Brand New Newsletter & Jubilee Competition

Newsletter

June 2012

Greetings!

Welcome to your brand new monthly newsletter!

We know from the positive feedback we regularly receive that you enjoy reading our forthcoming sale alert emails that now go out three times a week.

With so many catalogues to promote, there's never enough time or space to let you know about what we get up to at UKA HQ, inform you about antiques fairs and markets, and engage you in competitions and quizzes.

So that is exactly what we intend to do with this new publication that will be landing in your inbox every month.

Read on to discover about the joys of upcycling, the history of tea drinking and be in with a chance of winning a fabulous Jubilee teapot!

Upcycling is the new Recycling

Upcycling is all about giving cheap and readily available pieces a new lease of life.

Rather than designating your old furniture to the dump, see what it looks like after a bit of TLC and transform old forgotten pieces into new trendy ones

This old filing cabinet that was knocking around our office was ready for the tip. After a quick trip down to Hobbycraft however, we were ready to transform her into an eye-catching focal point.

Read all about her transformation.

June Antiques Fairs

What better way to spend a balmy June afternoon than rummaging through the treasures of yesteryear.

For a list of fair dates across the UK
this month click here

Tea Drinking, a Great British Tradition
by David Harper

"I hope you appreciate your morning cup of tea as much as you should. Tea might well be a cheap necessity for most of us, but go back in time two or three hundred years and you would have had to have a bucket load of money to afford such a luxury. Would you still be a tea-drinker if you had to pay an average week's wages for a few spoonfuls of the stuff? Well, whether you would or wouldn't is irrelevant, because the rich and trendy of 250 years ago did, and that's all that matters to me..."