fabric felt website update

After a MAMMOTH website update this weekend, I am super happy to announce that we now have 299 fabric felts to choose from! 

 I've chosen matching or contrasting felt backings ...
 ...and if you fancy a different felt backing colour you can have it! 

 ALL our fabric felt is made to order, here in the barn...when it's super busy it may mean it takes a day longer to send your order, but normally there's no delay at all :-)

 We now have 12 categories on the website (there's a link at the bottom of this post) 
from  Christmas, Halloween & Metallics...to Cute, Stripes & Dots ... with some Gingham & Tartan inbetween ;-)

 All our Fabric Felt is non-fray because the fabric is fused to our premium wool blend felt.  It is easy to use - just like felt really - and a dream to hand sew, the needle just glides through :-)

 Take a peek and see what you think:
Fabric Felt on the website

Birthday Treat #1

Our first special Birthday Treat is on the website now
Our *new* felt glitter sheets come in 12 colours.
The Birthday Treat price is for a rainbow of all 12 colours for just £10 (normal price is 95p a sheet / £11.40 for all 12)
Each glitter felt rainbow will be secured with metallic ric rac - so you get to try that out too :-)
There are a limited number of felt glitter rainbows at this special price

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Our 10th Birthday<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

It's a busy of month of celebrating and I hope you're keeping up with all our special announcements....

• 4 free templates for you to make
• free prize draw - enter on the blog
• free prize draw - enter on facebook
• free prize draw - website order of £15 to enter
• free prize draw - make a free template and send us a photo
• birthday treat #1 (this one!)

more details of all our 10th birthday celebrations are on our website/facebook/blog
Birthday treat #1 can be found by clicking here

Birthday Bonanza FREE prize draw

 Our Birthday Bonanza FREE prize draw is here!!

THE PRIZES
There are FIVE prizes of £100 website credit vouchers -woohoo!  Imagine what you could buy with £100 paper-and-string credit!
Winners can choose the denomination of their credit voucher(s) each voucher must be used in full in one transaction and only one voucher can be used per order (it's how the website works) so I can send 10x £10 of 2x£50 - etcetc the choice is yours.  The discount will work against all products but not shipping/postage fees. The vouchers will expire after 12 months.  As if you could wait that long to spend them ;-)
HOW YOU CAN ENTER
There are FOUR ways to enter - please read the small print below each one so you understand each step :-) 
1. Blog Entry
Leave a comment on this blog post - tell us what would be at the top of your buying wishlist if you were a £100 voucher winner.
One entry per person, duplicates or spam posts will be deleted  
2. Facebook entry
Leave a comment on the pinned-to-the top post on our facebook page - tell us what your favourite product on our website is
One entry per person, duplicates or spam posts will be deleted. 
You don't have to but facebook shares are always appreciated :-) 
3. Website purchase entry
All customer's website orders of £15 total value will have their order number entered into the draw - we will do this automatically for every qualifying order
For all orders placed from 1st September - 30th September.  Every seperate order will be entered, there are no limits on how many orders you can place.  Larger orders (in £15 multiples) will be entered every time the total hits £15 (so if your order is £30 it will be entered twice, £150 it will be entered 10 times) 
4. Make one of our templates entry
Make one of our free templates, send us a photo and you'll get another entry.  You can post the photos to our facebook page OR email them to mail@paper-and-string.co.uk 
All photos will be put onto our website in the Maker's Gallery with your name or business name displayed - if you want a link tell us what it is and we'll link you too...we'll only put the information you want on display, so tell us what you'd like :-)
There are FOUR template designs - you can enter one of each design - your sewing/design will not be judged, if you've made it you can enter it :-)
The Birthday Bonanza FREE Prize Draw is open throughout September 2016 - winners will be announced early October 2016
All entries will be printed/written on to paper, folded and put in a great big bowl.  The five winning papers drawn will be drawn at random (not by me!) Each entry is equal to the others and has an equal chance of winning - but the more entries you have the higher your chances :-)

My fancy-pants new Birthday stationery has arrived from the printers - and I can not wait to decorate all your parcels with everything :-) 
 GOOD LUCK!

paper-and-string is 10!

We are SO excited that paper-and-string has turned 10 that we will be celebrating throughout the month of September

 We've planned all sorts of lovely things - which will be revealed through September - and our first is a gift to you all :-)

 I've uploaded four free templates to the website for you to download and make (if you want to!)

 There are BIG doughnuts

 Cute Pandas

 My favourite Happy decorations

 and our new Cactus design too
They are all on the website here: http://www.paper-and-string.net/free-patterns

It's nearly here...

I am SO excited for it to be September...only a couple more days to wait and then I can tell you all about the the plans I've been hatching....the Happiest-Decoration-Ever in the photo is a small part of it ... he's made from some of the new Christmas fabric made into fabric felt - I've updated my pattern slightly, by cutting his face backing with scallop scissors - even cuter than before I think.

handmade by me

 Since launching the new website (waaaay back in April) the handmade department has been very very empty

 I used to make to order and managing my time was getting too tricky....

 So after a re-think I decided to scrap the made-to-order idea and offer already made items, which meant I had to get my sewing thing on!

...and after 4 months I've made enough to re-open the handmade section - hurray!
Everything I've made can be seen here:  http://www.paper-and-string.net/handmade
:-)

something exciting is coming in September...

Plans are afoot....and they are keeping me busy .... but it will DEFINITELY be worth waiting for ;-)

(the photo has nothing to do with the plans)

Refilling the threads

It's one of those tasks which takes forever - but it's fun!

 100 boxes of threads - all sorted & checked off - and all the thread holding hooks have been filled :-)

Our embroidery thread comes in 60 colours to match our 60 colours of premium wool blend felt
It's lovely quality; made by Madeira for Rico and each 8m skein is just 90p
all can be seen here, should you so wish:  http://www.paper-and-string.net/embroidery-thread-singles

back in the swing of things

I'm all out-of-synch with stock ordering - I had to stop before our holiday to make sure no parcels arrived when we weren't here to receive them and last week was just too busy to do anything other than pack parcels (and make 600 kits!) but today I knuckled down and have placed 8 orders with suppliers, I have more on my list for tomorrow so expect a lot of re-stocks* any day now :-)
*there may also be some new-ness too because I can't resist!!

I love Mondays

Mondays are my favourite day

They are also the busiest parcel sending day!  11 sacks full of your lovely ordes went out today, phew-ee!

what did you do today?

John and I spent the day finishing mountains of kits!

 600 kits :: made in 6 days!

 Lots of late nights....

 Lots of homework....

 AND super early starts every day...

 and we did it!

I think we'd quite like another holiday now!!

after our holidays

Summer Break

It's nearly time for us to stop posting parcels while we have our Summer Break :-)

 

 Orders placed anytime up to (and including) Wednesday 27th July will be dispatched before we go .... I've decided to leave the website open while we have our break (there will be a 'posting delay' warning pop-up on the home page) and we'll start posting again on Monday 8th August

 

 Here's hoping we have more smiley sunshine weather than thundery storm clouds :-)

C H R I S T M A S

 Christmas: Aqua, Red & White

It's time to get your Christmas Craft ON

 Christmas: Reds

I've created NINE different colour themes to help inspire your Christmas making - small selections of core products all built around a theme, and which you can add to, to your heart's content :-)

Christmas: Jewels

Christmas: Brights

Christmas: Gingerbread

Christmas: Frosty Snowflake

Christmas: Traditional

 Christmas: Scandinavian

Christmas: Greens

All nine can be viewed by clicking here:  http://www.paper-and-string.net/christmas