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Happy 2012

I met Linda Mears through Twitter and noticed her new online magazine, Suffolk Days,  for families visiting and living in Suffolk. I think it is a great idea and is getting lots of interest even though it is a relatively new site. Do have a read and enter the competition at the bottom to win [...]

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Boys will be boys….

  I have added soft, organic hooded baby towels and fluffy dressing gowns to my choice of personalised items – and they needed to be photographed for the website. Sally Ball kindly lent us a room at her beautiful boutique bed and breakfast The Old Rectory in Campsea Ashe.   Claudia Gannon and I carefully [...]

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In Vogue…

Vogue front cover A nice lady from Vogue googled personalised towels and found me! They are doing some advertising on companies they like for Christmas presents.  I agreed to oblige and here is the result. Hope it works!! Now look closely!!  Clue it’s Number 12 Vogue’s personalised presents recommendations    

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Getting Stanley out of the bath

Years ago when the children were little we gave the name ‘Stanley’ to the enormous long legged spiders that scurried across the bathroom floor. We just thought it would make them less likely to be arachnophobic. It worked with one child but not the other. The thought came to me if you wanted to help [...]

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Piece in Prima Baby

I was very happy to learn there is a photo of the organic, hooded baby towel in this month’s Prima Baby magazine on Page 20. I would like to thank Rachel for lending me her baby Jasper to be my model. Her website is cutsiecutsie.com Prima Baby cover  

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Special kindergarten towel order to Barcelona

The internet has made reaching a wider audience much easier for titchy businesses like mine. Google translation helped this week when a lady and I spent a day emailing each other for a specific towel order for her little boy. He needed specific towel sizes and a 10 cm loop requested by his Spanish kindergarten. [...]

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Smart school swim towel

I had a brief from the beautiful Haileybury School in Hertford to mock up a swim towel. They sent me their logo which I appliqued on so there is no scratchy backing material. The whole towel is still soft. I felt some initials were needed to make it more personal. I found an old dress [...]

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Personalised dressing gowns for a wedding

I had a lovely Greek lady who is going to a wedding in Greece this weekend enquire about a really special wedding present for the bride and groom who are lawyers. After lots of emails flying to each other over dressing gown colours and materials I could applique on, this was the result. They were [...]

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Talking on the radio about basic sewing skills

I talk too much so what better medium for me than twitter as people don t tell you to shut up they just unfollow you. I had a banter on Twitter with @nicpandolfi from Ipswich Town 102 radio station about the state of the high street v small independents and people running small businesses. Before [...]

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Handy towels

A customer wanted an unusual gift for her friend who is going through a tough time. She wanted a practical colour for her bathroom and something jolly. My five year old son hooted with laughter when I traced around his hands, but it made a perfect shape which I have used many times. To think [...]

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    • Customer's lovely email re towels, 'How clever of you, they're lovely things and beautifully done'...
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      18:58 07/02/2012
    • Thanks Nat West for at least taking an interest in my pip squeak business, just nice to have a human being to talk to #massivefailHSBC
      16:53 07/02/2012
    • Did you know women were four times more likely to be successful starting a business than men (heard that from a banker!)
      15:50 07/02/2012