Happy Spring from Lillunia!

Lillunia is in the mood for Spring with our Garden Series:

A topiary Elephant, Horse (bucking...of course) and Giraffe celebrate the joy and whimsy of Spring!

All three together add fun and magic to a nursery or little girl's bedroom!

We are feeling very playful this time of year ...so get ready for some fun and new ways to introduce your kids to the magic of the natural world! Stay tuned...

-Laura

WORK WORK WORK WORK

Hello Lovely Friends. No excuses- but I am NOT a slacker...even though we have not posted since December 2010!!! So...what has Lillunia been up to since then: We have created 3 new Lines in our Whimsical Series: Whimsical Safari, Whimsical Arctic and Whimsical OceanWe have started our Mommy & Me series with Mommy & Me Safari, our Newborn series with Newborn Bunnies & Lambs and our environmental series with butterflies, frogs and fish!

We have also completed our Safari Alphabet and our Whimsical Alphabet!

So...we apologize for being absentee- but we have been giving you our love with new ART!

Stay tuned for our revamped website with all of our images and for now- please visit us on Facebook to see what we have currently.




xoxoxox - Laura

Merry Merry Happy Happy

Within the midst of the whirl and blur of the holiday rush- we cherish the moments of silence; turning the lights off on the tree once everyone is in bed, mesmerized by the wash of colorful lights on the street and neighboring apartments from my darkened window, warming my mittened hands on a cup of coffee sitting in Central Park and watching the children play in what seems like a dream.

These moments remind us of the most vital aspects of our lives; the bits and pieces that fall away when we are busy running and rushing; the reasons...in fact...why we rush and run.

We are blessed. We are grateful. We look forward to the new year with passion and enthusiasm and a deep appreciation for the extraordinary people we have in our lives.

Laura Hill Eve Corio

From all of us at Lillunia...people and animals alike...we wish you the warmest, most peaceful and happy holidays.

A Very Lillunia Pre-Thanksgiving Thanks!

As we at Lillunia move ever forward into the exciting world of independent business ownership, we are learning so much and want to say thank you to everyone who has helped and cared and supported and loved us as we grow.

We want to thank the amazing communities of mothers and artists and bloggers and designers and business people who have shown support, love, shared incredible insight and care.

We want to thank the extraordinary children who live with our art and use their vibrant imaginations to create stories and characters from our images.

We want to thank our customers and the parents, grandparents and friends who have shared our art with their children and decided that environmental education can be taught early and through the magical world of art.

We want to thank the extraordinary world of animal families that we take as our subject matter, who teach us every day and leave us in awe at the diverse and beautifully complex fabric of our world. And

And of course, we want to deeply thank our own families for their endless support and love. We are blessed and grateful. xoxox- Lillunia

M is for Meerkat

At Lillunia we are busy little monkeys these days.

We have been painting alphabet letters and creating unique and beautiful custom name-art for families and we have been preparing like maniacs for the upcoming ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas!

O is for Ostrich

R is for Rabbit

G is for Giraffe

A is for Antelope

"MORGAN" and "JAKE" from our African Animal series will be on display as well as a host of our art (modern, mosaic, classic...etc). We can't wait! And we hope we will see you there!

The ABC Kids Expo will run from October 10-13 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV.

N is for Nyala

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Loving What We Do!

We Love What We Do

We just received a lovely review of our art from Mommy Moment (www.mommymoment.ca) and we are very grateful for this. One thing was striking, the reviewer mentioned her daughter's reaction to the art now hanging in her room. She wrote:

"I know that Anya's Giraffes will be a part of our daughters bedroom decor for many years. Now she loves to say "Ni Night raffes" as we tuck her in each night. Years from now she may love to look at the Anya's Giraffe print and dream of seeing real giraffes like this in the wild."

There is nothing that means more to us than hearing from parents about their children's' responses to our work. We love animals and art and children...but at our core we want to educate and ignite children's imaginations. And we are finding...to our great excitement, that that is exactly what is happening.

Recently my partner Eve and I went to a trade show (7W baby & Kids Fair) here in NYC. For the show, Eve brought one of our mosaics: Sophia's Vervet Monkeys" http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Sophia-s-Vervet-Monkeys-p73.html. Apparently her daughter (who's bedroom they inhabit) was not so pleased about this. In fact, a bit of a tantrum ensued: tears, crying and screaming "don't take my monkeys mommy, don't take my monkeys!" At 2 years perhaps she is not quite familiar with the term "borrow" and was quite inconsolable.

Alas - her Monkeys have returned to their home where she can dream about them and their home far away in Africa.

Each time our art moves into the bedroom...into the imagination of a child we feel that; we feel a part of their lives and imaginations and this is extraordinary.

We are so grateful...

-Laura

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We Love Dogs (and cats and horses and birds and...)!

Just beginning work on a portrait of two amazing sheep dogs. We are so in love with dogs and all of their amazing habits and talents and charms. They bring so much happiness to people and families...we are just gushing.

When we decided this past year to offer "Pet Portraits" at Lillunia we were not sure what the response would be. Well, it has been amazing. People love their dogs (and cats and horses and fish and birds...) and we LOVE to paint them. We know how special they are and we do our best to translate that for people in a way that they will be able to treasure forever.

We are animal - passionate - people here at Lillunia and we know the amazing bonds that form between people and their animals because we share them. To capture the tenderness between a parent and child in the wild is a similar experience for us to when we capture the expression of someone's beloved animal for them in a portrait.

All we can say is: Keep 'em coming! We just can't get enough of these wonderful babies!

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