Hi!

We have partnered with our favourite, local auctioneers this Christmas to gift a beautiful collection of seven Katie Larmour Linen festive tree decorations.

All you have to do to be in for this fabulous prize is head over to instagram and read the competition post (it’s got a picture of a large white linen diamond on it). The entry steps are as follows:

1. Follow both Ross’s and our pages, here are the handles:
   @rosssjewels  @katielarmourlinen

2. Share the competition post on your stories

3. Tag some friends 

The competition will end this Friday the 8th December, yes that’s tomorrow!

Ross’s is Belfast’s premier auction house and valuers, filled with history and antiques, offering all the best of Irish Fine Art, sumptuous furniture and a jewellery department which is simply divine. I have a long history with the place - as a buyer, hunter and seller - I even did my work experience there over some 12 years ago. I have fond memories as a small child being taken along to the weekly viewings as my father built up his unique Irish Arts & Crafts and Gothic Revival collection. With a magnificent wooden staircase and stunning stained glass rosette window as a backdrop, our embellished and bejewelled tree decorations were the perfect match to complement their snowy tree and festive decor throughout the listed landmark building. I was thrilled when they invited me in to team up with them for Christmas. Having many more than a dozen designs to choose from I selected decorations I thought had subtle links to their aesthetic and the type of treasure you might find - a vintage rocking horse, present (a nod to their ring boxes), vintage whiskey bottle, faberge egg, traditional nutcracker, dazzling diamond and classic candy cane. They are all made out of my signature natural undyed oatmeal colour of linen but the little gem is extra special as it has been created from an antique white Irish Linen table cloth found right here in Ross’s. Over the years I have picked up tablecloth and napkin sets in the basement weekly auctions and then transformed them into limited edition decorations. Pristine, crisp white with a faint damask print is synonymous to Belfast and its linen industry. Some are even packaged up in their original presentation boxes, never used, and the most interesting branded paper labels still attached, both authenticating the linen and identifying the store, for example the world famous Robinson Cleaver’s just a stone’s throw away. I was thrilled to go in and see the girls and try on some of the pieces in the upcoming jewellery auction, I might have accidentally bid on something… small… but sure it’s Christmas (https://www.rosss.com/auction/jewellery-watches/688/) and I wore my best nutcracker look-a-like vintage jacket for the occasion.

Good luck and thank-you to all who enter,

Katie xo

Images by @emilymarymcc