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News 22nd November, 2009

Hello to all that are reading my blog. I would like to thank everyone who gave up the evening on Thursday 19th November to help us raise money to send boxes of goodies for Christmas to our troops who will be away at Christmas. We raised a total of £64.00 from door admissions, card sales and generous donations from those that couldn't attend. So thank you to all.

November 4th 2009 News

First of all I would like to thank all of you that have continued to support the shop over this credit crunch. We have been fighting our way through it, keeping our heads above water, even when we have gone under a couple of times.

Thanks to our landlord and the bank we have just signed another lease for a further year, so despite rumours we are not closing for the foreseeable future, we have made a few changes to the shop, new shelves in the front of the shop, this helps reduce the cold from the class. We also have all your old favourites and new products from stamps to beads. We have changed the day we have classes to a Saturday and at the moment we are going back to basics with Try Me classes. I will be posting a new class list for you this week as I am still in the middle of putting the list together.

What's Happening in the run up to Christmas.

On November 19th we will be holding a Christmas Shopping night and will not only have our goodies to sell, we will have a range of candles and accessories from Candle Light. The evening will start at 6.30 pm and finish at around 8.30 pm, we also be holding a raffle for funds to send Christmas gift boxes to our RAF guys out in Afghanistan, there will also be refreshments. It should be a fun evening so come along and join us.

Thank you for your business.

Louise

WORKSHOP WEEKEND NEW DATES

Yes, the workshop weekend is back for the weekend 19th and 20th of September. There will be five classes and lots of new ideas for you to do. The weekend will include all materials, all snacks, drinks and a buffet lunch with all fresh foods and home baking.

Workshop weekend update

I am sorry to say that this weekends workshop event has had to be postponed. We are hoping to hold the weekend in early September.

For those that have booked your place I will let you know when the new dates are as soon as possible.

I am sorry for the inconvenience this may cause, thank you for your support.

Louise

News

I know I have not posted for a little while but have been a little busy as there has been a lot going on. Unfortunately my own health has been a bit of an issue after a couple of bad falls.

The other thing is we have been doing a little rejigging at the shop.
We now have new space for storage which is in front of the window which we hope will help keep the warmth in and the cold out. We also have a better class room area away from the door so classes will also be warmer, there will also be new lighting as soon as the budget allows.

The most important thing for us is the new till we have installed, it will help me with all my paperwork and ordering. The first thing for us to do is bar code all the stock and load it on to the system, which is going to be a massive job and we will take a few weeks to do this, so until then you will have an itemized receipt with random categories.

We are also starting to produce a web site which will be a direct link to the shop and means I will be able to take online orders even if I am not well enough to be in the shop, there will also be an order and collect service which will cut out the P&P for anyone able to get to the shop.


WORKSHOP WEEKEND

For those of you interested in attending the workshop weekend at the end of June please could you let me know as soon as possible so that I can order the fantastic products you will be using.

If there is anyone out there that needs more information on the weekend then I would be pleased to answer your questions. The weekends we do are great fun and you get great value for money.

Kitty Club Membership

The Kitty Club will now be online so all your news letters will be posted on the blog. Those of you who have already got a membership or about to expire we have new goodie bags for you and the good news is that the membership cost is still the same.

Kitty Club membership is £35 and includes a goodie bag worth at least £35 filled with lots a great products not old tat. This year we have made a card makers bag and a scrapbookers bag and they are both fantastic. You will get a membership card which you bring with you when you come to the shop and this gives you 10% off your spending except on any die cutting systems, sale items and magazines as these items are already discounted up to 30% off.

Once the new system is up and running we will bar code all the membership cards which will help us with ordering as we will be able to see what people are buying.

I have been taking some photos of samples and the shop so I will post them as soon I can download them into the computer.

Guess that's all for now I look forward to hearing from you or when you visit the shop.

Thank you for your custom.

Louise and staff at Kitty Krafts

WORKSHOP WEEKEND 27TH AND 28TH JUNE 2009

On the Saturday 27th/Sunday 28th June we will be holding our workshop weekend.

Its a chance to learn lots of new things to do with your craft stash, have great fun and make new friends.

This weekend will be tought by Kay Halliwell Sutton who is a very experianced crafter and designer.
She works with Paper Artsy Stamps, Blonde Moments stamps, paper and powders. Craftynotions chipboard shapes, rainbow glaze, gilding flakes.

Kay will be doing several projects for the weekend which will keep you busy for the two days using the above products.

The cost of the weekend will be £199 and include all the materals you will need, all you will have to bring will be you usual craft tools.

You will also have included in the cost all your snacks, drink and a very nice buffet lunch on the Saturday and Sunday.

We can arrange hotel accomadation in the hotel opposite the shop at a preferred rate.

At the end of the weekend you will receive a goody bag just to say thank you for coming.

For more information on the weekend or to reserve your place call the shop on 01382 736208.

Class List

At Kitty Krafts we spend many hours working on samples for our new classes and demonstrations. The cost of the class is worked out to include all the products you will need to make the item we are teaching, we don't use old stock or discontinued items. You don't even have to bring your own glue or tape as the only thing thats not included is tools as we can't have enough for all to use, so you will have to bring paper trimmer, ruler, cutting mat, pencil, and scissors.

Here is the list of the upcoming classes.

10th May Shrink Jewellery £18
Using a mixture of shrink plastic and beads, combined with a range of techniques including stamping

17th May Making Cards for Children £18
Using Jolly Nation stamps. We will make a selection of cards for girls and boys of all ages

23rd May Demonstration Day Saturday FREE
Using the Cricut die cutting machine and Disney cartridges

24th May Altered Art £18
A class that is designed to make something out of nothing

7th June Scrapbooking (Paper Bag Book) £18
Using paper bags we will make a mini memory album

14th June Cardmaking £18
Using a range of stamps from Inkadinkadoo and die-cut shapes

21st June Starbook £18
Using K & Co papers make this unusual, three-dimensional mini scrapbook

12th July Advanced Scrapbooking £20
A beautiful mini book

If you would like more information regarding classes we are happy to send it to you or you could call the shop on 01382 736208, we are here Tuesday to Friday 10am till 4pm, Saturday 10am till 5pm and Sunday 11am till 4pm.
We require a deposit of 50% for each class booked.

Demonstration Day Update

On Saturday the 25th April Lindsay Mason was in the shop with her range of stamps and lots of great new ideas for making your own cards. There are a large amount of samples in the shop for those that want reminding what to do and those who couldn't make it in.

I would like to say thank you to Lindsey for her time and hard work on Saturday and we look forward to seeing her again soon.

On Sunday we had a preview day for our up and coming classes, the projects look fantastic, Di and Sam have taken some great ideas and made look even better.

Classes start on Sunday May 3rd with Advanced Scrapbooking which is a fantastic mini book using Blonde Moments papers, stamping, acertate and lots of differant techneques.

News

Hello Everyone

I hope all is well with you all and that you are enjoying the spring weather.

At last Kitty Krafts is going online first with a blog which you will be able to contribute too as it will be up dated daily, as we now have a broadband connection in the shop. We will also have a web site around the middle of July which will also run from the shop and will linked into the new shop system which will be online in May.

We are staying at our current shop and hoping to expand with the web site. We will be stocking some new lines such as beads, threads, cross stitch, art materials, knitting kits and of course all the usual papercraft new lines.

This week end we are having a demonstration day with top stamp designer and crafter Lindsay Mason, if your able to attend bring your Kitty Krafts membership card and quote KKV001 and you will have a little gift from Kitty Krafts.

Kitty Krafts has a new list of classes which I have attached to this email, all our classes include ALL materials and the cost of a tutor who is an experienced crafter, all you have to bring are you're craft tools. (ruler, pencil, cutting mat, paper trimmer, scissors)

In the summer months we are hoping to do weekly beginners craft class's, these are not just for people who have never crafted but for those of you that want to do something new and are not sure where to start. It will be held early Saturday morning so you will still have time to do other things you have planned. I will let you know more on the Blog.

We have a lot of new exciting products arrived at the shop this week. 3 new ranges from K and Company which are just beautiful. We have paper flowers from Petaloo which are very nice and lots of great colours. Their are new Spellbinder dies (Shapeabilities etc.) There will be more dies but as its a new product we are just getting a few at a time. We also have lots of new unmounted stamps from Personal Impression and Lindsey Mason, these are very nice and start from £4.99 a pack.

Well thats all from me for now and please go and check out the new blog at www.kittykrafts.blogspot.com.

Hope to see you all soon.

Louise and staff at Kitty Krafts.

Kitty Krafts Shop

Kitty Krafts is a 1000 square feet of papercrafts, lots of room to move around the store, so great for people with wheelchairs or pushchairs.

We have some great ranges of products including K and Co, Personal Impressions, Beads, Sugar Nellies, Sakura, Blonde Moments, Fiskers, Tim Holtz, Hero Arts and Inkadinkado to name but a few.

We have classes every Sunday these include cardmaking, stamping, scrapbooking and altered art and we hold workshop weekends for 2 days of total craft at least twice a year.

So if your passing this way pop in and see us.

Lindsey Mason Demonstration Day

On Saturday 25th April we will be having a Free demonstration Day hosted by Crafter and Stamp designer Lindsey Mason.
Lindsey will be demonstrating her new range of stamps and a range of craft products from Personal Impressions.