Victoria Visit

As Trish mentioned, I was over in Victoria earlier this week to help hang Timothy Hoey's art show at The Milkman's Daughter - today! It was really nice to meet Tim and hang out with all the Victoria Lilyites.

Here are a few photos of Tim's work.

And a few random photos of the shop.

Trish, Korinne and I also met to talk about the Fall line and some interesting upcoming events. This was the first time I glimpsed the new Fall pieces and I have to say I fell in love with a few garments; the rest will be really good friends with my ever growing Lily wardrobe. There were some great fabrics and interesting tailoring. Fall is going to be fun.

As for Summer, there are still new pieces in the making, including a really cute linen dress in two stunning colours - a bright fresh green and a deep tealish royal blue. They will likely be in stores next week. We'll keep you posted.

Happy Canada Day!

Wow, I really need to do a better editing job, the last line on the flyer blows - nonsensical grammar and a "typo". The fact is, we will be processing all Canada Day mail orders on Saturday July 2nd. If you have questions pertaining to your mail order, Rachael will get in touch with you on Saturday.

In other Canada Day news, the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper printed an article today about Tim's O-Canada art show tomorrow at the milkman's daughter. Here's a link to the article, and here's the related video.

Glenda came over from Vancouver to help Korinne and Tim hang the show. The shop looks really good.

Canada Post and the Portage Show

As we all know Canada Post is currently out of service. What you may not know is that Smoking Lily will be hosting an art show featuring local artist Timothy Wilson Hoey at the Milkman's Daughter on Canada Day. As this is going to be a big shindig, we wanted to invite all sorts of VIPs. First of course are our wonderful customers, but we also are sending out the word to Members of Parliament, our MLA, the Governor General, City Councillors, and the Mayor to name a few. Of course, half the invites were dropped into a mailbox (crossing my fingers on that one) and the other half will just have to be delivered by hand. So if you happen to see a Lily out and about with envelopes in tow, you'll have the inside scoop.

O-Canada, O-Canoe

Have you heard the news about the Canada Day shindig that we are throwing at The Milkman's Daughter in Victoria on July 1st? Well, shindig might not be the right word. We are hosting an art show for Timothy Wilson Hoey, and a celebration of Canadian made products. For refreshments, Thrifty Foods kindly donated a cake!, and we will have sodas from the PopShop (I got vetoed on the kegger idea).

You can win one of Tim's paintings by entering a draw at the Fairfield Thrifty's in Victoria (no purchase necessary). I saw a photo of the painting online, a pretty awesome canoe.

The upcoming show has inspired me to create some new prints. Nicole showed you the Maple Pods a couple of weeks ago, and this week I finished the canoe print.

Handsome guy posing with his moose.

Linen throw with the new 'Canoe' print will be in stores soon.

I dropped off my vintage Governor General Horse Guards jacket to the cleaners this morning. I'm excited to have a place to wear it (maybe it is turning into a shindig).

We will announce more details closer to the event.