We will be at the Markers Market, 10am-4pm in Hadleigh this weekend on both Saturday and Sunday.
We have some new designs for you to see and some great bargains.
Drop by and say hello.
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th November 10am – 4pm
Makers Market
Old Fire Station, Hadleigh, Essex
It’s November already. That means we can officially use the C word. Christmas is only a few weeks away.
Our prints make great presents. Choose a print of a special place, a favourite animal or even a dream car. Check out our collections to find ideal gifts.
Rumour has it that this Christmas may be tricky for traders and consumers alike. We will do our absolute best to get your orders to you quickly. But deliveries outside of our local area (SS postcodes) are out of our hands. We rely on the services of the Royal Mail and Hermes UK for deliveries. Plus, large prints going to international destinations are sent via DHL Express.
Our main advice is to get your orders in sooner rather than later. That is your best chance of ensuring that your prints arrive in time. We will continue posting out orders until Christmas Eve, but we cannot guarantee arrival times.
Last posting dates
International destinations:
1st December - Caribbean
6th December - Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Italy & Portugal
10th December - Cyprus, Malta & Sweden
11th December - Turkey & Eastern Europe (except Slovakia, Poland & Czech Rep)
13th December - USA, Canada, Finland, Poland & Czech Republic
16th December - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain & Switzerland
Domestic deliveries:
17th December - United Kingdom
Full details from the Royal Mail
Come and meet us
One way to avoid the possible delivery issues is to buy directly from us. We will be at a number of Christmas markets this year, so come and see us!
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th November
Makers Market
Old Fire Station, Hadleigh
Sunday 28th November
Winter fayre
Leigh Community Centre, Elm Road, Leigh-on-Sea
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th December
Leigh pop-up market
Leigh Community Centre, Elm Road, Leigh-on-Sea
Shop local and support some incredible independent makers. We look forward to seeing you there.
COVID -19 Update
Due to the current, extenuating circumstances caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we must offer a reduced delivery service, which may mean orders taking a little longer to get to you than normal.
Whilst delivery services within the UK are currently operating with only minor interruptions at the moment, we are putting the safety of our team and the postal service workers first and restricting our demands on them. We intend to make postal drop offs only twice a week, rather than every day.
Overseas deliveries may be affected by delays depending on the particular country being shipped to and their current coronavirus restrictions.
For dispatching our A4 and A3 size prints we use Royal Mail regular postage service. Currently, Royal Mail Post Offices and postal service have NO plans to close or too reduce their regular service. We will keep you updated if this changes.
Our larger sizes prints are professionally printed to order and sent by courier. Our operator, Hermes is delivering in the UK as normal, but overseas deliveries may be affected by delays.
We will continue to send out your orders as quickly as possible, whilst ensuring safety is paramount. Please message us if you require further information.
Thank you for your patience and for supporting our small business at this difficult time.
Stay safe.
Come see us at the Makers Market at Leigh Community Centre in Leigh-on-Sea.
This is our last market of 2019 and has a great Christmas atmosphere. Great for those original last minute stocking filers and gifts.
The Makers Market has the biggest collection of local Leigh artists and makers under one roof.
For one week in June, 60 artists will be showcasing their creations around the happy place that is Leigh-on-Sea. One of those creators is our design maestro, Andrew Sharratt.
This year, Art of Adventure can be found at the iconic Osbornes café, outside The Crooked Billet in Old Leigh. It’s venue 2 on the trail.
Not only do we have a new venue, but we have new designs to share with you too – especially, some local Leigh scenes that we hope you’ll love.
The Children’s Art Trail is another new feature this year, and we’ll be taking part in that too. Get your kids involved in the trail and encourage their creativity.
Put the dates in your diary – Saturday 8th to 15th June – and see a creative, vibrant Leigh-on-Sea. We look forward to meeting you at Osborne’s Café in Old Leigh (venue 2).
This Saturday, you’ll find us alongside the area’s best artisans and producers at the Leigh-on-Sea Spring Pop-Up Market.
It’s the ideal time of year to spruce up your interiors and refresh your décor. Take a look through our range of affordable artwork to find just the piece (or pieces) to perk up your walls. With collections inspired by travel, nature, beaches, cars and more, there’s something for everyone.
Leigh Pop Up Market
12.30 – 4.30pm
Leigh Community Centre
We’re super excited about meeting you all. We do love a market! Those of you who have been following us for a while will know that we started out with a stall at Manly market in Sydney, and we’re still trading there as well as on the other side of the globe.
See you on Saturday!
The surprisingly warm weather we’ve experienced of late has been an eye-opener. It’s made us love where we live all the more. Undoubtedly, our happy place as a family is at the beach. You could say that we do love to be beside the seaside.
February is the month that we dread. In our minds, it is the hardest month of the year. Its only redeeming feature is that it is also the shortest month of the year. Generally, it’s cold, gloomy and downright depressing. This year has been a revelation. The sun came out and our spirits soared. The change in us all was noticeable. Instead of staying indoors planning our binge-watching sessions, we’ve been raring to get outside. Energy and enthusiasm levels have been boosted and we’ve explored new places and enjoyed old favourites.
Half term can often cost a fortune, taking kids to soft play, the cinema and endless other expensive attractions. But the beach, the woods and the parks are free. Our son can spend hours on the beach, digging holes, making sandcastles and finding special shells and stones. Meanwhile, we can sit, breathe in the sea air and relax.
One good habit that we have instigated on our beach visits is that we have to pick up at least five pieces of litter before we leave. Ideally, we shouldn’t have to do this, but the reality is that it needs to be collected. We love our beach days but we hate the rubbish that people leave behind. Fortunately, we’re not the only ones doing this. We’re so pleased to see increasing numbers of people cleaning our beaches and general environments to make them safer and better places for us all to spend our happy times. Now that is showing your love for where you live.
Are you lucky enough to love where you live? We do hope so. It is a life-changing state to be in. When you really believe that there’s no place like home, you can be so much more content and at ease with your situation.
We are lucky enough to live in the UK’s ‘happiest place to live’ – Leigh-on-Sea. It has a good community vibe, estuary walks and seaside, easy access to London and the list goes on.
It’s not just Leigh-on-Sea that has a fond place in our hearts though. We’ve been lucky enough to live in several places that we love – London, Bath, Brighton and Sydney for starters. Each of those cities has a special place in our hearts and memories of our lives there make us smile.
The downside to that is constantly missing something about a place when you’re somewhere else. Whilst we do love Leigh-on-Sea, there are days when we’d love to hop back into our lives spent in the sun, sand and surf of Sydney. But when we lived there, we’d have dreams about English countryside and traditional, old pubs. It’s that old saying about the grass being greener.
Wherever our current home is, we always carry a piece of our other homes with us. It could be a treasured photo, a piece of artwork, a significant song, a memento and, most importantly, our precious memories.
This February, the month of love, make time to celebrate the place that you love. Walk along your favourite track, visit your much-loved café and pub, explore the new stores and browse the old faithfuls. Just make time to enjoy your happy place.
If you love where you live, or know somebody else who does, why not treat yourself or them to a local print of your special place.
The first month of the year is drawing to a close (finally, it’s been such a long month). How are you doing with your new year’s resolutions? I’ve noticed that the gym car park is no longer overflowing each morning. I suspect a number of those who committed to Veganuary are counting the days until they can bite into a bacon sarnie oozing with tomato sauce (that’s if they haven’t succumbed already) and dry January could be about to get a whole lot wetter.
This year, we vowed not to make any of those resolutions that are oh-so-easy to break. We made one that we really want to stick to and that will make an immense difference to our lives. We resolved to have more adventures.
That doesn’t mean that we’re about to fill our backpacks and head off travelling around the world. Been there, done that and bought the tie-dye t-shirts. But it does mean that we’re going to visit new places, try different things and enjoy new experiences.
We started simply – a winter walk in a previously undiscovered woodland, a spectacular Sunday lunch in a pub we’d heard so much about but never quite got to, an intense new exercise class and a challenging online course.
Then there’s the fun of researching and planning the adventures to come – camping weekends in summer, family trips overseas, new recipes with unusual ingredients to try and, of course, the endless list of pubs for Sunday lunches all over the UK.
We still dream of loading up the campervan and meandering round unknown territories, but for now, we have more simple adventures to plan and enjoy. Now that’s one resolution worth keeping.
