We need another shop assistant for our St Ives shop
21 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in General, Staff Tags: holiday job, Poppy Treffry, shpo assistant needed, St Ives, work in St Ives
Hurray, we have another opportunity to work with us! We’re looking for a shop assistant for our shop in St Ives for the summer season. We’re looking for someone to cover Mondays and Tuesday from April 2nd 2012 to September 25th 2012 and to also cover some Sundays during school holidays (Easter, half term and Summer hols).
We’re looking for someone keen to act as an ambassador for Poppy Treffry ltd who can enthuse over pretty things and provide super wonderful customer service in our shop!
If you think this could be you then we’d love to hear from you. You can drop Faye a line to faye@poppytreffry.co.uk and she can then give you all the details. We’ll be looking to interview on Friday March 9th 2012.
Cake O Clock, Hurray!!
31 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in General, Gossip, Interesting stuff, Staff Tags: biscuits, Cake, elevenzees, Facebook, Honeybuns, Poppy Treffry, Twitter
Happy Days!
Today is a Happy day in the Poppy Treffry studio! Those of you who follow us on facebook and twitter might remember that last week we ran out of biscuits, sad days indeed. This week the fabulous people at Honeybuns have made our weeks by sending us a lovely box of cakes, and Poppy’s away so that’s all the more for us! We worked with Honeybuns a few years ago on some badges and very much look forward to working with them again in the future and meanwhile we can thoroughly recommend their delicious wares, they’ll be powering the Poppy Treffry studio today! You can find Honeybuns on Twitter and Facebook to keep right up to date with cake!
Thumbs up to Honeybuns
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
Holiday by the sea- Weymouth
21 Jul 2010 2 Comments
in General, Great Places, Interesting stuff, Jolly Good, Staff Tags: bucket and spade, Dorset, Poppy Treffry, seaside, Weymouth
So I escaped the studio as The Black Rabbit invited us to come and visit. We knew it would take an age to travel from Penzance to Margate so we decided to make a few stops on the way. First stop Weymouth Gateway to the Jurassic coast….
To Eden and back…
24 Jun 2010 2 Comments
in Great Places, Interesting stuff, Staff Tags: eden project, recycled, tea cosies
I packed my boot full of our brand new recycled cosies as well as an array of studio bits and bobs (including one of my darling Singers!) and made my way over to the Eden Project to set up our new display there. After not getting lost on my way to the warehouse I got a lift down to the Link Shop (which is a new retail space right down between the two biomes) passing behind the scenes where gardeners, chefs, people with clip boards and walkie-talkies were all running about making everything run smoothly for the 3000 visitors they were expecting.
Down in the shop I met Wendy who is the main lady at the link shop and a great character – worth going just to meet her even if you don’t buy a tea cosy – which you should of course!
We lugged rustic crates and suitcases about, moved sacks of coffee and banana trees until we’d got the Poppy Treffry space just right, I then set to work putting all the products out and attaching barcodes – all this whilst throngs of people milled about the shop, looking over my shoulder and asking me questions as if I worked there! – I just had to bluff my way through those!
The products are unlike anything we’ve done before – they’re made form 100% recycled and vintage fabrics and are really colourful and funky and they are all completely different from each other. It’s a bit of an experiment as I wanted to do something special for Eden that tied in with their green view of things.
It was a busy, if sweltering, morning but I’m pleased with the display so hopefully you can go and have a look for yourselves and keep me posted on how things are looking down there – you are my eyes and ears chaps!
Poppy
X
http://www.poppytreffry.co.uk
http://www.edenproject.com
Meet the Team – Part 1
09 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment
Over the next few months we thought we’d introduce you to the team behind the cosys at Poppy Treffry in a bit more detail. So today we’re going to introduce Faye, mainly because she starts her maternity leave this afternoon.
Faye at work!
So, Faye is sister of Poppy and has worked for the company for 4 years. Sales and Marketing is her role although in reality she does a bit of everything else too, and she’s generally the person on the other end of the phone if you call the studio. But all that will change later today as Faye begins 6 months maternity leave and is replaced by John, who we will introduce you to in the not too distant. So, that’s introduction number 1, and we’ll see you in October Faye – Good luck!!
Kirsty, Phil and the tea cosy
01 Jul 2009 4 Comments
in General, Gossip, Interesting stuff, Jolly Good, Staff
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)
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