Lily the Lamb - Lily the Pink Handmade Cushion

Welcome to a very lamby edition of the TM blog, live for Lamb HQ. 

Originating from Wales and having a steep Welsh family heritage, I have always love the great outdoors. I have also had a life long passion for all things woolly in particular sheep, spending nearly all of my child hood holidays in Welsh Wales, we spent a lot of time in the mountains, Beacons and on many walks. Feeding the sheep was one of mine and my brothers favorite past times.

So its no surprise really that these lamby designs have come to fruition.

Lily the Pink was one of the very first repeat designs to evolve and I just couldn't wait to get her onto fabric.

Once the fabric arrived and was itching to get making and am absolutely thrilled with how the design works with sewn projects.

take a look for yourself.

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Lily the Lamb - Lily the Pink Room Decor/Wall Art

The Wonderfully warm welcomes to this latest edition of the TM blog. 

Since launching the Lily Lamb range which I absolutely adore and love, I am always looking for creative ways in which to show her off to her full potential. 

Not only is she on a wide variety of mediums, such as colouring books, coasters, magnets, mirrors, notebooks and fabric, she has now moved into paper. 

When these designs and patterns were created, they were created with a view to being suitable to be printed onto any medium and so I was absolutely thrilled when I saw the first printed paper sheets.

I started of with Lily the pink and thought how I could create fun lamb themed room decor with a difference. So as I have just started creating a whole range of baby clothing with Lily the Lamb fabrics, the penny dropped and so I set about designing clothing themed room decor with the lily lamb design.

I digitally designed a dress template to begin with taking inspiration from the traditional pinafore dress I used to wear as a child, but incorporating scalloped edging... which is a much loved staple in all my ranges. This was then teamed with a top/t shirt template, featuring scalloped edging to the sleeves.

The two combined with hand coloured detailing mounted perfectly in the shadow frame.

So here is the finished room decor/wall art, I think this would sit beautifully in any nursery or young child's bedroom.

If you would like to own your very own, you can purchase it from my Etsy Store 

www.etsy.com/tigerlilymakes

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Lily the Lamb - Lily's Bonnets - Room Decor Wall Art

Very woolly welcomes to our blog post today. we are talking Lily the Lamb room decor/wall art again, though a very different design.

So as with the other room decor in this range, the design has been beautifully transferred onto superior quality papers. Lily's Bonnets has been made in a slightly differentl way, as we are using the whole of the scene to fill the mount area.

This then has a hand cut secondary lamb mounted to it, to give more of a dimensional feel.

I think it would look super cute in any 

nursery.

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Tea at the Ritz Lily Lamb Cushion

A wonderfully warm and woolly welcome to this another lamby edition of the TM blog. We are bringing you this post with thought of being high up in the mountains where sheep roam and our green land shines!

In short I just wanted to bring you another cushion made up with the another new Lily the Lamb design. This one is called Tea at the Ritz, because Lily loves nothing more than putting on her best frock and taking afternoon tea at The Ritz with her family. Its a feast to behold, beautiful sandwiches a choice of teas and some gorgeous artisan cakes. Mmmm Yum!

This is the larger scale design, which works really well on big cushions, though the final repeat print will be scaled down so that you can get more Lily per inch, so to speak. Take a look at the smaller scale pic at the end of the post. 

for now though I will let the fabric do the talking! 

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Lily Lamb Fabric has arrived

Hello and a very warm and extremely woolly edition of the Tigerlily Makes blog. Its a very exciting time for us here at Lily the Lamb HQ and Tigerlily Towers.

I  have recently taken delivery of the first full fabric lengths with some of the Lily the Lamb designs on them and I can't tell you what a tremendous excitement it is. Lily the Lamb is the much loved and adored mascot for Tigerlily Makes  and has been growing in design and momentum for quite some time now.

So as the designs have grown, so has the number of gorgeous quality products available in the official Lily the Lamb range.

I have initially ordered the fabric to create patterns and finished items to add to the range but as I develop the different Lily Lamb characters more and expand my other designer ranges,  I hope to be bringing you fabric to buy by the meter, half meter and fat quarters for your personal home projects.

I would love to know what your first thoughts are  and will bring you more news when the first range of fabrics has been created.

Without further delay here they are!

Watch this space for some beautiful projects using these adorable designs.

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Lily the Lamb A4 Ruled Exercise Books

Warm and wonderfully woolly and very lamby welcomes to the latest edition of the Tigerlily Makes blog straight from the top of Tigerlily Towers.

Today we thought you might like a little insight to the Lily the Lamb a4 Ruled Exercise books.

The Lily and Louis Lamb A4 Ruled Exercise books are fantastic writing books for children and grown ups alike. The silk paper is smooth and helps the pen or pencil glide across the page. The extra wide space between the lines helps with practicing handwriting techniques and the co-ordinating deep header and footers, help you make important notes as well as that all important title.

The side margin is generous in propoirtion for extra notes, bullet points, numbering and perforation should you need to remove the side notes and place them elsewhere.

The front cover has a lovely Lily the Lamb scene and even includes a space to right your name, ensuring your book clearly belongs to you.

All in all we think this is one of the most luxurious products in our range.

These can be purchased in the Lily the Lamb Boutique. 

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Creative Storage Solutions for creatives working at home.

Well hello and wonderfully warm and fully felted welcomes to today's edition of the Tigerlily Makes blog.

Today I thought I would share the age old problem of a crafter, designer or hobbyist's dilemma when fitting your your passion into your everyday life and home.

Space always seems to be tight for the at home creative and usually comes at a premium or the expense of losing a room. So what do you do when you need the room and you need a space to create in? Well you get savy with pretty but practical storage solutions. As you know I run my business from home and for many years, we have suffered the loss of a guest bedroom and therefore haven't had people to stay.

So take a look at the photos below and my top tips for creating both a tranquil guest bedroom and an inspiring work space.

These pretty boxes from Ikea sit nicely on the top shelf in the guest wardrobe and will hold a lot more than you think. They are easy to slide in and out and being open topped its quick to pick and dispatch. 

I have a beautifully renovated 1930's wardrobe in my guest room and these slot in perfectly to its smaller dimensions. Further storage is held underneath the wardrobe with its shaped and slightly raised frontage. On top sits pretty floral cube boxes again from Ikea, which hold so much more than I thought.

I will feature more on creative storage solutions a little later on where I will focus on under bed storage and desk space.

For now though keeeeeeeeeep felting.

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Lily Lamb & Plans for 2015

Well hello and a lovely warm and cosy welcome this December edition of the Tigerlily Makes blog. I thought I might share with you  plans for moving forward into 2015 and the decisions behind the directions we are headed.

With 2014 nearly behind us I can tell you that is has been one of my most difficult years to date, both personally and professionally. I have had to work tirelessly and constantly both in balancing my personal and professional life, to maintain the standard everyone loves and knows about Tigerlily Makes designs.

I fell in love with felting several years ago now, having come from a needle work and textile arts background at the age of 13, textiles have always been my first love.

I had aimed to make felting my living, but in actual fact a small needle felted lamb called Lily has really paved the way for a much bigger and unique concept in the design process. Lily Lamb's initial role was to become the official Tigerlily Makes mascot and branding.  Little did I know then how much she would naturally grow and develop into what she is today... a much loved character with many guises, fitting perfectly into a wider product range.

So it makes perfect sense to me to be lead by where Lily is destined to be, in early 2015 I will be leaving the Handmade Boutique's to focus on Lily the Lamb, her very own website currently up and running... as well as growing and developing her product range.  I will slowly be winding Tigerlily Makes up and focus on Lily Lamb.

I will be starting the new year, by writing and developing the very first 2 short picture story books in a series of books. The books will aim to appeal to both parents and children containing fun characters but leaning towards problem solving situations and life lessons.

I have already begun to source and work with some manufacturers on developing and marketing the range further and will be meeting with some of the UK's biggest manufactures in early 2015. Whilst I focus on building this range I hope to offer a smaller personalised Lily Lamb range online whilst Lily is charming her way through the UK.

So I guess the key is to learn to adapt and change with the demands of the market place. So watch this space and we will keep you posted.

But for now keeeeeeep lambing!

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Christmas Gift Idea's

A very warm welcome to this autumnal November post. Now that Halloween is firmly behind us and Bonfire night is almost done... then we can turn to Christmas... yes I did say Christmas!

With not many weeks left until now until the biggest day of the year, we at Tigerlily Towers thought you might like a few gift ideas to help you along the way. There's pretty much something for everyone either in our online store or in one of our stockists.

So lets get straight to it.

The Lily Lamb Coluring & Activity Book Is a great one for keep the children entertained this festive season

www.tigerlilymakes.co.uk an in Store at the Handmade Boutique Sutton & Brimingham

Alice in Wonderland Inspired Wall art and room Decor Available only at the Handmade Boutique Sutton 

Gorgeous Card Packs and Gift Wrap only at the Handmade Boutique Sutton & Birmingham

Christmas Buttons & Coasters only available at Handmade Boutique Sutton 

This is just a taster of what is on offer from Tigerlily Makes this year and so I will be back soon with more Christmas ideas. 

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Lily Lamb Colouring & Activity Books have arrived...

Well I am quite literally squeeling with excitement and dancing like no one is watching over my latest creations!

Introducing the 24 page Lily Lamb colouring and activity book, beautiful outline drawings of my beloved Lily and Louis Lambs in their various guises. This colouring book is A4 in size and is designed to be slightly educational in its approach.

The first two pages will give you a colouring guide for all the Lily's and Louis's featured in the book, this will help children identify different colours and make decisions about their own colour choices. Pages 4 to 19 have a combination of single Lily or Louis Lambs with fun sayins such as, Lily Lamb says "Its fun to bake" as she stands proud waiting for you to colour in her bakers apron. Page 19 gives you a balnk page to draw your favorite Lily or Louis Lamb, page 20 is all about counting each different Louis and Lily lamb. Pages 21 & 22 will help with learning the lamb names with the Lambs themselves. Page 23 is a fun maze which will help Princess Lily Lamb find her way through the maze and back to the castle.

The final page is a fun educational story page, where you can fill in the blanks to complete the story.

Well enough of of all that, I guess I had better show you what all the fuss is about! LOL

Happy colouring!

 

 

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Lily Lamb Notebooks have landed with much aplomb at the Handmade Boutique

Gosh well where O where does the time go... I realise that much time has passed since my last post!

However in my defense I have been rather busy building the Lily Lamb range and have launched the first few products at both the Birmingham & Sutton branches of the Handmade Boutique.

So I thought I would give you all a sneak peak at the first in the notebook series. There are more designs to come as well as a stunning colouring and activity book.

Hope you like and have a great day!

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New Spiro Bound Notebooks coming soon...

Well folks its that time again for another fully felted addition to Tigerlily Makes!

Well we have chatted a few times now about my much loved and cherished Lily Lamb! So I hope you don't mind if we chat again about her!

Lily Lamb started out in life as a needle felted undressed lamb, which formed the basis of the Lily Lamb mascot an undressed image produced for my website with a little flower in her hair. She has grown and developed along the way and I have watched her blossom into the wonderful young lady that she is now!

Lily has not been on this journey on her own though I might add, oh no she has had much support and guidance from the shinning light in her life " Grandma Lily" together they have faced challenges and overcome them. Lily Loves her grandma so much that she is always hugging her, for after all that is what grandma's are for!

So what better way to say thank you to Grandma Lily than to share the front cover of a notebook with her!

Lily Lamb & Grandma Lily - Part of the Lily Lamb Family

The Original Undressed Lily Lamb, given as a treasure hunt prize for Tigerlily Makes 1st Birthday

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Its a Teddy Bears Picnic with Guest Star Lily the Lamb...

Hello and a very happy Friday to all you lovely makers,creators and well all round lovely people!Today we bring you fun and frolics at the Teddy Bears picnic of the year. Hosted by Bear grace created by Burman Bears and special guest of honour Tigerlily Makes very own Lily Lamb!

What a flurry of activity the Handmade Boutique was on Tuesday, with preparations for the event of the year... the Burman Bears annual Teddy Bears picnic! Well this picnic was to be like no other picnic, as it was to play host to one very special guests Lily Lamb and  Grandma Lily Lamb!

Well what a day, Lily and Grandma Lily had, so many new bears to meet it was such the social event with laughter, fun, games and plenty of food to be had. Lily had fun with all the bears, but she was particularly taken with one or two special characters! Bear Grace was in so much adoration of Lily that she scooped her up and hugged her dearly.

With the first introductions successfully underway it was time to mingle and mingle they did, with all the bears and Lambs keen to chat and play games.

Well one of many great introductions was Lily Lamb and Bloo the Elephant, this pair really hit it off and as Lily said "Oh Bloo don't be blue I will be your friend" and so it was!

After much fun, it was time to leave and what better way to say goodbye to your wonderful hosts than with a friendly kiss to seal the friendship! Come back soon for more picnic stories! 

All bear designs Copyright Angela Burman Burman Bears all design rights reserved. Lily Lamb Copyright Lisa Marie Olson Tigerlily Makes all design rights reserved.

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Lily Lamb's Debut into the Handmade Boutique...

A wonderfully warm welcome to you all to the latest little piece of all things fully felted!

Today I wanted to introduce to you some new Lily Lamb designs and get your thoughts on this new look and new direction!

Well as you all know, from the very beginning, Lily Lamb has been the driving force behind Tigerlily Makes... she is a much loved and adored character and has many guises and duties that she performs in her right Royal role as a fully felted princess!

She has been on holidays; has traveled afar and quite often you will see her visiting her ancestors at places like Buckingham Palace and Chatsworth House!

With all the good work she does, I feel it only fair to reward her with her very own special range of must haves and things you can't live without lines!

Hope you like them as much as Lily does. Currently available at the Handmade Boutique

Fridge Magnet & Mirror Collection

Lily Lamb Handbag Mirror

Princess Lily Handbag Mirror

Rosalily Handbag Mirror

Reverse of Land Gal Lily Key-ring

Front of Land Gal Lily Key-ring

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