To all designer makers a word of advice.

Whether you are a seasoned pro or just starting out on your quest for worl domination with your beautiful hand made products we want to support all of you this new year by posting articles with advice about marketing, retailing and branding for you and your small businesses.

Our mission is to provide a creative hub for the hand made community, so we will be scouring the best blogs and websites to bring you up to date advice relevant to the unique nature of the craft retail business.

To start us off the wonderful blog one pretty thing has included links to various articles which advise on everything from packaging your product to re-designing your Etsy shop.

Enjoy and feel free to leave comments below to tell us if you found these articles useful.

Free Craft Wednesday's

We have started an initiative here at Back to Basics, every wednesday you can come and enjoy a free craft session from 9am-11:30am. We will serve you a cup of tea and a biscuit or two and teach you a craft such as crochet, knitting or hand sewing. All we ask is for a suggested donation of £3.

Next weeks session is learn how to crochet with the lovely Marie, check out her inspirational blog mariesmaking, to view her profile.

Planning a Childrens Party? Read more about our bespoke Craft Parties- not just for kids.

In the words of todays birthday girl, Kate aged 8,"this is the best birthday party I have every had". Now there is a claim for you!

Here at Back to Basics we can plan a bespoke party for that special day. Today we hosted a party for Kate who, along with 5 friends, made their very own tote bags.

We provide all of your materials and will even provide refreshments upon request. Each child designs and makes their own project, with a little help from our experienced teachers of course, oh and any adults who have been roped in as monitors for the day.

Bring your own birthday cake or we can provide one for you, its up to you, we can't take the credit for this one, Kate's mum is a cake making genius without any help from us.
Please visit our Events and Parties page to view all party options available. Its not just for kids you know, we can run adults birthday parties and hen parties, all you have to do is ask!

Catch them if you can

Places are selling out fast, only 4 spaces are available on our Valentines Cup Cake decorating class on Thursday 10th February.


To confirm your space click on the googlecart link.

We're Back!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Welcome back to all the team after what was a mixed bag of Christmas holidays experiences involving Flu and festive fayre.

We are all really excited about the new schedule of workshops which we have in January and as the new year starts we have more and more workshops to add to the schedule.

Check our our workshops page for more information and sign up now so you don't miss out.

New Year, New Start

http://www.yogaanisha.com/

After an incredibly successful session in December the wonderful Nisha is back to host a positive thinking workshop to set you up for the new year. By giving you the tools to change your thoughts and change your life this fun and interactive workshop will talk you through how to change your life into what you want through the power of thought. All you need to bring are some photos of yourself, some magazines and a smile!

"This is a very good workshop and I would highly reccomend it to anyone in need of some positive thoughts, after attending the Decmber workshop I am now looking forward to a very joyful 2011"- Ute

Learn how to crochet

Free drop in session

Wednesday 14th December

10:30-12