Although we've both been a bit swamped with our 'day jobs' recently David has still managed to make a few new amazing bowls, all of which are now listed on our Etsy and Folksy pages.

Laura returned home to Portsmouth this week after being up north for our recent craft fair events. It was fantastic to spend time together working on new ideas for our products. Here in Harrogate the snow is a challenge sometimes, the pavements are very slippery but the whole town is covered in a beautiful blanket of white stuff.

Yesterday we uploaded some new bowls for sale on our Folksy and Etsy shops. There are two new flower bowls which are very bright and colourful and which we hope you will enjoy owning as much as we enjoyed making them. The Candy Flowers bowl features very jolly red and pink striped fantasy flowers and like the Flowers and Leaves bowl we think would make an excellent gift this Christmas. Please have a look at them in our shops when you have time.

After our visit to Scotland a couple of weeks ago I finished a bowl to celebrate to lovely island of Arran. This bowl is quite chunky and is decorated with an imagined view of the island in summer with blue sky and clouds. I expect Arran is covered in snow just now but if you have an opportunity to visit we would heartily recommend discovering "Scotland in miniature" for a truly wonderful experience.

Our next event will be at St Aidans School in Harrogate on Friday 3rd December. The Christmas Gift Fair will be open from 5pm until 9pm. We will be showing a selection of corsages and fascinators, our tie bags and my bowls. It would be lovely to meet you there.

We had a great day at the made-it Craft Fair in Weatherby Town Hall. Laura wasn't able to get up to Yorkshire today but she was definitely there in spirit. Mark Griffiths kindly came along to give me a hand and we are very grateful for his help. The visitors to the fair really loved Laura's Fascinators and Tie Bags and we made some good sales of those and my bowls.

We launched a new product for Christmas which we will have up on the Etsy and Folksy shops very soon (well as soon as I have replenished my stock!). The new bowls are small paper clay bowls which are designed to hang on the Christmas tree as decorations which can also hold little gifts! Look out for them, the people at the Fair seemed very pleased with them and we hope you will be too.

There were some brilliant exhibitors there with some beautiful and innovative handmade products for sale. We especially liked Skiprat Creations who make original, contemporary furniture and gifts handcrafted in Yorkshire from reclaimed or recycled materials and recommend that you take a look at their shop on Folksy. You will not be disappointed.

Our stall was next to an excellent and very creative photographer, Brian Hull who combines his love of history with a very professional and creative approach to the images he captures, so definitely check his web site Quadriform out.

Finally we would really like to thank Debbie and Kirsten who organised the craft fair for inviting us to join this one, it was a really valuable and very enjoyable experience. They are holding several more made-it Craft Fairs leading up to Christmas and you can see the details at their website.

Apologies for not posting here for a while, things have been a bit hectic. Not only am I discovering that running a business takes more time each day than there is available, but I have also bought a house in the last week. There is a lot of work to do to make it what we want, and I'm now on my second day of waiting in for the removals men who are supposed to be coming to take the rest of the seller's furniture. The house also has limited Internet access for the time being, so I'm not able to get much done!

On a more relevant note, we now have a Folksy page! Folksy is a great British-based website where artists and crafters can sell their beautiful handmade items. We're still working it all out, but we have an ameliagreenheart page and are in the process of putting all our lovely things up for sale there.

I have also acquired a good selection of ties and am still trying to perfect my tie-bag technique. I will put these up on our Etsy and Folksy pages asap.

Oh well, back to stripping wallpaper!