New!! Tea Towels

I have just recently added a new product range to my collection, gorgeous linen/cotton printed "tea towels".

It's so lovely having something in my collection that I personally can use for myself. I have had a real urge to start creating products for my home lately. So many of my family & friends say to me flippantly, "geez Ky, when are you going to create things I can use for my house"? As much as I live for, & love creating & illustrating my kids collections, I am needing a change. It feels good, a fresh start, & additional focus without derailing from my main business. A fun way to expand & grow. I really hope you love them also?

Each tea towel is a generous sized measuring 50x70cm & made in a rich linen/cotton blend, & are an off white in colour. They wash beautifully, & prints are bright & vibrant. Perfect gifts also, and I am currently working on my fathers day collection, & of course Christmas!

You can see all designs & read details here in my shop.

NEW : Home Decor for all the family

A new area of my business is a home decor range for all of the family, not just for the kiddies. I want to introduce new designs slowly, piece by piece. For a while now I have had customers ask when can I create cushions, especially doorstops, for them & their houses. I am still trying to get my head around exactly what I want it to look like. It is hard trying to cater to everyone, & not design for one particular style. Especially colour as everyone's home is so unique to them. I know I love bright colours, but I also want to keep it neutral with pops of colour.

It's definitely a work in motion project, & today I am sharing my first piece.

I am a fan of flowers & adore this saying by Jane Austen, which I have been wanting to use it somehow for a while, but I felt the right opportunity hadn't come up for it. This first design I have created is something I would definitely put in my house. My house is fairly neutral with bold highlight colours of magenta & lots of turquoise.

A generous size 40x30cm, but not by any means domineering.

The back is finished with an oatmeal coloured cotton, based on the oatmeal & white stripe I have used in the design.

I have also created a doorstop of course! This design is now sitting happily at my front doors, & my internal door that opens straight to my garage.

Everything is now available in my online stores.

Some heart for the home

I wanted to share this set of gorgeous heart strings I bought from Set Adrift. I found them on the home page of Madeit & they grabbed my eye instantly.

I had been looking for something to hang near my front door that would look really pretty, but something that wasn't too domineering. While on holiday in Phillip Island I saw many of these styles of work in the beautiful boutiques, in different designs & in similar shapes & thought how I would love to buy some.

They are so detailed & I just love the texture.

The best part about them is that you can buy them in lots of different colours including red, which would be gorgeous for those who celebrate valentines day.

Charlotte's Bedroom

I get asked a bit what is Charlotte's bedroom like.

Today I thought I would show you.

It's been a work in progress since she was born. I was never one to set a bedroom up before my kids were born, as I believe their little personality will shine through, & that would determine how I decorate.

My walls are the same colour though the house, almost white with a hint of turquoise & white skirting boards. MMM not the best decision on the cleaning front!

So here it is with a few familiar brands I am sure you can see.

Mini Me & you Owl beanie & freckle rug.

Always bus roll from Almond Tree Frames

Winnie & Clem sun hat

Hobby horse from Rhapsody's Child

A bunting my me haha

Lanterns from Moonlight & Whimsy

Bird House from Nog n Piepe

Laser cut Owl from Bubba Bling

Wooden Tree from Rileah Designs

Accessories from Lani Banani & My Black Sheep

Miss ruby may doll

Tutu from Lani Banani

I will admit I love her little space it's always so bright.

How have you decorated your daughters bedroom?

At my house - A new feature wall

As busy as I have been I managed to find some time over the weekend to decorate a blank wall. This wall is at my house, right up against my double French doors that open to my outdoor area. I have been wanting to jazz it up for a while. Finally I got to it & took advantage of the warm weather over the weekend & got some raspberry red paint in a spray can.

I had a set of words that I bought AGES ago.

Live

Love

Laugh

They were originally in white as I always had intentions of painting them the colour I wanted. Being raspberry red of course.

Here is the wall, a very blank canvas.

A finished wall.

I have two artwork pieces I recently bought from Sweet William that I told you all about a little while ago here. It isn't completely finished as I have a couple more frames to use. I am just not sure what images I want yet. When I buy things for my house, I tend to find that they find me, it'as always when I least expect it & I have kind of accepted that way of buying.

I even have my eye on a couple of lovely embroidery hoops, I am just not sure yet.

I will keep you posted again on the next items I buy.

If you have decorated a blank space in your house, I would love to know what you did.

Another design book full of inspiration to drool over

One thing I love, as mentioned before are my design books. I am starting to be a little bit obsessive. As soon as I see something I love, I am constantly buying when funds permits. Slowly, book by book, my collection is growing.

My new book is by the extremely awesome and talented Grace Bonney of "Design Sponge". I can not wait until I can focus on reading this from cover to cover, as well as absorbing all of the inspiration & D.I.Y's to attempt. It still blows me away how the most simple things can look amazing.

I am excited just typing here, can you tell?

Here it is.

Pages that grabbed my attention already.

MMM I wonder how I could adapt these ideas to my own house?

Ha......a quilt cover made from old shirts...Who would have thought?

Here is my tiny collection. Most I have flicked through without being able to give all of my attention. Along with design sponge the other book I am still obsessed with is Holly Becker's Decor8. Definitely reading these slowly over Christmas.

If you have any other wonderful design books that you think I would love PLEASE tell me I love to discover new books. Makes me squeeeal :0)

Brand new cushion & door stop - Lady bird style

After a week of pink parties, and an explosion of lady birds fluttering around, I thought I would finish this obsession with two new products to the Tiges and Weince collection.

Lady Bird style of course!!

A brand new doorstop, which also doubles as a fabulous bookend.

And of course a matching cushion too.

Both items are now available in my shop.

I am off to a 40th birthday party today, I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday wherever you're headed or whatever you're doing xx

NEW DOOR STOPS - Vikings

New "Viking" doorstops have been added to my shop.

Two new designs I think they work really well for the boys. I like the Vikings, this one in particular, he is strong, handsome and maybe a little cooky, with a full curly beard. I think he will succeed standing tall and strong, stopping doors slamming, or holding up as book ends.

Black Viking

Blue Viking

I had no idea the door stops would sell so well and I am just loving it. My goal is to do a small range more for mums & not the kids, as I know I don't particularly want the kiddie drawings everywhere in my home. For myself, I like designs a little older. Maybe I think that way because I look at my work 24/7? Who knows.

Look what I have :0)

I got home from Soccer this morning to find a cardboard box under my door mat. I knew exactly what it was & raced to open it.

I am pretty happy to say the least.

I have looked, scanned, flicked, and said a few oohs & ahhs.

Now I just dream for the quite time to read and savour every bit of it.

I will be sure to tell you about my favourite pages and how they have inspired me.

Not everything has to be personalised

I had no idea what I was entering in to when I did my first personalised cushions. Putting your name on something is so incredibly popular. My initial idea when I started designing the collection was just to do a regular kids cushion collection. Pretty straight forward, nice and simple. Then the couple of personalised ones I did continued to sell, then I thought I'd do two more, and they sold, then two more and so on. So I guess it's you guys, the customers, that have unexpectantly altered my initial business plan slightly. But that's OK, I love doing it.

I do get a lot of queries, can I "unpersonalised' a particular design. Some can easily be altered, some not so, like the dedicated name designs.

Today's post is to let everyone know that if you like something, but don't want a name on it, that's fine just let me know. The last couple of weeks I have had several of these requests from customers and stockists.

The following have been "depersonalised".

I haven't listed them in my shop, but if you would like any of them feel free to ask me, or if you would like the name on something else removed. I will add them to my gallery & facebook decorative cushion page.

A depersonalised "Apple Pop"

A depersonalised "Monster Mash"

A depersonalised "Lady bird"

Colour Combo - Pink & Chartruese

I know we are heading into Winter (apparently), in Australia, but it doesn't mean dark dreary colours for me. No way...you know I am a colour obsessed.

These two colours I absolutely adore together.

While looking around on Etsy today, instead of working teehee, I found a couple of items that were so bright and happy I wanted to share them with you. After finding those, I intentionally went looking for more, and found some other great finds.

They are a such great, yet not always an obvious colour combination for some. When put against a white back drop, they just pop and scream happy, happy, happy. Also beautiful not just as small accessory items, try using them in your home. Splash the colour about in different shades, it doesn't have to be as rich as the shades I have shown you, tone it down.

A little bit of bright can make a statement, how about using the two colours as cushion covers on a dark lounge, there are heaps of prints around in these shades to make your own. Even paint a few boring frames around the house and sit them together with some fab prints. Paints some old vases, or buy some artwork predominantly featuring the two colours. It's just endless. I found this room featuring both colours and it works beautifully. Not so bright it would make it hard to live in, actually quite soft and soothing,

image by ohmigoshblog

If around the house makes you freak, take a look at some of the lovely jewellery pieces I found.

1.PartyPoms 2.TheSilverDog 3.gadgetarmor

4.crafteratlarge 5.fabrickjunkie1640 6.punkynmunky

7.minusOne 8.theotherjeanie 9.BlueVelvetHeart

I hope your're making something colourful today.

New fabric online stores I have found

Like most of us, I love fabric, lately I have been struggling to find the most basic of fabrics. All I want is a solid collection, with coordinating polka dots, or stripes.

Not hard hey?

Think wrong, I have found some new fabric stores but no one offers it. Just amazing prints which I don't need, and if I do find polka dots and stripes they have a multitude of colours in them.

I have been doing what I love researching with my friend google, and have found some great new fabric online shops. I am so excited to peruse each one page by page thoroughly, I have book marked them all for many future references.

Meanwhile I thought I would List all my wonderful new finds, all of which post internationally at extremely reasonable rates.

image by Frangipani fabrics

Frangipani Fabrics

eQuilter

Cia's Pallette

fabric.com

Modern Retro Textiles

z and s fabrics

Super Buzzy

Addicted to fabric

Fat Quarter Fabric

I will be sure to post some of my findings.

Custom Order

I love custom orders, especially this one.

This was one of my very first cushion designs that I made into a 40x40cm cushion.

The artwork is from a multi media piece I made. It consisted of watercolour paint, ink pen, and a felt and cotton appliqué I created.

While away at Easter I had a request to remake this and personalise it. I found just enough of the patterned fabric in my stash box to recreate it.

I have to say I am really happy with the result and hope that Finley (and Emany) love it too.

I just love custom work and am always open to anything you desire.

Just email me tigesandweince(at)gmail.com

Some eggs for Charlotte

I didn't buy chocolate for Charlotte this year, instead bought some lovely hand painted eggs from Brusselsprout kids. They were so dainty, each with a little ribbon there so they could be hung. That wasn't my intention, it was to pop them in a glass jar. This is what I have come up with.

The eggs, a glass jar, some paper twine in pink which I just love & a pink & white stripe ribbon.

I wanted the looked to be subtle, pretty, & not too over done. Really simple actually. I loosely placed in the twine at the base of the jar, then arranged each egg carefully on top of it, making sure the same design wasn't next to each other. I then placed more twine on top of the eggs, and screwed the lid on.

Done...easy hey?

I decided not to include the pink & white stripe ribbon as it made the whole thing look overdone. Overall I am happy with the simplicity.

I am just surprised that I actually finished something for a change hehehe!

Monday's Buy - Moonlight and Whimsy

As I am busily trying to get orders posted before Easter, and also because I am heading away for a few days, I don't have anything "NEW" this week to show you.

Instead I thought I would brag about a few purchases I made online today.

Charlotte is turning 1 soon & I know I want the colours pink & red, with lots of polka dots and lady bugs in the theme. I started with a couple of purchases today from Moonlight and Whimsy. A brand new store I didn't know about, & what a wonderful experience. I loved everything in there it was hard narrowing down what I wanted.

First Buy - The pink polka dot lanterns. They will be great to adorn the birthday party space, and later will look equally impressive in her bedroom.

Second Buy - These gorgeous feather butterflies, I bought the red colour, a pack of 5 of be precise. I will confess they aren't for Charlotte's birthday party but for me. I have a couple of ideas as what I want to do with them, so I will keep you posted. But don't they look great on the cake?

Third Buy - Mushroom Sprays which can be used for any type of decorative whether it be for food or the house. They have wire stems at their base. I am not sure how I will use them, but I am sure I will work it out once I get them, I think they are adorable.

I can' wait for them all to arrive.

Colour Me Raspberry

Today I wanted to show my favourite colour, it's what I call,

Raspberry

I am a huge fan of the colours pink and red, and I feel that raspberry sits somewhere in between.

Not really red, not really pink.

It's a rich, strong and vibrant colour that can make you feel warm and cosy. At the other end of the spectrum, I think it's such a fresh and clean colour in the summer months, especially when teamed with white or aqua.

It's a favourite fruit, so useful all year round, fresh is best, but so handy for cooking when frozen.

What shade of raspberry do you love most? I have determined three different types.

A more pink version, a red version, or berry version?

To me they are all delicious.

Some gorgeous raspberry inspired finds on Esty.

1. linkeldesigns

2. cherrycreek

3. GabrielleKai

4. TheWhistlingCowgirl

5. heartsandbows494

Saturday Inspiration Soak Up

I have been waiting & waiting for this book to arrive, & yesterday it did.

Orla Kiely

She is such an inspirational surface & clothing designer, I love her use of colour and simplicity. Her style is so simple and affective is blows me away. Sometimes it's so easy to over do a design, I know sometimes I add and add, then it looks over done & spoiled.

The book is full of inspirational chapters giving an inside to her life, inspiration, her use of colour, the amazing prints, the awesome collections, and how these have been used in the home.

As you can see I have photographed a few of the pages that spoke to me most.

Below is the amazing women herself, an oh how I love that stack of boxes.

Now all I need to do is grab a coffee, sit, flick, and read.

Better do it while I can as the kids are at swimming.

Hope you're having a great Saturday.

FREE Easter Inspired Magnetic Bookmark

I have been really enjoying working in my business the last 6 months, without speaking too soon, but I feel like things are starting to fall into place. It's a wonderful feeling knowing that everytime an order is posted to someone, they will be enjoying the design and product I have handmade, either for their home, or they are giving it it to somebody else for enjoyment.

For the next 2 weeks I wanted to say thank, well I actually always say thank you with this original Easter inspired magnetic bookmark.

Every order placed between now (5th April), and 20th April, in my Etsy and madeit stores will receive one of these.

Thanks xx