On line shop and new depts = Busy me!

Well I am a busy little bee, and that is why I have not had time to blog much – I am opening two new departments both in our online shop and in the retail shop.  First one is craft products and includes craft kits, hand crafted items and some craft supplies – we have a special range of Busy Bea’s hand knitting in this range.

The craft dept has already gone on sale in the retail shop and is doing fairly well with lots of positive feedback about the knitting in particular.

Today I added the hand knits to the online range and they can be seen here - http://www.tinastinytreats.co.uk/ourshop/cat_608160-Hand-Knits.html – there will be much more added to the craft dept over the next few weeks so this will limit my blogging ongoing!!!

The second new dept is VERY exciting!  We are going to have 00 gauge railway stuff – I have started to pull together an online offering for this and expect it to go live in a few days – I’m aiming for mid next week.  Once it is live online we will set up in the retail shop.

I will get back to daily blogs very soon – I have a half written blog story that you will get to see soon and some of you will recognise yourselves in it, if you follow Stan on twitter, as I have taken the characters from there (!)

I will also keep to the weekly blog features about The Border Collie Trust – thanks for the great feed back we have been getting about these Woof Wednesday features.  Next Wednesday I will be talking about a couple of ways you can help them out if you are not able to offer a dog a home – please have a look at the last two features about Misty and Joseph and be sure to tell anyone you know who likes dogs to take a peek as well;  I would love to see them get nice homes….. PLEASE HELP ME SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THEM…

Misty - http://tinaholmes.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/misty-and-border-collie-trust/

Joseph - http://tinaholmes.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/joseph-and-border-collie-trust/

Busy weekend gets in the way of blogging!

We had a very busy but great fun weekend which has resulted in me spending most of today catching up with writing stuff, doing piles and piles of washing, ironing and house work – I want to know how can it be possible for there to be so many dog hairs in the house when the dog is short-haired and we were out all weekend just how does that happen?

Anyway the result of all today’s rushing around has meant that I have not had time to spend on our blog so here is a slightly rushed version of what we did over the weekend…..

On Saturday we went to Holt Dolls House Show where we had a very successful day selling miniatures and we took orders for some very special dolls houses which I will no doubt be showing pics of on here when they are done.

A very good day selling wise

 

The show closed at 3.30pm and as Midlanders we were then desperate to go the seaside as soon as we could, with it being just down the road.  Usually when a show ends we just want to head home as quickly as possible but when you are that close to the coast you just have to go to the beach – it would be rude not to!

The view from the car park was better than the views we are used to when parking at the supermarket!

We were very lucky as the weather forecast had not sounded good but the day was sunny and hot – just right for our stroll down the seafront…

Bob and Ged were heading back to the car after a great fish and chip tea eaten on a bench looking out to sea. Bob carried the bag with our Cromer crabs and Stan kept checking to see if I was keeping up!

On Sunday we had a bit of a lie in, we needed it after the 4am start the day before! Ged was treated to Father’s day gifts by the youngest two kids and then we headed off to The Border Collie Trust to take some photos for the article I will be writing for this week’s Woof Wednesday Blog.  We took one of their lovely dogs Misty out for a walk which you will hear all about on Wednesday.  Misty was a pleasure to be with and we had a great time – she is in the centre following the death of her owner so it felt good to be able to give her a fun afternoon… more on Wednesday.

Stan and Misty had a great time… more on Wednesday

If you want to see a bit more of their fun before Wednesday have a look at them playing on you tube -

Then it was off to Ged’s Dads to deliver Father’s day gift and card – I made him a miniature which was the corner of a bowling green with a narrow garden border and a bird table complete with bird and bird food.  I think he liked it… let me know what you think of it – it is about 5″ wide by 4″ deep.

This was the hand-made Father’s Day gift we gave to Ged’s dad.

We didn’t get chance to relax and stay long at the in-laws as it was time to go home as “the boys” would be coming round A fun evening/late afternoon came next as we returned home and were joined by our two elder children and their girl friends.  I think Ged had a good Father’s day but once we were on our own I was a bit too sleepy to ask him!

Today has flown by as I try to catch up and tomorrow I will be off to the shop to spend a productive and fun day with Bob while Stan snoozes on the floor between us….. Time for walkies now!

 

Preview inspired by Clowie

A quick sneak preview of something I am working on for a project later in the year – this was inspired by Clowie’s backpack.  This dog is a bit smaller than Clowie though at less than 1″ tall!

Tiny dog coat inspired by Clowie’s back pack – this one also has water bottles and is great for going hiking!