Wish List Wednesday - Mary's Milk Bar Easter Egg

This months Wish List Wednesday is Easter themed! I am quite literally drooling over these Easter eggs from Mary's Milk Bar in the Grassmarket. They popped up on my Instagam yesterday, 'Dark or Milk Chocolate swirled egg filled with Salted Caramel mini eggs and Hazelnut Praline Acorns dipped in Olive Oil Toasted Hazelnuts'. How amazing does that sound?

Beautiful Decor

Mary opened her Milk Bar on the Grassmarket in the center of Edinburgh a couple years ago now after studying Carpigiani Gelato University in Bologna, Italy. She really seems to enjoy mixing up flavours to create interesting and delicious combinations like, Chilli and Pineapple, Spicy Sriracha and Almond and Goats Cheese and Fig. They also serve vegan sorbet and other tasty flavours of gelato such as Cherry Bakewell, Salted Caramel and, my favorite, Pistachio.  

Along side these tasty chilly sensations you'll find a selection of hot chocolates, malted milkshakes, chocolate bars and selection boxes. As well as seasonal treats like the Easter eggs, but also Valentines and Christmas bombs. They also team up with the very popular Twelve Triangles every Friday to create the 'Doughnut Oyster' which is your choice of gelato in a freshly made Twelve Triangles sugared doughnut, Eilidh in my office and I treated ourselves to one of these last summer and they are too die for. You've got to be quick though because they only have 20 doughnuts delivered and once they are gone they gone. 

My delicious Pistachio gelato filled doughnut!

The shop is tastefully decorated in a vintage style of the Milk Bar era, muted pastels with 1940's music and ice cream cone lamps on the wall. They even have a working 60 year old milkshake maker behind the counter. It really is like a wee trip back to a more wholesome time. 

With queues out the door on the summer months everyone should head down and support our local maker... but please leave an Easter egg for me! 

Wish List Wednesday - Porcelain Oyster Shell Necklace by Little Birdy

So I have decided to start a new feature called Wish List Wednesday, I know it’s not the most inventive name but stick with me. The plan is to share some of the lovely things I have come across in local shops and galleries as well as Instagram and websites like Etsy and Folksy and promoting the work of independent makers and artists.

My first item for the wish list is the beautifully crafted Porcelain Oyster Shell Necklace by Little Birdy, you can find it in her Folksy shop. She has a lot of beautiful products in the shop, prints and illustrations, textiles, hand painted ceramics and hand sculpted porcelain. The Mermaids & Ice Cream jewellery collection launched on Monday, 17^th August, and it’s based around her fascination with ‘life beneath the waves and with natural science’. It’s a stunning range of oyster shell necklaces with pearls and adorable ice cream necklaces and brooches.

I’m totally in love with the Porcelain Oyster Shell Necklace which is two hand sculpted and pained oyster shells that open up to reveal a gold pearl hidden in between them. Painted in gold, blush pink and white it has beautiful polkadot detailing on it. Dreamy!

I have been swooning over the Bristol based artists work on Instagram for a while now, the ceramic narwhals, cats and pushme-pullyous are next on my list and have often been pointed out to my bearded companion with a wink and elbow nudge but to no avail… yet…

You can check out Little Birdy’s stockists in Bristol and London on her website or have a look around the Folksy shop. I hope you fall in love with her lovely wares as much as I have.