We’re working with some of our designers this year to create exclusive collection especially for Hannah Zakari customers, it’s been a really exciting project and the very first collaboration is here! Check out these gorgeous feather designs exclusive to Hannah Zakari, made by the wonderful Lovely Pigeon.
You can shop our exclusive feathery collection by Lovely Pigeon (plus her Pigeometry collection) right here *clicky click*!
What’s your favourite piece?
Rachael x
Did you see the new items I added by Hayley Kruger yesterday?
Hayley designs her jewellery for the women that she imagined she would grow up to be. Taking inspiration from strong female icons in history and popular culture such as Miriam Makeba, Barbarella, Joan of Arc and Cleopatra. I’m such a fan of her work, and it definitely adds something new to Hannah Zakari, don’t you think?
You can check out the whole collection on Hayley’s page.
Rachael x
I’ve been getting so much new stuff in lately it’s been pretty hard to keep up with blogging about them all, but I am very excited about this range and I reckon a sneak peek is in order.
These pieces are by our latest designer, Upper Metal Class, and they’re not available on the website yet but they will be very soon indeed!
If you follow me on Twitter, then you’ll know I have a love hate relationship with my camera and the absolute horror that is taking photographs of sterling silver jewellery, but these turned out well. I wonder if the images show off just how tiny and delicate these pieces are, the macro lense is really handy for this sort of photography but I’m aiming to get a few model shots of them for scale too.
I hope you like these and I’ll update the post as soon as their available online, along with the rest of the collection.
Rachael x
We’ve had so much new stuff in our post lately it’s taken all my efforts to keep up to date with it all – pricing, tagging, photographing, etc, etc – there’s a fair bit of work involved to get it from my desk to the website!
One of my latest finds is Labyrinth Vintage who I met at Tokyo Design week. She had travelled from Thailand to take part and I was immediately taken with her trinket style jewellery, all inspired by her original drawings, then cast and made in brass.
Here’s some of my top pieces from the collection, starting with my favourite piece, the Lady In Bird Necklace – too cute!
This sweet little bunny locket opens up to hide your secrets!
This beautiful lace necklace and earrings are real statement pieces
And for you sewing lovers we have some adorable cotton spool necklaces!
Hope you like them as much as I do!
Rachael x
Layla Amber is one of my favourite HZ designers, and is a customer favourite too, so I was very excited to receive a bumper parcel with her latest collection the other week.
Here are my favourite pieces from the collection, and you can check it out along with her adorable previous collection on the Hannah Zakari webshoppe.
Cute, huh?
I’m so excited about this collection from Australia’s bRainbow! Beautifully designed and made by husband and wife team Akiko and Orrr, you can see the full collection on the bRainbow page on the HZ webshoppe.
R x
Competition now closed, and the winner is…
Laura – @la_bertinelli – yay! You get all the gorgeous goodies in the picture!
Our runners up are…
Sarah (@fadeupyoursmile) and Helen H – you will both win your favourite item as linked in the comment you left!
Please can you all email me (rachael@hannahzakari.co.uk) with your name and address and I’ll post your prizes out this week 
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Apologies for my tardiness in doing this last competition, life has a way of creeping up on you unexpectedly at times and threw my usual routine off course for a few weeks there!
So, without further ado, here are the wonderful prizes for the last in our series of competitions…
You can win some of our best selling pieces of jewellery including a Polli Fox Necklace, a Layla Amber Budgie Ring, a Petit Plat Macaron Ring, Michelle Chang Pyramid Earrings, plus 2 items from my own collection which are currently unavailable online – a pretty vintage necklace and the tiniest Elephant Charm Bracelet – AND a Wolf and Moon collar necklace which sold out in our shoppe so fast we didn’t have time to get them online (but the new collection will be available online soon they’re online now). Altogether this prize is worth £150!
So, how do you enter?
All you need to do is leave a comment below with a link to your favourite item of jewellery from Hannah Zakari and tell me why you like it best.
You’ll also get an extra entry if you RETWEET THIS TWEET to help spread the word about the Hannah Zakari website.
You’ll get another entry if you SHARE THIS ON FACEBOOK.
The competition will run until Tuesday 7th February at 3 pm and the winner will be chosen at random by me, later that day.
Good luck!
Rachael x
PS we are having to moderate comments due to stupid amounts of spam we’re getting. Please be patient as all entries will be approved asap.
If you’ve been following me on Twitter then you’ll probably know that over the last few weeks John and I have been doing up the back of the shoppe. We’re finally close to finishing, and I’m pretty pleased with the results! I thought I’d share some images of the process…
This is how the back of our shop looked before Christmas, it was a bit cluttered to my eye, but xmas is a time of year when you want to be selling, so you need plenty of stuff to sell right! However, I’ve never been happy 100% with how the back of the shop looks and I was already thinking about plans for a revamp.
It didn’t take us long to go from that, to this…
and that big table you see in the first picture, well, we decided to saw it in half…
…but for a good reason! It was going to be the home for our new little type chest which we had cleaned up and planning to use as an art display cabinet.
Anyway, after much sawing, drilling, filling of holes, hammering, sanding, painting (5 coats!), etc etc, the shop is now looking like this…
So, uhh, yeah, we’ve been pretty busy! What do you think of it?
Rachael x
Competition closed – the winner is Katherine Brown! Yay!
Can you email me your address and I’ll get your goodies in the post next week
PS, keep your peepers peeled for another excellent competition next week to win lots of jewellery from HZ!
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It’s that time again folks, and today you can win lots of lovely things for your home!
This rather fabulous prize includes pieces from some of your favourite HZ designers – there’s a letterpress print from Gemma Correll, an Ashley G ‘Every Girl Is A Superhero Sometimes’ framed print (yup, framed!), a set of 3 Depeapa prints, some letter pressed vignettes from Yee Haw Designs, and last but by no means least, a gorgeous hand printed and made ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is’ cushion by Little Clouds. What’s even better is that, to date, all these items have only ever been available in our shoppe, so they’re pretty exclusive too!
To win this prize I want you to tell me about your favourite place in your home and why it’s your favourite. Feel free to post pictures and links.
Leave your replies in the comments and at the end of the competition, I’ll choose my favourite 5 entries and pick a winner at random from them.
The competition will close on Friday 20th January at 3 pm and the winner announced shortly after.
As always, I appreciate all your Retweets and shares on Facebook, so please help to spread the word about HZ and our wee giveaway!
Good luck!
Rachael x
PS just one more competition to go after this and we’ll be doing that next week!
Competition closed! Thanks for all the amazing replies to this competition, it’s been really fun reading them all and since they were all so good I picked a winner at random…
And the winner is… Sami Lovegood!
Please email me with your address and I’ll get your prize in the post next week
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I am loving these competitions, especially all the jokes from yesterday, they were all truly awful which is just how I like my jokes so thank you to all who took part!
Today we have a crafty prize for you – a super stash of fabric and notions from my own supply…
This stash contains many different cotton fabrics as pictured above. Most are about fat quarter size, some bigger and some smaller. There are quite a few Japanese imports and prints from designers like Amy Butler and Alexander Henry. In addition to this stash, I’m also including some very pretty sewing notions – vintage buttons, wooden bag handles, a purse frame, buttons for covering, embroidery hoops etc etc… In all, this is a pretty good prize for someone who wants to start sewing/crafting but I think those of you who are already doing that sort of thing are going to love it too!
To win this prize, I want you to share your crafting tips and stories, things you’ve made and ideas for things you want to make. Feel free to link to your blogs and websites and promote your crafts.
At the end of the competition (tomorrow at 12), I’ll choose my favourite 5 entries and pick a winner at random from them.
As always, I appreciate all your Retweets and shares on Facebook, so please help to spread the word about HZ and our wee giveaway!
Good luck!
Rachael x
