Melbourne French Festival

 To celebrate our participation in next weeks Melbourne French Festival we are offering all our lovely customers 10% off store wide until midnight on Sunday 23 November - just use the codeword PARIS at checkout to receive the discount.

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 and for our vintage range click here http://www.leoniandvonkvintage.bigcartel.com/

Melbourne French Festival

We are excited to be involved in the fabulous Melbourne French Festival again this year on 21 to 23 November. Tickets are on sale now here http://www.paristoprovence.com.au/

Christmas Special and The Melbourne French Festival

To celebrate the upcoming festive season we are offering a FREE pair of sterling silver and freshwater pearl earrings with every order of $50 or more! No code word is needed just click here http://www.leoniandvonk.bigcartel.com/ and happy shopping. This offer is valid until just before Christmas or until stocks run out.

 

 

 

We will be participating in the Melbourne French Festival at Como House again this year. It is an amazing event and with good weather forecast it should prove to be a great weekend of French food, drink and festivities. For all the details click here http://www.paristoprovence.com.au/ We will have lots of beautiful limited edition French inspired jewellery and other products available.

 

 

Christmas Events 2012

We can hardly believe how quickly this year has sped by and that we are now busy preparing for the silly season. We have some great events coming up and are having a pre-christmas sale on both the online store and Hard To Find.....and all the details are..........

Melbourne French Festival

We are very excited to be involved with the fantastic Paris to Provence - Melbourne French Festival again this year. Held in the beautiful Como House and Gardens, the festival has become a must for everyone interested in French food, culture and general joie de vivre! Our participation in this years event will take the form of a Paris style flea market stall with beautiful one off pieces of vintage inspired jewellery and French inspired homewares, candles and body products - there may even be a few bargains to be had! The Festival runs from Friday 23 November to Sunday 25th November - all the details can be found here http://paristoprovence.com.au/  Take a look here at previous year's event http://leoniandvonk.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/beautiful-few-days-in-france.html

 

 

 

 

Online Sale

We have heavily reduced a number of pieces from this season's Sacred Journey Collection just in time for Christmas! All purchases come with FREE shipping (within Australia) and a sweet little Leoni & Vonk gift pouch. Click here to go straight to our store http://leoniandvonk.bigcartel.com/

Markit@Fed Square

We will also be at our favourite design market at Federation Square on Sunday 25 th November. This event has grown and grown over the past year and is the place to go for Melbourne designed and made products. We will be showing a variety of brand new pieces featuring stunning drusy and hand cut stones. For all the details and a chance to win a fabulous hamper click here http://www.markitfedsquare.com.au/

 

The Big Design Market

Our last event of the year will be the brand new, highly anticipated Big Design Market - billed as the biggest market of its kind in Australia this event will bring together the best of Australin and International design at the iconic Royal Exhibition Building on 7/8/9 December. All the details are here http://thebigdesignmarket.com/ Definitely NOT one to miss!

 

We hope to see you soon.

Imagine.........

Imagine having this on your roof..........

........we can but dream!

Thank you   http://www.designboom.com/eng/

A beautiful few days in France

Last weekend's Paris to Provence French festival at Como House was blessed with bright blue skies and sun all day long- summer was well on its way. The Festival attracted thousands of visitors all eager to sample the wonderful tastes of France - cheese, baguettes, crosissants, macaroons and wine were plentiful along with some gorgeous French or French inspired products. The organsisation was as usual great and Como House and it's grounds looked absolutely stunning in the sunshine with the red, white and blue umbrellas shading the festival goers. All in all a fab time was had by all! Here are some of our favourite images and exhibitors.

 Laura (one of the hard working organisers of the festival) and friend

The entertainment was great - mime artists, French choir and bands and Marie Antoinette!

Cornelius, from Maling Road in Canterbury had the most yummy cheese - I have it on good authority that they sold 80 kilos of cheese over the 2 days! Check out their gorgeous website http://www.corneliusfoods.com.au/ for more information - not only do they sell cheese and wine but they have a great cafe - definately worth a visit or two.......

Gigi a la maison, from South Melbourne specialise in authentic French enamelware (which is becoming increasingly difficult to find) along with other French vintage treasures. Combining utility with simple elegance the decorative style of French enamelware is unique and truly reflects the French way of life. Gigi's owner, Lee Bower has a wonderful eye as you can see from her lively stand at the Festival. Definately one of our faves. Go to http://www.gigi.com.au/ for more info.

We met some lovely people at the Festival - especially Andrew and Meredith from Andrew Wilson Antiques. They specialise in antique French provincial furniture and decorative objects, brocante and homewares. Located in Malvern Road Andrew and Meredith have the most gorgeous things we all would love in our homes. We were particularly taken with the old doors (as seen above) and the vintage decoy ducks. http://www.wilsonantiques.com.au/

The Leoni & Vonk stand

Paris to Provence

We are very happy to be involved in the Paris to Provence French Festival to be held in the grounds of the beautiful Como House on Friday 1 October and Saturday 2 October.

The festival will have 70 French stalls including jewellery, holidays, clothing, homewares and Shannon Bennett's Vue du monde. Entertainment includes roaming characters Marie Antoinette, Gendarme, Napoleon, 3 pce French musical trio, mime artists, French choir, Shannon Bennett live, animal nursery on Friday, Fashion parade, petanque, display cars from Peugeot and heaps of yummy French food...............


We will be showcasing lots of gorgeous French inspired jewellery like our best selling Eiffel locket as seen below. Reg Loves This will also be making a special French inspired appearance.

Take a look at http://www.paristoprovence.com.au/ for more information

Competition Time

It's competition time at Leoni & Vonk. All you have to do is become a fan on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/St-Kilda-Melbourne-Australia/Leoni-Vonk/136622286359774?ref=ts&__a=8&ajaxpipe=1and  - leave a comment and go into the draw to win this gorgeous sterling silver ball  bracelet worth $144. The lucky winner will be informed via Facebook on Friday 20th August. Tell all your  friends and be lucky!

New designs for a new season

Here are some great new photos of the new collection we are busy perfecting. We will be keeping some of our most popular pieces and adding some gorgeous new pendants and designs such as the ballon and clock hands. Beautiful faceted rubies will also be a great new addition to the range. Lifeinstyle, where the new collection will be launched is only 3 weeks away!

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

La Dolce Vita

Beautiful Lake Como in Italy could well be the inspiration for our next collection. Maria is taking full advantage of her gorgeous surroundings in Cernobbio including a beautiful photo shoot.

Maria busy working on some new ideas.

New Sterling Silver Pendants

We have some beautiful new sterling silver pendants for the new season including a sweet hot air balloon and continuing with our vintage watch story, some original clock hands cast in sterling silver. All will be revealed at the Melbourne Lifeinstyle Exhibition in August.

Le Marché

We are off to Market tomorrow! - The inaugral Paris to Provence at the beautiful Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne.

 The event presents a large French inspired market with interactive stalls broken up into seven categories: food & wine, children, gifts & accessories, French books & magazines, travel & events, cosmetics and courses & classes. Visitors will be treated to free chocolate samples and wine and cheesesampling workshops while enjoying some of the best live French entertainment Melbourne has to offer, including performances from theMelbourne French Theatre and songs from the ‘La La La’ French choir. Mini French enthusiasts will love the face painting and French story time.

http://www.paristoprovence.net/
http://www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whats-on/paris-provence
http://www.leoniandvonk.com/

Online Store Now Open!

The Leoni & Vonk online store is now open. Follow the link below to buy this gorgeous Bee necklace.


http://leoniandvonk.bigcartel.com/

As ever thanks to Paul from BoutiqueHq for all his hard work and patience!
www.boutiquehq.com

What A Perfect Day

We woke up to a beautiful autumn day and decided to take full advantage of the glorious weather with a photo shoot on the beach. We think the final results are going to be just stunning.

Even Jake the dog took part!

 Keep on eye on our website www.leoniandvonk.com for the new gallery images.

From Paris to Provence - inspirational France

A recent trip to France was the main inspiration for our new collection.

Paris - the light on ancient buildings, the juxtaposition of old and new, classic and quirky and the appreciation of  style and beauty. The rustic charm of the French countryside with it's stunning buildings, green fields and wild flowers provided the perfect contrast.

Grab yourself a little bit of your own French inspiration at the up and coming Paris to Provence expo at the beautiful and historic Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne on Saturday 29 May. Described as a Tour of France at the Convent the event will host over 50 exhibitors - French wine and food, homewares, gifts and clothes and lifestyle organisations will all on be show along with some French inspired Leoni & Vonk jewellery!

http://www.paristoprovence.net/