Lilikoi Lane: Custom Applique Shirts and Onsies

lilikoilogo I'm not a big shopper, except when it comes to my kids. I get sucked in when it comes to the next big thing in toys and I'm not any better when it comes to their clothes. When buying clothes for my kids I'm drawn to one-of-a-kind or unique items, so you can image my excitement when I discovered Lilikoi Lane.

Lilikoi Lane is a Canadian company that creates very cute aplique onsies and shirts for your little one. The owner and designer Crystal creates other items like pacifier clips, purses and iPod/cell phone holders and more.

fishshirt One of the items I like is her custom shirts and onsies, which is what she made for my youngest daughter. Through her online store I was able to choose the shirt size I wanted, the aplique image (she currently has 16 different ones but that keeps growing and changing) and the fabric for the aplique (from a gallery of 100+ fun and funky swatches).

I loved the flaming fish from Lilikoi Lane's gallery but since the shirt was for my daughter I let her pick the fabric. After we ordered, Crystal sent a note saying she received the order and that it would be about two weeks to prepare. She was great at keeping me in the loop with my order and even sent an email with a picture before she shipped the shirt out.

fishpackage As promised, about two weeks later our package arrived and it even included a nice hand written note. Lilikoi Lane washed the finished shirt in Ivory Snow so my daughter could wear her shirt right away, which of course she did. She wore it around proudly explaining she created it (she remembered picking out the fabric). I was impressed with how soft the fabric felt. My daughter's worn her fish shirt many times and it's been washed many times and it still looks and feels great. My daughter loves that this is her shirt; her's because it's not passed down from her older sister but her's also because she helped create it.

If you're on Facebook, join Lilikoi Lane's fan page to keep in the loop on new designs, fabrics and giveaways.

Lilikoi Lane is offering Everything Mom readers a special discount on their purchases made within the next month. Enter the code EM10 to receive 10% off of your purchase of $10.00 or more and EM20 for 20% off of your purchase of $25.00 or more. (expires February 10, 2009)

GIVEAWAY!

Lilikoi Lane is getting ready to launch a new line of Iron On Appliques of their designs. One (1) lucky Everything Mom can be one of the first to have one. You will get to choose the design and the fabric used. To enter all you need to do is visit Lilikoi Lane's fabric selections gallery and let us know what fabric you would choose. But make sure to leave your comment before January 18, 2009 because after that we'll be randomly choosing a name. Contest is open to both Canada and United States

* Product provided for review.

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Posted by Carrie Anne in clothing reviews on January 09, 2010