After a busy time before Christmas and then a lot of decorating afterwards, I have now listed a few new fascinators on our Etsy and Folksy pages. The first of many for a new year!

I have listed some new items on our Etsy and Folksy pages, two iPad sleeves and a Kindle bag. Hopefully I will have a chance to make some more of these soon, but I hope you enjoy these for now!

The issue with Folksy has been resolved, so all the new bowls are now up there too!

I've been listing a few of David's new floral themed bowls on our Etsy and Folksy pages. The colours are lovely and they'd make a perfect gift for someone this holiday season! There's an error on our Folksy page, which is preventing me from listing all of the bowls at the moment, but I will have these up for sale as soon as possible. They are all up on our Etsy shop already, so they can all be seen there!

Southsea has finally been covered by snow, so I've used the day to list a bunch of fascinators I made for the craft fairs that we attended last week. They're on our Etsy and Folksy shops, so please go and have a browse! Later I will be listing the new recycled-tie kindle and iPad bags that I've made, so hopefully they will go down well.

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.

Laura and I had an interesting day at the FLAIR artists and makers Craft Fair in York today. The weather was a challenge. York was covered in a blanket of snow and the temperature was very low. The fair was held in the Chapel within the historic York Cemetery which was a beautiful venue. Unfortunately it wasn't a very attractive day for people to come out but we did meet some very talented crafters and some very robust customers who braved the snow storm and the freezing conditions. Thank you especially to our friends who made a special effort to attend and give us support, it was very much appreciated.

We met Jilly Lovett a brilliant crafter who makes folk art dolls (the Johnny Depp pirates and mermaid were our favourites), berets, gloves and accessories from recycled wool and cashmere. We recommend a visit to her etsy shop.

I had two new bowls on display which I really enjoyed making. They will be available on our web shops next week. I have been working on designs which feature flowers lately and people seem to like them which is good news. While we were away in Scotland recently we noticed that on the Isle of Arran there are many gardens with fantastic blue hydrangeas growing in them I expect with all the snow since we left many of them will have gone over now. Laura and I have been working on a series of designs with hydrangea flowers as the basis so hopefully those will be available soon on out web shops too.