{ 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

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 :: our week in pictures

HELLO! I hope you are all having a lovely leisurely Sunday, we started the day here with tea and croissants - a perfect Sunday morning. This week we have started to think about our upcoming winter and Christmas fairs. And with that in mind we have a little announcement...

We are going to be exhibiting at the Country Living Harrogate Christmas Fair (as well as the London fair two weeks earlier) - so if you live further north and can't make it down to London, I will hopefully see you Harrogate from the 29th November - 2nd December!

Earlier this week I also made a custom apron, to wear to our winter fairs. It's a chubby chickens design with my name embroidered at the top, almost like a name badge, and with a big floral pocket for change and my essential fair items... a pen and notebook!

And a last-minute note to let you know that we have just launched embroidered linen chicken placemats, to co-ordinate with our embroidered coasters. Available in sets of 4 and made from beautiful rustic linen, we are so pleased with their subtle style. 

Catch you next Sunday! x 

my protégé...

I spent the last couple of days taking a small break with my family up in Cheshire. Orders were piling in, but my sanity was waning, so I grabbed a 48 hour 'rest' to rejuvenate!

We had a wonderful time walking, eating and relaxing but the highlight of the trip for me was helping my 8 year old goddaughter get to grips with her mini pink sewing machine...

She made lavender pillows and a cute lavender heart, and I gave her a few tips on how to use the machine. The only help I really gave her was in cutting out the heart shapes for the lavender heart, the rest she was getting pretty nifty at... it looks like I have a little protégé in my midst!