Hello everyone,

What lovely weather we have been having this last few days. Clare and I have been counting the days and we are now on our 6th consecutive day without rain, and lovely sunshine instead. Our chickens are laying lovely big eggs with all this sunshine, they love it!! It's amazing what a difference it makes to us all to have a little sun shining down upon us!! Have you noticed how light it is getting too. It was still light at nearly 6pm last night!! Yippee!!

Despite the tempting sun, we have been very busy this last few weeks packing and delivering heart shapes to you all as result of our Valentines sale. It has been a tremendous success and lots of you have been stocking up and saving a lot of money in the process!! We will definately do another Valentines sale next year.

NEW SHAPES ADDED:
We have also been sourcing new shapes to add to the website. We have some brilliant new shapes to come in the next few weeks. Two shapes that we have been asked for a lot are crosses and door hangers. we ahve now added these to our reange. The crosses are fantastic chunky little things, the larger ones make great keyrings (don't forget we can drill holes in them for you - free of charge). The door hangers are brilliant for kids to decorate and put on their doors - they're great fun and proving very popular already!! We are selling them in singles but you can get great discounts for multiple buys.

	Wooden crosses 3.8cm Set of 10
	Wooden crosses 7cm Set of 5
	Door hanger 24cm Square top
	Door hanger 24cm Round decorative top

OUR GALLERY
Just a quick mention to thank all of you who have sent in your fantastic craft projects for us to include in our gallery. It always amazes us to see what creative projects you make with our shapes. If you haven't sent in your projects yet please do, we love to see them. We will include a link to your website too, if you have one (this can help drive traffic to your site and increase your sales, if that's your goal!).

CUSTOMER SHOWCASE
Just as we like to show off your craft projects through our gallery section we also want to showcase some of our customers in a little more depth here within our newsletter. If you create crafts from our shapes and have a shops, or sell on ebay, or even just make gifts for friends we would love to hear from you and include your showcase in an upcoming newsletter. We want to help promote you to our little craftshapes family. The internet is a fantastic way for us all to share our ideas and projects and we would like to help by showing off your projects here in our newsletters. If you would like to be considered for our customer showcase please do contact us at info@craftshapes.co.uk.

FINAL THOUGHTS
Lastly in each of our subsequent newsletters we are going to include a few final thoughts. Just for fun!! These might be about crafting, they could be tips, hints, tricks, or they could be non craft related. Words of wisdom, thoughts about issues of the day, DIY tips, little lists to save time, money saving tips or anything else that springs to mind. We will start the ball rolling next time but if you want to send us your thoughts, tips, ramblings or wisdoms please do drop us a line at info@craftshapes.co.uk.