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Spring 2007Here in Leek in Staffordshire we are looking forward to some warmer weather with the arrival of spring. However, there are signs that it is on its way as the spring shoots have started to appear in the garden. Perhaps you are thinking about your spring gardening plans? If so, we have some beautiful period accessories and tools to help you along as well as some spring gardening tips for you. This newsletter also includes some tips for spring cleaning if you feel that you home could use some polish and inspiration for the new season. When you have tidied your home and garden you might think it looks fit for a glossy magazine or even for a film location. Have you ever wondered how homes are selected for magazine and TV locations? If you are interested in welcoming crews to your home and having your home earn you a little extra money then our website links are for you.Perhaps you are looking for some spring redecoration ideas? The new Farrow & Ball 2008 Colour Card is bursting with a range of stunningly contemporary colours. Eighteen striking new colours have added a more contemporary edge to the colour card and include a mixture of versatile neutrals, pretty pastels, rich greys and earthy chocolate browns, as well as a few surprises! All colours have been named to reflect their source of inspiration and historical reference point and fit seamlessly into the existing colour card. Period Features can help you to select a colour scheme that will work for your room and advice on the use of Farrow & Ball papers and paint for your period home. Complimentary colour cards are available from our shop in Leek or see the new colours on-line at www.farrow-ball.com  I thought it would be nice for you to meet some of our staff who handle the calls and emails, as well as staff the shop itself, in Leek. Charlotte is our super 'Saturday Girl' and has a lovely bubbly personality which makes her a great help to our customers. Charlotte, who has a degree in photography, is a very busy person as in the rest of her working week she is a teaching assistant and plans to qualify as an art teacher soon. Charlotte is the youngest member of the Period Features team but she has a real passion for our products.If you can't see this newsletter properly (this is the case if it's not coming through in glorious Technicolor, with images) you can now view it and all the past editions on our website here. Wishing you a very happy and relaxing Easter time! Suzy Dymock Spring Gardening TipsThis article comes from UKTV Gardens website and gives advice on Spring Gardening.With the arrival of spring comes the beautiful sight of budding flowers and blossoming trees. Your garden begins to brush aside the monotone shades of winter and the promise of colour begins to become evident once more. What should you be doing to get your garden ship-shape for the forthcoming months? Read on for our handy horticultural tips and advice. To get the most from your spring garden, add sensuous smelling plants that will fill your garden with their sweet aroma. The Royal Horticultural Society recommend shrubs such as Christmas box (Sarcococco confuse), the winter honeysuckle (Lonicera x purpusii), wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox), as well as the any beautiful species of Dapne which are sure to leave your garden smelling better than the best Parisian perfumery! If you're putting in new plants this season, don't forget that they'll be relying on you for food and water. Add a liberal sprinkling of compost to your planting hole and give them a slow release, general fertilizer. Remember to water them well! Read more Just to say...The polish and the slate... beautifully packed - brown paper tied up with string! - and in such a nice box... the slate is just perfect. Years ago, when my kids were little, we went down to Devon on holiday and visited a place called Morewellham Quay which had a reconstructed old school house as part of a much bigger reconstruction of copper mines and the port and houses of the area. It was fascinating. The boys loved it and we bought a slate as a souvenir. They tired of using it after a while and I snaffled it to use as a shopping reminder, something I always badly need. Of course, eventually someone dropped it, it broke and was thrown out and I have honestly been looking for one ever since. So I'm really delighted with yours. Thank you very muchRegards, J.C., Glasgow Enquire WithinHave you ever wondered what it takes to get your home featured in magazine advertisements and as a TV and film location? You might be surprised to learn that your home does not have to have 'star quality' to be eligible. Location scouts need all sorts of properties from council flats to country piles and in all sorts of condition and styles of décor. Owners can register with a production company or a location finding agency. The majority of agencies will register your property for free and will look to negotiate a share of the fee if the property is used by a magazine or film company. Fees vary enormously from a few hundred pounds to thousands of pounds depending on the type of property, how many days filming and perhaps most importantly the budget available for the shoot (there is no such thing as a 'standard fee' as there is no standard budget). It is an exciting way of earning some extra income from your home but it is not necessarily all glamour as production companies can bring lots of staff and equipment and they can cause huge disruption to you and your neighbours. If you live in London or the South East you are more likely to find your property in demand as that is where film crews are often based but property in other areas will be needed by companies filming regionally. Property offering good parking opportunities (people, equipment, furniture, props and canteen facilities all bring vehicles) and the possibility of secure storage may have a distinct advantage. It is possible that certain features or parts of your property might be what attract a company to using your home so the photographs sent to the agency are important. Take advice or read the agencies guidelines before submitting photographs. To find out more about locations agencies seewww.rrhobbs.us www.shootfactory.co.uk www.hha.org.uk and www.thespacemen.com Win A £25 Period Features Voucher!This month we are giving away a £25 Voucher to spend on any of our lovely products, redeemable in store or online. Just answer one simple question and after the closing date of 31st March 2008, we will pick the winner at random from all the correct entries received.To enter please take a look at our Rim & Mortice Knobs which can be found in our Period Hardware section then just answer the following question: In which era was our Bloxwich knob widely used? Email the answer to us at competition@periodfeatures.net Good luck! The lucky winner of our December/January competition, receiving a £25 voucher, was Rachel Horner. Many thanks to everyone who entered the competition. Wonderful WebsitesIf you are wondering how to keep the children amused on a wet Easter holiday afternoon you will be pleased to learn that there are some excellent free resources available on the internet. Perfect spring themed activities for children include information on making a spring bracelet or a daffodil badge or a daffodil or sheep handprint. Also available are scrapbook papers in spring colours, origami instructions to make a paper tulip, a spring flowers sorting game and colouring pages to print out. For lots more ideas visit the Activity Villagewww.activityvillage.co.uk For children under the age of five there are some good resources at www.under5s.co.uk Their theme pack on Spring costs £10 but there are plenty of free resources based around Easter such as colouring sheets to print out and shape recognition and counting games. Fun, free and educational and at the click of a mouse what more could you ask? www.under5s.co.uk If you have old or original beams in your home which have suffered from being painted 'pub black' or coated in some other unsuitable paint finish you might have thought about stripping them. However, the sandblasting process is quite harsh and messy and often forbidden in listed homes. Hand stripping is generally recognised as being a very time consuming process and a true labour of love. The solution? Renaissance Beams believe that they have a viable alternative to sandblasting and hand stripping beams: the no mess 'back from the black beam' process. For more information and 'before and after' photographs visit www.renaissance-beams.co.uk One Last ThingBanish the winter blues with a great day out at the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair. From 12-16th March, the Business Design Centre in London will be home to over to over 350 designers and artisans from around the UK, each one hand picked by the Country Living team. As well as a stunning array of beautiful home furnishings, handcrafted ceramics, mouth-watering food, unique jewellery and inspiring gardening products there are some exciting new features this year. www.countrylivingfair.comIf you have any comments on this newsletter, top tips you would like to share with us or suggestions of great websites that you think we would be interested in hearing about please do get in touch. Email us at One Last Thing Kind regards, Suzy Dymock, Proprietor |
 This lovely little Robin's egg soap and nest soap dish contains three French milled soaps fragranced with Chamomile, Meadowsweet and Oatmeal presented in a porcelain soap dish. Priced at £17.50 they smell gorgeous, look delightful and would make a perfect Easter gift. We also stock a set of six boxed soaps, in the same range, priced at £14.90.  This small Victorian lantern cloche would add a hint of style to any period garden. It measures 350 mm (13.5") square. It is fully glazed with 3 mm horticultural glass fixed by putty in the traditional manner and painted an antique white. The small cloche is priced at £100 but we also sell medium, large and hexagonal cloches as well as an attractive small hand blown glass cloche. Visit our online shop for more information.
 Perfect for that Spring clean, these large blocks of carbolic/laundry soap for clothes washing, using with a stiff brush to scrub your front step, or other purposes have a highly distinctive smell that is sure to bring back memories! Please note this soap is only intended for laundry or household purposes. The soap costs just £2.50 for a 450 gram bar. We also stock pale household/laundry soap.  These ladies English linen gloves are handmade by local craftsmen in Shropshire using traditional methods and only the finest of materials. This design is available in a choice of blue or gold. See our online shop for more information. At just £27.00 they would make a super gift. We also stock pruning gauntlets with a plain cuff in a range of colours.
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