A Lovely Morning Tea & Wren Creative Evenings

Thanks to everyone for making the Wren Handmade opening celebration a wonderful success! Saturday morning was just delightful thanks to some of the lovely people I've met since having lived in this area coming along to support this new venture. It's always difficult moving to a new place, (and I have oh far too much experience when it comes to moving!) but I am constantly surprised by the generosity and kindness shown to me - sometimes by people I barely know!

Anyway, thanks to all the wonderful people who dropped in over the day to share their time, a cup of organic tea and some excellent treats :) I could easily do that every Saturday... though I don't know if I should consume quite so much chocolate next time, despite it's organic goodness. Anyway, I'd most particularly like to send big thanks out to Shane for being such an amazing help on and prior to the day - you are a legend, lovely!

And as usual, I have been completely slack with the photography side of things, (would you believe not only did I have no batteries, but I left my camera at home too?!) however, through my friend Lisa I was lucky enough to meet the wonderful Kim Arnold, who has sent me these lovely images that she took on the day - thanks Kim!

After such a tumultuous couple of weeks I am ready for a rest for the next few days, but I will be working on planning the first Wren Creative Evening for Tuesday 13th April - watch this space for details, or email your details to salharris@live.com if you'd like to be on the mailing list.

xo Sal

Opening Celebration - Wren Handmade

Wren Handmade

Opening Celebration!

Organic Tea Tasting & Morning Tea

You are invited to help us celebrate the opening of Wren Handmade, a new retail space specialising in unique pieces crafted by Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and hobbyists. Come and browse through our beautiful products whilst indulging in divine organic teas and tasty nibbles from the Illawarra's organic specialists.

When: Saturday 27^th March 2010

Time: 9.30 – 11.30 am

Where: Mezzanine Level, Manic Organic(Shop 1, 409-411 Princes Hwy, Woonona)

Wren Handmade - Open for Business

After a hectic couple of weeks the shop opened on Wednesday with just enough stock thanks to the efforts of all the wonderful suppliers who have agreed to be a part of this new space – thanks everyone J All of the products are just as beautiful as I imagined, so now I just need to work on displaying them to their best advantage, and I suspect this will take time, trial and error. It’s been interesting trying to work in with the lime green and rusty orange walls, but so far I’ve had nothing but compliments, and I think they are even starting to grow on me…

It has been a lot of fun putting this all together, but due to the timeframe there’s still a few vital components missing, such as a sign for the front…yes, vital! On Thursday I had a visit from two lovely people from one of the local papers for a chat and a photo shoot, (aagghh, my hair!) but apart from that it’s time for me to get my head around the whole marketing business and start the word a-spreading!

The reaction so far has been really positive, and all the people working in the organics store are just a joy to be around, so I feel it’s all going to come together beautifully.

The last two and a half weeks have been quite a ride, and on top of trying to organise the shop opening we have all had a really awful flu, I started uni, had to go to a festival five and a half hours drive away, my husband’s work has been insanely busy and I can’t find my reading glasses anywhere! But somehow we have managed, mostly because my saintly mother in law came up for a week and a half to look after our little man while we rushed crazily around.

Official Opening

The official opening will be Saturday March 27^th 2pm. Watch this space for further details!

Wren Creative Evenings

I’m also going to be running regular meetings for people who like to hang out, work on their latest crafty project and drink tea/whatever, so if you’re interested shoot me a message or email to salharris@live.com and I can add you to the mailing list. These evenings will be free and you don’t need to commit – just come along when you can J

That’s all for now, folks! More details to follow…

And thanks again to everyone who has made this venture possible - you know who you are.

Have a lovely weekend

xo Sal