New Ranges at Elefair!

30th March 2015

Exciting times ahead for Elefair as we have stocked numerous new ranges to our shop, with exciting new products that have been ethically sourced from independent brands!

We have added loads of new stock to our shop in the past week and we are exciting about working with other small businesses to provide a wide range of products to suit all of our customers.

Below are photos as a small taster of the products we have in store.

'Sessa Ceramics Stoneware Pottery' ring holders

'Sessa Ceramic's Stoneware Pottery' mini dishes 

'Eliza of Hull' button rings

'Peggy's New World' range

'PJ&Buttons' selection of buttons

'Pandemonium Beads and Findings' charms 

'KraftyKatsUK' animal tea cosies. The fox tea cosy was featured on Channel 4's "Gogglebox" and proved a real hit!

'KraftyKatsUK' Catnip Mice 

'The Little Minky Co' hand illustrated cat mugs

'The Little Minky Co' hand illustrated gift cards

Elefair's Easter Preperations!

30th March 2015

With Easter fast approaching, we have been busy getting stuck into our preparations to get the shop and the shop window display ready to fit an Easter theme.

This has included lots of concept generation and planning, along with some more hands on tasks, such as painting and decorating blown eggs and making giant Easter eggs, made from yarn! 

The painted blown eggs that now feature in our display alongside our egg cosies! 

Giant yarn Easter eggs! These were made using balloons, yarn and lots of glue

Once we had a clear plan of what we wanted to do with the display and how we were going to do it we began to bring the our to life and we saw our Easter themed window display come together. 

Our Easter themed window display complete!

The left hand side of the window which includes lots of our packaging, the yarn eggs with some of our products inside, some felt fruit necklaces used as bunting, some of our lokta paper lamps and some of our beautiful sterling silver jewellery

The right hand side of our window display which includes lots of our plant related items to represent fruits, vegetables and flowers coming into bloom for Spring! Also on display here are some beautiful butterfly and flower brooches, egg cosies, wooden plates, keyrings and sheep and cloud mobiles!

A close up of our packaging section

Our Spring time themed section!

Our jewellery display!

Global Week at NTU

30th March 2015

We had a lovely time at global week at Nottingham Trent University. Throughout the week we conducted different global themed arts and crafts with students. We started on Monday at Brackenhurt Campus, where we were decoupaging mini notebooks and making Nepalese Tihar lights.

Our stall set up for our first day at Brackenhurt campus!

A pleased student with her mini notebook and Tihar light! 

The next day we were located at NTU's City Campus, which was really fun and busy! Here are some photos from the day...

Some of the student ambassadors getting creative

Students decoupaging glass jars to act as Nepalese Tihar lights!

Getting messy with the glue

Some more students and friends getting involved! 

On Wednesday we ventured to Clifton Campus where we got the chance to get more students involved in the multicultural arts and crafts we were conducting! After this, the rest of our week was at the main City campus of NTU, where we started to focus on different craft ideas such as making South American rain sticks and Japanese origami lotus flowers with our beautiful handmade lokta paper! Here are some photos from the rest of the week... 

Lydia demonstrating how to make an origami lotus flower!

Students with their origami lotus flower

Some students getting involved with the South American rain stick making

A busy stall with students getting involved in all of our crafts

We had a lovely week at Nottingham Trent University's Global Week! We had the chance to meet some lovely people whilst learning about different cultures and countries in the mean time! It also gave us a nice opportunity to conduct our own arts and crafts which we enjoyed very much, so overall we had a very successful week!