Our Slate & Nature Beauty Contest is over! The 2016 Beauty Queen arrives into this world and she is soooo cute. I watched her and her 5 Blue tit siblings arriving onto our river side terrace this weekend. The first new borns from this bird box, but from our other Blue tit box, we already had the 8th generation.
After the Ideal Home show in Glasgow, a few weeks to go till our next event;
The Scottish Game fair in Scone – Fr.Sat.&Su. 1-3 July Craftfair Stonor Park (nr. Henley-on-Thames) Fr. till Mo. 26-29 Aug. Malvern Autumn Show – 24-25 September.
Although there will be somebody at home most of the times, our studio will be closed because all our stock will be at the fairs! But you are very welcome in between the fairs to enjoy a coffee and/or a tea -break- at our Riverside terrace!
The Ideal Home show in Glasgow next weekend, pffff we have never done such a large ‘production’. All hands on deck this week to get ready in time and knowing Gerard he has to make some really special things, like his new ‘Zodiac’ Dark Sky Outside Lamp. (when dark, a solar (LED) powered constellation, representing the twelve celestial astrology figures)! We are on Stand G820, please come and see us.
Our Fair season is starting again. The coming months we will be at:
Saturday 23rd April; Hexham Spring Fair
Saturday-Monday 30th April, 1st/2nd May; Penshurst Weald of Kent show
Thursday-Sunday 5th-8th May; Hatfield Craft show
Friday-Monday 27th/30th May; Ideal Home show Glasgow
Friday-Sunday 1st-3rd July; Scottish Game Fair Perth
Although there will be somebody at home most of the times, our studio will be closed because all our stock will be at the fairs!
Sunday the 6th of March 2016 we will be at the 21st Annual Potato Day and Green fair in Kelso. If you are looking for seed potatoes, there will be over 100 varieties available. There will also be a Green fair, with some lovely craft stalls. Gerard made specially for this event some Potato Plant tags. Please come and see us. We will be there from 11am till 3pm – at the Border Union Showground.
‘Top tourist attractions put the regional spotlight on Tynedale, West Woodburn’s garden craft business, Slate and Nature, set up by Dutch couple Gerard and Jeanette van der Veen, has been nominated for the sustainable tourism award ………… Gerard said their nomination was a real tribute to his and his wife’s small business. We are thrilled to showcase Slate and Nature’s sustainability as we enjoy re-using the earth’s oldest material without leaving a footprint behind ………..’
You can read the whole article in this week’s Hexham Courant or just click on the picture above.
Back in the Air!
After a long period of not being able to share our news – due to 77.000 spams! – John Picton from Elmnet (www.elmnet.co.uk), sorted it all out and we are back again with regular updates and news. Thank you so much John!
This is our latest product, the very popular -with the birds and our customers – Peanut butter box.
Jeanette & I were very pleased that Monty Don took his time to visit our stand at the 40th Hatfield Craft Fair. We explained him our micro business to enhance the environment by manufacturing special products for in and around the Home/Garden by using reclaimed roofing slate and matching pieces found in Nature. After explaining our very successful and much admired window feeder we handed him number 2000! Sold already internationally around the globe to Slate & Nature enthusiastic ‘bird communicators’ living in Johannesburg (Africa), Brazil, Finland, New Zealand up to California and multiple destinations in the USA. We have now developed the ‘flat-pack’ version in stainless steel, to be launched in the 2nd half of this year (2014)
; watch our dedicated website: www.windowfeeder.co.uk. With the exciting prospect of looking at your feathered friends closer than half a meter on your window, this feeder is easy foldable/assembled in a few steps (no tools needed). Started as Nature watching on the 1st floor; it appears you can hang them everywhere! A present for yourself, to make together with your children/partner, or as a ‘companion broker’ for more home bound seniors; All will ‘love to meet the chirp (of a bird)’! It all comes in a flat envelop with a beautiful instruction posted to all addresses in the world. Looking for an unusual birthday present, Christmas gift or just to show your affection to your beloved friend(-s), once ‘pushed’ against your window, also the birds love them, keeping reminding us how nice the world, Nature, is!
Slate & Nature; enjoying the environment.
