Clara at The Shop Floor Project

Do you know The Shop Floor Project? It's an online shop selling gorgeous things made by UK designer-makers, including Clara Francis jewellery, and it now has a bricks and mortar shop which opened in the Autumn last year. We went to visit the shop in Ulverston over the holidays, and this is what we saw:

Clara Francis jewellery

Morse code blanket by Holly Berry

Leather bag by GDH leatherwork

a chance to win a beaded fox necklace - competition ends 13th Jan

Don't forget you have a chance to win a hand beaded fox necklace from Clara Francis!

Check out the competition details on Kirstie Allsopp's Handmade Britain website - answers have to submitted just before midnight (11.59pm) on 13th January 2012.

Christmas sparkle

A garland of butterflies, flowers and a bug

Clara has made this beautiful necklace of rainbow-hued butterflies, pink fan flowers and little green pansies and a bug in the centre- it reminds of summer days as we head towards deepest mid winter.

 

This necklace is not on our webshop - contact us at info@clarafrancis.co.uk if you would like more details

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds

Next on the Book Club reading list is 'Wild Hares and Hummingbirds' by Stephen Moss - a year-long nature diary of the village of Mark in the Somerset Levels.

The book's title refers to Hummingbird Hawkmoths...but here is our vintage green hummingbird made by Clara 

And our favourite gold hare

win a beaded fox necklace: Kirstie Allsopp's Handmade Britain

Now's your chance to win a hand beaded fox necklace from Clara Francis!
We've been enjoying watching Kirstie's Handmade Britain on Channel 4 - we're going to try out some of her brilliant ideas from the 12 Crafts of Christmas programme.

Check out the competition details on her Handmade Britain website, and you could be the lucky winner of our beautiful fox...

Glass flowers at Harvard's Museum of Natural History

Here at Clara Francis HQ we are surrounded by glass beads, in ever hue and shade...you could say we are a little bit obsessed with glass...
We think these glass botanical models are amazing. They were made in the Blaschka's studio near Dresden, Germany from 1887 to 1936 for Harvard's Botanical Musuem.

Daisies (pic found here)

Apricot branch (pic found here)

Iris (pic found here)