Saturday 1 January 2011

Go Crackers say Happy New Year January 2011

A start of a new year and so new crackers too! We had a brilliant year last year despite the weather and the problems it caused for the postal services. Unfortunately some of our crackers did not arrive in time despite our attempts to try Special Delivery and our carrier for the last week. One of our orders took a month to arrive but our customer was a very understanding lady - thankfully. We have so many lovely customers who send us such super feedback about our crackers and the service we try to provide. Thanks to you all!

We made crackers for lots of people and a couple of very prestigious hotels too - Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester was one and Alain Roux's The Waterside at Bray the other. We found ourselves on BBC1 Look North talking about cracker jokes and on the local BBC radio too. Sue made almost every Go Crackers Handmade cracker herself - an amazing achievement! That is every bow, sticking in hundreds of snaps, and filling with assorted gifts from Whitaker's Chocolate truffles, super luxury gifts and table top games.

Well here is to another year of crackers and we start by going to the Harrogate Gift Fair in a couple of weeks - Christmas starts as early as that for us! I wonder what delights we will see there. The next big event is writing to all the Charity Fair organisers to get into fairs for October and November 2011. We then attend the Spring Fair at the NEC Birmingham and that is where the hard work starts. Finding suppliers for papers, all the gifts, crackers for the year and ribbons for the bows etc.

Happy New Year to all our customers and we look forward to hearing from you soon!

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