Gee How Quaint

Authentic Tea Shirts. Come get yours.

 

Authentic Tea Shirts have now been uploaded onto the website.  Why not encase that gorgeous figure of yours in one of these.  Oh come on...seriously.  Have you been working out?  Your arms look really toned.  Have you had your hair done recently?  It looks a-mazing! And what fabulous dress sense you have.  I bet all your friends look up to you.  I sure do.

Short Sleeve Authentic Tea Shirts £10

Long Sleeve Authentic Tea Shirts £14

Choose from a red design or a blue design.  It doesn't really matter which one you pick.  I mean, honestly, your taste is so impeccable.

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Crewise Emporium...Thanks for havin' us!

Crewise Emporium has very lovingly and beautifully added Gee How Quaint products to their pages.  The image that flicks up when you highlight Gee How Quaint is really something special.

Thanks! 

As seen on BeautifulThings.co.uk

 

Callooh Callay o farbjus day! Chortled she with joy.  (To quote a Lewis Carroll poem).  Gee How Quaint is getting around these days.  Now she's showing off some of her goods at the above website. 

The website has changed!

If you have re-visited the www.geehowquaint.com website, you may have noticed the new look.  Please do not be alarmed!  In the name of growth and progress, we have had to re-create the website to say 'Hey world!  Look at us in our Solea octagon healed shoes!' Bigger.  Better.  New and improved.  The 'In the News' section is now chalk full of magazine covers and US t.v. stars toting the trademark Gee How Quaint swim bag.  Yeah.  We've sold out.  But we'll make more.

We will be updating some of the empty spaces during the next several weeks.  Keep an eye on us.  We are expanding weekly! (I can barely fit into my skinny jeans.  Am  having to use the lay-on-bed-and-hold-breath-until-I become-faint method)

Business eating

 

Today I had a business meeting in Hexham, which is about a 30 minute car journey from Newcastle.  It was ever so serious.  We, uh, talked about spreadsheets and overheads and uhm, the economy and well, we also brainstormed and put on serious faces and looked important. 

Okay.  Not really.  You found me out.  The meeting was more about one business lady connecting with another business lady over coffees and English Breakfasts.  I was talking to the fabulous girl behind the scenes of Totally Fabulous Stuff.  She is one of my stockists and has just added my Tea Shirt and 'Feed me!' Baby Grows onto her website. Take a stroll through the website.  It is full of gorgeous gift items and the design is very pleasing to the eye.  Recently I purchased mugs with the most hilarious character scribbled onto them.  Totally playful.  Totally fabulous.

As for the photo above, this of course is a shot of the Tyne Bridge.  I was thinking of my office space and how unrestricted I am.  My office is my office, my kitchen, my living room, the coffee shop in town, the walk along the quayside.  My office is wherever I am.  Three fake walls do not define my space.  I wouldn't have it any other way. 

Feed me! I must eat now!

 

Also comes in blue for boys.  Sizes: 0 to 9 months.  There are t-shirts for the older girlies as well. 

 

New: Candie Shoe Bag with inner divider to keep shoes from misbehaving.

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The 'gift' buyer and the 'me' buyer

 

We're credit crunchiliscious here at GHQ HQ.  To move with the times that are becoming increasingly difficult for wallets and change purses, we have added many new items that won't leave you crying whilst looking at your credit card statement.

Usually, GHQ caters for gift buyers.  Although I love my bags ever so much and think that most of humankind would benefit from a jade coloured knicker bag, I understand that these items might be thought of more as a 'gift' item and not a 'me' item.  Gift buying can make one feel elated with the thoughts of choosing such amazing and good quality products, but every once in awhile, the little 'gift' buyer wants to become a 'me buyer'.

To enable the feelings of joy whilst grabbing a bargain for yourself, we have added a lovely selection of t-shirts to the site.  The 'Feed Me!' t-shirt is especially lovely and nice fitting.  For just a tenner, it's not bad going for 100% cotton, handprinted and perfect with those jeans that make you look totally and utterly fabulous. 

On the road, again

For the past couple of weeks I have been taking the Gee How Quaint show on the road.  Boutiques are obviously the way forward and now I must be brave and show my wares to the discerning boutique owning public. 

Obviously, I think my GHQ bags are the cat's meow.  Whilst speaking to my friends, I can easily talk about the merits of owning a knicker bag and how I really delight in the way that my shoes are clean and lovely after packing them away in a shoe back with divider.  But approaching the boutique owner, well, now, that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish, or bags and shoes and pins and other gorgeous- gorgeous things that I would like to own some day. 

It's the rejection that's hard to take.  I've never dealt with it well.

"What, you..you don't like my bags?  Is it the way they look?  Is it that they have a personality defect?  Is it that she isn't pretty enough?  Smart enough?  Her eyes aren't blue enough?  Perhaps she isn't well spoken enough and snorted when she laughed? " And there, I've gone and done it.  I've taken the rejection personally.

The thing that must be understood is that perhaps the bags just do not fit the boutique's image. Fair enough.  Move on and find their proper place.  Also, it isn't just about the boutique liking Gee How Quaint....I'm not going to leave my little dears behind if I don't think the boutique fits the image of GHQ. 

Current works in the making: Super lush cushion covers

Applying myself

I possibly should not admit this, but I am currently applying for a spot at a universtiy for a Masters in Textiles.  I should not admit this because if I don't get in then I will have to admit this to the world and would subsequently feel mightily stupid.

Stumped and at a loss for words, I have begun to write my Letter of Introduction.  This is how it goes:

Dear You,

 

My name is Cassandra and I am applying to the MA Textiles programme because I think that I should simply die if you do not let me play in your facilities.

I somehow don't think this is going to impress them.  What do you expect from a girl who graduated from a High School that misspelled Education wrong on the Graduation Programme?  The Board of Eduaction is very pleased with us all.

Bitty Bags at The Art Works Galleries

On Thursday night, I went to the monthly First Thursdays open night at The Art Works Galleries in Newcastle. 

As you can see from the photo, I took a snap of my bags in situ.  The art gallery's new gift shop is chalk full of super fabulous gifts.  As I walked around the display, my hand dipped into my bag, scooping around the contents, searching for my wallet...and then I was pulled away from the shop as my husband realized I was about to, gasp, PURCHASE SOMETHING!!!! Oh God no!

I will just have to sneak it there when he isn't looking.