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Now I’m going to have a whinge because things have been niggling me for a while – this is for all those shops that have to trawl through the many trade shows – of which there are far too many ! – I was so disappointed with the Pulse Top Drawer show as it is supposed to be a highly selective British designery type show yet to me it was full of cr** made in China !!!  Most of the shops I supply only stock items handmade in the UK and do you know what, these shops are doing really well, maybe we’re all sick of cheap rubbish that’s shipped from halfway across the world with tonnes and tonnes of packaging to only end up in the bin six months later.

So to the couple of shops that have complained to me as to why my pieces aren’t individually boxed I’d have to say that it’s because I care about this planet and I have no wish to contributed to the mess we are all making to it!

Hopefully people will keep my pieces for many many years to come and even pass them down as family heirlooms and not throw them in the bin after six months which is where most of the cr** sold at pulse will end up.

Anyway , now I’ve got that off my chest – I think you can tell that I’m feeling very disillusioned about the whole trade show thing and might not even attend any next year , every year the prices per metre go up more and more ( can you believe that top drawer charged me £48 to store one empty cardboard box!!!)