Kirstie Mills Cystic Fibrosis Sufferer's blog 2nd Chance @ Life...

Hi everyone, well you remember my earlier post about Kirsties Mills fight with Cystic Fibrosis, well she now has her brand new blog 2ndchance@life.  Please visit Kirsties blog and support her fight to get a donor and lets help her achieve her dreams.

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Another blog giveaway...

Hello lovely makers and creators, in the run up to the first birthday celebrations on Saturday 9th April I will be giving one lucky winner per week some fabulous blog candy in celebration.  This weeks give away is the above and includes a Little Experience Build it Kit, Felt Christmas Kit, quilled flower stickers and a fabulous array of Bo Bunny Ribbons and Petals Corsage. Prize value approximately £30.00

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is the following, winners will be selected at random using random org:

• leave a comment
• join our facebook page
• join our twitter page
• become a follower of the Tigerlily Makes blog
• join our blog network on facebook

Entries must be made by 12.00 noon Monday 21st March and the winner will be announced later that day. 

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.

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.

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And the winner is.......

Well as promise the winner of the lovely bundle above is The Knitted Cupcake, please contact me to arrange prize delivery.

Stay tuned for this weeks give away.

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A serious issue that needs our support please help Cystic Fibrosis sufferer Kirstie Mills

Kirstie Mills Cystic Fibrosis Sufferer 

Well good morning lovely makers and creators normally my posts are full of lovely woolyness, but this morning as I was getting ready for work I flicked on the TV to a feature about Cystic Fibrosis sufferer Kirstie Mills.  This wonderful young lady is in her very early 20s and without a lung transplant will not make it to her 23rd birthday.  She has spoken openly and candidly about her struggles and shown such strength and bravery.  An inspirational young woman who has everything to live for, Kirstie is also planning her wedding, so can we please all spread the word and help this incredible person find health and happiness by helping her find a donor match.

Kirstie's story touched me so much and is a constant reminder how we must live each day as well as we possibly can.  We should find time everyday to be thankful for what we do have not what we don't have!! We should tell those close to us everyday what they mean to us and never take them for granted... life and health is the most precious gift we are blessed with.

Please pass Kirsties link on and spread the word we all need to be donors, Kirstie herself is and has already pledged to make sure the rest of her organs go to someone to help prolong life if hers comes to end.  What an amazing attitude to have.

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New Katia Felting Yarns and Knitting Wools just arrived in the boutique

New Katia Felting Yarn

New Katia Knitting Yarn 

Well hello lovely makers and creators, as promised here are the much awaiting first photos of our new Katia Yarns.  The top picture is the current range of colours we have in at the moment, but there is more on the way.  Katia yarns are superb quality wools offering good value for money.  The felting yarns retail at just £2.85 a ball and to make a small felted bag you can use as few as two!!

Katia felting wool is superb for felting and needs only a 40 degree wash to get excellent results.  The finished felted item is superb and knocks spots of its competitors equivalent. 

Over the next 6 weeks we will take deliver of the Katia scarf yarns which are stunning as well as some other well known names and some new ones, so keep your eye on the blog.

If you like to knit ot felt, then I suggest you come and get your yarn quick as its already flying off the shelves.

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BLOG GIVE AWAY WEEK 1 OF 1st BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

Hello lovely makers and creators, in the run up to the first birthday celebrations on Saturday 9th April I will be giving one lucky winner per week some fabulous blog candy in celebration.  This weeks give away is the above and includes a Little Experience Build a Boat Kit, Felt Mittens Kit, quilled flower stickers and a fabulous array of Bo Bunny Ribbons and Lace Petals Corsage.

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is the following, winners will be selected at random using random org:

• leave a comment
• join our facebook page
• join our twitter page
• become a follower of the Tigerlily Makes blog
• join our blog network on facebook

Entries must be made by 12.00 noon Monday 14th March and the winner will be announced later that day. 

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.

More Raffle Prizes coming in....

Hello lovely creators and makers and generally lovely people, well as promised I said that I would keep you up to date with raffle prizes as and when they came in and today is just that.

My thanks to Mary Halbert of Crazy Mary Crafts for donating this fantastic creative stitched textiles prize.

We feel very blessed to have Mary join our team of talented designers and tutors, Mary will be hosting creative stitched textile classes on the 3rd Friday of every month 10.30am-1pm.  Mary will cover a whole range of techniques with hand dyed threads, felt and fabric. Please see Tigerlily Makes for course details.

Charity Fundraiser celebrating 1 year of felt-making success Saturday 9th April

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Charity Fundraising Raffle Prizes Building up Nicely don't forget to buy your ticket!!

Good morning lovely makers and creators, I just want to give you a sneak peek at how the raffle prizes are stacking up, we have lovely handmade bags, a stunning hamper packed with goodies donated by St Giles Hospice, Wine, a fab sign from Magical Story  and many more to come.

Raffle tickets are just £1.00 per strip and don't forget all the free demonstrations on Saturday 9th April with a complimentary champagne reception at 5pm to draw the raffle.

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Tigerlily Makes Celebrating 1 year of Felt-making Success

Well hello lovely makers and creators its official, I have been in the boutique exactly 1 year today and what a year its been... over 50 felt-making days and over 200 fabulous hand felted projects from over 200 wonderful customers. Whoop Whoop its been absolutely marvelous!!  I am in the process of putting together a little slide show of all the wonderful projects that have been made over the year so watch out for that :)

We will be celebrating on the 9th April with a fantastic  Charity fundraising day with free demonstrations from specialists in felt-making, creative stitched textiles and knitting.

Fabulous raffle prizes are flooding in from very generous supporters including St Giles themselves who have supplied a fab hamper full of goodies plus lots of other lovely goodies.

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