It's CHRISTMAS (soon)

Another four weeks has whizzed by, although for us it's been busy outside of work with our daughter getting married at the beautiful Doxford Hall in Northumberland - can certainly recommend it, what a beautiful place, and the staff are fab.

So while she is now sunning herself in Thailand, I am focusing my mind on Christmas as I suddenly discovered that it's just five weeks away!

The website is getting busy with lots of views on lots of different products and as it's a new site, our lovely customers are starting to now leave new reviews, so make sure you leave a review when you pop by.

Our new Pet Tins are popular, with everyone treating their dog or cat this autumn. It's hard with the darker evenings to get out so much with the dogs, so it's nice to be able to play inside with them with a few treats - we've been hiding the shale and Rattle treats and our chocolate lab seems to have turned into a sniffer dog!

Our lovely handmade soy candle gifts are proving popular too, a beautiful soft glow and lovely fragrance is just right on a winter's dark night.



So I've made my present list now and need to start ordering. I do find nowadays, I do most of my shopping online - it's just easier to be honest. Living in the North East, the thought of going to the MetroCentre to do my shopping at this time of year fills me with dread - the car parks are scenes from Terminator, and the gridlock is frustrating.

No, for me, it's sitting in front of the lit fire, doggy lying on the rug, and my laptop and credit card - couldn't be more pleasurable.

So if you're an online shopper too - don't forget we've got a special Christmas offer running where if you buy three or more Gift Tins, delivery is free - excellent value if I say so myself! You just need to type in CHRISTMAS2013 in the voucher box when you check out for free postage.

Happy online Christmas shopping everyone.

Anne

Autumn has arrived here in Northumberland with lots of wind and rain! So what better time to start your latest knitting project.

Here in the Gift in a Tin office our new Commercial Manager, Amy, has just been telling us about Daisy Lowe being spotted in a leather mini and a chunky hand knitted jumper. Apparently Daisy is a huge knitting fan and loves to knit, so we're sending her one of our Knit Gift Tins of beautiful British Alpaca so she can have fun knitting herself a trendy scarf. Maybe we'll see it when she gets papped next.

This is our Daisy Lowe, aka Helen, a friend of Gift in a Tin who kindly does a spot of modelling for us. She's wearing the scarf made from our Beginners' knitting kit Gift Tin. It's really simple to make and super cosy to wear.

We've also been looking at the Innocent Smoothies' campaign to knit little woolley hats for their drinks. They've teamed up with Age Concern to keep our elderly people warm and cosy this winter by getting people to knit hats and donating money. What a great idea.

Knitting is really surging again in popularity. People love to make their own accessories. It means what you have on, is not only made by hand, by you, but not everyone else is wearing the same thing! You know what it's like when you spot a lovely hat or scarf in a high street shop and the next time you wear it, you spot at least five other people wearing exactly the same thing!

So why not try your hand at a spot of knitting as these nights draw in?

See you at Gift in a Tin soon.

Anne

Well, to be honest, it's time Gift in a Tin got it's act together as far as blogging goes.

We love to read other blogs, we leave comments, and we think blogging is great. For these reasons, autumn 2013 will see the resurgence of the Gift in a Tin Blog!

The past month we've been very busy preparing the new autumn range and we've seen some large orders coming in early as retailers are gearing themselves up for the Christmas shopping period.

It always amases me that Christmas starts so early, but it just goes to show how organised some people are - how fantastic to calmly tell your friends 'oh yet, all my Christmas shopping is done, and it's all wrapped too' in early November!

So whet's new this autumn at Gift in a Tin?

We've some really beautiful new Candle Gift Tin gifts. My favourite is the Sweet Violet , English Rose, and Honeysuckle and Jasmine English Candle Tin gift. Really amazing hand poured soy candles in their own individual tins. A terrific gift, and the most beautiful scents.

All our candles are hand poured by Peter in Corbridge, just three miles from Gift in a Tin HQ. So they're pretty green too, as they don't come far! Always na excuse to pop in and say hi to Peter and pick up our latest order.

We've also got some great new Gift Tin gifts coming you way including our Pet Tin for Dogs and Cats. There's also a great new Tin for kids, our Rainy Day Tin, stuffed full of fun crafty stuff to do when the weather's not that great or you're on a long journey.

Well, enjoy your last day of August. Me? I am putting the last few bits together for the new website which will be live very soon.

Have a good one.
Anne