Showing posts with label Anatomical Hearts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anatomical Hearts. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Lily Home: Print Yer Owns

Flipping through any of the House & Home-type magazines that I am totally addicted to, in addition to wondering how anyone keeps that many square feet so clean--I suspect the answer might be, "the maid!"--I often notice a distinct lack of personality on display. (The question of why I keep these subscriptions is a good one. Hmm....) If only these poor folks with high-priced decorators knew that Smoking Lily could help them! What to do with bland, plain silk curtains? Cover them with hot pink flies! Or bright blue jackals (see below)! With Smoking Lily Print Yer Owns, the possibilities are (almost) endless.


Yes, that's, right, you can bring your own things in for us to print! Come on in with cushion covers, sheets, drapery panels, or upholstery fabric: as long as it is primarily a natural fiber (inks don't like to stick to polyester), flat, and has little surface texture, we can silk screen it for you. Tired of your plain white lap blanket? Put a bird on it! ...or whatever you'd like. Our hefty print bible (pictured above) is crammed with over 350 images and 40 ink colours to choose from.

A couple of recently completed Print Yer Owns whose proud owners graciously agreed to let us show them off online:

A black drapery panel custom printed with Wise Owls.

Anatomical Hearts printed on a duvet set; grey on one side red on the other.

Prices are calculated based on how long the printing takes to complete: $100 per hour, or adjusted for portion thereof (minimum 30 mins for $50). As I mentioned above, some fabrics, such as synthetics or super stiff new denim, don't like to take ink, but sometimes we can work around these issues (we once printed a set of nylon Ikea boxes after it was agreed that they'd never be washed--good happy ending!). If you're curious, however, don't be shy about calling or emailing with questions--we love helping out with Print Yer Own projects, as the results are always so unique!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Anatomical Heart Duvet: Blog Love


I'm happy to admit we have been quite smitten with our new duvet sets covered with the Enormous Heart print, and it looks like we're not alone! It's come to our attention that online rag Scout Magazine--headed by foodie-about-town extraordinaire Andrew Morrison--has listed our linens, along with the smashing picture imaged at left, in their running list, "Cool Thing We Want"--awesome! It warms my, well, heart to know we're not the only weirdos who think anatomical imagery is gorgeous and totally appropriate to snuggle up with....We even had some very cool visitors in the Vancouver shop from Hong Kong yesterday who loved it so much they decided to haul a set all the way overseas with them! Thanks for the props, Scout Mag; we think you're pretty neat, too:)

Queen duvet sets currently available in Vancouver also include greyhounds and pirate ships.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Lily Home: New Duvet Sets


Here are some photos of our new duvet sets. We took these photos at the request of Western Living magazine--exciting.

There are two styles: all over printed ($240 for the duvet and 2 pillow cases) and patchwork ($315 for the set).

The first shots are of the all over printed variety. Yes, that is an appliqued anatomical heart!




The following shots are of the patchwork duvet set:




Monday, July 12, 2010

Victoria Store Update: New Portabella Colour!

One of our current favorite skirts is out this week in a lovely new colour/print!


Black with lace and the most romantic secret insert.
Beware of banditos, they will steal your heart.

In other new print news, check out the incredibly awesome absolutely
enormous anatomical heart, pretty groovy hey?



Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Our Hearts Go Out to Haiti




As I am sure you are all very aware, January 12th this year saw a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti just west of the capitol, Port-au-Prince. With estimates of casualties now in excess of 200,000, the images of devastation coming out of the country have been absolutely heartbreaking.

Haiti is obviously going to need all of our help for some time to come; as a bonus, it feels really good to be part of the proverbial solution (someone should mention this to Pat Robertson)! Here at Lily our fearless leader, Trish, has been donating $100 to the Red Cross for every Smoking Lily gal who gives blood. The ladies at the studio got to thinking, however, about what we could do to help get you, our fabulous customers, in on the act and came up with Hearts for Haiti, a take on our popular leather brooches. Printed in smashing colours and backed with felt, the full $6 sale price of these little guys goes to the Red Cross and their efforts in Haiti. If you're yet to make a donation, these pins are a fun way to start; if you've been a donating machine these past weeks, they also make fabulous gifts (glenda and I thought they were very Valentine's appropriate in a strange sort of way).

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Bunny love PJs



On Valentine's Day, Beth wrote about the PJ pants we made and lots of people have asked about them since then. They are not on the website but we do have some in the stores if anyone out there needs PJ pants covered with anatomical hearts and flowers with the hansom Mr Hare peeking around your leg. Apparently they are boy friend approved, what ever that means (and who really cares what they think!) They are made of a light weight cotton fabric and oh so cute. They are $42 and come in s/m or m/l. They were really fun to print, so who knows, maybe we will make more. Who knows what they might look like?