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

THE ARRANGEMENTS ARE BEING MADE

LOTS TO THINK ABOUT

This is gonna be a good party. Cake seems to be on everybodies mind, all the people i ask are saying "will there be cake" of course there will be cake, well at least i have ordered it and the supply is very reliable, the question is the size, how many pieces of cake do i need? e-mail me to let me know your'e coming iwish@thewishingtree.biz

and i will make sure and save you a bit. You could get a link from the website too www.thewishingtree.biz

I have ordered 100 turquoise helium ballons, so there will be a sea of blue on the ceiling in the shop all day, that has to worth a picture in the EDP i am sure. If anybody at the EDP reads this blog then maybe they will be coming along and do a bit of a report about a new business not only surviving but thriving during the credit crunch.

Another idea was a candle lit pavement outside the shop. We are gonna be open until 10pm so it may give it a nice atmosphere as long as it isn't raining. What we need is that Indian Summer.

So it's the 11th Sept at The Wishing Tree in Long Stratton Norfolk on the A140 shop open until 10pm for fun and promotions to celebrate our Birthday

see ya there

HOW TO GET NOTICED

This is just a quick blog about getting your business noticed out there in the big wide world.

It is so easy to spend loads of cash on advertising and then not really know if you have gained any new customers from your investment.

We find that being on the main road A140 in Long Stratton in Norfolk is the best advertising we can get and it is of course free. So if you are passing our shop and like what you see there give us a blast on the horn to say hi and if you get a chance to stop and say hi even better still.

The Wishing Tree is very pleased to welcome all new customers and we would like to find out how you found out about us so let us know by e-mailing wishtree@hotmail.co.uk or visiting the website and telling us through there http://www.thewishingtree.biz/ or just phone 01508 536008

and have a chat

great fun and free advertising to all out there

cheers

HAPPY BIRTDAY TO THE WISHING TREE

THE WISHING TREE

IS GOING TO BE 1 YEAR OLD

I have pleasure in announcing the first birthday of THE WISHING TREE. To all those who are familliar with what we are all about, i hope you will join me in the party week, starting 6th September 2008 to celebrate 1 year of trading at The Street Long Stratton in Norfolk.

To all who are not familliar, I would encourage you to come along and let us introduce you to all the wonderful things we have to offer.

There will be lots of special things happening during this week beginning 6th Sept and on the 11th we will be having an all day party in the shop and staying open until 10 oclock in the evening.

I will be announcing all the plans nearer the time so you will need to watch this blogspot for a bit more info and make sure you don't miss out.

I can reveal that there will be a birthday cake and lots of special offers over the period of the week, i am looking for my customers to come up with a few ideas as to what they would like to see as part of the week so if you can let me know wishtree@hotmail.co.uk or call the shop

01508 536008 is the number to dial.

i want to make this a week to remember so get involved and be part of the action if you can.

look forward to hearing from you all soon

olivia

The Wishing Tree