Hello Everyone..
A warm welcome to this weeks blog..
Lots has happened since we last spoke, as you know nothing stands still here anyway!
We visited Spring Fair at the NEC ensuring that we are right up to date with trends and have found some awesome new suppliers whose Homewares and gifts we think you will love. Its quite cut-throat in that lots of stockists are competing for the same things, but we always prefer to avoid that and stick to our exclusive Homewood Bound style. Watch this space for glorious new stock filtering through!!
Whilst at the NEC we bumped in to a very special person….What a lovely surprise it was… To those of you who are familiar with the classic ‘Old Bear’ books by Jane Hissey… well we bumped into Jane!!
For Hazel It was a very emotional moment when she met Jane whose books had played a huge part in Beths childhood. It was a rare treat to meet such a talented writer and put a face to the name. The books are being re-launched which is all very exciting. Jane was delighted to hear how much her books & television programme had been an inspiration and that Beth (now aged 19) still has ‘Old Bear’ in her bed….He has been in the suitcase to many worldwide destinations I’ll have you know… including New York!! Beth also has all the other book characters on her lovely old pine bookcase (From Homewood Bound of course…)
We were eager to keep in touch with Jane and were thrilled to find out that she is on Twitter… Here is the lovely Tweet that mentions Beth. I’m still smiling!!!!!
Had a visit from Holly Edwards (who is becoming quite a regular these days, business & pleasure) she is a hugely talented female photographer whose work you will be seeing a lot more of, and in the press! She is helping us with Various projects (which have been planned for some time) and is our photographer for our exciting ‘photoshoot’ with some very special ladies who are in the Daily Post this week!!! Cant tell you any more about the shoot now but can’t wait to tell you soon……..
This is a picture of Holly and her sweet little boy Harry, he is no trouble at all when he comes along with Mummy!
Because I am so very late with this weeks blog… sorry, never seem to have a good half an hour slot spare in-between everything going on… so as I’m writing this. The Daily Post article is out today (Wednesday). Remember me telling you about mentoring Jay and Frey, Fiddlestitch Art and Bathing Beauty? Well there is a lovely story about the ladies for you to see for yourself. I introduced Tanya to Georgina and Holly thinking that their products/services would gel.. things have literally springboarded from there..
Click here to read the article
On a previous blog I mentioned Johns niece Nell, who is the manageress of the new Weatherspoons in Ruthin, here is a picture of her with the lovely Ann Bridges (a wonderful, talented and well known local artist) who has been doing some art work for the Hotel.
My Mum and Dad are both 84 now and are still keeping up to date with all the comings and goings in the Homewood Bound World, Hectic as it is… I know it meant a lot to them to meet up recently with some very special friends in Llandudno for the day. Valerie and Mike Bradley from Manchester (who were neigbours for over 40 years) had a pleasant stroll on the Pier together, blue skies, calm sea and bright sunshine all day apparently and a lovely chat about life and old times.
Homepatch News
The Homepatch shop is working nicely, we have a new member of staff joining the team next week and of course we have lots of exciting plans! It has been hard to get together to plan things in the New Year because we have all been busy with other projects etc. Cheshire Life Magazine has just been to the shop and will be doing an article about Ruthin which will include Homepatch shop..
Next week looks set to be even busier… Beth has an interview with a couple of Universities and our photoshoot will take place. We are having a visit from Network She and we are almost finished with another gorgeous bespoke kitchen, in between all the comings and goings in the shop the workshop is a hive of activity!
Back soon with news and updates…
Hazel, John & The Team XX
