Saturday, October 29, 2011

Scathingly Brilliant

Do you recognise Kate from Scathingly Brilliant
She's pretty recognisable with her gorgeous signature pink beehive! 
This week she blogged an outfit post which features 
Under the Shade of a Bonsai Tree.
Here she is wearing the Green and Hearts Doily Brooch
I love how her tights are the same gorgeous kelly green as the brooch.



I've added the pics to this page - lots of stunning outfit photos featuring my jewellery.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Frankie Magazine


Have you seen the latest Frankie mag?
Check out Page 49.
My Cherry Blossom Necklace has a spot in the MadeIt ad.
Since the mag has hit stores,
I've been getting lots more lovely sales.
You can check out the full-size advertisement ---> here.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

New Range - now for sale!


All the new products have been listed in my 2 online stores:
MADEIT
and
ETSY

I'm selling them all at a special introductory price for a limited time!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

The New Range is out! Ja! Ja! Wunderbar!


The process behind getting this new range finalised took quite a while - from coming up with the ideas, sketching these ideas, creating them on the computer, working out which materials and colours to use, and getting them laser cut, then making some adjustments, to assembling all the pieces and taking these photos. I'm yet to list them in my online stores or letting my lovely stockists know about the new products but hopefully this week! I'll need to get some better photos taken first - these are quite bad indeed.

The concept for this range came about from my recent trip to Bavaria, Germany. Whilst spending time in the alps and seeing all these German icons, I was already able to sketch a few ideas which I thought would work well on my laser cut jewellery.
(I decided to use Tasmanian Myrtle, Tasmanian Oak and a mix of coloured acrylic)

They're a little bit quirkier than my other designs but I couldn't help myself!

If you're keen for something before they're officially available, please email me and we can work something out - contact@shadeofabonsai.com


Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Keep Calm and Buy Tasmanian



Are you a Tasmanian artist/crafter or one who appreciates Tasmanian art?

Do you like Tasmanian Art, Craft & Design on Facebook?

It's a page I set up a while ago to help spread news
about Tasmanian artists work and upcoming events.

Here is a banner I've made to spread the message too.
Perhaps you'd like to share the image as well.
Christmas is approaching - time to start shopping handmade.



Saturday, October 8, 2011

Under the Shade of a Bonsai Tree on the WWW

  • Liesl is wearing my earrings in this outfit post. I love this pic with her plaited hair and these deep blue chrysanthemum earrings. Have a look at her whole outfit here.


  • Have you visited the Oh Hello Friend blog? Danni is so sweet and her blog is really the cutest. If you go to this page, you can spot a super special discount code for my etsy store.

  • Donna was the lucky winner of my Facebook giveaway. She won floral earrings, ring and a Bluebird and Blossoms Brooch. She posted some great photos in which she is wearing her prizes. Cute, huh?! Check out her blog entry here.

Gift Wrapped Always


I love to wrap all purchases from my online stores to make them look pretty (and at no extra charge!) Here are a few pics that some lovely peeps have taken at the arrival of some Under the Shade of a Bonsai Tree jewellery. I can even enclose a personalised card if you're buying as a gift.

Online stores:
http://www.ShadeOfABonsai.etsy.com
http://www.madeit.com.au/ShadeOfABonsaiTree