Spring has sprung and brings a taste of summer...

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Well today I thought I would share some recent pictures I took of our amazingly beautiful development, this is the view our lovely felt-makers have been able to experience whilst on their courses and whilst enjoying the sunshine over their alfresco lunches.

Heart of The Country Shopping Village is a truly wonderful place to come and spend the day shopping or felt-making, taking in a leisurely lunch allows you time to browse the many wonderful shops we have here including the much coveted designs that Boutique 11 stock.

Come be inspired and set free your creative streak... we all have one!!

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X 

All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Charity Fundraiser in Celebration of 1st Birthday

Morning lovely makers and creators, just a heads up on the schedule of events for our charity fundraising day, we have felt-making demos at 11am and 3pm, knitting demo at 12.00 noon and creative stitched textiles which will include free hand machine embroidery at 1pm and 4pm.

I hope that many of you will be able to join us as this will be a great opportunity to sample a variety of crafts and meet the experts.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Tigerlily Makes will be at the Big Green Fair

Good morning lovely makers and creative and general loveliness's :) This morning I am bringing you news of the Big Green Fair in Whittington Village Hall on Saturday 16th April 2011, the fair plays a vital part in the village calendar and is a collaboration of people playing an active part for a greener footprint.

Whittington and surrounding villages have an incredibly strong sense of community and because of the efforts of the villagers it has proved to be a great event.

The event is very successful and all manner of green exhibitors will be there from self sufficiency to a totally green fashion show.  I will be there promoting the green benefits of wool craft and will be launching a new green range of accessories.

The event will finish with a fabulous green fashion show which hopes to be a collaboration from the participating exhibitors.

With that I hope to see many of you thee to show your support for this very important issue.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

The Allen Brown Gallery Contemporary Precious Jewellery ethically traded!!!

Images & Designs courtesy of Allen Brown Gallery and subject to Copyright

Good morning lovely makers and creators, this morning I wanted to introduce you to the Allen Brown Gallery.  

Featured above is just a small selection of the stunning pieces that the Allen Brown Gallery produces, this is master craftsmanship at its best.  The Allen Brown team are dedicated and passionate about sourcing ethical and fairly traded materials, as well as choosing conflict free diamonds for the incredible jewellery pieces that the Allen Brown Gallery designs and makes.

We feel that it is the job of a proactive, innovative and forward-looking business like the Allen Brown Gallery  to be at the forefront of new ideas, not just in design-which is what initially draws many people to them-but increasingly in this globalised world, to encourage people to consider the route source of their precious items.

Ethical Trading/Fair Trading 

Allen Brown are well-known locally for using unusual gemstones and coloured diamonds, highlighted in their frequent use in collections over the past 22 years.  They believe that the best way to achieve ethical trading is to deal with the mines and their representatives themselves. So Allen has been sourcing stones personally for a number of years, working with a few hand picked mines in Brazil they know that the workers are fairly treated and employed in safe working conditions.

Conflict Free Diamonds

Allen Brown Diamonds are purchased from legitimate sources not involved in funding conflict in compliance with United Nations Resolutions.  Sellers guarantee that they are conflict free, based on personal knowledge and/or written guarantees provided by the seller of these diamonds.

I have to say that my husband and I have had personal experience with the Allen Brown Gallery, my husbands parents recently had their 40th wedding anniversary and it was to be a year of celebrations.  My husband wanted something extra special to mark this milestone and momentous occasion, the Allen Brown Gallery delivered on every level from the very first meeting, to outline sketches, to keeping on budget and delivering on time.  Nothing was too much trouble for Allen and his team and care was taken to listen to our requirements and make something unique for the gift receivers, something that was very special to them in design and finish.

If you are planning a very special precious piece of jewellery for a loved one or family member this Christmas then you don't need to look any further the Allen Brown Gallery is the ONLY place you need to visit.

Whittington Countryside & Craft Fair

Hi everyone, just a quick seond post today, I am going to b exhibiting at the Whittington Countryside & Craft fair this Saturday 4th September if you would like to pop by and see what felt-making is all about for yourselves.

More details can be found here :)

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

New Bag Shape made at bag making course

Good morning .lovely people, well I did promise you photos from the bag making course but as mentioned in a previous post I forgot to take some before the ladies went home with their bags.

This is the bag I made to show the lovely ladies on my course how to make a bag... I then added the extra felt embellishments yesterday to finish it.

The shape is yet another of several new bag shapes that I have been designing recently and more previews will be coming of some of them over the coming weeks.

This is also a bag that will be available for purchase on Easter Bank Holiday Monday.

Well back to it I am making a tea cosy today.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog

Lisa X

All content (including text, photographs, and design work) is © Lisa Marie Olson. My original artwork is for personal inspiration only and may not be copied for publication, contest submission or for any other type of financial gain

Sneek Peek at a felty project going on in the boutique

Hi everyone,
though I would entice you with a sneek peek at a new range of bags I am designing. The bag is a completely new shape and I am trying something a little different with the daisies this time.  So keep you eye on the blog for more sneek peeks and news of exciting developments in the felt boutique.

Thank you for taking the time to visit The Handmade by Tigerlily Blog

Lisa X

All content (including text, photographs, and design work) is © Lisa Marie Olson. My original artwork is for personal inspiration only and may not be copied for publication, contest submission or for any other type of financial gain