The fabulousplaces.co.uk Village Shop brings you a truly wonderful selection of products from producers and shops from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.  The snow may stop you getting to your local shop, but the Village Shop is open 24/7!  Here’s a selection of products you can buy through the Village Shop.

Click here to visit the Village Shop.

What I love about this time of year is that there are so many events taking place…there’s no excuse to be stuck for things to do!  Here are a selection to tempt you…

Bluebells Dairy – A Taste of Christmas
Thursday 11th November, 5.30-8.30pm
Celebrate the opening of Bluebells Christmas Marquee with a warm glass of mulled wine and tastings on many festive goodies such as Goose, Roast gammon, Christmas Puddings, Bluebells Homemade Christmas cakes and Mince Pies. Get Christmas off to a good start by placing your orders for your Christmas Turkeys, Chicken, Goose, Game +Poultry, Bluebells Hampers, Meats, Meat and Veg Boxes and cakes.  Click here for more information about Bluebells.

Christmas at Bow Boutique
Thursday 11th November 2010, 4pm – 8pm
An opportunity to see the beautiful new Christmas ranges, enjoy a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie…and take advantage of an exclusive 10% off!  Click here for more information about Bow.

The Bottlekiln presents ‘Carols at the Kiln’
Thursday 25th November, 6.30pm – 9.00pm
A wonderful evening of shopping and carols.  Enjoy a complimentary glass of mulled wine when you arrive.  Candlelit singing at 7.30pm and 8.15pm.

Shopping Evenings at Cachepot
Thursday 25th November and Wednesday 8th December, 7pm – 9pm
Cachepot (in Draycott, Derbyshire) are inviting you along to festive shopping evenings where you can indulge in mince pies, mulled wine & shopping.  Click here to find out more about Cachepot.

Girls & Boys Night Out at Colston Bassett in Nottinghamshire
Wine tasting, shopping & festivities at the gorgeous village shop that is the Colston Bassett Store. Click here to find out more about the Colston Bassett Store.

I was delighted to hear from the lovely people at The Derbyshire magazine who asked to do a feature on the website.  The feature is in the current (September issue) of The Derbyshire magazine and can be found on pages 43-45.

The article takes you through why I decided to launch the website, includes a selection of the places and producers and also includes some great pics, most of which were taken by the lovely Claire Sutton (click here to visit Claire’s blog).  I was also really pleased to see that they have used one of Claire’s photos for the front cover too!!

It was fantastic that a Derbyshire publication wanted to feature fabulousplaces.co.uk…I feel incredibly flattered that something I started as a hobby has now become a valuable resource for so many people.  If you see a copy of The Derbyshire magazine flick to page 43 for a read!

The feature also mentioned the upcoming fabulousplaces.co.uk Autumn Fair at Makeney Hall (Belper) on Sunday 26th September 2010.  The event will bring together a great selection of places and producers featured on the website, giving you a unique opportunity to browse some truly fabulous gifts and food.  The flyers for the event will be making their way around Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire from next week.

Hope to see you there!

Debs

Bow at the Printworks have launched their brand new online shop!  Venturing online is a result of many visitors to the shop asking if they’re online and when many visitors are tourists the owner, Susanna, felt it essential to take the next step and put all the products online.

From locally made jewellery to vintage china, bow-boutique.co.uk is a super new website.  It’s great to a fabulous place growing in this way.  Good luck Susanna!

Take a look at Bow online at:  www.bow-boutique.co.uk.
If you fancy a trip to the shop, click here for full details.