What a great week end we have just had. Drinks and nibbles on Friday night to launch the season, and then continued festivities on Saturday with nibbles and more festive cheer. Let's let the photos speak for themselves.
One of my favourite things about visiting the US Gift Fairs is getting a sneak peak at the coming Christmas Trends. Here are 5 of the prominent Christmas Trends spotted at the Dallas Gift Fair in January.
One of our favourite glass suppliers, Inge Glas in Germany, work with a number of other European companies each year to create the Annual Christmas Trends List. This year, they have identified 5 key trends for the European market.
Most of our buying is now done for the year, and over the next few months we'll introduce a few of the great ranges available in 2013. Today it is Stoneleigh Gallery.
Sometimes you want that "wow" Christmas display piece but you don't have that special location, such as a mantle or stair case, or don't have the floor space for a big display. We created this Decorated Christmas Pole for exactly this reason.
We've created this simple video for making a halloween wreath from deco mesh. Obviously, by simply changing the colours and decorations you could use the same format to create a Christmas Wreath.
After months of planning, buying, designing, pricing, displaying and finally cleaning, our 2012 store is now open. We have managed to fit in over 20% more stock than we had in 2011 and created a clear focus on 3 key areas of decorating...
We are lucky to have Kate Mudie pop into the store each year to take a couple of beautiful photos for us (and she always manages to find a couple of special pieces to add to her Christmas decoration collection). She has captured some of the hundreds (if not thousands) of stylish and whimsical decorations in our 2011 collection.
One of my favourite suppliers of Christmas decorations is an American company called Raz. They know how to have fun with Christmas - which is what I think Christmas decorating is all about.
I can't wait for the new images from Raz of their gorgeous decorated Christmas Trees to come out each year. I love the voluptuous use of decorations in the their trees and each year can't wait to receive our Raz decorations so we can create something like these in-store.
While we wait for the release of the 2012 Raz Imports decorated Christmas Trees, I thought I would re-look at some of the amazing trees Raz Imports have created over the past few years.
