Hannah Turner Ceramic Owls

The first of the new collection of Hannah turner ceramics have arrived and are taking pride of place . 

Owl teapot, creamer jug and the large jug , all very beautiful .

PRODUCTS OF THE DAY

Gorgeous set of three storage tins by Bristol artist Tom Frost for Magpie. £15.00
Part of a collection available in store , which includes teatowels, shopping bags and cake tins.

Kitsch vintage tins featuring scary puppies and children, from a large selection , various prices starting from £2.00

PRODUCTS OF THE DAY

Vintage 1950s Catseye sunglasses £12.00.

The latest addition to our vintage spectacles collection .

 Retro Rock Fruit lollies 10p each. 

My Yard Store Opening

This Friday (9th Oct) the boys and girl from My Yard open a new exciting fashion store at No 40, Park Street. Just a few doors up from us. It is definitely worth a visit if you are in the Bristol area. Support independent trade and young designers and keep the big corporates from taking over the area. Good Luck mebabbers.

Discount in Venue Magazine

If you are a Bristol local, Venue Magazine has the Student Guide Supplement this week.

We have put a discount voucher in there so you can get 20% off in the shop if you bring it with you and hand it in. Good thing is you don't have to actually be a student to use it, so if you are a student of life and you are already a regular in the shop you can still make use of it. It is valid until the 1st December so you can enjoy some massive savings on an early Christmas shop.

Park Street Mural Vandalised

Our street, where our shop is, has this big Banksy pic on it, i walk past it everyday, and it often makes me smile. I also love that most days, when i walk past it at six when the shop shuts, there is someone taking a photograph of their friends posing in front of it. People from all over the world enjoying and appreciating it.

Today there were a load of reporters and cameras around it because it has been vandalised in the night, by firing paintballs at it. There are many reports on the news and on the web. Here is one of the local ones http://tinyurl.com/m555ba.

There are plenty of people making comment about it. Me, i just think it is a shame , because i enjoy it everyday and someone has ruined that. Apparently there will be a clean up job very soon, i hope it is successful.

Banksy Exhibition at the Museum

The Banksy exhibiton at the City Museum ( just at the top of our road), came as a complete surprise to us, i have to admit. We are obviously not that cool, or in the know, to have known in advance. Turns out that very few people did know about it so I wont be beating myself up about it. Legend now has it that a whole new team of people were employed from the job centre to put it up over night so that even the museum staff didn't know about it. Banksy was , so rumour says, one of those said employees, overseeing the set up, without sharing his identity.
The exhibition will be on for a month, so do pop in and see us if you make a trip to Bristol to see it.
We are of course hoping to get a bit of a rush on our Banksy mugs an magnets.
Here is the link to our website page with the mugs on it! http://tinyurl.com/n74xoo

Cycling in Style in Bristol and beyond

Bristol is to be the first Cycling City in the UK apparently. Lots of money is to be spent on improving the cycling networks etc, and the amount of people cycling in Bristol is set to double over the next couple of years.

This can only be good news in my book, the more cyclists there are on the roads, the safer it feels, as you are definitely seen. Cycling into the centre will be quicker,cheaper,and more convenient if there are more of us doing it. I hope there are going to be lots more bike parking spaces sorted out. If you have a really snazzy bike, you can park it at the Mud Dock Bike Shed where it is going to be safe and you can get a shower as well if you want.

There is talk of a big bike rental scheme starting up soon where you can get a bike for an hour we shall look out for that.

To make your bike more individual , we have just had some retro accessories arrive, that generally, you are not going to see in the local bike shop.

We have a traditional Bike horn that makes a really big hoot, which is ideal for getting the pedestrians to move off of the cycle path!

A whirl-A-Bell, which is one of those retro whirly metal kite type things that you can attach to the frame or handlebars of your bike and makes a ringing noise as you cycle along. This would look great on one of those ladies town bikes with a basket!

We also have a completely pointless and wonderful, Bike Aeroplane, or Bike Airplane as it is called. This is a little silver plane that attaches to your handlebars with a red propellor that whizzes round when you cycle along, How cool is that! A great accessory for adults and children alike.

We are on the look out for more accessories to make your bike stand out in the crowd, right now these are available in the shop and online on our website

Banksy Mugs are back

Hoorah the Banksy mugs are back in stock, despite the snow they were delivered today. The selection we had pretty much sold out over Christmas and this is the first time we have had such a good choice since then.
The Banksy magnet tiles came in with them too. There are a few that are ideal for valentines day; The girl with a balloon, the man throwing flowers and the kissing policemen. They all come in both the mug and the magnet tile.