Hello, Just wanted to remind you that we have a few spaces left on the next Annie Sloan Part 1 Workshop on Wednesday 17 June at 12.30-3.30pm. If you want to learn some of the techniques and gain a full knowledge of how to use this fab paint please contact us on 01454411000 or email on info@surroundingsonline.co.uk and we can send you the details. Also we have the new Annie Sloan mini wax pots - perfect for mini projects. See you soon.
Hello Everyone, We have just confirmed the following new dates for the Chalk Paint™ workshops. If you fancy coming along please see our website for details, just go to the Workshop section or call us on 01454 411000 if you have any questions. They are always lots of fun and a great way to understand Chalk Paint™ and develop your skills even further. We hope to see you there:
Introduction to Chalk Paint™ Part 1 £65 Friday 24 April 12.30pm-3.30pm - 2 SPACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE .
Introduction to Chalk Paint™ Part 2 £65 Wednesday 25 May 12.30pm-3.30pm
Introduction to Chalk Paint™ Part 1 £65 Wednesday 17 June 12.30pm-3.30pm
Thornbury Fringe Festival Special, Part 1 & 2 combo. Thursday 2 July, St Mary Centre (more details to follow).
Lampshade making workshop with Annie Sloan Fabrics £70 Wednesday 15 July 12.30-3.30pm
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.