Local Businesses in Portobello

210 Portobello High Street

email: artisangifts@blueyonder.co.uk

telephone: 0131 657 3727

Artisan Gifts and Gallery is a friendly family run business in Portobello, providing a bespoke Picture Framing service as well as a range of gifts.

We also offer an exciting range of Contemporary Jewellery and some handmade designs which must be seen. These are researched thoroughly and handpicked to suit our customer's tastes and complement the season's looks yet at affordable prices.

A wide range of cards is on display. We boast some beautifully handmade cards and Art from the Ken Lochhead range.

Visit the shop and view our gallery. Our selection includes;

* Original works

* Prints

* Giclees

* Limited Editions

We also produce made to measure Mirrors and have some attractive designs to choose from.

100 Portobello High Street

website: http://www.getcreativeonline.co.uk

telephone: 0131 669 5214

Get Creative is a newly-opened craft and hobby shop specialising in card making and scrapbooking. We sell a wide variety of materials, including:

* Rubber stamps

* Decorative papers and card

* Peel-offs

* Brass stencils

* Sizzix and Quickutz die-cutting system

We also stock lots of general craft materials, such as glue, pipe cleaners, paint, pom-poms and much, much more.

Our staff are always here to help and offer advice. We have free demonstrations on our products on Thursdays between 10am and noon. Come along and let us inspire you and get your creative imagination flowing.

We also offer a range of craft classes and workshops for children and adults. Please stop by and pick up our current programme.

We are open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am until 5pm.

99 Portobello High Street

telephone: 0131 669 2173

It's A Small World is unique to Edinburgh as the only shop specialising in dolls houses and miniatures. A box room at £6:50 is a good way to get started, but you will soon want to move on to a proper 1/12 scale MDF house, from around £50. Take your pick from a Georgian Town House to a Tudor Manor, a Victorian Shop or a basement flat.

Now you are ready to add perfectly replicated fixtures and fittings. Spiral staircases, stained glass windows, Turkish carpets, wallpaper, electrical lighting? We have it all, down to the finest detail.

Serious hobbyists will already be familiar with top brand names such as Maple Street, Dijon and Little Trimmings.

It's not just a girl thing either - lots of men enjoy the challenge of building a dolls house from scratch and we can supply kits and plans.

Open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am until 5:30pm.

298 Portobello High Street

website: http://tinyurl.com/3ntq4j

email: lindsay.mcrea@yahoo.co.uk

telephone: 07846 105487

The McCrea Gallery is an artist-owned gallery specialising in the paintings of Lindsay McCrea, one of the area's busiest painters, working both in watercolour and, more recently, oils.

The gallery also has in stock original paintings by Allan Pendreigh, Matt Curtis and many others. Choose from landscapes, seascapes, floral, botanical and pictures of Portobello, Musselburgh, Edinburgh and other areas of Scotland.

There is a big selection of prints to choose from, including limited editions by James Mackintosh Patrick, Alberto Morrocco and John Bathgate along with Lindsay's own work. Open editions are available in a variety of sizes to suit most locations and decor.

The gallery also offers an excellent and cost-effective framing service with help and advice thrown in, all part of the friendly service with customer satisfaction as the priority.

The newly fitted-out gallery space is bigger and better and will celebrate its official opening with a new exhibition during this year's Edinburgh Festival.