Midsummer Sale!

It's Midsummer Sale time here at CMT HQ, and we have added some one-off (or last remaining) items to our SALE page. Our spotty bunting (above) - available in either spotty teal, charcoal or blue is now only £14, and our last 2 sets of croissant napkins (below) are also £14!

We've been Jubilee and Union Jack crazy for a while now, but we've decided to add our Union Jack tea cosies to the SALE too... 

WAS £38, NOW £25!

 Our white cotton beach hut aprons are also, yep you guessed it, £14 

(bit of a price theme going on here!)

And last but by no means least... we have a couple of navy daisy tea cosies left in stock, now only £18 (£20 off!) So pop on over to our SALE page and have a browse, now is the time to stock up on birthday presents, or even to get in early for Christmas (sorry, Christmas is on the brain!)

M U G S

This week we were excited to unveil new bone china mugs, decorated with our quirky stitched illustrations. We've been working on these for some time, all top secret, and we are now able to shout about them from the rooftops... well, sort of!

Choose from chubby chickens, neighbourhood and yachts... £12 each and available now on our website, in a new section called 'MUGS ETC', you can find it here... http://charlottemacey.co.uk/mugs-etc.html

Bath Coffee Festival 2011

On Friday we set up our stand at the Bath Coffee Festival; wallpaper tables and painted shelves all crammed into my little car and we headed off to beautiful Bath. Our stand was situated as people walked left upon entering the marquee and also very close to the massive Yeo Valley stand, we were excited to be in such a prime position!

We spent the weekend chatting, eating yogurt and of course, drinking coffee (although I also had more than my fair share of tea at the festival too!) We met wonderful visitors and exhibitors and although I am a little bit sleep-deprived, I wish the Coffee Festival was on for a third day, as I am itching to get back over to Bath already!

Some lovely statistics...

Saturday 21st - more people in one day this year than both days last year (and I thought last year was busy!) And on Sunday 22nd - 600 people through the door in the first half hour! Amazing!

it runs in the family...

Whilst rooting around under her bed yesterday my mum found a tea cosy made by my grandmother, depicting my dad's old Beetle! I never met my granny but she was apparently a lot like me and delighted in sewing, so I thought it only apt to show you the infamous and well-loved 'Beetle tea cosy'. It is a joy for me to see, as it is part of my family's sewing history and shows that stitch and tea cosy design in particular really does run in the family :)
My granny would often buy a piece of fabric on the way home from work and whip it up into a skirt to wear out in the evening - I only wish I was that good at making clothes!

Above: my new floral tea cups tea cosy. Below: a few of my cosies hanging behind my granny's vintage Beetle tea cosy, a little threadbare in places from years of love and use... x