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Greetings from Kuala Lumpur airport.. on the way to India.
Hope you are well, last week I was telling you about some skulduggery on the island of Bali, you can read it here.

Since then I have been working on a major new product group from Bali that I hope is going to be as fast moving as Salt Lamps or Soap Flower Bouquets. Can't tell you much right now, except that it ticks all the right boxes, an ethical sustainable product, beautiful and natural but functional. Everyone will want one, and hopefully we can secure enough supplies to meet demand. Watch this space :)

We went visit the batik lady she is called Wayan Masih. Another lady boss, there is a lot of lady bosses here. They make the beautiful hand painted batik wall hangings, flags and throws. We have been selling for many years. The workshop is little more than an enlarged shop unit on the edge of Ubud, they extend outside almost overlapping the rice terrace when the weather is fine. It's as busy as a beehive type of place, rayon sheets are stretched between wooden posts where one lady hand draws the designs with fine lines of molten wax. Then colours are painted / dyed directly on the fabric. Skillfully they can make one colour bleed to another for dramatic effects. After they are sun dried, the wax washed out - leaving clean white lines in the designs... and then dried again in the sun, finally cut and stitched with labels added.

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The batik when you see how much love, care and craft-person-ship is involved - well it's amazing value. Everyone slightly different, lovely to behold. It's another product we buy as much as they can produce.. but often end up out of stock.
Last time I was in Bali I had this idea to develop something new with them, a range of meditation mats. Something that would look amazing on Instagram in the right location. Hand painted batik, but then double sided with stuffing and stitching inside the patten, bit like a thin quilt. The first production sample was finally available. Our lady boss, had taken our designs and really worked hard to make them perfect.

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She had been a little rebellious and change some of the yoga and Chakra symbols, because she said some symbols were disrespectful to sit on, so they had been made Balinese style to be suitable for meditation.
I was delighted with prototype.. it was three months of hard work and getting the detailed stitching just right. There was still some modifications to do but I was really happy, I think going to be lovely product. When I said it was just lovely Wayan beamed with pride. Here's a sneak preview of Ringo (our man in Indonesia) trying out a spot of meditation. Just a teaser but other designs in the range will very special indeed...

Meanwhile back in sunny Sheffield it's been another busy week. Again lots of things back in stock.. including Singing Bowls from India and Salt Lamps - the popular sizes.
We have been really busy, by far the busiest February ever. The best news is we finally solved the backlog of orders - you don't want to know the details but the good news we found a way to get more orders out faster and now only 2-3 days behind with orders.

Plus more good news.. by popular demand we have finally introduced a premium shipping option. Sometimes time is money, and you really need an order urgently. So we have a special urgent order function. Your order can be fast tracked by a dedicated picker / packer, who will give your order very careful love and attention and whisk out of the door just as fast as we can. Order before 1pm and we will despatch same day. After 1pm the next day. Right now we are on top of orders and it's the weekend so you maybe don't need to use it. But so many people ask if they have their order rushed (at any cost) that we have made it available (and at a lower cost than any competitor - we checked). By the way we always send on next day service (UK mainland) - unlike some different wholesalers :)

Oh my goodness - I have a plane to catch, it's the red eye to Delhi, by the time you read this I'll be in INDIA!
I get there in the early hours.

By the way - it's soon Mother's Day.. check out the deals below.

Hope you have a great weekend.
David

BUY 3 for Price of 2 on our range of Tropical Bath Bomb. Offer Ends on Monday 26th February at midnight.
Tropical Paradise Coco Bath Bombs is a amazingly sweet and zesty range of exotic tropic fruit, including dragon fruit, papaya and purple mangosteen. They are also great value. Each bomb weighs in at a massive 180 grams and contains a generous portion of Coconut Butter to make it smoother on your skin.

BUY 3 for Price of 2 on our range of Tropical Paradise Soap Loaves. Offer Ends on Monday 26th February at midnight.
In our tropical fruit scents, your customers hands body and soul will feel cleansed, nourished and moisturised. A truly lovely soap for anyone who loves anything tropical. Supplied in 1.3 kg loaf form. You can get 13 x 100 gm (approx weight) pieces from each loaf. Sell at £2.75 and return £35 per loaf.

The perfect Tibetan gift, here available in different sizes. Use the wooden end of the stick to make the bowl sing, (watch our video Here). The padded end makes a divine dong. A gift that will make someone more than happy - bringing a little extra inner calm.

Large selection of Incense holders. All imported from India. We deal with a number of companies all of which produce wood-wares in the city of Saharanpur in Northern India.

Get a fantastic contemporary look for a fraction of the price of a regular shop fit. If you are into the natural look - what better way to display your products than on this beautiful hand-made display stands. A pretty display stand for a product range can multiply sales several folds. A display stand is your finest investment.

Amazing Real Leaf Jewellery is made with actual real leaves, hand selected and harvested specially leaf by leaf. Then using a unique electro-plating method the leafs are gradually, magically.. turned to metal. As these are real leaves, not one piece is quite the same so every one bought is unique to the customer!

Each Wholesale Salt Lamp comes complete with light fitting, bulb & plug. Rather than sell them by size we sell them by approximate weight. Items are marked with sizes to give a rough idea of size only, each lamp is completely unique.

Cool green and yellow for spring, hot pinks and red for summer, classic blue and lavender for weddings season. These are ribbons for all occasions, double-sided check makes easier to wrap any gift. Wrap some profits today, Order now.

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