Gone Fishing

We just wanted to tell you a little story about what happened to us last weekend. For all of you not familiar with the Broughty Ferry - it sits at the mouth of the River Tay which flows into the North Sea. When we get a nice day it is usually tempered by the cooling winds from the sea which to all intents and purposes negates the effects from the sun. Now that you know this, lets return to the kernel of our story. Last Saturday we had the ultimate in perfect conditions that made us think that we were in some mediterranean seaside town. This of course made it very busy - so busy in fact that when the till had had its fill of money and cards and was perfectly content we decided to go home early and enjoy the pleasures from mother nature.

We then put up a sign saying we had closed early and like the sheriffs' of the wild west stated we had Gone Fishing. 
This apparently tickled so many of the passers by over the weekend that when we opened again on the Monday morning we had a mini queue of customers who had been so intoxicated by our 'advert" that they came in to purchase goods from us and could not help but talk about our little sign over and over again.

Here at Calico Brook we are intuitive and respond to things as well as people in a very natural and dynamic way so it did come as quite as surprise when we got such a positive and pleasant reaction. If you were one of those passers by who saw our sign we would love to hear from you. For all of our other readers not in the Ferry hope your Saturday was as good as ours and that someone was watching over all of you and yours.

Love from all at Calico Brook

Calico Brook at Letham Grange Wedding Fair

We were very pleased with our first wedding fair at Letham Grange hotel on Sunday 16th May 2010. To all of you who visited us and chatted with us, thanks a lot, it was as exciting for us as it was for many of you. It was wonderful to hear some of your stories and wedding plans and although we are very happily married it is so thrilling to get caught up in all the heady excitement and euphoria of love and marriage.

We managed to make a few business contacts ourselves at the fair in between talking with you all so as the year goes on we hope that you will notice some very nice subtle additions to the services and and products that Calico Brook will be making to not only our wedding services but in our shop as well.

One of the nicest  things of being a part of Calico Brook is that you our customer enjoy all that we bring to the products and services that we provide and we hope that the synergy that comes from this means that you enjoy also being a part of the Calico Brook ethos.  This will be all in your own different ways of course but that thread of being part of something both tangible and intangible makes us feel that what we are doing is both good for us and good for you.

Perhaps you would like to make your own little comment??

If that is all to surreal, then back at the wedding list that we would like you to be a part of -  we hope to see all you prospective bride and grooms in our soon to be completed office and gallery to sample the benefits of a Calico Brook wedding list. You can email us on hello@calicobrook.co.uk, click on our contact us form on our website or telephone us on 01382 774646 and ask to speak with Sandra.

Hope to hear from you very soon.
Love from all at Calico Brook

Pointing us in the right direction!

As always at Calico Brook we are trying to make things as simple for you, our customers, as possible. One thing you have recently mentioned is that when looking or shopping for a number of items from the same company you had to "bunny hop" between different parts of our site because we had linked them in a way  to either a theme or an event that meant you were either not finding thing easily or worse were not buying them at all.

That is not what we want at all - for you to be unhappy and for us not getting a sale. So, what we have done is to put all items from the same company into their respective groupings so that you can easily find all of the lovely gifts that Calico Brook has from each of our fantastic suppliers. If, for example, you see a nice set of silver wine goblets from Culinary Concepts and you like that style but would like to see what else we have from that company, the you simply click on the Culinary Concept brand and you will be able to view a superb range of gifts such as books marks, cheese and olive sets, t-lights, wine goblets and lanterns with prices ranging from under £10 up to £300. There is something for everyone and for every occasion.

We hope you enjoy this new feature on our website and look forward to being of service to you in the near future. As always if there is anything that we can do either online or in store all you have to do is say and we will do our very best to accommodate.

Happy shopping
Rod