubs might consider taking on this project and send on their pillows to the church so they can be shipped overseas.

“A lot of people want to do something but don’t know what to do,” Witthaus said. “This project will be an easy way to help.”

Kelly agreed, “it is a worthwhile project, and we are pretty excited about it.”

A special ’sewing bee’ to make and stuff the pillows is scheduled on Tuesday, October 6th, at the church. The pillow fabric is being ordered from Hickory Stick Quily and Gift Shop, and people making pillows may also buy their own fabric.  

One school class is already helping by stuffing the pillows as well as ‘thank you’ notes for the soldiers.

The church’s project will be continued on Make a Difference Day, Saturday October 24th where Witthaus hopes people will mark their calendars to come and help.

“We will have an assembly line of sewing and making the pillows and putting crosses on them” she said.”The crosses will be on one side, leaving one side smooth to be slept on.”

Sally Rebehn fights off bear with pillow

And who says fairy stories don’t come true!?

Grandmother, Sally Rebehn, from Colorado fought off a bear that broke into her bedroom with a decorative pillow, taking a quirky slant on fairy tale story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

The mama bear and one of her cubs went into the kitchen and had a meal – feasting on ice ice cream, chili and what appeared to be their favourite, left over barbecued chicken wings.

“The ice cream was too cold, the chili was too spicy, but the…barbecue was just right,” said Rebehn.

“I heard the door open to my room and I thought, well it’s gotta be Yoo-Hoo the family dog. And I turn around and here was this big bear. I was screaming and she went up on her hind feet. And I was in between my bed and the wall. I grabbed one of these pillows and I just slung it at her. And she turned around and she left.”

Rebehn lives with her son and his family. Her son, Brian Hoyt, was watching the Colorado Rockies baseball game on television upstairs at the time.

“And the Rockies had just started one of their trademark late-game rallies. And (my Mom) goes downstairs and all of a sudden I just hear this scream. And I am like, ‘What in the heck is going on?’” said Hoyt. “And she says ‘There’s a bear down here’ And I am like, ‘Ma, there’s no bear down in our basement.’” 

At this point, Hoyt spots the bear cub walking into the back bedroom.

Mother Bear Captured In Cage

“And at that point I ran back upstairs and found a big towel near the hot tub. I thought, ‘Okay, I can just wrap the bear in this towel and carry it upstairs and throw it outside,” said Hoyt.

“And just as I come around the corner the bear had come out of the back bedroom and it had grown another 300 pounds and two-and-a-half feet and I just look at it and I am like, ‘Oh this is not gonna work out at all,’” said Hoyt who didn’t know the mama bear was also in the house.

“As I see it I scream and then it hisses at me and gets on its hind legs. I came back and that thing had grown about 300 pounds,” Hoyt said when he saw the mama bear.

“I was just hiding in my bedroom. And I was peeking out the door. And Brian’s hollering at me, ‘Mom, keep that door shut!’” said Rebehn.

“And I am running back upstairs I run by my Mom and I still see her peeking out the door as I am trying to get out as fast as I can,” said Hoyt. ” I was going up the steps I’m laughing telling my Mom to keep the door shut and just thinking, I am failing miserably here.” 

At this point, Hoyt calls 911. The Vail Police arrive, shoot the bears with pepper balls and get them out of the house. The mama and three cubs, two that didn’t go into the house, retreated into the woods.

But that wasn’t the end as less than a week later they returned ripping up screens and trying to get through the windows.

“And of course it was a time when my son and his wife were gone. The bears would terrorise the old people that were here,” said Rebehn.

Hoyt’s father and father in loaw also live in the home.

At this stage the Division of Wildlife got involved. They trapped and tranquilised the mama bear and all three cubs. “And even the wildlife people said, ‘that’s a big mama,’” said Rebehn.

The family even put plywood with nails outside the window as a defence mechanism but the bears were too strong and walked right across those nails. “Just stepped right on them like, ‘Oh, that is just a minor inconvenience.’” said Rebehn.

Craig Wescoatt, of the Colorado Division of Wildife, carries one of the cub that was removed from a tree.

It was reported that all three of the cubs tried to run up a tree when they were being tranqulised.

The DOW eventually tranquilised all of the hears, two of the cubs were relocated, but the mama and the cub that broke into the home were put down as they showed aggression towards humans.

Wildlife officers said that the mother bear and one cub had to be put down as they entered the home and threatened residents. The two remaining cubs seemed to be very frightened of humans and were relocated, according to Randy Hampton, a spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

Hampton said that there was nothing specific that attracted the bears to the property, the mother bear simply associated homes with food.

“Once bears learn they can get food in homes, there is not a lot you can do to keep them from getting into homes,” Hampton said. “We have bears that have learned to open car doors and sliding glass doors.”

So make sure you are stocked up on pillows to fight the bears off and visit Duvet and Pillow Warehouse today.