Looby Lou Designs was founded by Lucy Bowler in 2005 …….in the shed at the bottom of the garden!
Lucy designed her range of contemporary canvas kits to creatively inspire boys and girls from 3+ years to make their own special and personalised pictures.
All products are carefully designed to encourage children to have fun and use their own creativity, which gives wonderful individual results. The kits are also designed to give children confidence to explore and find their own “making” idea.
Lucy has also written and illustrated story line instructions or poems within the kits to encourage learning of expression, visualisation, reading and writing skills.
Reading the short story together helps set the scene and also offers a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time with children.
As a BA Design Craft student, a mother of three and a designer maker, Lucy absolutely supports the introduction of craft at an early age.
“Some of my earliest memories are of asking my grandma to teach me to knit and crochet, making dolls and sending paintings to Tony Hart! I recognise that I had a great introduction to craft and I sincerely believe this has led to my interest now.”
That is why it is important to Lucy that all products contain the loveliest fabrics, hand dyed silk ribbons and the most interesting embellishments Lucy can find – which little boys and girls just love. The kit’s packaging is also cherished and useful as it is a canvas bag that can also be personalised.
“I hope to encourage and inspire children to look around them, appreciate beautiful and interesting things…and get creative!”
Lucy now has an ever-growing range including Little Art, Little Stitch, Mini Art, Children’s party in a box and Looby Lou’s Bits n Bobs, with plans to develop the range further.
“Lovely gift…..” says Jane of Staffordshire, “given to my very ‘crafty’ 6 year old who absolutely loved making it and keeps looking at his finished picture stating how proud he is”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the whole world”
Albert Einstein
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For more information contact:
Lucy Bowler www.loobyloudesigns.co.uk
loobyloudesigns@tiscali.co.uk Tel : 01869 345510
