NEW tea towels - dry up your melamine in style!

Hooray! We have brand spanking new tea towels available on ToDryFor!

Caravans - £8.50
I would love to own a caravan. Actually, all I really want is to be able to pull over on the hard shoulder, make a pot of tea and nibble on some custard creams whilst Dave has a nap.


Happy Go Lucky - £9.50
Feeling down in the doldrums? We're not suggesting that drying up pots and pans can sort out all your problems, but surely this bright and cheery tea towel will help make you feel a teensy bit happier...


Beach Huts - £8.50
Even if you don't own a beach hut, you can always go down to your garden shed with a flask of coffee and pretend you're at the seaside...


Our House - £8
I SO wish we lived next door to a pie and mash shop......


We've got loads (and when I say loads I mean TONS) of new designs to add to the site throughout the year - why not sign up to receive our monthly e-newsletter and keep up to date with our tea towel onslaught?

Happy New Year!

We've really loved 2009. It's been manic, productive and exciting, but most of all it's been so much FUN! We hope you've all had a good year and that ToDryFor has given you a chuckle as well as some great designer tea towels to dry up with.

We want to wish you all a very happy 2010 - can you believe it's a new decade already? We've got loads of wonderful things planned for the new year, so do keep popping back!

We've gone Lahloo-py over this wonderful tea!

If, like us, you're rather partial to a good cuppa, you will fall in love with Lahloo tea! Kate Gover (Lahloo's founder) has chosen teas from the world's most enchanting family-owned, fairly traded and sustainable tea gardens.

This ain't no Tetley tea we're talking about here!

Excitingly, Kate has given us lots of lovely tea samples to send out to our ToDryFor customers in the run up to Christmas (while stocks last). Each sachet includes an amazing recipe card for tea-related treats; you could be sipping on an Earl Grey mar-tea-ni (get it?) or feasting on Green Jasmine & Peppermint sorbet...incredible!!

Not only that...but you can claim a 10% discount off Lahloo tea until the 28th February 2010; simply enter the code TDF10 at their checkout - www.lahlootea.co.uk

AARRGGH! Panic! It's nearly Christmas...

Goodness! How did that happen? It's December already, which means that it's nearly time to dust off the decorations and get ready for Christmas.

If like us you have been putting off your xmas shopping for as long as possible, you will now be in a state of festive-induced panic...Don't worry, there's still time to listen to Mariah Carey's Christmas album whilst snuggling up in front of the fire with a glass of port and some mince pies.

Here are the all important 'order by' dates to ensure you get your tea towels in time:

UK:
Friday 18th December

Western Europe:
Thursday 10th December

Japan, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe:
Wednesday 9th December

Rest of world (including Australia and New Zealand):
Thursday 3rd December

If you have an emergency that means you are unable to place your order before the above dates, do get in touch and we will try to work our delivery magic to ensure you get everything you need.

Don't forget, if you pull the short straw this year and have to clean up after Christmas dinner whilst everyone else snoozes in front of a festive You've Been Framed, at least you get to do it in style with ToDryFor...Merry Christmas!

Prints Charming

We're very excited to have some new ToDryFor publicity material, created by graphic designer extraordinaire, HelloWilson.

We'd been thinking about creating a brochure for sometime, having received requests from numerous people who didn't have internet connection but were still in desperate need of some lovely new tea towels.

HelloWilson painstakingly colour-coded around 70 of the tea towel designs featured on ToDryFor and magically transformed them into what we think is a masterpiece of print! She also thought she'd notch up some postcards to boot - hey presto, we have lots of super stylish new promo material to give away. Do feel free to request a brochure for yourself or friends and family!

Do you need any super-swish design work doing?

Visit HelloWilson's blog for more info...

Fancy a cabbage with your tea towel, sir?

We had a great day out yesterday, running a [fruit and vegetable] tea towel stall at Midcentury.Modern. We weren't sure if our matching ToDryFor aprons would be a bit OTT, but now we don't really want to take them off!

We met lots of amazing people, including the wonderful Ben Javens, the delightful (and very funny) Sara Fowles, and the lovely Ruth Green.

It was so much fun chatting to people (it's very rare that we ever get to leave Tea Towel Towers) and now we get to eat cauliflower soup for the next 5 weeks! Woo hoo!

ps - our super special tea towel bunting was very kindly made for us by haberdashery queen Fliss Russell - thanks Fliss!

pps - more about our exciting new brochures tomorrow...

Rob Ryan at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

We were lucky enough to be invited along to the opening of Rob Ryan's amazing new exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Wednesday evening. Officially opened by Sir Paul Smith, the exhibition showcases Rob's work to date, including the beautiful and intricate original paper cut (below) that he reworked for our ToDryFor Heaven tea towel.

His iconic birds were perched in and around the gallery space, including this little chap on a hand rail:

And here's Sally, posing in front of a poignant print:

The Rob Ryan exhibition is on until the 21st February 2010, so you still have quite a bit of time to visit. Make it a date!