A big thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last year. It’s been a great year and we’re anticipating another exciting year ahead. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Andy, Russ & Pete
If our eyes did not deceive us last night, I’m sure we saw our good friend Timothy Wilmot Marshall win X-Factor! Well I thought we did… Who’s this Joe McWhatever?
After our bacon cob ventures at the Banks Mill Open Studios, we had become aware of a certain smell that remained in the office, especially when we arrive in the morning. The smell wasn’t going away very fast, and a solution needed to be found.
Fortunately Pete knew the answer… Yankee Candle! I’ve never heard of them, but they have a shop in Derby and Pete told us they may some really cool scented candles which would fill the room with fresh aroma. So we went to the shop and got the Gingerbread flavour, and now the office smells of freshly baked Gingerbread. Genius!
I’m going to get some for my house, and just thinking about it, it’s a great christmas present! Check out www.yankeecandle.co.uk
Last weekend was our first Open Studios at Banks’ Mill. Around a thousand people came to the Studios for a meander round the studio spaces of artists, jewellery designers, photographers, sculptors and graphic designers.
On Friday night, we brought in 60 bottles of beer to give away to visitors, whilst setting up Nintendo Wii with Mario Kart for anyone brave enough to take us on. The problem turned out to be that we had no idea how to set up the controllers for the console, leaving me searching for a ten year old to show me how it’s done!
Saturday and Sunday, we served bacon cobs and coffee to our guests and fellow tenants, which went down a storm. We met lots of cool people, spoke to groups of students from the university (including some from the Czech Republic) and had the opportunity to make friends with some of the other tenants in the studios.
Overall it was a great experience, and we’re looking forward to next year. Bacon cob anyone?
In the studio we have a magnetic board with our logo on, which means people can rearrange the letters and make anagrams of our names. Someone came up with this one over the weekend and I think it’s a fairly accurate description of us! If you can come up with a better one, let us know and we’ll post it up here for everyone to see.
