hannah turner owls

Been so looking forward to these! Ceramic artist Hannah Turner has added a very stylish family of owls to join her range of quirky and retro inspired birdies and these magnicent little felllows have been making themselves quite at home here at boo vake. We have them in 3 sizes - all the way from 7cm to a rather grand 14.5cm.

A new delivery from the very very talented ladies at Lush Designs arrived this week including these rather fabulous teatowels. We now have the wild pigs lampshades, fox & cubs bags & cushions, and the horse cushions back in stock along with some rather lovely new fox & cubs pendant shades (image to come soon).
hell's kitchen & teacup ladies teatowels £11

aamos designs

We've had some fantastic textiles arriving in the shop recently - among which are beautiful woven scarves, purses, & cushions from Shetland designers Aamos Designs (Emma Blain & Claire Henry). See more of their designs here.
purses (designs like cushions)£22, scarves (yellow/grey, pink/grey, light grey/dk grey)£47, cushions £47

make your mitts

Now the timing may not be the best (although it's still pretty chilly in Perth) but we now have these fabulous make your mitts kits from Dundee based Hilary Grant in the shop. Each kit contains four knitted & felted lambswool panels, lambswool yarn in 4 colors, and illustrated instructions & templates to make your own entirely unique pair of woolly mittens. Love them! Follow Hilary's blog here .

all kits have different panel & yarn combinations. £16.50 each

thank you!

A belated thank you to the marvellous Sarah & Graeme who very kindly looked after boo vake for me on the Saturday (10th) when I was away enjoying the tail end of a break in the Czech Republic. This was their second time helping out in the shop (the first being when I fell off a chair and broke my knee a few years ago) and apparently it still hasn't put them off. Thank you both - much appreciated!

a wee break

boo vake will be taking a wee break over the next week (so we will be CLOSED the normal Tues, Wed, Thurs, & Fri).
...but we will be back OPEN on Saturday the 10th.

Wishing everybody a happy Easter!

filling those shelves

Lots of lovely new things have been appearing on our shelves this week including some gorgeous new ceramics from Donna Wilson. Beaker Owl (above) has got to be my favourite - a bit of a stunner.

Also from her new ceramic range we have the bone china Meg and Birds Nest plates.

And another new string to this very talented lady's bow is her new printed cotton range. We have Meg cushions and beards nest lavender bags.

Oh and I almost forgot - lambswool combs - to keep your Donna Wilson cushions tip top.

ps. the use my beard to dry your dishes teatowel is back in stock!

beaker owl £12, plates £20, meg cushion £37, beards nest lavender bag £9.50, teatowels £11, lambswool comb £4.50

some new teatowels

Teatowels have become a very popular and inexpensive way of getting a great bit of colour and design into our homes from our favourite artists & designers. And here at boo vake we have quite a collection at the moment from the likes of Gillian Kyle, Lush Designs, Donna Wilson & Mr PS. Joining those we now have a fabulous new one (above) from Fife based artist Hilke MacIntyre from her linocut feeding the ducks. And also (below) London's waiting teatowel from Susie Brooks and moths teatowel from John Dilnot. Whether you dry your dishes with them or pin them to your wall is entirely up to you!

All come with fold-around card packaging with a mini biog of each artist. £8 each.

robots, elephants & vegetables

Aah don't you love him?! He's the new Sentinel robot clock we have in the shop from The Original Metal Box Company.

Also new in are these very clever solar-powered nightnightlights. See that smiley sun above the robot, well that's backed by a little solar panel which you attach to a sunny window and during the day the little night light charges up and at night you pop it back into the back of your cheery robot or elephant to give a reassuring back-glow.

And with spring having kind of sprung and gardening back on the agenda we have this rather lovely Harvest seed cabinet (herbs & spices cabinet or CD cabinet if you like).

Robots, elephants & vegetables all designed by the renowned '60s designer Cifford Richards (who has much of his work from the '60s & '70s in the collection of the V&A) and is still very much (alive &) designing today.

sentinel clock £32, nightnightlight £34, seed box (20cmx20cm) £42. made from powder coated steel

first cycle

First (proper) cycle of the year last weekend - Pitlochry and round Loch Tummel (loch above) - the dark area was the bit that wasn't frozen. The wee book said mostly flat with a little bit of hill - my weary legs begged to differ! Luckily there weren't many real cyclists around to witness this struggle.

badges, badges, badges

I love badges, especially good big ones, and here are some great badges we have in from Bristol based illustrator & designer Fiona Hamilton. Choose from birds, insects, rodents & wrestlers! Small £1.50, large £2.50

the return of stripey pipey

Stripey Pipey is back.....and he's brought with him Nosey and a new mini-sized lavender Snook. All knitted by The Black Rabbit. Media Mittens are back in stock too!

islay spalding jewellery

New silver & resin jewellery in the shop now from Islay Spalding!! Here's just a small selection of what's on offer from her biomorph, berry & sweet sweet collections. Most of the biomorph range (like above) have a different colour of resin on either side. The majority of pieces are hallmarked at Edinburgh Assay Office.

Islay also very kindly sent on a raffle prize I won way back in November at the Christmas Extravaganza she organised in the WASPS studios in Dundee. Thanks Islay! Never win - didn't check. Exhibiting there were Scottish members of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery and also artists from the WASPS studios and I now own a necklace by Dauvit Alexander - also known as The Justified Sinner. He has a blog right here.

jayne stephen

New to boo vake.....accessories from Fort William based textile maker Jayne Stephen. Jayne makes leather corsages and necklaces of handmade leather beads. She also makes the most fantastic collars from Harris Tweed and ribbon (sorry don't have an image yet).

something new?

Managed to defrost those fingers yet?.....why not try your hand at a bit of crochet, needle-felting, or a spot of embroidery with these new yummy wool taster kits (complete with instructions) from Rachel Henderson. Who knows where it might lead!
Now in the shop at the rather splendid price of £6 each.

brrrrr....

It's so so cold here in Perth today (again) and oh so lovely. February has been amazingly dry, bright and full of blue skies so I'm a bit disinclined to make any negative comments about the toe freezing cold for fear of breaking the spell.
Anyway lots of new things have been making their way onto the shelves here in the shop and I'll have a few updates coming up on some of those very soon!

(I'm sitting here in the shop in 2 pairs of tights, socks, jeggings/treggings(?), boots, t-shirt, long sleeved top, thick lined dress, 2 cardigans, wrist-warmers and scarf and this guy has just passed in a pair of shorts!)

al's house

The house my brother designed for his mother-in-law is featured in today's Scotsman Magazine. He has also got a new website which you can find here!

isak fika cups

Look what's just arrived! I've been looking forward to having these for a while now. It's the new set of Fika cups (or bowls) from Isak, designed by English based Swedish designer Sandra Isaksson. They come packed in twos in a beautiful Isak designed box. Use them as cups for your espresso, as little bowls, or even for a wee dram or other tipple (oh go on!).

box of 2 cups (with 1 harvest & 1 familjen design) £18

miso funky

Some fabulous 'emo-broidery' from Claire from Miso Funky now on our shelves. Full of deep wisdom and helpful advice. My favourite at the moment is 'be nice or go home'.

The perfect house/wedding/birthday/valentine gift. Every home should have one!

alice melvin

New cut-out-&-make cards from Edinburgh based illustrator Alice Melvin - now in the shop!

Also, great fun is to be had with Alice's cut-out-&-dress paper peg dolls. Meet Mr & Mrs Peg!

hearts & hotties....

We have some cute little lambswool lavender hearts from Catherine Tough in the shop now! They come in lots of stripey or dotty red & pink combos in a cute (there...I've said it again) little box. Perfect for a wee Valentines gift.

Now the days might be getting a bitty longer with the eeking out of those extra precious minutes of daylight every day but don't be fooled - the chill most definately ain't left yet. Time to snuggle up in style with one of the Catherine Tough lambswool hotties (with hot water bottle inside) we have at boo vake now! Also we have a new selection of Catherine's lambswool socks in some great colours.

lavender hearts in box £11.50, hotties £29, socks £17-£19.50

ps. also newly in -

handmade felted heart brooches from Lynne Ramsay; more aprons, teatowels & bags from Gillian Kyle (and some new teacake baby bibs); a new delivery of mix 'n' match ceramic coasters from Ceri White; more felt brooches & bangles from Syrah Jay.

new gemma correll

Ah, what more needs to be said??...the pugs not drugs bag from Gemma Correll - and a selection of doggy cards & doggy pocket mirrors - now in boo vake!

more collage kits

More collage kits by Anthony Zinonos now in!