Hello everyone,
I hope this little update finds you all well. The sun is shining
again today, and Lilly (our lovely little doggy helper) has been
snoozing away outside, dreaming of t-r-e-a-t-s (we have to spell
it out as she goes crazy with excitement when we say the word
in full!).
NEWS:
So what's been happening this last week or so... We are expecting
delivery of a batch of samples from a new supplier. It is very
exciting as we hope to be introducing a great range of even more
new shapes, including lots of boxes as that is something many
of you have been asking for. We hope to have the samples by early
next week. We will let you know how we get on...
Also don't forget that you get an extra 5% off all your purchases
by using your subscribers code at the website checkout.
NEW SHAPES ADDED:
We have been as busy as ever and have added some more new shapes
this week. We have added a new shape catagory to the website too
'miscellaneous'. We have introduced a few shapes that don't quite
fit into our existing catagories but don't really need a catagory
of their own, so 'miscellaneous' it is!! We have added loads of
new shapes, some of which are available only in limited quantities,
when they're gone, they're gone!! Here's what we've got for you...
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Grizzly
bears 5.7cm
Set of 10 |
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Fish
8.9cm
Set of 3 |
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Door
hanger 24cm
Ribbon shape |
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Napkin rings 4.4cm
Colonial design
Set of 4
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Napkin
rings 4.1cm
Plain design
Set of 4 |
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Rectangle
signs 13.7cm
Set of 3 |
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Rectangles
5.7cm
Set of 10 |
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Spruce
trees 9.2cm
Set of 3 |
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Flag
pennants 8.3cm
Set of 3 |
CRAFT PROJECTS GALLERY
Our continued thanks to 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 SPOTLIGHT
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 - LIVE A GREENER LIFE...
Here at Craftshapes HQ we use lists... lists for everything. If
we need something doing, we make a list! Our final thoughts this
week take the form of a simple list with a few tips for living
a greener lifestyle...
We all know about recycling and saving energy, carbon footprints
and reducing waste. Here we highlight some of the simpler and
perhaps less obvious ways that you can live a little greener and
help the envoronment...
1. Once your phone has finished charging unplug your charger.
Even when it is not plugged into your phone it is using energy.
2. Always turn your phone off at night or whenever you don't need
it. The longer the current charge lasts the less often you will
need to re-charge it.
3. Visit your local charity shops. Take your unwanted items with
you, of course, but whilst you're there have a good look to see
if there are any items you need. Chrity shops are especially good
for books. Buying charity shop items to re-use means one less
new item is bought. That saves all the added packaging and production
involved. You will save yourself some money too!
4. An alternative to putting magazines in the recycling is to
donate them to your local doctors surgery or hospital. They are
always looking for magazines for their waiting rooms.
5. Broken a plate or a mug? Don't throw it away, use any broken
crockery as drainage at the bottom of your plant pots.
6. Go to this website (www.dma.org.uk)
for details of how to get your name taken off the junk mail lists.
It just takes a simple phone call to an automated service and
viola! it is done! We have done this and it really works!!
7. Send your used inkjet cartridges (not epson) to a charity website.
They sell them on to recycling servies and raise money for their
charity in the process. Here is a link to the Oxfam service: www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/recycle/toner.htm
8. Likewise you can do the same recycling of your old mobile phone
sets through Oxfam. Here is the link:
www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/recycle/phones.htm
9. Alternatively if you want to recycle your old phone and make
a little money for yourself you can sell it to a recyling company
like Envirofone. They will buy your old phone off you. They pay
the postage and donate £1 to charity for every phone. Thier
website is easy to use and gives you an instant price for your
phone. www.envirofone.com/
