The Berylune Blog

Why not decorate some plain tags?

Another fabulous box of stuff arrived last week, challenging Lomo's position as our 'most favouritest package ever'.

The Zatchels came.

This is our second order. We are so pleased the people of Leamington seem to like them as much as we do! We adore the vintage styling with a modern, brightly coloured, twist.

Amy had a special order on the shipment, a 14.5" satchel in cornflower blue, with a top...

Here we have a jam jar that once contained honey, covered in various patterns of washi tape. Washi is slightly opaque, so when you put a tea light inside it emits a rather pleasing glow. Sorry, no glow pictures, I've been waiting for a warm, dry evening to try it out. Ha.

Our friendly neighbourhood boat fitter has kindly installed this for us:
so we can now access this:
without fear of breaking our ankles on the old step.

Our Mum very kindly waved her magic (hard working) wand, filling our back yard with potted plants. Thanks guys, our 'walled garden' as we are pretentiously calling it is really starting to take shape!

We have another new stock item this week!

Our Vintage Tin Sewing Kits  have been going down a storm. People buy them as a gift for someone leaving home or going off to Uni, or for themselves if they don't have a kit and would like to start small sewing projects or fixing their own clothes.

We've noticed those who can already sew, and already have everything they need, admire them but really don't...

The Washi keyboard being part 1.

Here we have a plain old kraft notebook, decorated with beloved Washi stripes.


We finished off the rough edges inside with more washi. Another example can be found here, along with a handy tutorial! They have cut theirs off at the edges, also cool.

Mya came in to our shop today. She admired a chair that was just the right size and shape for her 14 month old frame. She gave it a little try, picked it up and moved it around, sat on it and smiled for the camera, admired the jersey woven seat (nice and soft for younger bums!) and stood on it to check the craftsmanship of the chair itself. Mya then gave a polite nod to one of her entourage (her...

Our very favourite package arrived yesterday.

No, don't wash your keyboard, that might break it. Washi your keyboad, so it looks just lovely, like this one:


As found at Tinkering Times.

Now I have an old Microsoft keyboard at home that I just can't seem to find a replacement for, despite it being the ugliest thing. I just can't type on anything else. The letters are nicely separated and stand proud of the board, which is nicely sloped and so...

If you missed the post, Katie at Madhatters Craft Studio gave us this fabulous piggy bank:

Christine Cuddihy - Easy-Bake

Tina Baxter - Sherbet

Ana Jongskul ‎- Bebe

Clare Mee -...

I don't know what to call these. If I call them 'brooches', it sounds like men can't wear them. So I suppose they are 'badges', but they're a bit posher than your average badge.

They are paper images mounted on wood and cut to shape.


I think my favourite is the hoola girl at the moment. We have dozens of other images available in store, from 40's pin-ups to flying saucers!

We have been gluing again. Often we miss the findings and glue things to ourselves. Some of us more often than others (Amy).  I think perhaps there is a new body-art form in the making. Though I'm relatively certain the glue we use is not supposed to be stuck to one's skin.

The result of our gluing:

If, like us, you love all things Fawn, with a few Bunnies thrown in for good measure, you'll love our new vintage stock:


We are especially enamored with the transfers and are fighting the compulsion to stick them to the counter, so if you're interested you had better get down here fast! I blame Disney.

Berylune, 45 Park Street, Leamington Spa CV32 4QN.  www.berylune.co.uk

It's all go with the new stock lines coming in! These cute bird brooches are now in our shop, available in all the colours of the rainbow (would you believe?).

They're back!

Those of you who remember our completely sold out Vintage-Tin-Sewing-Kits from the Christmas Markets will be pleased (we hope) to hear they are back in stock! We have improved the contents to include a snazzy pair of sharp embroidery scissors. They come with a pretty tag attached with colourful baker's twine, so make a great gift.

We have another new stock item in this week. Amy is very very excited about this one. So much so that within minutes of the delivery arriving, an example was made up with a crochet lace strap and everything.


It's possibly the prettiest pinhole camera I've ever seen. We'll be loading it up with some film this week to see what shots we get from around the shop...

We met with some lovely and talented...

We were visited by Katie at Mad Hatter's Craft Studio this morning. Katie hosts ceramic painting parties in her studio, as well as offering a mobile service where she can bring all her gear to you! We were exploring the possibility of working together in our upstairs craft room... Watch this space!

Katie kindly brought us a shop-warming present... and here he or she is!



We need a name for our new...

and Pink, Brown, Turquoise and many more. All the colours of the rainbow, as you would expect.

I don't suppose I should be surprised that our customised wool berets are selling during British Summertime should I? Here's me thinking berets are for Winter. A couple of examples of our recent additions below:




They are covered in an expertly selected (or totally random!) mixture of vintage buttons and...

We have just taken delivery of our new snack pots. The animal ones are 7.5cm in diameter, and we can think of hundreds of things to store in them.

 Examples include:

A fist full of grapes
A collection of buttons
Some dip
Needles
Treasures
Washi tape
Earrings
A mini sewing kit for in your handbag
Jelly
Hair accessories
Jacks
Nuts & Seeds
Coffee or Tea when you go camping
2 Profiteroles
Glitter
Paperclips

I think...

We have recently been running a promotion with Rebecca over at OneSugarPlease to win a goodie bag full of, well, goodies, from around our shop. Rebecca asked people to comment on why they think supporting independent shops is important.



A winning entry has now been picked.

JoC on May 27, 2012 at 8:37 pm said: