Summer treats...

Wowzers! There is a ton of new item wonderment in store this week including beautiful jewels, fun tees, cute accessories and fab bags! Read on:

First up is our latest designer, Crywolf Clothing! The guys at Crywolf pride themselves on their ethically and eco consciously produced tees and now you can wear your own with pride too. We have two different designs available for guys and girls and you can choose between a cute Panda, or a mysterious sailing ship...see and shop them HERE!
Crywolf tees: £15 each.
We also have lots and lots of gorgeous new jewellery in store and if you like your's vintage inspired, check out the re-stocked and new pieces we have in store from This Charming Girl, Eclectic Eccentricity and Schmutzerland too!
This Charming Girl Bird Cage Necklace: £11
This Charming Girl Sailing Ship Necklace: £9
Eclectic Eccentricity Sew Much to Do sewing Machine Necklace: £17.50Eclectic Eccentricity Bye Bye Mumbai Earrings: £14.50
Schmutzerland Green Horse Necklace: £16.50
Schmutzerland Fancy Feline Ring: £12.50
Also in the jewellery department are some more of the good enough to eat gems from Scrummyland. Find cakes, chocolates, sweetie bottles and more Kawaii adornments HERE!
Scrummyland Pink Chocolate Necklace: £6.95
Scrummyland Deluxe Cake Stand Necklace: £19.95
Plus new accessories in the store come courtesy of Devon based artist Victoria Lindo who has re-stocked us with her divine little Baby Bird Brooches...nab one HERE before they all fly away!
Victoria Lindo Baby Bird Brooches: £14

Last but certainly not least we have a selection of super shopper bags from Ruthy Loves Retro. These great bags have a deep gusset for carrying all of those goodies home or transporting beach towels and the like to the seaside...get yours HERE!
Ruthy Loves Retro Shoppers: £10 each

See, told you there was a lot! Enjoy your weekend peeps :)

xXx

Jo Bradford's Short Stories

I have just come across the beautiful photography of fellow Cornish artist Jo Bradford and have fallen in love with the vibrant colours and painterly quality of her images. The images themselves seem to evoke fairytales, nostalgic stories and memories of times past...






See more of her wonderful photography here: http://bit.ly/cHd6R

Kanena and excitement!!

If you are after an earthy, boho, surfer girl vibe this summer then head on over to the Emporium to check out all of the gorgeous new jewellery I have added to the store from Kanena!!

These beautiful jewels are all hand crafted using natural pearls and gemstones and combining them with glass and wood...just so lovely, you can almost smell those balmy beach summer evenings just looking at them!


See and shop all of these and more HERE!

Oh yeah, and my exciting news that I was (not so) discreetly blabbering on about yesterday? My beau Mark and I are getting married next year!!! there was no bended knee or anything, just some awesome decision making by the pair of us...we have been together for nearly 11 years (proper teen sweethearts we were) so it's really about blinkin' time! Yay!

(See? I said it was exciting for me and probably not so for you but I have been struggling to keep it quiet until I had told everyone I hold dear - at least I think I have told everyone!!). I promise not to become a wedding bore in the meantime but I may show you pretty stationary and flowers and stuff occasionally in the run up...Just let me know if I go OTT! :)

Another newness round up...

It's been a bit of a busy week or so around here and I've been putting LOADS of lovely new things in the store which you can see a snippet of below...I hope all of you UK peeps have been able to get out and about and enjoying the sunshine as it is meant to be showery come the weekend. Traditional Glastonbury weather (to which I am not going) it seems!

So here is another quick round up of all the loveliness that has been added to the store recently. I thought it best to get it in as the next few days are going to be rather hectic with dressage lessons and competitions for 4 days in a row! I also have some very exciting personal news that I am struggling to keep a lid on - well...it's probably not that exciting for you guys but it is exciting for me anyway and a suitable thing to share on the blog none the less :) - but I haven't had the chance to tell all of my dearest yet so that will have to wait...eep!

So, new things:
New fantastic tees for guys and girls from Pinecone and Chickadee...There are more angry pandas, swooping birds, moonlit wolves and whales. You can see and shop them HERE.
Mens Organic Whale Tee: £15

Womens Wolf Tee: £18

We also have these CUTEST mobiles in from The Butter Flying! They all have little puffy fluffy clouds and brightly coloured rain drops and starting at just £9.25 would brighten up the darkest corner of any room. Shop for your favorite HERE!
Rain of Colours Mobile: £9.25

Spring Rain Clouds Mobile: £15.85

Plus there is a whole new collection of sweet and quirky jewellery in store from Pequenio Craft! These little lovelies are made from paper illustrations that have been laminated and sit alongside the prettiest faceted acrylic beads...They are available HERE!
Celeste Paper Doll Earrings: £15

Miss Poppies Necklace: £15

Last but not least I have the last few tees from Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip's library tour in stock too...I will not be making any more of these ever so once they are gone they are gone and there isn't many left peeps so get one while you can from HERE!
Mens Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Library Tour Tee: £15

Womens Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Library Tour Tee: £15

Can't stop listening to:

I was lucky enough to catch Nancy Elizabeth playing at Miss Peapods in Penryn a few months back at a show organised by my friends, Ho-Hum productions and that night the poor girl wasn't feeling too great, but enchanted the room with her soft vocals and pretty guitars...Only recently have I had her album Battle and Victory to listen to properly and it has totally blown me away all over again with its haunting sounds of harps, harmoniums and guitars alongside horns percussion and cello and lyrics of love lost and heartbreak.

I really do recommend a listen! Hear some of the tracks HERE at her Myspace...

Drawing...

At last, time was found...
Hello friend...It's been a while.


It's amazing what distracts you :)

New things...

Since I have been consistently lame on blogging lately I have been neglecting to mention all of the lovely new things that have been going into the store over the last week or so...there are lots of new jewels and accessories from our lovely consigners, so here's a l'il round up for ya-->

Beautiful, beautiful delicate jewellery from Ebony and Ivory made from vintage charms featuring little fruits, dice, animals and lots of blooms in gorgeous colours:
Ebony and Ivory Flower and Vintage White Butterfly Earrings: £20
Ebony and Ivory Cat and Yarn Bracelet: £30
Super stitched awesomeness from Custom Made, including a cute tweet brooches, scary Yeti, and little doll faces. Plus the Black Russian Doll necklace has been re-stocked too:
Custom Made Tweet Brooch: £7.50
Custom Made Russian Doll Necklace: £18.50More of the popular I Heart Tea necklaces from Emma Ferguson along with more embroidered loveliness...little dogs and anchors:
Emma Ferguson Little Brown Dog Necklace £16.50
Emma Ferguson Blue Anchor Necklace: £16.50Gorgeous anti-landfill jewellery from Kirsty Kirkpatrick. Beautiful pieces made from broken jewellery and recycled components...if you want something truely unique and eco friendly then these are the jewels and accessories for you :)
Kirsty Kirkpatrick Turquoise Lucite Pin Brooch: £13
Kirsty Kirkpatrick Dark Amber Bead Bracelet: £16Plus even more lovely beaded and charm jewellery from Alice Taylor, Snappy Sausage and Cat and Bang too!!
Alice Taylor Charming Necklace: £24
Alice Taylor Swarovski Heart Crystal Earrings: £9.50
Snappy Sausage Chunky Heart Locket Bracelet: £17
Snappy Sausage Fly Away Home Necklace: £16Cat and Bang Good Luck Charm Bracelet: £23
Cat and Bang Yellow Flower Stud Earrings: £6
Plus there is lots more from each of these artist in the store too!!

Ways to wear it!

Psst! A little showcase of one of my favorite items in the store :)

I have just received this great image showcasing all of the ways to wear one of the brilliant Stolen Thunder Tassels that we have in the accessories section of the store. Made from butter soft leather they are such versatile pieces and will be super for summer...we have them in hot pink, turquoise, white and deep purple. Snap yours up HERE!!

Some finds for you...

This weekend just gone we took a trip up to Devon to see some of Marks family which was lovely, except for the rain on Saturday...oh the rain! So torrential! Especially since we went to a charity event in a marquee, luckily there was plenty of Devonshire beers on hand to warm the cockles :)

On Sunday since we were in Devon we took a trip down to the Bovey Tracey Contemporary Craft Fair which was a very enjoyable event indeed with a very high standard of work.

One of my highlights of the show was meeting Bonbi Forest consigner Victoria Lindo who's work I find so adorable. She had a selection of her baby bird brooches and baby cats there for sale (as do we in the Emporium!) as well as some of her amazing appliqued artworks...

Another favorite was Rebecca Eardley who makes gorgeous jewellery out of cut coins. The imagery is beautiful with a really vintage and unusual feel:

I also fell in love with Penny Leaver Green's imagery of delicately stitched birds which she uses to explore themes and ideas in childrens stories and fairytales...


It was also hard not to ignore the AMAZINGNESS of Robert Race's toys:


And this lovely Fox and Hens ceramic set from Katrin Moye based on the children's book 'Rosie's Walk':

Oh so much loveliness :)

Easing back in...

My, it's been a while since I blogged again (again!) but things have been a little crazy since the Grazia blurb came out and I have been holed away making hundreds of bracelets...If you wanted one then you better hurry as they are nigh on all sold out and only available in silver now over at The Shop Floor Project --> HERE! They certainly were a hit!

Anyways, I just thought I'd start back into being a bit more regular on this here blog with a few pics of a wonderful walk Mark and I took last night to soak up the rest of the sun before it turns cold again as it forecast for this weekend. I hope the rest of you have been able to get out and about and enjoy the sun a little. Goodness knows this country could do with a good summer this year...


I love all of the weird little plants that live on top of the cliffs...so pretty and hardy at the same time :)

Grazia!!

Thanks to those lovely peeps at The Shop Floor Project I had a little write up in this weeks Grazia Magazine and am now making pretty bracelets as fast as I can!

Tea Towels and Contact Cases...

New things in the store today, yay!

We have a brand new selection of tea towels from Mr PS in the Homewares section of the store. They are so colourful and lovely and super for brightening up your kitchen. See and shop them HERE!

We also have some amazingly frivolous pill boxes and contact lens cases in store from Deco Alley too!! Covered in colourful miniature treats and sweets they are sure to make tasks that you probably don't relish all that much just that little bit more appealing...see and shop these little wonders HERE!

New Toy...

I have a new toy! A brand spanking new shiny new printer to play with, it has archival inks and I have some archival paper and together we are going to make some lovely prints of my drawings for your personal wall adornment. I'm very excited!

I have been making lots of monoprints lately and will hopefully have got the hang of the printer soon so I can get them in the store...Here are a couple of my favorites of late:


Also, I don't know how many of you out there are avid crafty peeps? I have just trawled through all of my hundreds and hundreds of beads and bobs and there are SO many. So very many more than I will be able to use so rather than have them just sit there, I have started a de-stash store on Etsy. It's called Bonbi Craft!

I only opened it yesterday and it will take me a little time to get it full, but if you are interested in checking out some interesting bits and pieces for your jewellery and craft projects you can visit the store HERE. There will be lots more on the way sooon!

Gorgeous Gorjuss!

Today I have been mostly sat watching Badminton Horse Trials on the tellybox and quietly adding some new prints from Gorjuss to the store...It has been really nice to just sit in the same place for a few hours as it has been a busy week with 4 lessons on the horses and some good headway made with the new work...I am hoping to get the first bits finished this coming week :)

Anyway, the last batch we had of these Gorjuss prints from artist Suzanne Woolcott were rather popular so we have lots more in store! I love the cute but sometimes dark and gothic sentiments and at only £10 they make really lovely gifts and affordable wall decor...They are all available HERE!

Moon on the Sea...

The moon tonight cast amazing light and shadow on the sea...It seemed like some strange phosphorescence happening at first, but it was as simple as the moon. Very beautiful, especially with the lights of the big tanker on the horizon...

New things

A selection of the new items that are in the store this week from new designers B-Kao, Scrummy, Miss Twit and Teasemade...

Bonbi Forestry

Some sneak pics of some new work I am very excited about...I just loved the shadows in the studio from the many light angles in there :)

Sushyue Liao

I came across these beautiful photographs by Sushyue Liao on the Creature Comforts blog the other day and can't stop looking at them...the colours, compositions and birds are just so amazing. Love!See more of these wonderful photographs HERE!

Valerie Hammond

Slap my wrists but I can't remember where I came across Valerie Hammond's work, I was just so blown away by it's delicate beauty and saved the page I was re-directed to before I could lose it forever...See more of these amazing lithographs and prints HERE!

Carey Young and more Tassles!!

I have just added some gorgeous purses to the store today from our newest designer, Carey Young. Carey specializes in woven textiles and the purses are made out of soft Jacquard woven fabrics and embellished with reclaimed leather panels. The colours are beautiful and they are the perfect size for keeping coins and cards safe and sound...see and shop all Carey Young purses HERE!

Back in stock we also have the popular and super versatile Babushka Tassles from Stolen Thunder and other tassles in great summer colours too. These feature peace doves and love hearts and like the Babushka Tassle close with a Stolen Thunder branded plectrum.

They are so soft and can be worn in so many different ways (as a bracelet, necklace, headband, anklet, top arm band or any other way you can think of!) they are one of my favorite wearable accessories in the store right now :)

See and shop all Stolen Thunder accessories HERE!!