New home in the south

We have another new stockist The Purple Finch has landed at Rosie's Cupboard in Hobart. Rosie’s Cupboard is such a beautiful shop with loads of lovely goods.

If you are out and about in Hobart you will have to drop into the shop they are located at

435 Macquarie Street South Hobart 7004

Cool find from - Orange You Lucky

Hi everyone !

Well this weeks inspiration was from a cute blog that I have come across

Orange You Lucky is a cute blog ran by Helen who is an illustrator and has posted up these cute bookplates these are cute little freebies that would look lovely inside your books you can get them here

Out and About

Image by Little Twig

Was out and about early this week in Hobart and stumbled upon the Little Twig range in Funky Homes, I have always loved the work by Emily and Peta these two are just super talented and seeing the designs in the shop just made me feel like going on a spending spree and buying a few.

At the moment loving the new range by Little Twig and I hope to bump into them at a market sometime soon.

If you have not seen there range Little Twigg is a must to check out. The new bird range is a must to see

The Purple Finch Photo Shoot

Last weekend The Purple Finch products were modelled by the lovely Megan. On Saturday morning I was a bit unsure if the shoot would go ahead it was a bit of a miserable day, but luckily the weather held up and I was able to snap some lovely shoots

Here is a little view of the shoot hope that you like it

Photography by - Vikashni Moyle

Would love to have your comments, what do you think about the shoot?

The Winner Is.........

Thanks to all who entered the comp,

and congratulations to Annie from Redbamboo I have chosen to use the name gum drops the earrings kind of remind me of hubba bubba bubblegum

I will get in touch with you soon with your prize.

Competition win a set of earrings

I have finally got around to getting stock up for these earrings, now I need a name for this collection and I cant think of anything.

So a challenge for everyone reading, to win a pair of these earrings in a colour of your choice. You will needs to

Post a comment which includes
A proposed collection name
And your contact details, email will be best.

Winner of the prize will be the best collection name, Winner will be announced Wednesday the 14th of April 2010.


Here is a sneak peek at what will be coming to an online store and local store's

More images comming soon,

Inspired to design

I have had this ring for a long time my dad has a stone cutting hobby and has cut many gemstones, this one he made for my mum when they first got together.

My mum gave me this ring a while back and its one of many beautiful fine jewellery pieces that I have in my collection. I don’t really ware many of my other rings because they don’t really go with my beautify wedding bands which is very Victorian inspired.

I have a massive love of Victorian jewellery and fashion, just recently I decided to get an idea that I had in my head and transform it into some lovely pieces

Here is a little sneak peek at a few pieces which is part of a Victorian inspired collection

Three pice drop earring

One pice lace earring

Under the shade of a bonsai tree and their lovely products

The lovely Jacquie from Under the shade of a bonsai tree now has stock in Cocoon Launceston, such a lovely product if you get a chance check out the work on etsy and made it.



Jacquie makes lovely pendants created from polymer clay and finished with a glossy Japanese chiyogami design just divine. There is also a nice selection of earrings, bookmarks, hair clips, rings and bracelets. Not to mention a cute floral range as well

Scottie Dog

Well just a few more days until the Niche market and I am happy to post a sneak peek of a new plush design. Introducing the Plush Scottie Dog,

Let me know what you think of the new plush.

also thanks to my wonderful husband for taking the pictures
Images by Photobat

Handmade Gifts

Don’t you just love handmade gifts? I sure do, now I’m not talking about designer handmade like what you get at a market or see online. I am talking about a different kind of handmade.

I little while back my little sister who is 7 years old made me two earrings, One day when I went over to my mums house I got a cute little package from my sister. The out side of this little handmade envelop had some writing on it reading “To Vicki Love Samantha” and it was filled with drawings of little hearts and kisses. Sam can’t spell my real name so she just shortened it. Anyway I opened up the little envelop and to my surprise there was two sets of earrings that she had made. I will have to say for a 7 year old she did a fantastic job with matching the beads and assembling the earrings together. So a big well done to my little sister it is always so nice when you get a little gift out of the blue which you know that a lot of love and effort has gone into it. I think these types of gifts are the best.

Samantha


The earrings




Do you have a cool handmade gift story? Would love to hear it.