Shopping Heaven

One of my best pals Rachael has only gone and opened her very own shop in Edinburgh, and a very fine shop it is too! She has been working flat out to get it all to come together over the past few weeks and the doors opened on Saturday. I couldn't make it to the shop but have been looking at Rachael's blog for pics and thought I would share some with you. I can't wait to visit and if you are in Edinburgh pop in and say hi to her and John - Hannah Zakari, Candlemaker Row.

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Loving - Lou Lou and Oscar

I have just been having a browse of the world wide internets this morning in a bit of a lame attempt at putting off work for a while. I have loved the work of Lisa Aaron aka Lou Lou and Oscar for a long time now but it's just occurred to me that I haven't shared the love about it with you yet - so whatd'ya know here are some cute pics for you and some links in case you want to get you some Lou Lou and Oscar goodness! Oh and If you want to give the blog a read then its just a click away here.

Lapin de Lune handmade rabbit available to buy here and photographed above Serge Catty Catty is available here.

These lovely little cloth stars are available here and are just so cute that come payday on Friday I might just be tempted to get one or two to decorate me, they would make fantastic gifts for some of my friends too - link here. What a cute way to display them too - lovely.

Hope you love as much as me, maybe one day we will be lucky enough to stock some of this loveliness in the shop!

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Corella's Sketchbook

I really love Twitter and all the amazing and talented people I have been introduced to, links you can stumble upon and how great it is to check out a new followers blog or website and be so pleasantly surprised by what you see. Tonight I have done just that and had a look at this blog Corella's Sketchbook by Illustrator Donna McKenzie. Some great Illustrations and inspiration on there and well worth a cheeky look. I really love these New Specs prints, owls are always fun but these ones have got that pretty darn "To Cool For School Look" down perfectly.

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Chain Of Daisies

So lack of blogging has struck me once again, oops.

Just been a busy few weeks involving work, both Ruby Loves Red and the day job and a fair amount of helping out with house renovations at my Mother-in-Law's house in Nethy Bridge in the Scottish highlands but that is for another post.....

We have a wonderful new designer in the shop. Chain Of Daisies has created a wonderful collection of jewellery for Ruby Loves Red titled Flights Of Fancy and as you can see each piece is just beautiful. I will be adding new Chain Of Daisies stock to the shop over the next few days, as and when I can steal a bit of spare time, so if you want a closer look then you can do it here.

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The Grey Earl

Here are a few Illustrations by The Grey Earl aka Jon Bishop. Jon contacted us recently about selling his work through Ruby Loves Red and we were over the moon to oblige, how could you resist these guys, I love them all. Such wonderful characters and all so full of life. Jon has had his pencil crayon illustrations printed onto heavyweight paper and signed each one. If you fancy looking at the full range by The Grey Earl then go for it here - you won't be disappointed.

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Purses

Last week I thought I would try out something new for a change, not that I don't love sewing up new little bears and making up new creatures every now and then but I have just wanted to try out something a bit more, should I say useful for a while now and I thought I should begin with some purses. So armed with some new additions to my fabric stash and my mums old tin of vintage buttons I set to work on some trial purse ideas. The results, well take a look and see what you think...

I'm quite happy with how they turned out and love some of the fabric choices I made AND now I can successfully sew a buttonhole, I always considered this to be a bit daunting but once I got over issues with my machine sticking mid-buttonhole I was away! I have gone ahead and added these babies to the shop so if you like then you can snap em up right here.

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