{ belated } Happy New Year!

Firstly wishing you all a (very) belated happy and healthy New Year! With a busy 2013, the rush of Christmas, followed by designing, making and photographing a brand new collection for Spring 2014, my blog writing seems to have been thrown to the wayside. I'd like to say that in the coming months I'll be a better blog-post-writer, however I wouldn't like to make any promises!

First up I'd like to introduce the first of our new collections for Spring 2014, Blue Parsley. Following on from the success of our Countryside fabric and co-ordinating product range, and taking on board customer requests for a 'more blue/duck egg' floral design similar to Countryside, Blue Parsley was born! And has so far gone down an absolute treat with our customers - Thank You to everyone whose homes are now sporting Blue Parsley cushions, placemats, etc. You can see the full Blue Parsley range on our new 'COLLECTIONS' page on our website (another new addition for 2014, which we hope will make navigating the website that little bit easier.)

PRESS :: our linen Countryside cushion was featured not once, but twice(!) in the pages of the February issue of Country Living magazine. A wonderful start to 2014 x

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!

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!)

a little catch-up...

Hello there folks! Since the Jubilee weekend it's been go-go-go, so much so that my blog post writing has slipped a little, but I'm back! 

After (and throughout) the Jubilee celebrations we were busy preparing our stock and stand layout for Pulse, a new trade fair for us in London. 

The fair was a resounding success and we came away tired but happy and with great new stockists and re-orders from existing ones too. 

We are now busying away getting lots of lovely new stock ready to send off to all corners of Britain, from Norfolk to Cornwall and a few inbetween!

We were also extremely pleased with the reaction to our new products - notebooks, totes and mugs - hopefully you will find these in a shop near you soon!

Top Drawer S/S 2012

I arrived home from Top Drawer on Tuesday evening, exhausted but extremely happy. I don't set any targets order-wise, as you can never tell what a trade fair will bring, and especially having never done Top Drawer before, so I had absolutely no idea what to expect...

But I was far from disappointed... each day seemed to pick up pace, as stockists new (and old) came to chat to me and loved my work, and placed orders too, which was fantastic!

One of the highlights for me was meeting so many lovely people over the 3 days... twitter people you know who you are and it was fabulous to see you all again, or to meet you for the first time! Although I was ready to go home after 3 intense days (4 including setting up - a tough job when you are doing it on your own!), I was also a little bit sad, as it had been such a thoroughly enjoyable show!

The Country Living Christmas Fair

 

On Tuesday we are off to set up for the Country Living Christmas Fair, I am equally very excited and very nervous! We have been featured in the preview leaflet that went out a few weeks ago and also in an email that was sent this week from Susy Smith (editor of Country Living) to all subscribers and mailing list, which was so wonderful! With most of our preparations done and only the packing of our suitcases to go, I think we are just about ready! 

If you haven't quite got around to buying your tickets for the fair you can call the Ticket Hotline on 0844 848 0152 or head to www.countrylivingfair.com/xmas and enter the code CLXMAS9 to get a discount on your tickets. We are looking forward to seeing lots of lovely people there and to begin the festive season in true Country Living style! x

New Bits & Bobs

Evening all, hope you have enjoyed a lovely weekend, we've been hard at work in our temporary new studio (much bigger and can fit two sewing machines in, which is a bonus for preparing our stock for the Country Living Fair in November!) We are getting by on lots of tea and very little sleep, but loving the fast pace of our stock making due to the extra help!

I have two little announcements this week...

Firstly, our popular chickens tea towel is now available in lovely natural cotton! Available here on the website.

And secondly, we've also been adding a couple of new things to the 'bits & bobs' page, including this lovely vintage cotton braid, in French blue and white. We've decided it would be perfect for sewing projects, using around your home and even wrapping presents! Plus it's only £2.50 for 3 metres, so we're quite fond of it!