Interesting ideas
in her blog creativesalvage.com Juliet Bawden discusses some new and interesting products for bra wearing and jam making
Back to the Country Living Fair. An intriguing, although not new, idea detachable bra straps. The thing about www.milume.co.uk, they have done it better than any I have seen in the past. They make straps in very pretty prints, plus surprisingly pretty floral knickers.
Coming from a family of preserve makers, I was very excited to discover The Jam Jar Shop. They set up a year ago working from home in their garage sending out a few jars to retail customers and have developed into a warehouse based on-line company employing twelve staff and sending out over a million jars per year. They are now the biggest retailer of glass jam jars in the UK and look set to double their sales in the coming year.
There is a range of jam jars and bottles plus jam making equipment never offered before to the retail
trade plus an informative and interactive website. The majority of their jars are made in the UK with up to a 70% recycled glass content, which is entirely dependent on the amount of glass collected through the recycling schemes. They launched The Guild of Jam and Preserve Makers at the Country Living Fair incorporating SwapCrop, a community project to utilise the nation’s garden fruit and vegetable harvest. In addition, they will be announcing a FreeTree project -a free fruit tree awarded each week to any group or individual who makes an impression with their reason for needing a tree and their future plans for preserving the crop from it. I save all my own jars, so so won’t be buying jars, but their newly designed red and white spotty lids and their spotty labels, on which there is room to write, are spot on! Not to mention perfect for re-vamping old jam jars. 
For more information contact
Jam Jar Shop
Rosemary Jameson
tel 01572 720720
email
web www.jamjarshop.com
Juliet has authored craft books for over 20 years. To browse them on Amazon, please click here.
