More excitement...........

We have been selected as the featured sellers on Felt for the next couple of weeks.   Its really nice to see our work featured on such an iconic crafty website.  Thank you Lucy from Felt for selecting us.

Life is not all tea and cakes ..........

 Life is not all tea and cakes this week over in the Coulter and Coulter household.  Even thought we have some lovely new tea cosies in stock and more available later this week.

 This weekend has been a printing weekend, building up stock after selling so much at the Martinborough Fair.  My airing cupboard is full of blankets with their new patterns curing.

 In between printing I have been trying to get some product shots for new items in the range.   I managed to pick up a batch of lovely thick cotton, just perfect for tea towels.

 Here are a couple of them, they are available over in my Felt Shop.

All the Fun of the Fair

 We had a great day out at Martinborough Fair yesterday.  The photo above was taken at 7:30am, yes really customers were so keen to shop.  That was me making my first sale!  I had not even finished setting up.   Thirty minutes later I was set up and ready to go.   Unfortunately the foot traffic past my stall was non existent, just a couple of kind souls venturing along to the end of the street to say Hi.  After a bit of negotiation with the organisers we found a vacant site around the corner on the main thoroughfare and they agreed that we could move.  It must have looked amusing the two of us carrying our fully laden tables through the fair, like something from the Chuckle Brothers.  It was not possible to walk around carrying the gazebo.  We did not get any snaps of our new site as we were way to busy!

In among the Olive Groves and Vineyards

 Coulter and Coulter has ventured out on the road again this weekend.  We have stuffed the car full of goodies and headed down to Martinborough, to Martinborough fair.

 We are now installed for the evening among the vines and olive trees in a tiny little batch.  The fire is on and Peter has a cup of tea in his hand.

 Outside the window the sky has turned red at the edges, a great sign for tomorrow's weather.   It looks like its going to be a great day.  A very long day, we will be set up and ready to go by about 7:45, I hope.

Peter is going to spend the day drinking tea and getting pizza ready for me in the evening, I can't wait.

First print of Norfolk Pine Block

It has taken a few weeks from inspiration to first product print and here it is.  I have done six tea towels so far.  Really looking forward to using this block again.  I wonder what will inspire Peter next.

A couple of nice things happening .......

 The first nice thing to happen yesterday was I managed to find a copy of the latest Good Magazine, issue 24.  There on page 68 under Eco Style is one of our cushions, photo taken by me.  I am happy to appear in this magazine it means we are on the right track.

The second nice thing to happen yesterday was the arrival of my first sack of organic buck wheat husks.  "What?",  I hear you say, and "Why are you excited about some organic buck wheat husks?" .  The reason I am so happy is I have been searching for some sort of organic filling for cushions for a very long time.  I have tried other suppliers and got nothing back from them.  I found an email address eventually for Terrace Farm on the South Island, so I sent off an email and heard nothing.  Three weeks later I got a reply, and here they are at last.  I hope they work well.

Work in Progress

Peter's Norfolk pine tree is still a work in progress.  He is not happy with it yet and feels that more detail and depth is needed.

It looked good to me, so I managed to get one print of if before he made any more changes.  I can't wait to get printing when he is eventually ready to hand it over.