VIVA BEADS AT THE WISHING TREE

"Live it Wear it"

Lori, mother of four daughters, and Jill, a single mother of two, came together with courage and belief that they could better thier lives. they held hands, committed to their vision and began building their business one step at a time. From a kitchen table-top company, the two women were determined to keep moving, growing and developing against all odds. Lori and Jill's will to succeed is the driving force behind the Viva Beads brand which symbolises individuality, determination, truth and commitment. To wear Viva Beads, is to understand that each individual has their own journey to follow and dreams to capture.

The Wishing Tree is proud to stock Viva Beads and share this beautiful range with you all. You will find a selection of Viva Beads on our website, and also in our shop in Long Stratton. Particularly lovely new additions to our range is Viva Beads Jumbo Stone Bracelet in the stunning Mojito design and at £16 can be an affordable addition to your jewellery collection. Also the funky and Chunky Square bracelet in Blue Fabric, at only £13 is a must. For the first time we are now holding stocks of earings for that christmas stocking filler idea, check out the Jumbo Stone Black Lace Earings for starters at £6.50.

We have loads more affordable stocking filler ideas both online and in store so get your shopping in early this year and spread the cost of christmas a little bit further. We are also offering christmas shopping home parties now too, so book yours to avoid dissappointment. See our website for more info on home parties and register an interest with no obligation.

Looking forward to seeing you all

Olivia

The Wishing Tree

PARACETAMOL AND ASTHMA IN KIDS

Todays news is buzzing with the statement about the belief ,that we are giving our kids too much medicine containing paracetamol. In doing this we are supposed to be increasing the risk of asthma developing in our dear children.

Do we believe this to be true? Ok, the incidence of asthma in kids is on the increase, but we are also well justified to blame a whole host of other things for our childrens breathing problems. It may also be a good idea to look at the ingredients list on the bottle of infant paracetamol suspension. you will notice sweeteners, colours and flavorings are often there. I know from experience that all of these can contribute to various side effects. Question is how do we know that it is not one or all of these ingredients causing the asthma, i know that the sweetener Aspartaine is a high contender for the blame in our family. So maybe we shouldn't be so quick to blame the humble paracetamol, and ask that the pharmacutical manufacturers to concider making a suspension with natural ingredients to deliver the painkiller to our infants, and leave the flavouring to us parents. I find yoghurt a good way of disguising the taste or a nice fruit smoothie.

To ensure your children are ready for the winter, it is a good idea to boost their immune system with some extra vitamins and minerals. Forever Living Products are available from The Wishing Tree online or in the shop. Try the Kids Multi vitimin in fun shapes, these are chewable and taste great, so little people enjoy the daily dose. It is a good idea to boost your own resistance to the forces of the winter too, try some of the suppliments for adults and drink aloe vera for an all round healing from the inside.

We offer a box of samples to borrow from the shop if you would like to pop in and try out some of the lotions and soap, shampoo, etc. Give us a call on 01508 536008 and ask for info on Aloe or email us iwish@thewishingtree.biz for booklets, leaflets and infomation sheets etc.

Head for the winter in good health

The Wishing Tree can help

Olivia

BEAUTIFUL AMBER JEWELLERY

The Wishing Tree has been getting a name for being a great place to come for Amber Jewellery.
We are begining to gather together some nice pieces for our christmas gift collection. However, all the pieces featured are available now along with lots more in store and online.

The Amber nugget necklace pictured on the right is a beautiful piece from our Mayanna Amber range and would make a great gift for just £40. you can view more pictures of this and other pieces on our website.


We stock a great selection of pieces from the Nova Silver range
including other gemstone set jewellery such as Turquoise, Onyx and Rose Quartz, to name but a few. A selection of this range can be viewed on the website, many of the pieces in the picture above are also available online. We can post out jewellery and any other gift you buy in our online shop, direct to the lucky recipiant. Just complete the details on the checkout page and leave a message if you would like us to include a card in the parcel. What could be easier?

The gorgeous Amber swan necklace on the right is a very special piece also available online, at £110.00 and free postage of course. This is a one off piece which makes it an extra special gift for a very special someone.

Making the right choice when buying a gift is always a bit of a worry to most of us.
Remember that to the lady in your life, or the friend, the most important thing is that the thought that went into the selection, is always what counts. Choose something that you would like to see that person wearing and imagine them wearing it. This is a good guide to stick by and i am sure your choice will be a good one.
Have fun with all your future gift selections and remember that The Wishing Tree is always here to help, on line, iwish@thewishingtree.biz or on the web http://www.thewishingtree.biz/ or on the phone 01508 536008.
Get in touch today and let us help your wishes come true

Love and Light
Olivia,

MONDAY MORNING SUNSHINE

It is a beautifully sunny Monday morning and ballons are beginning to be found now. That's 3 now and only another 97 to go, well not really as several are still wrapped round the telephone wires in Long Stratton and a few are in the field behind my house in Topcroft, never really got off the ground, but the kids enjoyed letting them go friday morning, who am i to argue. The finds have all been in more or less the same area, Poringland, Brooke and now Shotesham. Prizes will be won by the launcher and the finder, so keep the calls coming, we will decide the top prize for the best story and anounce it at the end of next week. Iwill just share this with you though, Kate phoned me this morning and said she had seen on the blog that her balloon had been found, she had taken it home to Kirstead to let it go in the garden, reported finding was in Poringland so it went a little way up the road, it was then taken home to Mrs F's house, can you believe it, in Kirstead. We are now offering round trip balloon flights.....ha ha.

That's it from me for now i need to go and look through the Willow Tree catalogue and do that order i was telling you about the other day. We have some great gift ideas in stock from the Willow Tree range so have a look on our website and make a start on that Christmas list.

bye for now

Olivia

THE MORNING AFTER

Well that was some birthday party. The Wishing Tree would like to say a big thank you to all the people who came to see us yesterday. We had a great time and the party went on until 10pm as planned. The pavement lined with candles created a great welcome to those who arrived after dark and the dry and balmy summer evening meant that we could enjoy the evening from outside the shop as well as inside. We were joined by family, friends, local customers and those far travelled too. It was the birthday party that the shop and all attending deserved.

All the balloons were launched, there was a bit of cheating towards the end, by tying a few balloons together, but this trick back fired and the blue bunch is now decorating the telephone wires high above the shop. All other launches were sucessfull as far as i know. The first balloon sighting was reported today. Balloon No 53 belonging to Kate from The EDP Norfolk Magazine, was found in the road in Poringland this morning by a Mr Fryman, he galently retrieved the balloon and took it home for his daughter who was celebrating her birthday today. Mr fryman will be recieving a prize for reporting the balloon found, thank you sir. All balloon sightings should be reported via the website where there is a link to follow, or by phone using the number on the balloon tag. Watch this space for further sightings.

There is still some cake left for those who missed out last night and if you pop in the shop we will be sure to offer it to all our customers tomorrow. You can read the report from BTTradespace in their blog about the party, as members of btt we had a visit from Beverley, on the communities team, thanx for the lovely flowers.

Read more as it happens

watch this space

Olivia

WE ARE BUZZING AND THE CAKE IS HERE

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS CAKE

The cake has arrived as you see, it was made by Cheryl, who makes wonderful cakes in all shapes and sizes for all occasions. If you wish for one of Cheryl's cakes you can contact her through my website and mark the e-mail as re-cake and i will forward your request. We are all looking forward to cutting it later on.

The shop has been buzzing this morning and lots of balloons have been launched, we are having some more delivered this afternoon so come in and get yours, the race is on.

We are also doing a free raffle for customers, so leave us your e-mail address and we will put you in the draw to win loads of great prizes.

Helen and I worked real hard this week to get the shop looking great look at these pictures and see just how good it looks. New stock in too, loads of new Viva Beads in the shop will be on the website next week.

Also see the willow tree figureines and let us know if you have a special request as a new order is being put together next week for delivery around the end of September. We will be ordering picture frames and plaques etc for christmas pressie ideas.

HOW'S THE WEEK GOING SO FAR?

Well, Saturday was busy in the shop with plenty people in for balloons, and it was perfectly windy, so lets hope we see some coming back from far off places. I myself let the first "test" balloon go and it flew off up the A140 towards Norwich, on it's own little journey. Balloons were popular with both kids and adults, no one is to grown up to take part. We have some more in the shop through the week with the big final launch on Thursday, so do remember to come along, remember we are open till 10pm.

Yesterday, despite the duck weather, The Wishing Tree took a stand along to the Relish Restaurant and Bar in Newton Flotman, to be part of their suppliers market, which was held in the car park and patio area. What a great community spirit there is in Newton Flotman, it rained cats and dogs but loads of locals came to see what was going on and when the sun came out everyone enjoyed the afternoon, in the true fashion of country life. Well done Rachel and Jeremy and all the staff.

Talking of raining cats and dogs, what is this rumour of an Indian summer happening this week. I hope it is true 'cos we want to be able to see lots of people out and about this week, we have got 10% off all our goodies in the shopfor the birthday period, so come in and get a bargain. Also new stock coming in today and tomorrow, so be first to see it. New range of chunky wooden beaded jewellery sets, lots of great colours.

Catch up with us again through the week with more news of how it's all going.

see ya

olivia

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE WISHING TREE

Today is the day we have all been waiting for, The Wishing Tree is now 1 year old, it's official.

It dosn't seem possible that it was a whole year ago that we first opened the doors.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US

So on with the week and on with the fun, the ballons are starting to come in and go out already, the wind is strong today so we are hoping they will be far travelled when we hear back. It only costs £1 to enter and launch your balloon, and a prize for each one returned as well as a special prize for the one which creates the best story or travels the furthest. The people who return the balloons also get a prize as a reward for playing the game. So come in and join us and get involved. The balloons have been supplied by Court House Occasions, the card and gift shop in Long Stratton. so we thank them for helping us with this and hope you visit their shop too while you're here.

The ballons will be available for purchase all week until Thursday night at 10pm when we close.

So keep following my blog to find out how the ballons are doing and all the birthday news during the week, as we will be reporting daily.

Other highlights are 10% off every purchase during the party period, 2o% off if you have one of our lucky flyers, wine and cake on offer to all who come to see us on Thursday 11th for our evening party, free sweeties for everyone in the shop all week, and of course our usual friendly welcome and service.

We are now offering a free gift with purchases from our website, see online shop for details of that www.thewishingtree.biz loads of fantastic products always available online.

I'm off now to chat to our customers and get in the birthday mood, see you during the week.

olivia

100 HELIUM BALLOONS

Seen as we have a thing about turquoise in The Wishing Tree, we thought we would have 100 helium balloons at our party. In turquoise of course, what else. So from Saturday the balloons will begin to appear in the window so keep watching out for that and "pop" in and buy one if you get the chance.

The idea is to buy a balloon and we will tag it, then give you the chance to write a message for the finder of the said balloon, which you can then release where and when you like. The website address www.thewishingtree.biz will be written on the ballon with instructions for the finder to go to the website and contact us with the details. If you balloon comes back to us we will give you a prize. The best prize goes to the balloon that has travelled the furthest, and has the best story to tell. We will be reporting on the balloons travels in this blog so come back and see what is happenning. We are hoping to release the bulk of the balloons on Thursday 11th Sept at the main party event, open till 10pm remember with a candlelit evening outside in the balmy summer air, well it's good to be optimistic about these things i guess, we don't want the weather to put a dampner on our event so keep everything crossed for us please.

So keep watching this spot for anything else we think we should be sharing, and we will see you sometime next week i hope.

Olivia