Hello September!

Hello September! With a slight chill in the air and leaves on the ground, autumn is most definitely underway. And it's been a busy week for us here catching up after a wee summer break - from adjusting the product labelling for our linen and cotton tea towels, to packing sets of new coasters and placemats (above: new Yachts design). 

The placemats and coasters can be MIX & MATCH-ed too, for a quirky and varied dining set!

And in the workshop the boys have been busy crafting more bunny and duck bookends, including our NEW Jemima duck bookends - hand painted in Pink Ground by Farrow & Ball, such a pale & pretty pink!

The Sunday Post // we're back!

27th May - the last time I published a post on our blog. Not very impressive! But what can I say, it has so far been a beautiful summer; we've been working on lovely orders, new things for our stockists & whilst also secretly working on our Christmas range. There's been a lot going on!

If you haven't taken a look at our website recently, check it out! We are now selling gorgeous coasters & placemats, locally made & available in a lovely selection of our designs. As for Christmas, the range is very nearly ready, but we obviously can't launch it yet - August is a little early, even for me! 

So stay tuned for weekly studio & product news, Christmas launch updates & hopefully more blogging goodness (sorry again for the huge hiatus between posts) - until next time! cx

p u r s e s

Yet again it's been a while since I've managed to find the time to write a blog post. Since the last one (a good few weeks ago - when I launched the new fabric pouches) I have been working on custom tea towels, for customer's special events and for stockists, as well as attending one of the big London trade fairs and launching our new purse range. I'm so pleased with the purses, which are perfect for coins and bank cards (see above), you can take a look at them here on our BAGS page.

I feel that the purse selection really sum up what CMT is all about - clean lines, simple design and beautiful, quality items. It's fantastic to feature the cow parsley that surrounds the studio at this time of year, as well as our old favourites of course, pecking chickens! 

Until next time, hope you're having a super Bank Holiday weekend wherever you are, time for me to head back to the lavender-filled studio to catch up on a few orders from the weekend... cx

The Sunday Post

It has been a much less snowy week for us here in the Cotswolds; with equal measures of rain and sunshine we have managed several Post Office trips without any ice excitement (phew!). It has even felt like Spring might finally be in the air, with a bit of sunshine and spotting our first snowdrops. 

The Easter chocolate munching has also begun (we tried to resist, honestly!) and this week we have been working on a lovely order for lots of yachts items, heading to a new and exciting stockist this week... more will be revealed later! It was a great sense of achievement having a 12-cushion stack perched on the table ready to be packed.

Our linen yacht cushions and range of notebooks are all available here, so do take a peek: http://charlottemacey.co.uk/.

We also have a SALE page, that is regularly updated with one-off textile items, ceramic seconds and end of line treats, usually only 1 of each item available, http://charlottemacey.co.uk/SALE.html. Happy Sunday Everyone x

A trip down to sunny Devon...

I spent the last week in South Devon with my family, our annual pilgrimage, and every year see the trip as a wonderful time to take photos of the beautiful scenery, the sea, quirky boats and lobster pots, as well as a chance to get the watercolours out, and I spent a lovely few hours drawing boats, painting their sails and doing smaller, quicker sketches of boats and yachts using pen. 

It made a lovely change to use pencils, paint and paper, as I spend the majority of my time 'drawing' with my sewing machine, so it was great to be creative using a completely different medium to my usual fabric and thread.

Our holiday breakfast's were made complete with one of our coffee cosies, and we spent time wandering around the pretty coastal towns, walking around the beautiful Devon coastline, and stopping for well-deserved coffee and cake, or treating ourselves to delicious cream teas!

my Devon escapades...

Here are some little snaps from my few days in Devon... a lovely lighthouse, a delicious Devonshire cream tea (I supplied the wheat-free scones!), a pretty awful picture of boats at the Dartmouth Regatta (but felt the sight needed recording!), and some lovely coastline. I had a fantastic few days walking, eating, and relaxing with my family, and getting some great inspiration whilst I was there. There's something very rejuvenating about getting away to the coast, perhaps it's purely and simply the fresh sea air? Whatever it is it lures us back in year after year, happy Sunday everyone x