We made it home from Country Living!
November 17, 2009
The truck arrives...
At this point we went for a fry up...
It all loooked lovely by 6pm
Faye and I dragged our weary feet into the studio on Monday – straight from the sleeper train to work (helped by the on board wakeup call with tea and croissants!) The show was fab – we had a great time and sold lots of things and really enjoyed meeting our lovely customers – they’re ace!
There were some beautiful stands – Hope and Benson next door is a firm favourite and we did some cool swaps! I also did a wee bit of shopping at Made in Hastings – lovely stuff.
We also stuffed our faces every day at some fantastic eateries – makes a change from the usual Penzance fair (not that aren’t some great places to eat in PZ…) I had rabbit for the first time at The Elk in the Woods and tried to force Faye to eat albondigas (meatballs!) at Cuba Libre even though she’s been veggy for years – tee hee!
We’ve got lots of ideas for next year…if I could only find the energy to write them down!
My first full day in the studio with no baby!!!
September 30, 2009
My little darling spent the morning with her granny and has now gone to check out the surf with her Dad so I’ve been able to get a full days work done for the first time in 7 months…quite a novelty. But had to put this picture up to remind me of those studio baby days – can’t believe they are over so soon…
Definitely a chip off the old block...
Our little holiday…
September 21, 2009
Justin, Biba and I managed to sneak a few days of r&r in the September sun last week – wizzing back from Top Drawer on Tuesday night and waking up in a beautiful little hidey hole on Porthcothan beach on Wednesday morning. We stayed in a tiny white washed apartment made from drift wood bits and bobs called the Red Buoy and spent three days swimming in the sea, walking the cliffs to Treyarnon, hiring bikes in Padstow and eating under the stars…lovely! now back to work…
Pretty buoys (and girls!)
Arrival of ceramics – trauma of!!
September 18, 2009
A visual record of the fun of the ceramics arriving. We’ll breeze over the detail, the 3 pallets left on the main road, the kind fishermen bringing them to the studio on the forklift and then Faye being the only member of the team in the studio to unload 750 mugs and 300 teapots!
Let’s just say a thank you to Robbie at Mounts Bay fitness and John and Shelley from Justin Duance jewellery for their help, and 5 yr old Luka aswell of course who carried a few of those teapot boxes!
And now they are here! If your a wholesale customer, expect your back order delivery next week. For the rest of you they should be available on our website by the middle of next week. – And best of all, they really are lovely – hurray!
Cornwall Design Fair in association with Hidden Art
August 18, 2009
We just wanted to let you know The Cornwall Design Fair is being staged at the very lovely Trereife house for the first time, this coming weekend (22nd and 23rd August).
If your about in Cornwall this weekend and fancy meeting designer-makers and perusing very lovely things then come along – Faye will be on our stand on Saturday and Poppy on Sunday so do say hello.
Now for the details!:
Venue Information: Trereife House, Newlyn, Penzance, TR20 8TJ (About 10 mins from our studio, lovely!)
Event Information: Info tel: 01736 362750. Email trereifepark@btconnect.com. Website www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/cornwalldesignfair
- Open saturday 22nd Aug 09, 11am-8pm, Sunday 23rd Aug 09, 11am-6pm
- Tickets £5 (including free entry to Trereife house and Curated design at Trereife)
- Accompanied children under 16 FREE
- FREE parking
- Disabled access
- Food available
- Extensive grounds to cover
- 1/2 miles west of Penzance on the A30 Land’s End road
That should be everything you need to know and we hope to see you down there over the weekend – Lets hope for sun!
xx
Our stand at Hidden Art 2007
Summer in Cornwall
July 29, 2009
To me, Summer in Cornwall is about…
The A30 at a standstill, most of the time.
High streets busy with pasty handed wanderers.
Galleries thronging with people discovering the rich talent of Cornwall.
Poor holidaymakers scurrying through the rain, braving a downpour to nip to the famous Jelberts ice cream shop.
Seagulls attacking, flying off with sausage roll shaped treasure!
The Poppy Treffry team tucked away in our rooftop studio, stitching still – come rain or shine. Hoping for ‘shine’ so we can lunch outside by the harbour.
The view from the Poppy Treffry studio
Look forward to hearing from you,
Faye
(Sales and Marketing)
Photographic evidence of ‘The Visit!’
July 6, 2009
Kirsty and Phil in Jess' garden
Just for anybody who doubted the authenticity of our previous post, here is the photographic evidence of Phil and Kirsty’s big adventures in Chacewater, Cornwall, UK!
Kirsty, Phil and the tea cosy
July 1, 2009
Don’t get me wrong, I love my work here in the studio, but when Kirsty and Phil from Relocation,Relocation, want to come and view your house you just have to get the day off! So here I am in the studio, on not my normal working day and what could be the last of the sunny days!! I’m not bitter though and I did manage to get a tea cosy in prime position in the kitchen for the film crew (just next to the cooker). Phil has a very firm ( quite manly) handshake and Kirsty had the biggest sun hat I had ever seen (only she could have pulled this off so well). Both were lovely as were all the crew, I think they all quite liked in down here in the sunshine. So look out in about 6 months time for a cornish episode of Relocation, Relocation to see us on the little screen!
Jess
(Production and dispatch manager)
Hello world!
June 30, 2009
Well, after dithering and dallying we have decided to drag ourselves further into the 21st century and jump on the blogging bandwagon! Be patient with us we’re new to this but we know we like a good blog and we know we like to talk so, hey, this might just work!
What we plan is to keep you up to date with news from the studio and titbits from the world outside the studio. And we want you to tell us what you’d like to hear about also.
The plan is to let all the staff have a go and a say so we’ll all sign off to let you know who’s written what.
That’s that for now but keep in touch and so will we!
Faye xx
(Sales and Marketing)
