Remember we've moved

We just thought we'd type a quick post on here to remind you that we've moved our blog to here on our shiny new website with online store, and we'd hate you to miss all the great blog posts about the fab new products we've got in stock ready for Christmas. Also be sure to follow us so you don't miss seeing the Christmas gift guides we will be posting soon....hopefully they will help to make the hard task of present buying a little bit easier!

This Blog is Moving

Hello

Sorry that we've not been blogging here for a while, we've been really busy getting our online shop ready and we are really happy to say that the new site launched today.
The new site has a Blog included and from now on we'll be blogging away on there instead.

Thanks for following us here and I hope you continue to follow us at our new Blog.

New Stock

Sorry for the long delay in blogging, we've been busy sourcing new stock for the shop, and co -ordinating new artists to exhibit in the upstairs gallery.

We've also been working with web designers to create a shiny new website with an online shop which we hope to launch in the summer.

So lots happening and we'll be blogging more about it all soon. In the meantime remember to check out our facebook page for quick updates and heres a selection of some of the new stock in the shop:

Newsletter

If you'd like to keep up to date with whats happening and learn a bit more about the gallery and the artists we have exhibiting then please sign up for our Newsletter. We promise we won't be sending them out every week!, just a few times a year to keep people up to date with goings on.

sign up via our website www.northrockgallery.com

We are still thinking about Spring here at the gallery and are pleased to have received more of the Matchstick Garden kits in the shop, they were very popular at Christams time and sold out quickly.

New in are the Micro Giardini - mini gardens in a tin. Each can is filled with seeds and growing compound which in a few weeks become a flowering vase. The Kitchen Garden has 12 diferent vegetables to choose from as do the fower assortment, including: Petunia, Sunflower and Zinnia.

These past few sunny dys mean that Mark has finally had the chance to get outdoors again and has been off to Whalsay and West Burrafirth taking photos, some examples can be viewed on his blog: Phatsheep Photo Blog and will appear as new prints in the gallery soon.

Sunny Spring Prints by Sugarloop

We are really pleased to have a selection of uplifting prints from New Zealand Artist Bernadette Spikes, also known as Sugarloop now for sale in the gallery.

Bernadette finds inspiration from the following sources: mid-century kitchenware, furniture and textile prints; vintage wallpaper; Scandinavian design; Florence Broadhurst; Lotta Jansdotter; Marimekko and; Lefor-Openo.

Valentines Day Gift Ideas

A selection of gifts currently available in the shop, Clockwise from top centre:

Raspberry and Papaya Candle by Pintail £7.75 ; Heart Paperclips in a Magnetic Box £5.75 ;Scarlett micro brooch by Lovely Pigeon £10.00; Spotty Heart Bangle by JojoJewellery £32.00; Lips phone £28.75 Heart Ear-rings by Jojo Jewellery £14.00; Retro Flower Mug by Orla Keily £7.50; Floral Heart Brooch by Jojo Jewellery £25.00

Cute products for cute babies

We are really pleased to have recieved our delivery of Toby Tiger products, some lovely jersey blankets and very cute little jersery baby hats.

Perfect gifts for any cute new baby

New Cards in Stock for All Occasions

We have just received a delivery of cards from C-Maw and SoulUk. Above is a selection of the ones already out on the shelves but there will be Valentines cards, Mothers Day Cards and Easter Cards appearing soon.

Happy New Year!

We hope everyone has had a lovely Festive Season. We had a lovely break and are now back to business as usual, albeit still in the snow.

We look forward to an exciting year for the Gallery with new artists work coming in over the next few months and new and varied stock continually arriving in the shop.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2010 from all at North Rock Gallery

Christmas Opening Hours

Our opening hours in the run up to Christmas are as follows:

Mon - 9:30am - 5:15pm

Tue - 9:30am - 5:15pm

Wed - 12noon - 5:15pm

Thur - 9:30am - 9pm

Fri - 9:30am - 5:15pm

Sat - 9:30am -5:15pm

Sun - 12noon - 4pm

We will close at 5pm on Christmas eve and remain closed until Tuesday 5th January when normal opening hours will commence.

Christmas is coming.....

We are now almost fully stocked for Christmas thanks to last weeks arrival of brooches and cute little hairclips from Lovely Pigeon and some more prints from Jane Foster.

We also have a good few new suppliers including Alice Melvin, Andrea Williamson, Karen Davies Stained Glass (Christmas stained glass decorations due in early next week).

ISAK products have been selling fast and another order, including some new designs we haven't stocked before, should be with us in the next few days.

We are now on Facebook and Twitter so please follow us there for more updates.

Flock of Birds Arrive in Shop

A few days ago the postman delivered a much awaited parcel of new stock from Hannah Turner Ceramics. Her retro designed ceramic birds are as cute and comical in person as they look online and a selection of baby birds, chatterbills, crested fantails and the like are now at home on the shelves in our shop. I'm sure they won't be there long before they are all snapped up.

Exciting New Arrival....

We are very happy (and a peerie bit excited) to say that Alfie has arrived.

We are taking a bit of time out from the shop so our opening hours are reduced for the next couple of weeks to the following:

Weeks commencing 7th and 14th September

Mon - Closed

Tues - Closed

Wed - Closed

Thur - Open 9:30 - 5:15

Fri - Open 9:30 - 5:15

Sat - Open 9:30 - 5:15

Sun - Closed

Scandi Style

We are really pleased to have receive some great new stock in the shop from English based Scandinavian designer Sandra Isaksson, her Company ISAK produces some stylish homewares.

We currently have in stock a selection of breadboards,which are made from compressed wood (from sustainable sources) and then laminated. This makes them able to withstand heat which also means they make great placemats for the table:

Trays made from sustainable sourced birchwod and part handmade in Sweden:





All the trays and breadboards come with free re-useable 100% cotton tote bag




and cute porcelain pots with oak lids:

Pictures and Prints

Now that we are a few months into being open I thought I'd put together a little post about all the lovely artwork we've got in the shop right now.

The gallery space has been exhibiting photography by Mark, a selection of photos from his fairly extensive collection of Shetland images, lots of coastal scenes but some other stuff too. We're sticking with this exhibition in the gallery for just now but we'll be mixing it up with a a few other artists in the coming months, in the meantime Mark is changing the photos he's got on the walls so theres always something new to look at.

Downstairs in the shop area we have a small selection of orginal watercolours of Shetland by local artist Mary Shearer, only a couple left now....

We also have a selection of screenprinted artworks, some of them limited edition by various British artists:

Recently arrived are 2 lovely framed images by Lisa Jones, who also makes the cute googley eyed cards we've been stocking since we opened.

Lovely hand pulled screenprints by Bold an Noble, we are very pleased to get these prints in stock as they have been featuring in all the interiors and design magazines lately. We have some of these framed but a larger selection are available to browse through in the print bins in the upstairs gallery.

Lastly we have a variety of framed limited edition screen prints by Jane Foster, these have been very popular and we're happy to have a second order of them in stock now with new designs and colours.

Advert and Website Updates

Mark has been busy taking lots of product shots of the lovely stock we've got in the shop at the moment, and he's made us up a publicity poster which I hope gives a good indication of the range of stuff we've got for sale!

We've also quickly updated the website, its still a holding page for more to come.......hopefully in the near future the online shop will be up and running.

In the meantime amuse yourself by finding out your interior decorating style by taking this quiz by The International School of Color and Design ( found via How About Orange Blog)

Busy Weekend and More Stock in the Shop

We've had a busy weekend taking part in the Flavour of Shetland event on Victoria pier where we were selling our photography and textiles in the scorching heat (its a hard life!). Its back to normal shop-life today and I'm really pleased to say that we've got some more lovely prints in from Jane Foster

and some of her cool retro cats like these:

New Brooches in the Shop

We had some of these lovely brooches from Jane Smallcombe in stock when we opened but they've been so popular we had nearly sold out. So I was really pleased when we had another delivery of these brooches arrive today.
They are all handmade by Jane and each one is unique, she never makes exactly the same one twice, clever lady.

We are expecting more new stock in over the next few days.....very exciting

S

PhatSheep Fabric Arrives

Bolts of PhatSheep Fabric in the Croft House and Fair Isle Jumper designs arrived yesterday. This is upholstery weight fabric, great for interiors projects.

It will be for sale by the metre in the shop in the next few days, I'm pleased to be able to offer these fabrics for sale finally after so many requests, I think they'd make great curtains......