Hiya! Had a good Sunday? Ours started with hilarity in the hotel breakfast room, because we threw the English etiquette book away, and made a picnic load of cheese, ham and sausage rolls to take for lunch, and smuggled them out in my handbag. Mum, if you’re reading this – you’d have been proud of us!!! The fact is, we just aren’t hungry at 7 in the morning, but at lunchtime we could eat a horse! So we took it…
Hi there! Greeting from Frankfurt. One down, three to go! And I am absolutely cream crackered already! Don’t think I’m cut out for these hardcore long days in exhibition halls any more. Until you’ve done Frankfurt, you can’t know just how gruelling it is. And you wouldn’t believe what I did when we were unloading the van on Wednesday night, which hasn’t helped at all. There we were on the stand, having just unloaded all the gear up onto the…
Hi there. Greetings from Frankfurt. Been pedalling hard all day, getting the stand ready here. BRITS abroad, honestly! First thing we did before we even started, was sit down and have a coffee with some chocolate. 7 hours later, and it’s all done and dusted – even polished to a high shine! We are so excited to be here. Whether we meet lots of new customers or just a few, the bit that impresses me is we’re here! We got…
Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Vhilst ve vend our merry vay to the Trade Show in Frankfurt, Maria has been launching a superb Celtic collection of Groovi Plates and the brand new XL Groovi Plate Mate, to house all those larger plates. We knew you’d like them, but we didn’t know how much. SOLD OUT in 37 mins! WOW! Thank you so much. More stock has been added to the show, so let’s see how long that lasts (looks like brother Steve’s on…
Hi there. Welcome to wainy, wet and windy ! The countdown is on for Maria’s Celtic One Day Special, which starts this evening at 6pm on HOCHANDA. The Special Celtic Bundle is superb, and as has been requested by so many of you, there is a brand new Groovi Plate Mate included, an extra large one, to house your large A4 Square plates, such as Tina Cox’s 3-D Flowers etc. What we’ve done though, to make it easier to store…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in to YouTube Tuesday! Today it’s BRAYER TIME. So many of you have asked about how NOT to get stripes, that a little video just highlighting the remedy follows: I hope that helped a bit. There are plenty of other brayering Youtubes if you go the the Claritystamp Youtube channel, they are all listed. Here are all the products I have used in this week’s VT, which are 20% off until next Tuesday. Now’s the…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. I wrote this blog, then it got gobbled up. And now I have to write it again. Deep breathe. Maybe a little shorter than the original. I HATE it when this happens. Grrr…… Right. Take it from the top. Great day at work today. Very productive. All set for Frankfurt, TV proposals on track – yep. It’s all going swimmingly – despite the Blogger gremlins. I really wanted to get home early and have a…
Hi there. Thanks for joining me. Great sense of achievement here today. Invited to the Palace? Nope Best Blog Award? Nope But I did clear not 1, not 2 but 3 baskets full of ironing! 24 shirts. I’ll write that again slowly… twenty-four shirts. AND 3 lots of kingsize bedding from Christmas! Scheisenhausen!!! That’s a lottashirtsnsheets! At one point, during a little coffee break, I was on the internet looking up Pfaff mangles, and we (Dave joined in the mangle…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. How are you? We have had a great day. This afternoon I finally got round to some real art-the-way-I-like-it time. A bit of paint, a bit of spit, a brayer, a canvas. There’s nothing quite like just rolling your sleeves up and going where it takes you…. I think what spurred me on today was this fantastic stencil which Mel has designed for us. Jim made me a set to try out before we…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Just a quickie. Had a super morning with the young people who will be joining our team soon. You know, ‘Andy and ‘Andy! Aka Lucy and Alec. What a great addition to the Clarity family. I was doing some clearing out this afternoon, and came across these old beauties. Who remembers these stamps?Cor blimey! That takes me back! The Corset Montage and then there’s the single sexy corset with the feminine legs. I’d still…