Merstham Primary School's Christmas Fayre

Last night Country Chic Crafts had a little stall at Merstham Primary School's Christmas Fayre. It was lots of fun and I sold LOTS, a big thank you to the ladies of Merstham!

New Wedding Favour Design

We have a new design for wedding favours. Based on my popular Shabby Chic Love Heart sign I have designed a matching smaller heart that is ideal for wedding favours or as a gift for your beloved. This new design is already proving to be popular!

Please feel free to email me for further details: info@countrychiccrafts.co.uk and take a look at our website http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=251

Rustic Wedding Hangie

A lovely idea for a wedding gift, pretty and personal and won't break the bank! Painted in cream with a brown ribbon it will complement any decor, I can also make this in any of the colours listed on our colour chart.

Please see the website for details: http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=167

Orders for Heart Signs

Just finished the last coats of varnish on the orders for heart signs :)

To see our range of heart signs please click here: http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk

My new bike

I've got my bike woooohooo!! Think we may be going for a ride this weekend :)

Ardingly Vintage Vehicle Show

This weekend 10th and 11th July 2010 we will be visiting the Vintage Vehicle Show at Ardingly in West Sussex, Country Chic Crafts won't be there but myself and Martin will along with my parents who are professional puppeteers, they will be performing Punch and Judy throughout the weekend. It's a lovely weekend with lots to see and do for the whole family, come along and say hi!

Details of the show are here: http://www.ardinglyvcvshow.org.uk/

To book a puppet show visit here: http://www.puppetree.co.uk/

For handmade gifts and items for your home click here: http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk/

Going to get fit!

My husband-to-be Martin is an avid cyclist and has persuaded me to join him so he is going to buy me a bike!

Yesterday evening we visited a cycle shop and I chose my bike, it's now on order, lilac and silver with matching silver helmet! Plus shorts, top and gloves, we're just waiting for the ride to work voucher to come through now, I can't wait to get going now!

No bikes but plenty of pretty things on our website: http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk

Long Sunny Weekend

What a glorious weekend! Martin and I had Friday off work and took a picnic to Ashdown Forest. It was lovely and peaceful, we visited all the Winnie the Pooh places :)

Saturday and Sunday we did a bit of gardening, relaxed and sunbathed and had a barbecue which was scrummy :) (not even going to mention the football!)

Ribbons

My ribbon order arrived today, it's lovely can't wait to start using it :)

Please visit our website for lots of pretty handmade items http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk

eBay bargains

Occasionally I'll list some items for sale on eBay and today is one of those days :)

My id is country*chic*crafts http://www.ebay.co.uk

Facebook

I have also now set up a Facebook account, I've avoided it for ages but was persuaded to try it by a couple of friends, visit Facebook by clicking this link http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=1417584966

Twitter

We are on Twitter, follow our tweets here http://twitter.com/countrychicuk

Wedding Chatter

So now here we are planning our wedding day, oh how excited I am!

We have set the date as 16th July 2011 so just over a year to go. This weekend we booked the reception venue and the car that will take the bridesmaids and then my father and I to church and after the ceremony to take myself and Martin to the reception venue, phew well that's a couple of things sorted :)

I am going to be kept busy over the months to come making all my invitations and wedding favours but it will be so much fun!


It's that time of the year again and the wedding favour orders are coming in from lovely brides-to-be through the website and I can't describe how much more it means to be helping other brides make their day special while I'm also planning our special day!

I can make a range of favours for your wedding in a choice of colours and designs, please feel free to email me with questions or for a quote, info@countrychiccrafts.co.uk

View a range of available favours here: http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk/index.php?cPath=41

Cushions, pictures and hearts oh my!

I've spent a good few weeks now sewing cushions, patchwork pictures and heart hangers for our new home as well as a scattering of wooden hearts and a wreath, our little house does look pretty and the garden front and back is now blooming too!

There's no place like home :)

To see plenty of pretty things to decorate your home please visit our website http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk/index.php

Fantastic Friday!

The next big change happened on Good Friday this year, it was early morning and I'd only just woken up when Martin got down on his knees, produced a beautiful white gold diamond solitaire ring and proposed! Of course I said yes :) We then spent the Easter holiday and the following week moving me and all my things into Martin's lovely house.

Martin also converted one of the bedrooms into a craft studio for me with a fantastic large work desk, shelving unit, wall racks and a chest of drawers and so County Chic Crafts had a new home!

The Website

Ok well the first change was our company name and domain name, Pussy Willow's Country Crafts had received an onslaught of unsavoury emails due to that innocent word begining with P, that and losing my lovely Pussy Willow and my circumstances changing I decided it was for the best to change our name to Country Chic Crafts, a name that describes exactly what and who we are, and so a new domain name was registered and my web designer moved the old website in it's entirety to the new domain.

My lovely boyfriend then started the long and arduous task of retaking photos of my stock as the old pictures don't really show our things off to their best advantage, some new photos have been uploaded to the website now but it is going to be a very long process as most of my time is taken up with painting and sewing for new orders!

Please feel free to take a look at our website by clicking here: http://www.countrychiccrafts.co.uk

So much done, so much to do, so little time!

So much done, so much to do, so little time! Well such a lot has happened to us and there have been so many changes both to the website and my life in general that I just haven't had the time to blog!

I will fill in a few updates and try and keep them in cronological order :)

1st February already!

Can't believe it's the 1st of February already! Christmas was a hectic whorl of making up orders and posting them, visiting family, cooking, cleaning etc all the usual things that we rush to get done in December!

The week before Christmas we had lots and lots of snow, as did the rest of Kent and then in the New Year we had loads more, as did most of the country brrrrr! It was pretty but did make getting out and about difficult.

We have more snow today but just a light icing sugar type of dusting :)

Valentine's Day is just around the corner so please take a look at our lovely love hearts

http://www.pussywillowscountrycrafts.co.uk