Barcelona Beauty

I have been fascinated by everything Spanish ever since I studied the langauage oh so many moons ago at school and have visited Espana on a number of occaisions. Barcelona with its history, tradition and wonderful Gaudi architecture has always been my favourite Spanish city and this amazing apartment in the city's centre would be my dream place to live. The designers MINIM http://www.minim.es/en have kept the orignal fabric of the old printing factory - just stunning! Thank you to Yellowtrace for finding this beauty
http://yellowtrace.com.au/blog/

Canterbury Art Exhibition

We are very pleased to be exhibiting at the Canterbury Art Exhibition Gift Shop this weekend.

The Gift Shop showcases a diverse range of innovative and contemporary merchandise including jewellery, clothing and accessories, homeware, ceramics, sculpture and glass.

A great selection of our lockets, bird, bee and balloon jewellery will be available.

Canterbury Art Exhibition
April 1-3, 2011
Canterbury Primary School
Molesworth Street
Canterbury Victoria 3126

www.canterburyart.com

New trends

It seems that the reign of the chunky, statement necklace may be over - for the time being anyway! This season it is all about fine and dainty - adorn yourself with threads of silver, pretty charms and sparkling gemstones."You don't need weight and size to make a statement!" according to those in the know.Take a look at Leoni & Vonk's new collection of sparkling silver chains with dainty charms and pendants.

These gorgeous necklaces will soon be available on our online store. In the meantime become a fan on Facebook to keep informed of when or email us on leoni@vonk.com.au.

Georgi Kay

We always have music blaring our loudly whilst we work away in our little studio - anything from a bit of 80's Wham and 90's and later Ministry of Sound Dance Anthems to a touch of Duffy and Paloma Faith. We do like to mix it up and have recently discovered this great young singer - songwriter from Perth, Georgi Kay and cannot stop playing her catchy, soulful indie tunes.

 Whilst still in her teens, Georgi has already collaborated with some of Australia’s top musicians and studios and is fast becoming a popular and accomplished performer both locally and interstate.

Described as infectious Indie pop Georgi has already won a number of high profile national awards (including the prestigious WAM song of the year for 2010) and is fast gaining a following internationally. One of our  favourites is Free, a collaboration with Perth band Stoopfresh. It seems we are in good company as the song is currently being used by Foxtel for one of their tv ads. 

Go to  http://www.georgikay.com/jukebox.html to listen for yourself!


We are very excited as Georgi is coming to Melbourne soon - see her at the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood on April 27, May 1, 4. See www.georgikay.com for more details.

....and the winner is!

We have had an amazing response to our photo competition - thank you to everyone who sent us such beautiful images and all of our friend and fans who helped us publicicise the competition. After much deliberation we have decided on Tatiana and her fab photos of Sydney with a very special mention going to Tina from Yorkshire for her serene images of the Yorkshire moors. Just to remind you here are Tatiana and Tina's images.

Tatiana's Bondi

Tina's North Yorkshire Moors

 Thank you again to everyone.

Last minute lovelies from Yorkshire

It has been a gloriously sunny long weekend here in Melbourne and we have been enjoying a short but well earnt rest at the beach - hence my tardiness at posting these stunners of the North Yorkshire Moors from Tina. They are quite beautiful and with all the horrific havoc that mother nature has thrown at the world in recent weeks it is refreshing to marvel at her beauty as well. Thanks Tina - they are well timed entries!

Thank you to everyone who has sent us such beautiful images of where you live - we have been overwhelmed with the response and will be announcing the winner tomorrow.

From Santa Monica to Fitzroy

We are very exicited to have fans from all over the world. We have recieved this stunning view of Santa Monica, California from Rosh and closer to home the stunning shot of Fitzroy from Alex. You have one more week to get your images to us - the competition closes next Friday 11 March. Get snapping!

Santa Monica, California

Marion Lane, Fitzroy

St Kilda Town Hall - here we come

Magnolia Square at St Kilda Town Hall starts today at 5pm and goes through to Sunday at 4pm (with a little rest in between!). Come along and see some gorgeous products for you, your home and your kids.We will be there with some great one-off pieces made form vintage finds and of course some Leoni & Vonk classics. Go to www.magnoliasquare.com.au for all the details

 

An eclectic mix at Magnolia Square

Come and see us at Magnolia Square this week . For the first time we will have an eclectic mix of limited edition pieces on show – short run pendants such as quirky black and white images, stunning white pearl crosses, oriental carved wood and Let your spirit fly and sterling silver charms all on sterling silver chain. We also have some gorgeous one off pieces made from vintage marcasite watches and brooches collected over the years from both local and European travels. These pieces cannot be repeated so be quick not to miss out! Our Leoni & Vonk classics will, of course also be available. Hope to see you there!

www.magnoliasquare.com.au 


We have had lots of great entries for our photography competition - see more great images here tomorrow>

Photo Competition Entrants

We have had a great response to our Why We Love Where We Live Competition. Keep them coming to go in the draw to win one of our gorgeous lockets. Here are some of the entrants to date

Aspen from Cindy in Colarado

"Even the industrial part of Port Melbourne can look good on the right day
and through the right iPhone app" from Max

Stunning images of Broome from Deb


........and don't forget you can see us at Magnolia Square - St Kilda Town this weekend. http://www.magnoliasquare.com.au/

Photo Competition - Why we love where we live.

We are very lucky to work (and for me - live) in vibrant St Kilda which will be hosting next weeks first Melbourne Magnolia Square of the year at St Kilda Town Hall (see pictures below)

The grand St Kilda Hall - venue of next weeks Magnolia Square

St Kilda is a constant inspiration to us with its cosmopolitan vibe, great and sometimes grand architecture, busy cafes and shops and of course its beach with the city skyline rising dramatically in the distance. Below are some of our fave images of St Kilda and its surrounds. We would love to see images of where you live and/or work - post an image onto our Leoni & Vonk Facebook page or email it to me at leoni@vonk.com.au and you could win one of our sterling silver and glass lockets. Perfect to store your favourite image. Tell all your friends - we would love to see photos from far and wide and will have a mini gallery on this blog to show them off!

St Kilda skyline with Luna Park

St Kilda Beach with the city in the distance

St Kilda Beach

Luna Park

St Kilda Cemetry

Get snapping we can't wait to see your photos and hopefully see all you Melbourne dwellers at St Kilda Town Hall next week!

Magnolia Square - St Kilda Town Hall - 3 to 6 March

See you there!

Lifeinstyle Sydney 2011

Thank you to all our lovely stockists both old and new who came to see us in Sydney last week. We had a very successful show meeting old friends and making lots of new ones!

We had our own little meeting place and had lots of fun with other exhibitors. Unfortunatley Maria had her phone and brand new glasses stolen (not good!) but our spirits were lifted by the very well acted crime scene reconstruction by Simon from Hamb  and Nick from Printspace . A special award goes to Nick for his fantastic performance of a limping/twitching prime suspect.

Hamb

Printspace

                                                       
 A very special award for tactful comments goes to Maria for announcing rather loudly that a certain celebrity was in the building - without noticing that the celebrity was sitting opposite her. She claims that she did not recognise the lovely Olivia without her black shiny leggings and big hair!

All in all the show was a great success and we are now busy starting to fulfill the many orders we took.

Before........and after!

Despite a mad rush to the airport and alot of angst as to whether our poster, display furniture would arrive safely.......all was good! Under ridiculously hot lights we got the furniture unpacked and constructed and the jewellery out on display.........phew! After a great meal and a few glasses of delicious rioja wine we are now ready for whatever tomorrow throws at us.

http://www.lifeinstyle.com.au/

Thank you

Our new season catalogue was sent out to all our great retailers this morning in preparation for the Lifeinstyle show later this week. The response has been amazing with enquiries and orders already coming in. Thank you to everyone for their continuing support. Here is another fab photo of our beautiful model Grace wearing one of the new Let your spirit fly necklaces.

We would like to say a great big THANK YOU to her and the wonderful Paul from BoutiqueHQ. Paul puts up with our techno ignorance and comes up with great images like the one above time and time again. If you need anything creative he's your man! you can find him at http://www.boutiquehq.com/

Phew...finished!

We have been working extremely hard this week getting all the new range photographed and catalogued ....and phew we have finished! A bit blurry eyed and fuzzy brained - but hey it's done! Here are some yummy images of a couple of our new earrings.

A new look book is on its way.

Lucky charm necklace - new season jewellery

Sterling silver lucky charm necklace with faceted briolette stone - another one of our new lovelies for the new season.

Wow

Wow - what a great shot - need we say more!

The stunning new sterling silver flower neckalce will be available soon.

New Jewellery

New jewellery for a new season - Let your spirit fly!

New Banner

Here is our gorgeous new banner which we will be using to promote our new season collection - Let Your Spirit Fly. We have lots of beautiful new designs which we will launch at Lifeinstyle in Sydney. Watch this space for images and more information.