Thursday 21 April 2011


The Good Cornwall Guide are going to donate £1000 to locally based charity Shelterbox if they get 1000 likes on their facebook page before the Royal Wedding.... that roughly equates to two shelterboxes.


Shelterbox are a great charity, based just down the road in Helston, who provide emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies for families around the world who are affected by disasters at the time when they need it the most.

Each large, green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items.

... so whats not too like?

Wednesday 20 April 2011

Beach Bags

The wife swears by the usefulness of her long handled shopping bag, perfect for just about everything and utterly ideal for stuffing with books, magazines, suncream for the kids, sweeties, drinks and other beach necessaries.

So as we have a lovely new logo, and have been playing around with screen printing recently, we thought it would be fun to make some Little Beach House 'beach' bags.

The bags that we sourced are woven from organically grown cotton, dyed with eco friendly inks, are made in a fair trade factory where the workers decide the price to be paid for their work and finally shipped in vast numbers by sea to further reduce the carbon footprint.

Similarly we printed the bags with water based eco friendly inks and use similar emulsions and cleaners for the screens. And because we can print ourselves we can do much smaller runs than a commercial screen printer (and where's the entertainment in getting someone else to do fun work like this).

They are also really nice to use.... according to my wife, daughter, mother-in-law, niece and wife's best friend!

So now theres no excuse to not head for the beach!

Bags and boards; Just add sand, sea and surf for the perfect day.






Tuesday 5 April 2011

Summery sunny pics on a dull day

I received a nice comment about some of the summer pics I posted way back on the 21st December, so as its such a dull dreary day here in West Cornwall I thought I'd remind everyone of summer...






and finally a subject dear to my heart...