Craft business heroes (like Poppy Treffry) and a little competition
21 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Crafty Friends, Find us elsewhere, Interesting stuff, Offers Tags: Alison McNicol, cat, Competition, cract business heroes, craft business advice, kindle cosies, kitchen table businesses, Poppy Treffry
When we first started, down here at Treffry Towers, we had to do a lot of learning ‘on the job’. We made mistakes (and mostly we learnt from them) and we talked to lots of people in lots of places to get advice and tips on running a business, cause nobody knows like those who’ve been through it. So when we were approached by Alison McNicol (founder of stitchclub) to be involved in her book of craft business tips and advice we were really pleased to be able to give a bit of advice back! And we were very excited when we found out that Alison was producing not one but two books, and we were to be considered Craft Business Heroes, it’s got a certain ring to it don’t you think?! And now both books are out and about for you to buy and peruse, Available at Amazon and also in our little shop in St Ives.
If your feeling super modern you can also buy both books for your kindle! (Which of course you can keep warm with one of our kindle cosies!!)
If you fancy a chance to win our lovely cat kindle cosy and a free download of both of Alison McNicols books you can enter our competition here http://eepurl.com/iX4qj but do be warned, it’s a tricky one!!
Stockist of the month – December
08 Dec 2011 2 Comments
in Crafty Friends, Find us elsewhere, Great Places, Interesting stuff Tags: blog, christmas shopping, handmade, home wares, iapetus, jewellery, Poppy Treffry, uk made
Welcome to our December stockist of the month and one we really love for their passion for sourcing unique, handmade gifts and jewellery from suppliers you won’t find all over the high street… Take a bow iapetus gallery.
Anna Brook & Chris Marks founded iapetus in 2006 and also in the team are Tash, Gi and Tina as gallery assistants and Nancy as pr & marketing assistant. The team seek out the most unusual and beautiful crafts from talented artists and makers. The gallery in Great Malvern and the website, iapetus.co.uk, are chock-full of gift inspiration including handmade jewellery, gifts, tableware, home accessories, bags, stationery and art. We love to offer something different and we’re passionate about working with ethically and environmentally sound companies that produce beautiful products.
in store
So if you visit Malvern please go and take a look at the beautiful shop or you can browse their fine wares on their website. You can also find them on Facebook or visit their lovely blog
iapetus
34 Belle Vue Terrace, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4PZ
Poppy Treffry and Bettys tea rooms
24 Nov 2011 3 Comments
in Find us elsewhere, Gossip Tags: apron, Bettys, Bettys tea rooms, esclusive collection, fancies, Poppy Treffry, Tea cosy, Tea towels
Bettys Collection in full
We know we’ve been a little quiet of late but we have a great excuse! We’ve been really busy creating a wonderful collection for the very lovely Bettys shop, cafe and Tea rooms. We’ve loved and admired them and their fancies from afar for a while now so were very excited to be working with them, though at times the sampling cakes to get just the right colours and feel reflected in the designs was tough but we say ‘all in the line of duty!’.
Our final collection comprises charming gifts featuring a delicious design inspired by the silver trays of delicate fancies that you’ll find in Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms. The fancies adorn aprons, tea towels and of course… a tea cosy (well it wouldn’t be us without a tea cosy would it?!)
Bettys tea towel
Bettys apron
All designs are exclusive to Bettys and we’d love to know what you think xx
Bettys tea cosy
Stockist of the month – August
09 Aug 2011 2 Comments
in Find us elsewhere, General, Great Places, Interesting stuff Tags: Canada, Cosies, Poppy Treffry, stockists, Vancouver
Please give a big welcome to our Stockist of the month for August…. The lovely Örling & Wu of Vancouver (A little way up the road from Fowey!!). We’ve chosen Örling & Wu as our second stockist of the month because we think their shop looks beautiful! They are flying the Poppy Treffry flag in Vancouver and all the communcations we have from them are so friendly and nice that we can imagine visiting the shop is a very pleasant experience!
Orling and Wu shop front
Julie from Örling & Wu tells us: “Örling & Wu” is located at the heart of historical Gastown in Vancouver. We sell some of the most well designed and crafted wallpaper, decorative fabrics, tableware and home accessories from all corners of the world. We never stop searching for genuine and personal products that we love and that we think our customers will love.”
What lovely cosies they sell!
They may be a long way away but you can visit the website here
You can follow Örling & Wu on Twitter here
And you can like them on Facebook here too
Suddenly Canada doesn’t seem so far away!
Lovely window
Thanks for visiting our ‘stockist of the month’ feature, and we’d love to hear from you if you’ve visited the shop. Also we’d love to hear from you if you’d like to nominate a stockist of Poppy Treffry that you think deserves to be our stockist of the month in the future. Just drop us a line to hello@poppytreffry.co.uk with details. x
Stockist of the month – July
25 Jun 2011 1 Comment
in Crafty Friends, Find us elsewhere, Great Places Tags: cornwall, designer makers, fowey, Poppy Treffry, seaside, stockists
July see’s the first launch of our new Stockist of the month feature. Each month we want to tell you about one of our lovely stockists out there in the world selling our lovely products.
We have chosen the lovely folk over at Cry of the Gulls gallery in Fowey, Cornwall as our first stockist of the month. They have been one of our longest standing stockists and they even have a little Poppy shop within their gallery! If you want to nominate a local stockist who you think deserves a mention then please drop us a line to hello@poppytreffry.co.uk and tell us who and why.
Cry of the Gulls shop front
Cry of the Gulls is a beautiful gallery in the heart of Fowey, Cornwall. It displays a diverse range of paintings, ceramics, jewellery and accessories. This is a Cornish gallery at heart but it is also dedicated to introducing new artists and craft makers to the county.
The Gallery is celebrating its 20th Birthday this summer and it has been on quite a journey.
The galleries original owners emigrated to New Zealand 7 years ago when Liz and Julian Davies took over the gallery. After a lifetime of working in Art Education they made the move down from Gloucestershire and started their Cornish Life. They have transformed Cry of the Gulls into a vibrant and successful gallery that is at the heart of Fowey. Last year Liz and Julian were joined by their youngest son Oli and his partner Ben. Ben is a Professional Fine Art Photographer and Oli was an actor in London. They have started the Galleries next adventure. This summer sees the launch of their new look website www.cryofthegulls.co.uk with a brand new logo and are easily found via twitter (@cryofthegulls) or Facebook.
Poppy has always been a staple part of the gallery and her distinctive style sits well in this contemporary gallery space.
Cry of the Gulls, 2 Webb Street, Fowey, Cornwall, PL23 1AP
Poppy Shop
01726 833838
Poppy Shop
Moving day (or week/month/year!)
06 May 2011 5 Comments
in Find us elsewhere, General, Gossip, Great Places, Interesting stuff, Staff Tags: cornwall, designer makers, penzance, Poppy Treffry, Trereife
SO…. Team Treffry have moved. Goodbye view of St Michaels, goodbye lovely wooden floor, Goodbye Justin Duance jewellery neighbours, Goodbye terribly steep steps, Goodbye pungent aroma of fish, goodbye freezing cold temperatures.
Packing up and shipping out!
It was with a heady mixture of joy and sorrow that Poppy and the team, and some keen helpers (such as Mummy Treffry), finally carted the accumulations of 6 years of making tea cosies and the likes down those terribly steep steps which many of you will have seen in previous posts and off to pastures new, or Trereife Business park as it’s otherwise known!
First job: Building the cutting table
And the stock shelves go up.
Web designer extraordinaire Neil and daughter Tilly visit
All in all, apart from the oversight of not having a kettle at the new digs on Wednesday, the move went pretty well – although the unpacking and erecting and general debris sorting may continue for a while! We even welcomed our first visitors, our web designer Neil and his daughter, on Thursday afternoon.
We built a small box to keep Poppy in!
Biba turns up for work in the new office
Faye hangs some fairies to watch over proceedings!
Sara summarises the joy of being nearly finished, or trips over - you decide!
So that’s it, we’re in – let proceedings commence – just as soon as BT manage to get someone out to sort our phoneline and internet connection!
What do you think? x
Sewing at Bedruthan Steps
01 Apr 2011 7 Comments
in Find us elsewhere, General, Gossip, Great Places, Interesting stuff
Excitement was running high last Friday as Freya and I unloaded 9 vintage sewing machines from the car and into the colourful craft room at the Bedruthan Steps Hotel (http://www.bedruthan.com/), overlooking the sea.
The next morning we were joined by 12 enthusiastic stitchers all raring to go, and this despite the four course, locally sourced amazingly delicious breakfast!
I’m not going to say much more as I think the photos say it all! Needless to say we had an ace time, I was bowled over by the results!
Sewing machines begin their journey! (Leaving an empty studio)
Crafters room in set
Concentration
Caravanning
mind the fingers
Some of the results
And these too
The view from the lovely Bedruthan
The stitchers at rest
Sew Last Year
02 Jul 2010 1 Comment
in Crafty Friends, Find us elsewhere, General, Gossip, Great Places, Interesting stuff Tags: islington, london, summer sample sale
We’ve made it up to Islington and set up our sale at the lovely Albert and Pearl . The room is up quite dark stairs with golden birds and trees painted all the way up. There are a great collection of old comfy sofas and chaise longes and a beautiful fireplace, lovely old floorboards and gorgeous windows- all in all a perfect setting for our sale!
It’s been a busy morning so far but I’m looking forward to some little side trips to New Designers and boozy lunch with Lindsay from The Black Rabbit !
P, J and Biba’s big trip – part 3
30 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment
in Find us elsewhere, General, Great Places, Interesting stuff, Jolly Good
Just trying to catch up with myself as there seems to be no free wifi in Oz. I didn’t get a chance to tell you about our Ha Long bay trip. You may have seen the bay in the Top Gear Vietnam special. It’s incredibly beautiful and we had our own private wooden junk with two cute little en suite cabins and a chef. We mainly just cruised around the bay, lazing on the top deck (when the kids weren’t trying to throw themselves overboard!)
2 Floating tuck shop
It was very misty and atmospheric with delicately balanced rock pillars seeming to float on turquoise sea, hundreds of tiny islands teeming with Vietnamese boat life.. Fish farms, floating snack shops, noisy tugs, coracles, tourist cruise ships, floating bamboo dog cages, sailing boats and egrets all drifting quietly in and out of the mist.
prezzles..
Biba had her first birthday on board and Elsa and Ren surprised her with a lovely cake and that all important first candle to blow out. It was really special and we’ll remember it for ever even is she doesn’t!
First Candle
Back from Ha Long bay to unpack, wash and pack again, sleep for our flight to Bangkok and then onto Sydney. A fond farewell to our Nam buddies and into the taxi. Once at Bangkok airport we settle in for our 5 hour wait, quite a lot of which is spent in the queue to check in with BA (bloody awful…), during which Biba squeals like a banshee constantly, does three poos, they tell us we have too much baggage and cant check it in, we have to repack at the check in desks, one bag explodes everywhere and it’s 30 degrees…..argh!
Once we’re through everything is much nicer Bangkok airport is actually quite amazing and Justin gets his burger king and I get to sleep on the floor next to an AC unit so everyone’s a winner!
In the Botanic Gardens
Is this cruel....
Until the flight…which is like the stuff of genuine nightmares, and goes on all night too! The first 2 or 3 hours pass peacefully enough – we waste this watching movies etc. Then all the other million children on the flight wake up and squeal and argue and jump about, one repeatedly kicks the back of Justin’s chair which turns out to be made of very thin nylon, when he sneaks onto the floor in desperate search of zeds another one pukes all over his seat, then Biba gets cracking with the squealing again. Some how the 10 hours pass and we drag our sorry asses into Sydders where our lovely pal Dave is waiting to take us home and put us to bed.
Lets poke a Koala in the bottom
Lets poke a wallaby in the eye
To get to Dave’s we have to take the Manly ferry, a fine old push me pull you boat that chugs away from Circular Quay right past the opera house with the harbour bridge in the background. The sky is screamingly blue, the sun is beaming down and it’s a gorgeous welcome to Oz…why would anyone leave!
On the Manly Ferry
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