Wychbury Wunderkammers & Shop Display Ideas

I have a few small cupboards lying around that I thought would be perfect for 'Del Boy' style Wychbury showcases. I love the idea of turning up somewhere and opening the cupboards and selling Wychbury Victorian street style out of a box! Realistically I've converted them for some of our Wychbury stockists.
It has been proven to us time and time again that our work sells much better when grouped together rather than randomly scattered in amongst other people's work. (fondly known by Paula & I as Carrots Handbags Cheese)

This is a nice way of preventing that happening I think! (Also fits nicely in with practicing what I preach in my job. Reuse! Recycle!)

We first tried to prevent this happening when exhibiting at Created In Birmingham quite a few years ago with a pin board & then at We Are Birmingham using a wooden display shelf that my Dad had made.

    Pin Board 2010

Shelf Display 2010

Anyhoo, the first new Wychbury Wunderkammer is an Antique wooden cupboard bought from a junk shop in St Just Cornwall for a tenner quite a few years ago, now newly lined with navy felt. The second a wooden box, maybe a tool or art box rescued from a skip! Also given the felt treatment. I think the second box could do with a coat of paint, but I'm quite pleased with how they look. My favourite Wychbury display however is my antique hymn board, but I don't think I could part with that no matter how good it would look in a shop! L xxx

Antique Wooden Box 2012

Wooden Art/Tool Box 2012

Hymn Board 2010

Wychbury shop display, originally uploaded by Wychbury.

Autumn Treasures

We are in no less than THREE treasuries today! All the collections are arranged around colour, magenta, purple and turquoise blue and all feature one of my pansies. Rather than do the usual and post images of the treshes here and thank the people who listed them, I'm just going to post our flickr link so you can see the screen caps. Instead I'd like to feature the fabulous Etsians who chose us for their collections today!

Since we are well and truly into Autumn now and it's a wet day here: shoes, wheels and doormats all have soggy leaves stuck to them. I reckon I need to remind myself of the more glorious side to the season, especially since I am trying to get inspired to finish my own Autumn collection before the winter is upon us!

First up is 우리 Handmade Craft Collections, three cousins from Kuala Lumpur who make the most stunning collection of nature inspired pieces that harmonise beautifully with one another. It was really hard to choose a piece to feature here as their entire shop fits the bill for my post today, but I chose this :

This is one of the Fall in to Autumn pieces from the ladies' Autumn 2009 collection and lots more pieces in this range can be found in their shop including some stunning oak leaf cuff bracelets adorned with bugle beads - gorgeous!

우리 (Uri) means 'Mine' in Korean but there is no possessiveness here, a proportion of the profits from all the ranges in this shop are give to animal charities. This is a subject particularly close to our hearts at the moment as Lesley has been actively and bravely involved in Lush's campaign to have the ban on illegal foxhunting enforced in the UK. (We may well blog about this another time when we've calmed down about it!).

The treasury 'Blue' by the very talented and acclaimed UK bead artist Lynn Davy of Nemeton on Etsy, included my turquoise pansy corsage that, until I saw it in the collection I was going to put into hibernation until next Spring - maybe I won't now! The featured items on the main page of the Nemeton shop right now, also reflect the same deep turquoise blues that the treasury does. In her profile Lynn says that her inspiration comes from the coast and countryside near her home of Bournemouth in the UK and the rockpools she says she likes to stare into are certainly evident here.

So the STUNNING autumnal piece I have chosen from Nemeton is this amazing Forest Collar. The composition of all the garden collars in this collection is just perfect and they are so sumptuous I think if I owned one I would languish around in a diaphanous gown all day gazing at my lovely necklace instead of a rockpool!

Finally, another swell of UK talent from Lorrie Whittington of Illusio Creative. Although Lorrie produces her vibrant art in a variety of mediums (And the 'inspired by the sea' textiles series are my faves!) it is this version of her 'Falling Leaves' design that hit the spot for my Autumn mood today. The colours, the lines, the movement - beautiful :)

Lorrie also donates 15% of the sales from all her Illusio shops to the NSPCC.

Happy soggy Autumn :)

Paula xxx

Love My Greens

We are featured in yipestoo's gorgeous green treasury this week!














Thank you!

Check out her gorgeous Etsy shop: AM - PM Creations.

Lesley & Paula xXx

Packaging

We are suckers for gorgeous packaging and like to think our own Wychbury packaging makes the items a little bit more special, so we are really thrilled that our Daffodil Earrings are featured in lwhelan's lovely The Whole Package Treasury.

Check out her totally amazing pendants and pins. Just gorgeous!

xxx

What Lucky Bags...

...we are, to be included in Stitchy Woo Woo's Treasury!

Stitchy Woo Woo is an Etsian from our own Buckinghamshire in the UK with some gorgeous textiles, here's her shop : http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5637258

Thank you!

Also thanks to keepsakekatie (also in the UK - Hello Hemel Hemstead!) on Etsy for including Lesley's Dandelion Clock Brooch in her 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' Treasury West List. She has some gorgeously bright jewellery in her Etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5542311.

Love

Paula and Lesley x

The Harvest Of Art

Wychbury will have a stall at the Harvest of Art Exhibition - a sale of work by Alternative Artists. Organised by the Society of Pagan Arts, the event will be held at Maws Craft Centre, Jackfield, Nr. Ironbridge in Shropshire. on the 16th of August. Times: 10-6pm

The event is held by the river, has free parking, a cafe and free public entry!

Come and join us for a lovely day out!

Green Man Festival at Clun!

We will be at The Green Man Festival in Clun, Shropshire on Monday with lots of new goodies, including new medieval flower clips and herb garden earrings.

Come and see us and say hello! (promise we won't be in the beer tent! ;)

Here's the website link for directions and info!

http://www.clungreenman.org.uk/index.htm

Lesley & Paula. xxx

New Cards & Felt Baby Shoe photos on Flickr

We've updated the Wychbury site with some new cards today, lots of Mad March Hares, Tree Moon cards and Ivy Leaves:

http://www.wychbury.org/






Also added felt baby shoe pictures to Flickr




http://www.flickr.com/photos/wychbury/


Lazy day today, although I finally planted a load of seeds which are now sitting comfortably on my kitchen window ledge, cornflowers, marigolds, campanulas and sunflowers. Just hope the dreaded white fly doesn't attack as it has decimated my Basil.

Lesley xxx