May
The sun has been shining and the weather really glorious although it’s May Day bank holiday and it’s cool and a little damp! Some would say a typical bank holiday in the UK!

We had Old Hall Spring Fair yesterday which was a chilly but on the whole successful market with lots of appreciative customers. It’s well organised and under cover which was helpful as it was a very weather changeable day!

Hello if you're having a browse on our website! I hope you find something you’ll like? If there’s something sold that you’re interested in then it’s always good to get in touch as I can make another.

An important piece of news is with regret we will not be able to ship to Europe or Northern Ireland.

Coming into force on 13 December 2024 the EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) means to continue to sell to the EU & N Ireland, we would have to pay over £100 per product for new safety testing regulations and employ an EU agent, which costs a great deal, as a named point of contact to oversee this. As a small partnership we cannot afford this. If we didn’t comply with these new rules it could mean 12 months in prison and/or a fine up to £20,000. This is a risk that we cannot afford!

Apologies for the above news, it’s not what we want but our hands are tied.

Craftco has been pretty steady with people new and old coming to visit the shop! Old customers that haven’t visited since the changes are always a little surprised by the new set up but are happy that we are still on the high street!

Our gallery diary is slowly starting to fill up with makers and artists wanting to display their work, we should have a diverse selection of things to show you over this coming year. Our Spring exhibition is still upstairs with some great work to browse.

Here at Mitchell-Finch we are working on getting stock together as we have Craftco to stock and Converge in Framlingham which opened over Easter.

Back to Craftco, if you want to know where the shop is or you haven’t visited Southwold before then find us at 40A High Street, Southwold, Suffolk. We are up near Adnam’s Cellar & Kitchen and diagonally opposite FatFace.
We share the shop space with Tourist Information, so if you need to find out more about what’s happening in the area then please do pop in?

Look out for more information on where we'll be and what we're up to on Instagram.

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Thanks for dropping by and we look forward to meeting up with you at an upcoming event or at Craftco?