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