We are loving the sunshine at Surroundings and hope you are all enjoying this wonderful season that feels like its finally kicked in. This is the perfect season to take on decorative projects around the home or garden. Why not try up-cycling something using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™. Just remember to add a little water to your paint if it's a really warm day and ideally don't paint outside in direct sunlight.
Have fun and enjoy the sun.
It's a scene so familiar to so many Thornburians and Rich has now completed his latest limited edition print, entitled 'Boxing Day', and it's now available exclusively at Surroundings in A2 and A3 sized mounted prints. Frames made to order of course. Greetings cards will be following shortly.
The long awaited tea towels will shortly be arriving at Surroundings. They are a wonderful fabric based print of Rich's drawing. These are going to be a great gift and addition to your home.
So after an unexpectedly long wait and much promising, we are very pleased to say that our NEW Schleich animal, dinosaur and accessories range is now finally in the shop. We love them. Start collecting NOW. We accept animal requests too so don't despair if there is a particular creature you want that we don't currently have. We do have lots though and we love them all. (Especially the Moose and Baby Chimps). We are also cheaper than John Lewis.
The annual Christmas stock sale is now on. All our unsold Christmas stock is on offer at 40% of the original price. Our Sale will last 10 days so don't delay on getting yourself or someone else a Christmas bargain. You'll just have remember where you put it for until next year.
A huge thank you to all our customers in 2014. We really look forward to seeing you in 2015. If you are in town today and need calming down, we will be serving up some little cinnamon vodka and warm apple juice shots. We are here between 10am and 2pm.
Merry Christmas everyone.
The Thornbury Christmas Window Competition is now in full swing. Our wonderful muse Rodney has seen the window and given us his blessing. The 12 Rodney gnomes look extremely comfortable in the Surroundings window with their boxes of decs and good cheer. Don't forget to vote for your favourite window and even find the Christmas related words hidden in the windows, this can be done by dropping of an entry form in the participating stores or voting online at mythornbury.co.uk.
As of Saturday 6th December the 2014 Thornbury Christmas Window Competition kicks off. There are over 20 shops taking part and if you find the Christmasy word hidden in each participating window you can be entered into the cash-prize-draw. You have until Christmas Eve to vote and enter. Visit mythornbury.co.uk for further details and the chance to cast your votes or pick up an entry form in one of the participating stores.
This Thursday we will be open for late night shopping along with many other traders in Thornbury. We will be open from 9:30am - 9:30pm. We might even bust the mulled wine out!
We just wanted to say a huge thank you to all those who attended our late opening yesterday. It was lovely to see you all and with your help and raffle ticket purchases, we raised £126.23 for the wonderful NSPCC. Not bad in 2 hours. Well done to friends of the shop, Viv and Caroline for winning the raffle prizes. Sorry to those who didn't.
You are warmly invited to join us at our Bath Studios this Friday night, 21st November, from 4-7pm for Prosecco, blinis and a first glimpse of Christmas at Marmalade House. We will be displaying our Chalkpaint™ Christmas colours and taking part in the international #AnnieSloanLate initiative to help children through the NSPCC. Stockists all over the world are taking part to help make a real difference.
Ok so some of you may have already seen our ‘save the date’ plea for Annie Sloan Late on Friday 21st November 2014. Here are the plans...
Basically on the 21st November Annie Sloan would like as many of her worldwide stockists to stay open late in aid of charity, with the ultimate aim being that there will be a stockist open somewhere, at any point, over a 24 hour period. This is of course great if we can raise a few quid for her chosen charity, the NSPCC and it also doubles up as a nice seasonal opportunity for us to socialise with you, our very special customers.
None of us have had much time to prepare for this so it’s will be a basic set-up but the most important thing to remember is that there will be wine! We’ll also have some big boards up and some Chalk Paint™ cans open for you all to have a mess-about with if you so desire. Of course there will be a collection pot but there will also be a raffle with the prize being an Annie Sloan Hamper worth £60 that we are chucking in to help raise as much as possible.
We’d love to see you and we really want to raise at least £100 for the NSPCC. That’s all Annie wants from each stockist. I’m sure with you’re help we can do it.
So, between 5pm and 7:30pm on November the 21st, please come and join us for what we hope will be a really nice evening.
