Lillunia 2010 New Year's Resolutions

Lillunia 2010 New Year's Resolutions
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Here at Lillunia, we have come up with some 2010 New Year's Resolutions that we hope you will find useful-- if only for thinking about the things that matter and that we treasure.

Happy New Year!

1) We plan to do one new "green" thing each month within our homes. At the end of the year we will be able to reflect on the 12 ways we worked to heal the planet for our future and the future of the next generation.

2) We plan to give our time, $ or talent at least twice this year to a cause or charity that we feel committed to. If possible we hope to involve our families in this process.

3) We are going to work hard to implement a 1 - 2 hour per evening no-electronic entertainment period: No TV, no radio, no computer or video games-- in an attempt to reclaim this time for talking, reading and non-digitized play. (Yes- I am a closet Luddite)

4) We will try to spend more time outdoors every weekend.

5) We will plant one new plant in the garden/ terrace/ windowsill that we were otherwise afraid of planting (for fear of failure).

6) We will smile every single time we realize we are frowning or pouting (unless deliberately to be sexy).

7) We will spend 5 solid minutes every single day of 2010 feeling palpably grateful for all of the gifts and treasures we have in our lives -- and with respect to the ones who are alive (both furry and not) -- we will let them know how we feel.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

FROM

LILLUNIA

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Charity and Children

Charity and Children


At this time of year, when the whole world seems to be worshiping at the alter of consumerism, is there any way to salvage the season and teach our children about charity: the fundamental heart of this season?

http://www.lillunia.com/-FOCUS-SERIES-ART/Dierdre-s-Dolphins-p62.html deirdre's dolphins

There are many opportunities that this season presents to start our children down the path of philanthropy and charitable giving. And it is pretty easy. Some ideas:

1) Have an Annual Clean-Up & Give-a-Thon. Children grow up and out of clothes and toys at lightening speed. How about each year, at the start of December, we roll up our sleeves and fill a big box of toys and games and (gently warn) clothes to donate to a local charity. All those goodies your little one has outgrown are sure to make another child as happy as pie.

2) Have a Holiday Card- Craft Afternoon,: lets call it directed doodling...turn off the video or TV, pull out the coloring pencils, crayons or markers and some simple coloring paper. On-line you can identify a number of children's welfare organizations in your community or in the country, write down their addresses and buy some standard size card envelopes (any craft store will have them). Explain to your little one that you and s/he are going to send some holiday cheer to people you don't even know. Why? Because we can, its fun, and it will make them feel loved and happy as we do in our homes and families at this time of year.

3) Bake for a Cause: take one afternoon of holiday baking and spread the joy beyond the cozy warmth of your family. Most charities have holiday food drives and bake-sales or simply holiday meals for homeless families or indigent people. Call a few and ask what their policies are. Make a couple of boxes of home-baked yum and share them with others.

There are so many opportunities at this time of year, to teach our kids about the wider world and their vital role in it's progress. We love our families so much, and want to give them everything, but sometimes reflection is a very important gift...and if each year, at this time, we can help our little ones reflect on who they are in the larger world-- that seems to be the best present we could ever give them.

PEACE

From Our Family to Yours

From Our Family to Yours

No matter how busy we become this time of year, we are always reminded of what this season is truly about: love, family and community.

There are many different peoples and cultures and religions that celebrate at this time of year-- but at the heart of each is the understanding that we are all people who share this world with one another and myriad incredible animals and plants and resources. We are truly blessed.

From our family at Lillunia, to your family, we wish you all of the magic of the season for now and for the years to come. We are celebrating with our loved ones and cherished animals and hope, for all of us and for all of you, that the new year is merry and bright and filled with hope.

Happy Happy Joy Joy !!

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Your Child's Imagination

Put down the video games and digital toys, turn off the TV and computer and watch your child's imagination blossom!

We love hearing stories about how Lillunia art effects parents and children. After all, Lillunia began because of the effect Anya's Giraffes had on Anya's mother while spending hours nursing and thinking about what family, and nurturing and community really means.

Well, we have just heard from a mother who has hung the 10-frame Sophia's Monkeys in her 2-year-old's bedroom. We could not be more pleased. Not only do the parents love the effect of having an entire magical tree filled with Monkeys in their daughter's room (an effect which they feel is astonishing in scale and in that it changes everything about the space)- but we are particularly thrilled with the little girl's reaction.

http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Sophia-s-Vervet-Monkeys-p73.html

Jumping and laughing and dancing around like a little monkey herself she fell in love with her new tree! No digital media, no video game can do what art does for a child's imagination.

The possibilities are endless- just like her imagination!

Share this magic with your children...watch what happens, it is breathtaking!
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Content Matters: Babies, Animals and Art

Content Matters: Babies, Animals and Art

We are sure at Lillunia...so sure, that content matters. When people talk about their desire to be ecologically sound- or green, we say YES- go for it, its not that hard these days, but what does it mean and at what level.

It is vitally important to buy environmentally safe and sustainable products...we are convinced, but what about the content. Yes, we want to wrap our kids in organic cotton, paint their rooms with non-toxic and biodegradable paints, and to feed them the most wholesome foods- but what do we want to put in their minds?

Can we be ecologically minded in what we teach the little monkeys? YES! Lillunia is all about education...and sooner rather than later our coloring books (in process) will help drive this home. We want to help parents feed the minds of their little ones with a steady diet of nurturing elements from the wide,wild world. We want to give children a window on the greater planet and all of the families that share our common goal: NURTURING OUR CHILDREN-- giving them all the tools we have to be the best Person, Lion, Robin, Elephant, Fox, Hippo, Kangaroo, Horse, Giraffe, Dolphin or Polar Bear they can be

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Kids and the Environment:
Challenge But Exciting

There is no doubt that teaching our children about the challenges we all face with our changing environment can be daunting. There was a really funny article on GreenMuze recently describing some of the pitfalls. ("Eco Lunacy Parenting")http://www.greenmuze.com/blogs.html. There are ways, however to start the learning without adding fear and worry (leave that to us for now). At Lillunia we love the Canadian site Eco Kids http://www.ecokids.can for helping teachers and parents move children through the issues and the big questions we all face. But what I like most is that they start from stewardship and the idea that we can all play a constructive role in the health of our planet and the creatures that live here; ie, starting from a positive place.

Making it fun

There is no reason why feeling like a member of a larger world with responsibilities to it, has to be scary...or even boring. Children love to feel important to processes and projects...and the wonderful part of environmental stewardship is that they (our children) really are important-- its not make believe- our children will inherit the earth we leave them.

More and more school programs are adding environmental topics to the standard curriculum-- and this is fantastic. But these lessons we can certainly start at home: recycling, backyard nature outings, certainly reading and coloring, healthy food choices and eco home projects.

Embrace the opportunity to mold their lovely little minds- as parents and teachers we can make the serious issues about our world accessible and fun. That way-- their children may not be in the bind we find ourselves in now-- and if they are still "cleaning up" they will be better equipped to do so!

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http://www.lillunia.com/-MODERN-ART/Devon-s-Deer-p85.html
Devon's Deer

Plant the Seed of Charity

There are so many wonderful stores and companies and websites featuring myriad organic baby products- it can make your head spin. But aren't we lucky? Aren't we lucky that we live in a time (finally) when all of this is available to us; at time when we don't have to buy chemically laden baby toys and furniture, when we can choose to buy "corporate" baby products or local, artisanal or handmade.

I think that what we do now, the choices we make for our families are the first lessons children learn when they are confronted with making their own choices about sustainable products, about chemicals in their food, about pesticides and about animal welfare.

I would go so far as to say these are the first seeds of charity. Teaching children that our choices- the basic ones we make everyday- are the building blocks to healthy environments for children all over the world and for animals in the sea, the sky and those that share the land with us. This is where children start to understand their unique and special role in this great web of life.

As parents it is both daunting and exhilarating to be so fundamental a part of this time in a new person's life. Teach your children well and they will reward you and their community in kind.

We are working to be a part of the solution- www.lillunia.com

Love your families- love your animals!

Teaching Our Children to Respect Animals

Teaching our Children to Respect Animals


Children naturally gravitate toward animals. I am constantly enchanted when walking down the street, by the little hands that extend to touch a fuzzy dog or the outstretched arms pointing skyward at tweeting birds.


The park is even more captivating...with ducks gliding and squirrels twirling up tree trunks. There is an indescribable beauty and peace in the activities of animals. They are pure, they are childlike in this way.


Without anthropomorphizing -- there is no need too, animals are a spectacle that is never tiring for children. When we actively teach our children to respect animals we teach them about their place in the larger world. It is not "all about me" -- a lesson that they are constantly taught in the media.
dylan's dolphins http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Dylan-s-Dolphins-p53.html




It is easy for children to learn the kind of self centered, materialistic lessons that are so abundant in our world these days- but it is just as easy to teach them respect and empathy and the benefits of community. This lesson must start at home (and hopefully be continued in school).

We owe it to our children and our world to raise the best people we can. I know that animals are a part of this lesson. Living with animals myself, I know what they bring to my life and the life of my family.



dereck's deer http://www.lillunia.com/-MODERN-ART/Dereck-s-Deer-p83.html


Start young. It works.

We love this link to the Humane Society. Browse around the site- it has so much to offer for families.

http://www.hsus.org/humane_living/living_in_harmony_with_animals/kind_newstrade_teaching_kids_to_care_about_animals.html

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANYA!

Happy Birthday Anya!

The little girl who launched Lillunia turns 2 today, December 2, 2009.

See her Giraffe's, Lillunia's first image, also featured in Hampton's Magazine "Eco-Fabulous" column.

anya's giraffes

http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Anya-s-Giraffes-p56.html

Looking to the bright future- Anya, we wish you all love and happiness and joy!

Tis the Season - Give Love and Learning

Ti's the Season- Give Love and Learning

Against the backdrop of and endless supply of electronic, plastic, endlessly commercial gadgets destined for the land-fill, we would like to suggest a different path.

There is no question that children are bombarded by an endless array of media and product and that children are an enormous marketing demographic. For a parent, this is one of the most challenging situations. As much as we want to protect and educate our children, we have to maintain a dialogue (for better or worse) with what they see, hear and do, which we can't control or at least supervise.

anthony's giraffe's

http://www.lillunia.com/-FOCUS-SERIES-ART/Anthony-s-Giraffes-p64.html

At Lillunia, we do believe, in fact we are certain that there are ways to prepare your children (and the other children in your life that you love) for the cacophony of commercial product, while instilling in them a fundamental understanding of what holds real value in life.

Regardless of our many different political, religious, ethnic and even ethical identities, we are all human and are all trying to raise smart, caring, responsible and loving people-- who will do the same for the next generation.

The achievement of these goals start at home; in how we love and how we treat other people and the world of animals with whom we share this magnificent planet.

liam's lions
http://www.lillunia.com/-FOCUS-SERIES-ART/Liam-s-Lions-p66.html

We encourage parents to be strong and smart this holiday season. Open a new world to your children; teach them about charity, about sharing and about embracing the challenges of their future.

Help them learn about the environment, about the animals we share the environment with, about children who might not have the same advantages. This is what the holidays are for. Sharing the wonderful gifts we have all been given with each other and with the people and animals in the world that have less.

At Lillunia, we have so much to be thankful for.

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Room for Art - Room for Animals

Room for Art - Room for Animals ashley's bears
http://www.lillunia.com/-FOCUS-SERIES-ART/Ashley-s-Bears-p69.html


Children respond in amazing ways to art. Besides all of the research conducted on the effects of art on children's intellectual and emotional development, its just cool to see the range of responses that young children have when exposed to art.


I remember once going with my, then 3-year-old niece Charlotte, to MOMA here in NY and watching her interact with neon rich Richard Serra sculpture. She walked back and forth in front of the piece several times then laid down flat on the floor in front of it-- as if to say-- well obviously I need to experience this from another point of view (perhaps her cat's).


Then we went on to look at the MOMAs amazing collection of Jackson Pollack's work. I believe the first thing she said is response to his art, was "I made that". I was not sure if she meant that she had made something that looked very close to that (quite possible) or what? At any rate, it was a beautiful afternoon looking at and watching her interact with so much amazing work.

The same interaction with art happens in the home. I grew up in a house filled with art-- art which I always engaged with, asked questions about and never tired of exploring again and again.



Art in the home (as in the museum or gallery) is a constant source of information and instruction. Whether the child's curiosity begins with the abstraction of color and form, with size, scale and frame and then moves to subject matter and all that the subject illicit from their ever curious minds-- there is nothing so rich- and certainly nothing so rich in value to be found in digital toys and gadgets; all those insipid plastic toys which occupy a child for about an hour and then make there way to the ever growing land fill. emily's elephants
http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Emily-s-Elephants-p54.html

Lillunia Art is a timeless way to bring art into children's lives and to instruct them about the wonders of the natural world. They say that respect for others and for animals starts at home. We agree. In the relationships we foster with the art on our walls and the living animals in our lives - our children learn from us and what we do- Thank goodness!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving from all of us at Lillunia!

Love your families- love your animals!

WE LOVE BEARS!!!

We Love Bears!

In America, we live with Black Bears, Brown or Grizzly Bears and in the farthest parts of the north, the magical white Polar Bear.

Children are also fascinated with Bears. I have never known a child who did not snuggle and love and plush little stuffed teddy bear.

Because there are so many myths about bears and yet so

Alexandra's Bears (www.lillunia.com, not currently posted)

much fascination, it is important that we introduce our children early to this extraordinary group of mammals. A nice introduction for children is:

Bears For Kids (2007) by Jeff Fair was updated and republished in 2007 and is perhaps the most authoritative children's book on black bears. Photos and text emphasize northeastern Minnesota.

In America's collective imagination, we have the lovable Teddy Bear, named for President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as the cherished Winnie the Pooh, Paddington Bear, Yogi Bear & Boo Boo, Care bears, Smokey the Bear, Fozzie Bear (from The Muppet Show), The three Bears (friends of Goldilocks), Gummi bears, Rupert, Corduroy, Little John (from Disney’s Robin Hood cartoon) and the Berenstain Bears. Baloo, from the Jungle Book is a Sloth bear.

With so much cultural love for the bear, we owe it to ourselves and our children to try to understand them and educate our children early about what bears are, how they live and raise their cubs and to show them the importance of our collective effort to preserve the world we all share so we...and bears can thrive.

Please visit Lillunia.com and share our bears with your little cubs!

We have:

-patrick's polar bear (Lillunia Mosaic)

-ashley's bears, and

-alexandra's bears- brand new and will be on the site shortly (if you are interested in alexandra's bears- just send us an e-mail at info@lillunia.com)

Teaching Our Children to Love Nature

Teaching Our Children to Love Nature

Below images:

Sophia's Vervet Monkeys - http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Sophia-s-Vervet-Monkeys-p73.html

Stella's Robins http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Stella-s-Robins-p55.html

At Lillunia, we are well aware of the importance of the natural world, both conceptually and materially, to our childrens' development. We encourage you to read a lovely little piece called which discusses this issue called:

Teaching Children to Love Nature - by Chaitanya Prakash at:
http://www.indiaparenting.com/intelligentchild/data/105.shtml

Chaitanya Prakash relates a genuine concern for the absense of nature in so many childrens' lives today. And as more and more families move to cities, nature will become more of a fantasy than a reality for children. Certainly most children in the world will never see Vervet Monkeys in their natural environment:

but sadly, today, more and more children will not even see Robins in thier natural environement.

It is our hope at Lillunia to bring a little bit of the natural world (from afar and from the garden) into our chidlren's environments from earliest childhood.

We believe that images that portray the universality of family nurturing in the wild will foster the kinds of responsible and caring adults we hope our children will become.

Bring the natural world into a child's environment with Lillunia Art and start them on a road of curiosity and exploration- of appreciation for the natural world and all of the creatures surrounding us.

Customize the art with a baby's birthdate and name for a truly memorable and prescious souvenir of a child's birth.

Please see the wonderful animals we portray at www.lillunia.com or ask us for a special animal of your choice!

Lead by Example- Babies are People Too

Patrick's Polar Bears http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Patrick-s-Polar-Bears-p75.html

Lead by Example- Babies are People Too!

There is no doubt that all children develop differently and at different rates. However, anyone with children, nieces and nephews, grandchildren or friends with children know that imitation is a fundamental part of how children learn and become socialized as adults.

As adults, we make so many choices for ourselves and for our children, and sometimes the necessities of life overshadow the kinds of subtle decisions we make every day- decisions that our VERY adept children detect even when we do not.

Many families are doing their best to "go green" or to be as ecologically minded as their time and budgets allow. This is a wonderful trend. Whatever we believe politically, religiously or even socially, we all can agree that we would like the natural world to thrive. We would like all of the animals we share the planet with to continue to be able to live and nurture their own families.

At Lillunia, we start with the belief that what we do really effects what are children will become. We know this as we make big and little decisions- for ourselves and for them.

At Lillunia we grow children's environment from ART-- Art based on natural scenes of animal family's in the wild. We want our children-- and your children to know about what is out there and why we do what we do each day to preserve this magical planet for them ... and for us!

Share Lillunia with your child today! www.lillunia.com

Infant Visual Stimulation and Growth

Stimulate Baby Eyes!




An infant's vision may be one of the least developed senses at birth, but visual input during the early months may have the most profound effect on your baby's developing nervous system.

Isabella's Zebras http://www.lillunia.com/-FOCUS-SERIES-ART/Isabella-s-Zebras-p60.html


At birth, a baby's brain cells are disorganized. While the infant grows, the brain receives input from all five senses. This input causes nerve cells to multiply and form myriad connections with other nerve cells. This is why visual stimulation is so crucial.

If a baby was kept blindfolded the visual center in his brain would never develop and the child would never see. On the other hand, if you provide continuous visual input into your baby's eyes, the retina thrives, the optic nerve grows, and the visual part of baby's brain develops in ever more sophisticated ways.

At the earliest stages of your baby's development, black and white and strong contrasting colors are a great way to begin stimulating your baby's vision. Research has shown that black and white contrasts register powerfully on the youngest babies retinas and send the strongest signals to the brain. Stronger signals mean more brain growth.

Lillunia recommends there magical Zebra art to begin the visual journey with your child. Isabella's Zebra's, Alexander's Zebras and our magical full-wall Lillunia Mosaic called Zoe's Zebras (http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Zoe-s-Zebras-p76.html).

Once your baby is old enough to understand what the images portray the can begin to learn the beautiful lessons about nurture and nature and the planet that all Lillunia Art strives to teach.

Please visit us at www.lillunia.com or send us an email with any questions or to learn about Customizing our Art for your unique Baby!

LILLUNIA Holiday Cards have Arrived!

Send a little LilluniA to the ones you love!

Holiday Polar Bears and Holiday Penguins (10 for $25)

Adapted from the LilluniA original water color art "Patrick's Polar Bears" and "Penelope's Penguins", LilluniA Holiday Cards are the perfect way to send your warmest holiday wishes and cheer! The message inside Holiday Penguins reads "peace on earth" and the message inside Holiday Polar Bears reads "PEACE HOPE JOY"

Each package of 100% recycled Holiday Cards comes with ten 100% recycled envelopes. A percentage of each holiday card sale will benefit charities that support the welfare of children and animals.

Please visit us at http://www.lillunia.com/ for Holiday Cards and for beautiful, educational and ecologically minded gifts for the nursery this Holiday Season.

Art and Your Child

Art and Your Child

Research has consistently shown that arts in education are fundamental to children's emotional and intellectual growth.

The Visual arts, it has been shown, improve children's content and organization of their writing; promote sophisticated reading skills and interpretation of text, and improves their reasoning about scientific images and reading preparedness.

An all around- education in the arts (dance, drama, visual arts, music etc.) Helps children learn to read, and their verbal and math skills. It has been shown also that arts in education improves children's ability to collaborate and to develop critical thinking skills.

"Notions that the arts are frivolous add-ons to a serious curriculum couldn't be further from the truth," says James Cantrell, education professor at the University of California-Los Angeles.

Schools often complain that arts programs tend to be the first cut in schools facing budget deficits. In the current financial climate, the arts in education will certainly be dealt a blow.

Bring the Arts into The Home

Parents can and should augment their children's exposure to the arts at home.

Please visit us at www.Lillunia.com. We can help parents fill a child's room with inspiring visual magic -- that contains a message of responsibility to the planet and the many wonderful creatures with whom we all share the earth.

Art and Baby Brain Development

http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Brendan-s-Lions-p43.html brendan's lions

Lillunia - Baby Brain Development

"As few as twenty years ago scientists believed that the genes we were born with wholly determined the structure of our brains. The facts recently discovered by neurologists and psychologists, however, prove that how children develop, learn, and grow depends on the critical and continual interplay between nature (or genetic endowment) and nurture (the surroundings, care, stimulation, and teachings received); ... both of these influences are crucial." (US Dept of Education)

http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Emily-s-Elephants-p54.html - emily's elephants

Studies have shown that the arts can awaken children's senses and make them more aware of the surrounding world with which they interact.
Exposing children to art from birth nurtures the intellectual process. This has been studied widely with respect to disadvantaged children and the benefits exposure to the arts has on their intellectual and emotional development. Such art exposure helps all children's social and cognitive advancement.

Grow with us!

Lillunia helps parents create stimulating and thought provoking children's environments with art that helps build children's environments where they will grow intellectually and emotionally.

Please visit us at www.lillunia.com

Play time - Bath time - Bed time

Play time - Bath time - Bed time

All babies play- play is an essential part of learning. Little fox cubs jump and run and roll as they learn about being a fox and what will be expected of them as they grow.

detail from Fiona's Foxes http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Fiona-s-Foxes-p77.html

Every baby needs a bath. Each animal, in its unique and loving way makes sure that their little ones are clean and neat and safe from harm; little lion cubs are no different.

lola's lions http://www.lillunia.com/-FOCUS-SERIES-ART/Lola-s-Lions-p68.html

And when the day is all done and night is approaching, its baby's bed time. Young horses need lots of sleep to grow strong and big. They play and eat and run and jump and at the end of the day they too need their sleep.

detail from Mathew's Spring Horses http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Mathew-s-Spring-Horses-p59.html

Come visit us at Lillunia, and allow us to show you and your child all of the wonderful things young animals do...and how alike we all are.

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All too often parents simply do not know all of the small steps they can take to encourage their children's intellectual and emotional development. Reading to children, talking to them and providing them with visual stimulation are all elements that contribute to a baby's health and well being.

In the earliest years of your baby's life, their environment is crucial. A loving and attentive environment is fundamental, but remember that their visual environment is also essential.

At Lillunia, we know that the first few months of a newborn's life are filled with endless new sites and sounds and magical people, places and animals. Studies suggest that by 3 months the content of what babies see starts to matter and they begin to give images meaning. For this reason, Lillunia thinks the road to responsible thinking adults who understand that the planet is a place of shared lives and interwoven communities, starts in the nursery.

Please visit us an www.lillunia.com and bring some of the enchantment of the natural world into your baby's world.

The Lillunia mosaic is a unique way to capture the magic of nature and show your child that they live in a magnificent world with many other families. http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Zoe-s-Zebras-p76.html

Each mosaic, from 5- 10 frames depict animal families in their natural habitats. Each frame is surrounded by one of our signature borders that can be used to coordinate the colors of your baby's space.

Lillunia also creates complimentary decoupage accessories (frames, tissue boxes, light switch covers) that compliment our images.

Experts understand that the youngest newborns can distinguish subtle shades. As early as 9 weeks old, infants’ contrast sensitivity becomes 10 times greater, allowing them to see large patterns or objects that have less than 0.5% contrast. This is nearly as good as their parents’ contrast sensitivity (0.2%). This means that by about 2 months old your baby is capable of perceiving almost all of the subtle shades and patterns that make our planet so rich and magnificent.

Content matters at this critical time in a child’s development. Lillunia understand this and takes it seriously.

All of the animals our world have parents and babies and families As a child’s visual capabilities strengthen s/he will also be learning his or her first words, matching objects with sounds and creating meaning.

By showing our children, from the very beginning of their lives, that all of us share the same planet, air and water, the same bonds between parents and children, we allow them to see and create a place for themselves in a community.

LILLUNIA: illustrate illuminate elevate

Welcome to Lillunia's first blog post!

Our lush and unique watercolors and limited edition Giclee pieces are created by a select group of artists committed to – and driven by – the Lillunia mission: to create visibly accessible and effortlessly inspiring depictions of animals and their young in nature in order to teach our children about the wonders of our world and their vital role in its future.

At Lillunia we create individual works of art as well as the "Lillunia Mosaic"; a unique twist on traditional children’s wall art and nursery décor.

The Lillunia “Mosaic” is a contemporary take on the classical mosaic and the mural. The Lillunia Mosaic is a collection of frames that depict animals and their young moving through their environments. As they move through the frames and up and around and above a child’s bedroom walls, the art wraps the child’s environment in a magical story that captures the imagination and inspires the mind.

Lillunia is part of the solution. In all that we create and do, we leave the smallest possible ecological footprint. If life is filled with the lessons we can teach one another, we take our role in the lives of your children and ours very seriously!

Please visit us at http://www.lillunia.com/