New Jewellery Artist ths week is Kirstin Moore

We are excited to have Jewellery Artist Kirstin Moore join us. Kirstin makes the most exquisite Freshwater Pearl Necklaces, Earrings and Bracelets. She then adds garnets and black onyx to make really striking pieces of jewellery that you will want to wear or give as a present for the special person in your life.

Freshwater Pearl and Garnet Necklace £39.95

 

 

Each of Kirstin's pieces of jewellery on  www.cherrypickedforyou.co.uk are from The Regency Collection. This collection is inspired by the jewellery of the regency period using beautiful freshwater pearls, which were fashionable at the time, and complimenting them with semi-precious stones to add an extra dimension. Each piece is hand strung onto sterling silver wire adding a modern twist to the pieces.

Freshwater Pearl and Garnet Bracelet £24.95

This classy 8 inch bracelet is made of 6mm Grade AA freshwater pearls and 4mm round garnet beads. The silver wire setting on this bracelet accentuates the depth of colour of the garnet beads and beautifully reflects the warmth of the freshwater pearls.  A cluster drop emphasised by a stunning single coin pearl enhances the piece perfectly.

Freshwater Pearl and Garnet Earrings £17.95

These gorgeous cluster drop earrings combining beautiful 6mm Grade AA creamy white Freshwater Pearls with rich 4mm red garnets strung on silver wire match the bracelet and necklace and make a wonderful set of jewellery. Each piece can be worn separately but together they make a stunning collection.

Artists' Open Houses in Brighton and Hove and Fairy Sales Have Gone Through the Roof!

It is Monday afternoon as I write this and still I am feeling exhilarated. We have just completed our third weekend where we opened our house to the public as part of the May Festival. Most of the beautiful products on our website were displayed and the feedback from the people who came through our door was just brilliant. Running a website can be a little isolating as I'm not sure how our customers view the collection but hearing them praise it's coherence and tell us how inspiring it all is, coupled with the comments people left in our Visitor's Book is just overwhelming.

Every one loved the fairies, both Betty Bib's and Halinka's. Remember Halinka has designed us our very own fairies with cherry berets with green stalks,befitting to our name: www.cherrypickedforyou.co.uk

Our very own Cherry Orchard Fairy Couple

The Male Fairy has a choice of Lady in different attire - lucky!

 

 

 

Halinka is also well known for her rabbits and, of course, she had to design us the most adorable rabbits with cherry red jackets.

Betty Bib has also designed us our very own fairies. Betty Bib (aka Lesley Buckingham) is a renowned Fairy Artist, having written three best selling books on fairies which she not only wrote but illustrated too. These Sparkly Fairies can only be purchased from us:

Betty Bib's Boxed Fairies - each with her own special name in a scroll in the lid

Fairy sales during the Artists' Open House weekends have been very high. The biggest seller being the Betty Bib Fairy in a box that has her own secret name in a scroll in the lid which can only be discovered when she becomes yours! With so many fairies to choose from their was a frenzy of purchases but not before much deliberation as each fairy is unique.

We have one more weekend, which starts next Saturday, 28th May and goes through to Sunday 29th May. So come and visit us at 52 Carlisle Road, Hove, East Sussex between 11 am to  5 pm on either day and you will be guaranteed to see a fabulous collection of textiles, ceramics, wood, glass, jewellery,  and felt.

New Artist on Cherry Picked For You This Week is Jools Yasities

We are very excited to have Jools Yasities join our illustrious group of artists this week. Jools makes exquisite handmade books with gorgeous textile or leather covers. These books take several hours to make, and sometimes even days, as so much love and devotion goes into making each one.

Tall Leather Hand Bound Book £23.99

This is an elegant, tactile book incorporating 10 signatures of 16 pages each, making 160 pages in total, in plain white, unlined paper of 90gsm. A feature seam decorates the front cover, oversewn with black thread on this butter soft leather. Coptic stitching adds to that extra special handmade charm, and ensures the pages lay comfortably flat when working. The inner cover sports a complimentary multi-striped heavyweight paper. This book is the perfect size and weight to travel with and write or draw in style. It would make a wonderful present for the special person in your life or a daily treat for yourself as it makes a great diary.

Large Abstract Flower Hand Bound Journal £18.50

This Journal cover is inspired by umbel flower forms in nature, the covers are unbleached cotton, the back being plain and the front a riot of gorgeous grey, washy watercolour effect flower shapes. Consisting of 12 hand stitched signatures of 16 plain, unlined pages, 192 pages in total. The paper is 90gsm, which is sutiable for ink and dry media.

Small Leather Hand Bound Book £20

This is a very soft and supple grained leather.  Four eyelets on each cover are threaded with thick suede thonging that can be wrapped round the book or tied to keep it closed securely. Coptic stitching ensures that the pages will lay flat when open.  Consisting of 10 signatures of 12 plain, unlined pages, 120 pages in total. The paper is 90gsm and suitable for ink or dry media.

New Textile Artist on Cherry Picked For You This Week is Charlotte Macey

We are so excited that Charlotte Macey's beautiful linen homewares are now available on our website:
www.cherrypickedforyou.co.uk

Charlotte makes gorgeous tea cosies:

beautiful coffee cosies

and darling egg cosies

and lets not forget the cushions

All lovingly handmade in her Cotswold studio.

Watch out for our next blog as we will be posting details of our Open House. We are going to be on the West Hove Trail in the Brighton Festival and our house will be open to the public between 11am - 5 pm on each weekend starting 7th May and throughout the month where you will be able to see all the gorgeous products from Cherry Picked For You!

Best wishes, Nina

New Textile Artist this week - Tracy Evans

We are so delighted that Tracy Evans has joined our illustrious group of artists. Tracy is a textile designer and maker who uses traditional hand weaving techniques to create high quality hand crafted products from a mix of natural fibres such as lambswool, silk and cotton. The purse below is hand woven using a honeycomb structure which gives the small squares a three dimensional appearance. It has a zip fastening and is lined with plain navy blue silk.

This beautiful handwoven purse is a bargain for £12 with free postage!

Each piece is individually crafted and made in limited numbers appealing to a contemporary market looking for something a little different to what you can buy on the high street. Tracy is inspired by her seaside surroundings. The sand rippled stripes in the cushion below are caused by shrinkage of the wool during the laundering process which creates a felting effect.

Weave structures combined with a clever use of yarn proportioning and finishing processes create pieces which are tactile with a three dimensional quality. The corsage on the cushion is removable and can be worn on an outfit.

Tracy also makes beautiful hand woven journal and notebook covers that are easily removable so when the book is used a new one can be slipped in to its place.

Finally, in her spare time, Tracy likes to do a bit of ceramic work. She makes these attractive porcelain buttons. Each one is hand cut, hand glazed and fired.

There are many more to choose from on cherrypickedforyou  as Tracy's buttons come in sets of three and individual designs.

Have a great weekend.

Two New Artists Join Our Website This Week! Ken Eardley and Cath Ball.

Ken Eardley's range of fun but functional Jugs

Two Ceramic Artists have joined our illustrious group of artists this week. Coincidently, both of them worked with textiles before coming to ceramics. 

Ken Eardley now creates a fun and graphic range of functional ceramics for kitchens and interiors.  His pieces are handmade glazed earthenware which are fired three times and are made using press moulds. Leaves, Birds, Flowers, Fruit are his trademark designs which are distinctly recognisable. Because Ken's work is so popular, customers have to wait one to two months for an order. But here at Cherry Picked For You, we are going to stock some of Ken's gorgeous products so we will be able to dispatch them immediately. Although, there will be some items that you will have to wait for as we cannot stock everything as Ken's range is very extensive and every design is made in nine different colours, namely: aqua, baby blue, chococlate brown, green, lime green, orange, pink, red, turquoise, white and yellow.

Cath Ball is a young British designer-maker. She graduated from Cumbria Institute of Arts with a BA Hons in Contemporary Applied Arts and now works from her own studio at home.  Each of Cath's pieces is handcrafted using fine white Porcelain clay which is fired to 1260 degrees. She draws inspiration from the texture of fabrics such as lace and combines this with simple forms and colours. The main colours she uses are inspired by the sand and the sea.

Cath Ball's Porcelain Mug with textured lace design

We are so excited to have both these Ceramicists on CPFY. We now have a total of TEN Ceramic Artists on our website. So this is definitely the place to shop if you are looking for that  unique gift for the special person in your life or as a treat for yourself and your home.

Have a great weekend. The sun is shinning and it looks set to be a good one. Living a couple of hundred yards from the sea we shall spend Sunday watching the runners in the Brighton Marathon run along the seafront.

Best wishes, Nina

New Artist this week - Halinka Fraser

We are so excited about our New Artist who joined us this week. Halinka Fraser is well known as Halinka's Fairies. She designs and makes the most eye-catching couples imaginable. She has many fairies and little characters in her collection and now she has designed and made us our own exclusive fairy couples. All Halinka's fairies and characters are sold as couples. The Cherry Orchard couple have berets in red with a green stalk emerging from the top just like cherries. What could be more appropriate for Cherry Picked For You!

The male of this couple is a lucky man. He has the choice of two attractive ladies, wearing different attire.

So you can choose to buy Cherry Orchard couple 1 or Cherry Orchard couple 2. Halinka didn't stop there. She then went on to design and make us our own Cherry Blossom Fairy Couple. Their attire of lime green and white is fresh and Spring like, just like cherry blossoms, waiting to be plucked and sent to you.

And finally, Halinka is known for her rabbit collection. These are sold individually and Halinka has designed and made us three rabbits, a white, brown or green rabbit.  All three rabbits are wearing a cherry red jacket.

Aren't they just adorable! We are delighted with these designs and any of you discerning people who already collect Halinka's fairies and rabbits will want to add these to your collection. And the good news is one of these rabbits can be bought for a mere £15. All that work and care and attention to detail, all individually handmade and lovingly sent to you for such a small sum of money. They would make great Easter bunnies which could hang from twigs or put on a wall somewhere in your home. They make great gifts too.

Have a great weekend.