Hurry Hurry our summer ranges are selling fast!

Hurry Hurry we are selling out of many of our summer ranges, all this hot weather has boosted demand for our lovely cool summer clothes. So many of our ranges have either sold out or we only have a few left. On the endangered list are the eva and deborah wrap dresses, the annie maxi dress ( pictured) and the suzanne summer dress.

But don't worry we have lots of cool new styles coming out to replace them!

New Children's Clothes Collection is here!

We've got lots of lovely new Children's Clothes just in time for the summer. We've got a new Mother and Baby Collection featuring Baby Boy and Baby Girl outfits. We've got bibs, baby play mats and even little booties. For Mum we've got a couple of lovely cotton maternity blouses.

We've got some lovely new girls clothes, including brightly coloured cotton dressses, trousers & tops. Then this year we have our best collection yet for boys. We've got some very cool shirt and short sets, trousers, 3/4 length trousers and matching sunhats all in explorer colours!

Summer Time, Happy people in their Summer Clothes

I love the summer; sun, sea & pick your own strawberries!
No it is great to feel the weight lift off everyone's shoulders and see happy people in their summer clothes! Talking of summer clothes we have a great collection of summer clothes this year, if we say so ourselves! This year we have gone for lots of different lines but not so many of each, so we'll have lots of fast moving lines and there'll always be something new.
We've got lots of floaty sari silk skirts and dresses, we've got traditional blockprint dresses and skirts and some funky printed cotton tops and dresses. click here to see our lovely ladies clothes
We've got some new men's batik summer shirts which are proving to be a big hit and some great colourful children's clothes for both boys and girls.
We have also got a brand new Mother and Baby section featuring bibs, booties, outfits and even something for Mum!

Recycled Plastic Bottle Dresses

I heard on TV that a department store were stocking new recycled plastic bottle trousers and everyone was getting very excited. We have been stocking our amazing recycled plastic bottle pixie dresses and V neck dresses for the last couple of years!
Can you keep a secret? We are getting some new lines in our recycled plastic bottle fleecey material, we're getting some traditional ponchos, some very cool Japanese Style Ponchos and the return of our fleecey wrap around skirts. They'll be in store in the next couple of weeks , but don't hang around if you want any, they are in short supply and sell quickly!
So how come we don't get on TV?
Debenhams must have better PR people than us, actually we don't have any PR people we do it ourselves!

Our Boat is coming in!

The boat carrying our new shipment from India has not been hijacked by Somali Pirates as first thought! It is in fact coming in next week, we should get our new lines the following week and they will start to appear in Store from Monday 27 April. We have truly pushed the boat out this time and have over 40 new ladies lines coming in, plus a few mens and childrens clothes together with new cushion covers, hanging and other homeware.We will be starting to photograph it all with our new photographer Amelia, so look out for lots of beautiful arty pictures appearing on the web site with all our lovely new lines.A few weeks later we will be receiving our new Children's Collection, new lines of Men's Shirts and lots more craft items to brighten up your house. We'll keep you posted, why not sign up to our email newsletter to make sure you are the first to know!

New Cheaper shipping Costs

In order to help you out, our lovely customer, we have managed to negotiate some better postage rates from the Royal Mail. We have therefore decided to pass this on to you in the form of lower starting rates of £2.95 for our standard service and £3.95 for our express service.
IN ORDER TO HELP OUR BEST CUSTOMERS WE HAVE ALSO INTRODUCED FREE STANDARD SHIPPING ON ALL UK ORDERS OVER £75.

So no excuses for not buying lots of lovely Fair Trade Stuff!

Spring is in the Air

The sun is shining, the air is warmer, the daffodils are blooming, it's good to be alive! Our customers have come out of hibernation and sales are picking up after the snow and chilly retail climate in February!
We have been very busy, first I went off to Rajasthan in India where I went a bit mad, I was only going to buy a select summer range but I was blown away this year with all the lovely textiles and designs so I came back with three collections. Firstly there's a collection made from beautiful floaty sari silk, then there's a funky bold printed cotton collection and lastly we have a spohisticated blockprint collection.
I was back in England for a couple of weeks, checking up on how the team coped without me. Finding out they coped fine and as the weather was still a bit chilly I took the family to Bali! Not just for a holiday you understand, we were designing our new childrens clothes collection and needed some specialist input from the experts, my daughters Lucy and Emily! We also visited the Ruditas, a family of wood carvers and have ordered a fabulous new range of hand carved objects for the home such as our beautiful range of giraffes.
We have also got a great new range of batik shirts for our male customers, with men it is hard to get the design right, we try and design something a little different but not too wacky!

India

I've just spent the last two weeks in Rajasthan, the weather was beautiful, lovely spring like days, not too hot, not too cold, so it was quite a shock coming back to England to the ice and snow. Also it was a big shock coming back to all the negativity, the country seemed to have collapsed while I was away ( if you believe the papers) sure sales are quite slow but they always are in January, it's not quite the retail meltdown they are suggesting!
Anyway, back to India. I was busy visiting our producers and working on our summer collection. We've got some beautiful clothes awaiting you in the Spring time, we've got some lovely floaty bold printed cotton dresses and tops, we've got classic blockprint designs and we've got a new collection of corduroy summer jackets to keep you warm when the sun isn't shining!
It's always great visiting our producers, they are very dynamic and creative and always have plenty of good ideas and new materials to work with. I arrive with our ideas and together we feed off each other to produce an exciting new collection, in fact this year we have surpassed ourselves and produced three different collections!
My belief is that our customers will stick by us through this difficult time, I realise that it is tough for everyone but it is worse for our producers if everyone suddenly stops buying their goods. We have therefore bought more than ever! This year we are continuing our strategy of having lots of ranges but not so many pieces of each one so that we can turn our clothes over quickly and always have something fresh! however that does mean if you see something you like then don't hang around, get it before it's gone!
I'm off again in a couple of weeks, this time to Indonesia to see our children's clothes, instrument and craft suppliers, so no doubt I'll be spending lots more money so lets hope that sales keep up or we won't have any room in the warehouse to put it all!
So keep an eye on our website, we'll put our new collections up as soon as they have arrived and we have photograph them!