The happy dappy days of summer have gone and it's now very wintery feeling! Good! It means I can wrap up warm with a hot water bottle!!
It has been an age since I have blogged and there is good reason! Oh my oh my it has been hectic and I have been really busy! I have had to be extra structured and disciplined working from home and as everything is made by or comes from people I know really well or have got to know over the years I have to make sure I make time for proper chats and not just a quick call whilst stirring the pumpkin soup/walking the dog/sorting out homework etc.
As you know you can find The Original Present Cupboard on Facebook (The Original Present Cupboard), Twitter (@MrsOrigiPresent) and at Wysipig, a pig farm with a butcher and a cafe deep in the Coombes woods in Aborfield, Berkshire. The website is on its way!
The shop is open 7 days a week Monday and Tuesday 930 to 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm or by arrangement.
On the second Saturday of the month Wysipig holds an Open Farm Day where you can see the pigs and goats, farm machinery and enjoy a hog roast.
This Saturday (10 November 2012, between 10am and 4pm) it's the Wysipig Farm Open Day, Taster & Order Day and The Original Present Cupboard Gift Event. For more details have a look at the listing on Stallfinder
On Saturday 17 November 2012 The Original Present Cupboard will be joining a whole host of lovely stallholders at the Out of Love Christmas Gift Fair
I am constantly adding to the shelves of The Original Present Cupboard and will shortly be adding a photo album. In the meantime wrap up warm and keep smiling!
Nell x
As I mentioned in the first blog
The Original Present Cupboard has been around since 2006 and over the years I have been very lucky to meet some wonderful people and I'd like to think you'd like them too!
Many many years ago when my smallest was a tiny baby I went to a gift fair to see a friend of mine and ended up meeting Harriet from Hunter Gatherer who has been one of the funniest friends I have met. In time I might just share the tale of our first gift event!
The Original Present Cupboard stocks Cinnamon scented kindle cones and Bowlovers which are both amazing!
A great friend and blogger middleagedcred suggested I join Twitter as I was struck down with flu (not just small flu but big huge 5 months off work flu) and there'd always be someone to talk to at silly insomnia o'clock. Oh how I laughed, chatted randomly and got to know many Tweeters.
One of my earliest Twitter meets was with Georgie Newbery The Flower Farmer who is fabulous, has a black labrador and a terrific sense of humour. I love treating my friends and loved ones to gifts and gorgeousness and the flowers are a classic example of a gorgeous gift!
I have spent many hours tweeting and therefore I felt I had earnt myself an addict mug available from Name Art; a number of my friends have been given these mugs and we proudly sip our coffee from ours at the shop.
Another tweeting friend introduced me to his girlfriend Claire and since then she has made some fabulous cakes for me including an Girls Football Team cake (the girls were totally amazed by it), bowler hat cupcakes for my leaving do, some fabulous piggie cupcakes for Open Farm Sunday 2012 at Wysipig . I'm looking forward to the cupcakes for the July 14 Open Day at Wysipig as well as the birthday cake for my eldest!
Also through Twitter I got to know Gabriella from Moobaacluck who made the wonderful Open / Closed bunting for the shop. I could spend hours looking at her website and many of my friends and the childrens' teachers have been blessed with a handpainted personalised gift.
If you are looking for a hogroast for an event or would like to order some pork then I can't help but enthuse about Wysipig. I have blogged about them previously but without them I'd not be able to have a shop!
