best-selling gifts 2011

Jane Muir - garden - ceramics

Mary Fellows - It's a Beautiful Day print

 

Ruth Green - Fin - print

Janine Partington - seedhead - enamel

Judith Rowe - storage jar - ceramics

as a round up for 2011 - we've created a gallery of our best-selling gifts - which one's do you #love? here are a few of my all-time favourites, i love the way Jane Muir's garden flowers jingle and tinkle together to create a lovely sound when they move...

On Christmas Day...

Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you for all your good wishes & a Happy New Year 2012. Here's a shot I took of a beautiful traditional wreath on Christmas day 2011, it looked so great on this 15th century door :)

Jehane Boden Spiers - christmas wreath

MBE congratulations to Leigh Spiers

Leigh & John Spiers at the palace

A big congratulations to Leigh for collecting her MBE today for services to the ARTS, as Director of Volunteering for The Art Fund for 10 years. Here she is looking fabulous at the palace :) The Art Fund is a key national charity which helps museums & galleries buy art, to date they have helped save 860 000 pieces of art...

Leigh & Lorna - happy in hats

jehane's gift-wrap in situ

Jessica & Elise's Xmas tree - gift-wrap by Jehane Boden Spiers

Jehane Boden Spiers - woodland stripe giftwrap

Jehane Boden Spiers - trees giftwrap

thanks to the lovely _Jesssssica_ for her tweet showing her presents wrapped up under her christmas tree, all wrapped in my Christmas wrapping paper :) nice to see it in situ!

buzz! buzz! buzz!

A lady contacted me recently saying she had kept my Paper House 'Bees' greeting-card & would love to buy the original artwork for her husband's 50th Birthday gift - he's crazy about Bees! Here's a shot of the design & the finished framed embroidered artwork. I have often created similar sized pieces or large hand-made cards for special birthdays on bespoke themes, from Bee-hives to Music & Robert burns...

Jehane Boden Spiers - Buzz!Buzz!Buzz!

Jehane Boden Spiers - framed artwork

Jehane Boden Spiers - embroidered hand-made cards

hannah cole - commissions

Hannah Cole - waiting by the old beach hut

commission hannah cole to do a painting featuring your own dog, this piece has just been commissioned for a 50th birthday present, featuring a dog called 'Stitch'....what's your dog called?

tis the season to be merry

here are some of my embroidered designs hand-made to commission: extra large gift-tags & an A5 embroidered Christmas card using Indian silk, each design is hand-painted and combined with gold foil & embroidery, the little candles are all made up of free-hand machine embroidery in copper, gold or silver thread.

Jehane Boden Spiers - christmas gift tags

Jehane Boden Spiers - tree gift-tag

Jehane Boden Spiers - luxury hand-made card

Art House on FACEBOOK

social media evening tonight! be the first person to LIKE our new Facebook Art House Licensing fan page...

Art House - new on Twitter

want to follow our tweets from sister company Art House Licensing? keep up-to-date with trends, artists & licensing news. tweet us @arthouselicense or @artyellowhouse

Art House Licensing - @arthouselicense

selling like hot cakes - janine partington cards

it's a treat to finally receive these gorgeous cards by Janine Partington - printed with multi-coloured foil with a silver foiled frame around the main design, they certainly do Janine's beautiful enamels justice. Available to buy from yellow house art in a choice of x 12 images...

Janine Partington - foiled cards nature designs

Janine Partington - foiled cards in birdie designs

Janine Partington - foiled cards floral designs

Janine Partington - set of x 12 foiled cards

Janine Partington - foiled cards still life designs

facebook page - yellow house

keep up to date - i keep forgetting to add a post about our yellow house art facebook page - hope you LIKE it!

Skye Rogers - paper bliss

Skye Rogers - Paper Bliss book

 

this is a great project to do with the kids, or just for yourself! Watch designer Skye Rogers presenting how to make an accordion book, recycle unwanted or admired books into 3-D paper sculptures or even hang on your Christmas tree....just one of many ideas from Skye's forthcoming Paper Bliss book published by Harper Collins in 2012. Skye's the limit!

one for my top ten list of books

This is brilliant! You have to discover this hugely fascinating novel by Shirley Jackson - an effortless read with poetic descriptions, we unanimously fedback that 'We loved it!' at book club on Friday. Notably, the only other book about which the group has been unanimously positive was another Jackson novel. This haunting illustration for 'We have Always Lived at the Castle' is an arresting match for a book about love, loss, isolation, mind-set, judgement, & the tricks of our perception...

Jane Muir - the next generation

welcome to the next generation of Jane Muir stoneware ceramic people who arrived today, I have been looking forward to meeting them, especially as they spent a couple of nights in the Brighton post office depot. They are now settled in at The Yellow House, with a view of the sea, and wondering where their next homes will be...i love the patterned dress on Mrs Darcy

Jane Muir - the little peeps have arrived

which one's your favourite? Mr & Mrs Moss

love this patterned dress - Mr & Mrs Darcy

special glazes - Mr & Mrs Rainbow

mollie makes - issue eight

we were approached by 'mollie makes' magazine to run a feature on yellow house artist Annette Bugansky's ingenious textural ceramics based on knitted structures, mollie makes is a beautifully produced scandinavian style publication; dedicated to craft & design, including excellent 'make your own' features every month....a great discovery. love this postcard cotton tablecloth shown on page 59 from berryred

Annette Bugansky - ceramics

postcard cotton tablecloth

scandi style - mollie makes

Este MacCleod

Este Maccleod - black italian figs with vino

Este MacCleod - summer's day with watering can

just received these great prints by Este MacCleod featuring decorative plant-pots, orchids, and hand-painted furniture with sensitive detail, we've been a fan for ages so it's great to finally have some of her prints to offer...these are my two favourites

Clare Stiles stylie

Clare Stiles - crosshatch cuffs

Clare Stiles - butterfly cuffs

Clare Stiles - dragonfly cuff

Orders for these gorgeous printed aluminium cuffs by Clare Stiles keep coming through, including Japan today! Thank you to Elizabeth Tesitor in the US for all your positive feedback on our customer service (& we hope you continue to enjoy all four of your special cuffs!)....these are great for Winter, the aluminium heats up as you wear the piece so they act as little radiators. Smooth as velvet and non-scratch, we like your style Clare!

Nicola Becci - such a star

i love these new pieces by my long-time favourite yellow house jeweller Nicola Becci, hand-etched words oxidised on silver pendants, brooches & earrings. I know which one I'd love to unwrap on Christmas day!

my favourite - oval pendant - Nicola Becci

round pendant with brass heart - Nicola Becci

silver brooch with brass heart & stars

Lee & Holly's Open House

Looking forward to Lee & Holly's Christmas Open House - lots of talented folk and i have heard rumours about home-made cakes...Graham Carter has some great deals and Lee is selling older work at crazy low prices! The little reindeers are paper decorations, supplied flat on a piece of A4 paper which you cut out and fold into little figures by mibo

@ travilla book launch

fantastic evening @ the Altitude in London, celebrating the launch of Andrew Hansford's book on Hollywood costume designer 'William Travilla' - published by Carlton Publishing Group. Andrew's dedication and passion shone through - we especially liked your red sequins glue-gunned onto your suit! Marilyn's original gold lame dress was worn by Strictly Ballroom professional dancer Kristina Rihanoff - what a responsibility! Travilla's images are licensed by us @ Art House Licensing & have been made into beautiful cards by Five Dollar Shake
 

Gold lame dress & the most famous white dress from 'Seven Year Itch'

Dressing Marilyn by Andrew Hansford

Sue with Beth from Five Dollar Shake

Kristina Rinahoff

Andrew Hansford