Facebook Giveaway January 2015

Beat those January Blues and enter our Facebook competition to win this beautiful Disaster Designs Ditsy Pug Satchel Bag! Perfect for doggie lovers this lovely bag is great for everyday use!
All you have to do - to be entered - is go to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/willowlynton
 Like our page and like the post and comment with "Win" and we will automatically enter you into a free draw.
The Closing Date for this competition is 16th February 2015.
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Good luck xxx

 

Willow In Marie Claire Magazine!!

Our very own Songbird Satchel has been picked by Marie Claire to be on there hot list of this seasons top Gifts & Accesories in the November issue out now!! you can buy the bag here: http://www.willowpatterns.co.uk/Disaster-Designs-Songbird-Satchel/

and now only £39.95!!

A Right Royal Affair!

To celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee we thought we would share this recipe and cake baked by our very own queen of baking Sue Adams, you can also see our wonderful Jubilee cake wraps and toppers on the cupcakes!

Isn't it brilliant! Here is the recipe if you fancy making one for your Jubilee street party:

Sue's Fabulously British Union Jack Cake

For the cake

280g unsalted butter
280g caster sugar
5 eggs
280g self-raising flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the sugar syrup

5 tbsp water
125g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract


For the butter cream

250g unsalted butter
250g icing sugar
To decorate

Raspberries and blueberries (about 400-500g each)
1. Preheat the oven to 180 and line the base of a 18" x 12" baking tray with straight sides, about 1" tall.

2. In a mixer, beat the butter and caster sugar together until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

3. With the mixer going on a slow setting. add the eggs one at a time, slipping in a tablespoon of flour about half way through to stop the mixture from curdling.

4. Sift in the flour and mix until just combined and then stir in the vanilla.

5. Tip into the tray and spread to cover the base, and bake for 15-20 minutes until the top is golden and the sponge springy to the touch.

6.  Meanwhile, make the sugar syrup.  Place the water and sugar in a pan and bring to the boil over a low-medium heat.  Remove from the heat an leave to cool before adding the vanilla.

7. While the cake is still warm, prod all over with a skewer and spoon the syrup over the cake.

8. Leave to cool.  Once cool, you can remove from the tin, but it is tricky.  You can't see the tin so I leave it - it's also easier to transport this way.

9.  Make the butter cream by sifting the flour into an electric mixer and mixing with the butter for at least 5 minutes.  Once it is light and fluffy, mix in the vanilla.

10. Spread the butter cream over the cake.  You do not want to see any cake, as this will form the base of your flag.

11.  With a blunt knife, gently draw four lines on your butter cream - right to left, top to bottom and corner to corner on both sides.  on either side of the lines for the vertical and horizontal cross, place a raspberry so you have two lines of fruit going down, two from side to side.

12.  Place one row of raspberries on the lines making the corner to corner crosses.
(if you want to true Union Jack representation, place the raspberries below the line on the right hand side and above the line on the left hand side).

13. Finally, will between the red lines with blueberries.  This will create the blue background and the butter cream will create the while outline on the red crosses.

So we hope you all enjoy the 4 day Jubilee celebrations and have some wonderful Jubilee parties we would love to see your photos, so please send them in and we may put them on the blog!

 

Love Is In The Air...

With Valentines Day just days away there is still time to order your loved one a gift from us and receive it in time for the big day.

Beat The January Blues...

If you are feeling the January blues why not enter our competition to win this gorgeous Disaster Designs Songbird Mini Bag also will make a lovely valentines gift! To enter the competition pop along to our Facebook for all the details http://www.facebook.com/pages/Willowpatternscouk/147179775296297

With Valentines day just around the corner why not take a look at some gifts ideas that are sure to make her swoon!

Or a lovely treat for yourself!

All available from www.willowpatterns.co.uk

Christmas Time!

The big day is less than 5 days away, but do not panic if you still haven't got your presents sorted we have lots of lovely gift ideas on our website www.willowpatterns.co.uk and we can get them to you in time for Christmas just order by the 23rd Dec and we can send special delivery (please email for a quote)
We would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and thank you for all your support we have some exciting plans for the New Year so keep an eye out xxx

Competition Time!

It's Competition time here at Willow Patterns! For the chance to win this beautiful Cake Stand From Disaster Designs worth £24.95!

 All you need to do is go to our Facebook ( Link can be found on our Website) and to LIKE and SHARE our Facebook page and link with Friends,Family, Colleagues or Anyone else you might know! To be in with a chance of winning. The winner will be drawn on the 1st Of December Good Luck everyone xx

We Are Back With A Lovely New Website!

Sorry we have been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a few months but with have been busy bees in our shop and creating our lovely new website.To thank you all for your patience here's a 10% discount code to use on your first purchase on www.willowpatterns.co.uk just put in the discount code WP10 at checkout when you create an account.With standard delivery only £3.95 and Free UK Delivery on orders over £30,we hope you love our new website as much as we do:)

Let's Go Glamping!

                                                                                                                 Cath Kidston Floral Tepee Tent

With Glastonbury festival this weekend we are all thinking of going to Festivals and Camping.We love the idea of glamping, it's camping more glamorous twin.So it is out with the leaking tents and tinned food and in with the pretty tepee tents, bunting ,polka dota picnic hampers and yummy cooked meals! who thought camping had to mean roughing it?
So spend your Summer holidays in good old Blighty and glamp it up!
For more inspiration on Glamping take a look at the Happy Glamper blog which has ideas of meals you can cook while glamping!

http://thehappyglamper.blogspot.com/

A Day Out In Hartland

A couple of times a month i like to go for a day trip and act like a tourist for the day in our lovely area i thought it would be fun to share my adventures with you on here. So last Sunday we headed for Hartland and visited Hartland Abbey where Prince William spent his Stag do!

We had a lovely time wandering around the Gardens!

And watching the waves crash at Hartland quay.

Spring Competition Winner!

The Winner!

We couldn't resist theses cute bunnies petal and honey 9 weeks old sent in by Gloryhalleluya congratulation's your prize will be posted to you!

Our other favourites

We love this painting of daffodils painted by Tracy Manning at http://www.bluehoundart.co.uk/

This beautiful photo sent in by Kim Allen Who says For me spring is about everything coming back to life, new lives being sparked and the start of sun dappled lazy days, hopefully my photo shows this, I took it a couple of weeks ago when we were on holiday in the Peak District.


Thank you for all the entries, we will be running more competitions through out the year!

♥ Please Support Independent Retailers ♥

Being an independent family run Shop and online retailer we are very interested in Mary Portas leading a review into the future of the high street and to trying to find ways to encourage small and independent retailers.We believe where you can you should always shop with independent and also local business unless you want to see a world of corporate run businesses and lose the small creative businesses .But we don't want the independent online retailers who bring individual and creative online shops to the web to be forgotten. So please help with http://allabouttheboysdesignerclothes.blogspot.com/  campaign.

Take a look at there blog for a list of independent online retailer shops. Be individual shop independent retailers!

If you go down to the woods today ...

Spring has sprung!

I love walking in the woods especially at this time of year,so last week we headed for the woods behind Watersmeet to look at the gorgeous Bluebells and what a pretty sight they were,we then walked on to Rockford and stopped of for a yummy pub dinner and some wine!

A Royal Wedding Party!

As it's the week anniversary of the Royal Wedding  and  i have finally got all the photos on my computer i wanted to share with you the Royal Street Party that took place at the bottom of the hill from our shop in Lynton and our own tea party we had in the evening.

Our own Royal Tea Party!

Spring Competition!

We love Spring its when the countryside comes alive with new life and summers is on the way..

For our competition we are asking you to send a photo of what spring means to you!

Don't worry you don't have to be a  expert photographer - Because we sure ain't! anyone can enter it is just a bit of fun to show your favourite things about this time of the year.

We will pick our favourite from the entry's to win a prize from our website.
Simply email your photo to info@willowpatterns.co.uk

As we come from a farming family Spring is the time for Lambing so baby lambs are what spring means to us:

Leannes Zwartbles sheep and baby Claire Lamb!

Sam's Lambs!

Competition will close on the 18th of May.

Looking forward to your entries!

April News!

Its April and we have a spring in our step! Most of our new stock has arrived in our shop and we have been busy displaying it all,we now have a dresser in our shop too, displayed with union jack bunting,pretty polka dots,Cornish blue and Gisela Graham mugs coaster and jugs!

And after a long wait our window is now looking pretty!

Come and visit our shop 1 Queen Street, Lynton North Devon to see all our lovely new products for yourself or if you can't make it to our shop,no need to worry i will be adding  them to our website.

With the Royal Wedding and Easter all this month it is the perfect time to celebrate with a spring tea party!
 Hang up some  union jack bunting,bake some goodies bring out your best teapot and tea cups,decorate the table with baskets ribbon and chocolate eggs and enjoy with your family and friends for the perfect Spring treat!

News of our April competition will be posted on her next week!

It's March!

It's March and finally feels like we are shrugging off the winter chill..well just about!

Spring is insight and we can look forward to the countryside coming alive with new life and can enjoy long walks on crisp spring  mornings.

It's when we spring clean our homes and look for new inspiration, Willow's new spring stock will be arriving in early April and will be sure to give you great gift ideas,inspiration and additions to your home, we are very excited and hope you will love it as much as we do.We will let you know as soon as it arrives and will pick our favourites and blog them on here.

With Mothers Day nearly upon us it's April the 3rd this year,it's the perfect time to thank your mum for everything and what better way than treating her to a gift from http://www.willowpatterns.co.uk/ with our range of practical and decorative gifts ideas.

Love Is In The Air...

With Valentines Day just 5 days away take a look at all the heart decorations and gifts we have to choose from

We have some exciting new products arriving during March and April so be sure to keep an eye out on our website and in our shop as well of course.
We will also be running another one of our competitions in April details will be announced through our mailing list,twitter,facebook and on here.

♥ We hope everyone has a loved up February the 14th♥



Remember Mother's Day is April 3rd this year and we will have gifts mum's are sure to love ♥

♥ Wishing Our Customers A Happy 2011 ♥

We would like to wish all our customers a Happy New Year!



Please bookmark our site,Join our mailing list and keep in touch on Facebook and Twitter.
To keep up to date with all news from us!

♥ We have loads of plans for the coming year ♥

Also Happy Birthday to a member of our team Peri hope you have a great day.

Merry Christmas From The Willow Team!

It's Christmas Eve,  the bells a jingling because it is less than 24 Hours until the big day. The time we start asking ourselves have i  brought enough presents? have i got enough food? Am i ready? Wrapping up the pressies and making sure your ready for the fun and festivities.Because this time tomorrow many of us will be carving up the turkey and spitting out the sprouts.Its when the magic of Christmas really begins,and this year we will have a White Christmas,looking out the window as i type it looks like a Winter wonderland.

We have been really busy with all your Christmas orders this month thank you very much and we hope you all love your purchases, we have some gorgeous new products ready for our website in 2011 very exciting!

All  website orders over the festive period will be posted on the 4th of January.

We would like to wish two members of our team  a Very Happy Birthday Lauren who's 18 on Boxing Day and Sam who is 21 on the 27th Dec.

And say a Big Thank you to our staff for all there hard work this year,it wouldn't be possible with out you!

So from all the Willow Team we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

x