January 21, 2012
What About Organising A Cheese, Wine And Handmade Earrings Party?
Handmade Earrings Go Along With Wine and Cheese on Orkney!
You can find a shop in the centre of Kirkwall, on the tiny island of Orkney, that showcases amazing ranges of jewelry. From a Celtic pendant to handmade earrings you will discover something for everyone. This is the only retail outlet which markets this range of locally-made fine jewellery.
Even so this Alladin’s Cave provides much more than handmade earrings and jewelry for almost every event. Custom made clothes and accessories from some of Orkney’s top designers and craftspeople are showcased there. After making your jewellery choices you could peruse gifts, clothes, artwork, pottery and many other Orkney classics.
The original jewelry pieces were sold in this shop back in the 1960s, it was then owned by the present jewellery designer’s father and mother. She had just graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and desired an outlet for her landmark heritage jewelry. So she started her jewellery business from a grocer’s, rather an unconventional idea! Nonetheless her popularity grew, and over the years she has grown to be known right across the UK, faraway from this little isle.
The very first shop on this site was called Kirkness and Gorie and was started in 1859 by her great-great grandfather. It started as a family grocer and later became a wine merchant offering continental produce. This service to tourists and the local people of Orkney has been extended over the years and now there is another shop, entered via a connecting courtyard, which sells wine and wool. Here another member of the family attends to business and also runs Orkney’s only wine festival every year. This started as a bit of an experiment, but has developed to be an eagerly anticipated event.
Handmade Earrings Are Merely The Tip Of The Iceberg
However, this week gourmet cheese has been added onto the range of delicacies on offer, to the delight of connoisseurs across Orkney. He is pursuing the trend set by the original Victorian owners in importing only the very best wine and food.
So there were parties this week with corks popping and happy faces saying “cheese”. Among the choice of cheeses on offer were hand made classics from Scotland, England, Wales, Spain, Italy and France. One can find fine farmhouse cheeses made in Orkney too which are sold all over the country.
So now Broad Street in Kirkwall possesses a one-stop shop for designer clothing, gifts, textiles, accessories, cheese, wine, wool – together with handmade earrings and Celtic pendant creations that reflect the Norse heritage of this northerly isle.
Cheese, wine and handmade earrings might appear to be an unusual combination and you may wish to have something more modern-day than a Celtic pendant. In any case you’ll find numerous bargains and different designs on this web site.
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