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Winter 2011 - Newsletter

Welcome to our first Newsletter of the year.

We would like to thank all our customers for bearing with us over the long holiday closure after Xmas. As many of you know, this is when we take our main holiday - tacked onto the end of the Xmas Bank Holidays. Next year we will not be closed as long, but we may be closed for a week in June - a warm weather holiday will be most welcome :-)

NEW ITEMS
The only new item this quarter is a new addition to our Iron On Letter Motifs. The new Sequin designs are bright and sparkly with each letter in one of six different colours. We think they would look best as perhaps the Initial letter of a name mixed with the pink or black letters we already have in stock. They are slightly more expensive but they really do stand out.

This month we have also changed the pack size available in the Pearl Elastic Cords. Previously the Pearl colour was only available in full reels, all sizes (0.5mm, 0.7mm and 1mm) are now available in packs of 3m too.

STITCHES TRADE SHOW
The main reason for sending out this email today is to let you know we will be visiting the Stitches Trade Show in Birmingham on Tuesday 22nd February. We will be searching for new items for all three CPU Enterprise websites - Craft Bits, Dianne's Knitting Yarns and Craft Kits. If there is anything specific you would like us to look out for then please let us know asap. You can email us, leave a note on the CB Forum or, if it is knitting related, post on the DKY Forum.

We always pick up lots of catalogues, so even if you think of something after Tuesday we may be able to check those for you. It is a very long day with lots of walking and talking (and heavy catalogues to carry) but we think it is worth while. Two years ago we found a supplier of Pony Bead lacing which has been one of our most popular lines. We also see all the new Mouseloft Kit Designs (on Craft Kits Website) in the 'flesh' and decide which ones to stock in the following year. Not many of our suppliers have Reps any more so it is the only time we actually meet the people on the other end of the phone.

CONTACT DETAILS PAGE
We have upgraded the Contact Details page to give you more info on all the different ways you can contact us or give us feedback on how we are doing. That page includes some of the following.

CB Forum - We update this every time a new item goes online so it is the quickest way of finding out what is going on. Plus you can post your questions to us or other forum members. We also post important announcements about opening hours etc.

CB Guestbook - On our Guestbook you can leave us feedback on the delivery of your order, including how quickly it arrived. If you are new to CB please take a look at the testimonials on there.

CB Newsletters - If you have missed a past newsletter you can find them online.

CPU Enterprises Blog - News and views from the staff behind Dianne's Knitting Yarns, Craft Bits and Craft Kits, including the story behind CPU Enterprises.

CPU Enterprises on Facebook - Basic info on all the CPU websites - we hope to start a page just for CB soon.

CB Exit Survey - if you have ordered from us recently then you probably know all about this - it is a basic survey which you can take after you order to let us know how the website performed for you. The results will be available from time to time on the Forum and the Info page.

We hope you are happy with the direction we are going in and really do look forward to hearing from you all by email or any of the means above :-)

Webmaster
Craft Bits
CPU Enterprises

20.02.11

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Autumn 2010 - Newsletter

Sorry this update is quite a bit later than usual. We have been so busy we just haven't had time to do much except get the orders out. But as usual at this time of year with just a couple of weeks till Xmas, trade has dropped enough to give us time to write this update. Incidentally we have just had our best few months ever and would like to thank everyone for their custom - we must be doing something right :-)

We have not had many new items since the last update, but have made a few observations on the direction Craft Bits seems to be going and therefore some decisions on stocks. We sell as many of our items in small packs as we can and will continue to do so as that seems to be what many customers require. We are also selling quite a few larger packs now so will always try to stock those where space allows.

To that end we will stop selling some items when the current stocks have gone to allow room for more packs of the most popular items. Those popular items include Eyes, Noses, Bells, Pony Beads, Beading Cords, Magnets, Iron On Motifs, Felt, plus a few other bits and bobs. The items that are 'while stocks last' include Foam Stickers, Transfers, Jewellery Findings (except a few things like Keyrings and Brooch Backs), Aperture Cards & Envelopes, Sequins, Kits and a few others. Most have been noted on the website already.

NEW ITEMS

As usual - all the following items were noted on the Customer Forum when they went online.

If you want to comment on this or anything else about our Newsletter / website / stock please email us at or add a message on the Customer Forum.

HOLIDAY OPENING HOURS & LAST POSTING DATES

We have put a link on the Home Page to a list of the last posting dates for Xmas, that info is also on the Forum in the Messages section.

We have also put details of our opening hours for over Xmas / New Year Holidays on the Forum and a link to them will be put on the main page shortly. Basically we will be closing at 6pm on Tuesday 21st December 2010 and will fully re-open on Wednesday 12th January 2011 - we will not be open at all between those dates. Opening Hours will be noted in the Shopping Basket during those weeks.

As regular customers will know, we have our Annual Holidays just after Xmas as that is the quietest time for our sort of business. This does mean we are not able to send out any orders until we get back, but the Shopping Basket will be open so you can still order at any time. We may have a backlog but hope to get the majority of orders placed over the holidays out on the day we re-open.

Last year we got stuck in the snow and did have to extend the holiday slightly, but we do have internet access there so will try and keep you up to date on any changes. We will try to answer emails while we are closed, but it may take a few days if we are having fun, so please be patient :-)

CRAFT KITS WEBSITE

Don't forget that www.craft-kits.co.uk has lots of Pocket Money Kits for kids of all ages plus some great beginner kits. We have put 41 new kits from the Mouseloft Stitchlets Range online since the last Update. There are a good variety of subjects from Wizards to Steam Trains and Meerkats to Pandas.

We hope you are happy with the new direction we are going in and really do look forward to hearing from you all - by email, Guestbook or on the Customer Forum.

Finally, everyone at Craft Bits, Craft Kits and CPU would like to wish you all good health and prosperity over this holiday time and in the new year.

Webmaster
Craft Bits
CPU Enterprises

11.12.10

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Summer 2010 - Newsletter

Welcome to our Summer Newsletter.

We have just had some of our busiest months ever with Teddy Eyes, Jingle Bells and Iron On Motifs being the most popular items at the moment. We are also pleased that the new Felt Suppliers colours seem to be selling quite well. Pony Beads continue to be popular but we have had a problem with our supplier not being able to keep up with demand. We have managed to get some elsewhere to tide us over and hope to be fully stocked shortly. One downside of being busy is that we sell out of some things quickly but don't have time to order more - we will just have to get more organised :-).

NEW ITEMS

Not many new items have been added over the last few months as we have been so busy - plus most of the suppliers bring out new stuff earlier in the year. Some have just brought out their Xmas Lines so we will be checking those out very shortly.

We were asked to get a couple more colours in the 3mm Nylon Cord which we duly did - Purple and Wine - available in packs of 3m and on 25m reels. There is a link to a picture of other colours we could get in stock on the Nylon Page, so please take a look and let us know if we don't stock the one you want yet.

Iron-on Motifs are getting more and more popular so we have expanded the range again with another 20 going online in the last 2 months. All the new ones were shown on the Customer Forum at the time and there are some nice Adult ones including some lovely dogs & 'green' logos. Unfortunately, some of the ones we didn't think would sell that well (so only brought a couple) were the first to go. We are ordering again very shortly so if there is a design type you think we should include please let us know and we will see if we can get some.

COMING SOON

We have quite a few other items which we just have not had time to do - regular readers of the newsletters will recognise most of them . Because the website is done in-house it does take time to hand code the pages and get the pictures right. The following items will be online as soon as we can.

  • Metallic Colour Aperture Cards
  • Cards with different shaped Apertures including Xmas shapes
  • 1.5mm Cotton Thong in Black, White, Natural, Deep Purple, Sea Green, Pacific, Dusty Pink, Wine
  • 1.5mm Leather Thonging in Gold
  • 1mm Leather Thonging in Red, Royal and Silver
  • 1mm Waxed Cotton Cord in Violet, Turquoise, Pale Pink, Lilac, Sky Blue
  • Winnie the Pooh Zip Pulls

CRAFT KITS WEBSITE

Don't forget that www.craft-kits.co.uk has lots of Pocket Money Kits for kids of all ages plus some great beginner kits. The following new items have been put on since the last newsletter.

We will be starting a Facebook Page shortly but you can get some general info about Craft Bits from the CPU Enterprises FB Page. In the meantime you can leave feedback on our service on our Guestbook page. If you have feedback or requests for us other than about our service then please use our Customer Forum or email us.

Best Regards

Craft Bits
CPU Enterprises

04.08.10

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Spring 2010 - Newsletter

Well I hope you are all enjoying our unpredictable Spring weather, it seems to be getting colder rather than warmer

We would like to thank all our customers for bearing with us over the Easter weekend. There were a few technical problems which took most of that 'holiday' weekend to sort out. There is more info on exactly what the problem was on the Forum under Messages.

NEW ITEMS

We have managed to get back in stock a couple of items that we thought we could not get again. One of the most popular items during the last year was the Pony Bead Lacing. These had been initially brought as a 'Stitches Show' special offer last year and we had assumed the supplier would have sold out by now. But at this years show we asked anyway and they said 'yes we have some left', so we brought some more - we didn't quite get the same deal on all the items but we have left the price the same online.

The other big news this Quarter is that we have eventually got the new Felt Supplier sorted and all the new colours are now online. As we have a few different types of Felt now (Plain, Glitter, Self Adhesive, Mixed Packs) it will shortly have its own section on the website rather than being under the 'other items' banner.

We also have a few more new Iron On Motifs and Foam Sticker packs in stock plus some new sizes and colours in Jingle Bells.

As usual - all these items were noted on the Customer Forum - full list below.

If you want to comment on this or anything else about our Newsletter / website / stock please email us at or add a message on the Customer Forum.

OPENING HOURS

At this time of year there are a lot of Bank Holidays and we try to keep the opening hours up to date in the Shopping Basket. We also note opening hours in the forum as early as we can.

Occasionally we do also have unforeseen circumstances when we have to alter opening hours, so do please check the Basket link on the website for the most up to date info before phoning. Remember - the quickest way to get an answer is to email us - we check emails all the time and answer them as quickly as we can.

CRAFT KITS WEBSITE

The following new items have been put on the CPU Craft Kits website (www.craft-kits.co.uk ) since the last newsletter.

There are a few more kits to come so please keep an eye on the site.

We hope you are happy with the direction we are going in and really do look forward to hearing from you all - by email, Guestbook or on the Customer Forum.

Webmaster
Craft Bits
CPU Enterprises

13.05.10

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Winter 2010 - Newsletter

Welcome to our Winter Newsletter - and it certainly feels like winter as I write this. It has been snowing all day and we have a thick covering over everything now. Yes it looks wonderful ..... but we just got our Gas Bill :-(

On the up side - it seems to have prompted people to stay in and craft, which has given us our best January ever despite being closed for the first week due to our Annual Holiday.

Some of you may know that we got snowed in while we were on holiday in January which caused a bit of a back log - we thank everyone for their patience.

NEW ITEMS

The Iron-on Motifs page we put online a while ago have had new designs added quite often - these are always great for jazzing up old clothes. We also now have some Letters online too. They come in Pink or Black and you can buy whichever colour or letters you like to make up your own designs. At 2.8cm (just over one inch) they are the perfect size for adding to tee-shirts etc.

One of our biggest sellers are Teddy Eyes - we have as many sizes and colours as we can get our hands on. When we saw a new size (6mm) in black we thought "they have to be too small to be popular" but we brought a couple of packs anyway. Wow!! We were amazed when they flew out the door and sold out very quickly. We ordered 10 times as many but the supplier only sent half and they soon sold out too. Next time we trebled our order but still only got a few packs from the supplier - they just can't keep up with demand. There are some in stock at the moment and we are ordering again soon - if we can get other colours too we will.

Most of the 'while stocks last' felt we have is almost gone but we have a new supplier we hope to order from next week. In the meantime we brought some mixed packs but they soon sold out, and again our supplier couldn't re-stock us. However we do have some Glitter Felt in 6 colours which are quite nice.

Swivel Clips are now back in stock - sorry for the delay. We have also got some in a larger size too. Plus all colours of Mobile Phone Cords are back in stock.

We have some new Easter Foam Sticker packs now online - Bunnies and Ducks with various other objects.

A full list of all the new items are below, they were all noted on the Customer Forum when they went online.

COMING SOON

We have quite a few other items which we just have not had time to do. Because the website is done in-house it does take time to hand code the pages and get the pictures right. The following items will be online as soon as we can.

  • Metallic Colour Aperture Cards
  • Cards with different shaped Apertures including Xmas shapes
  • 1.5mm Cotton Thong in Black, White, Natural, Deep Purple, Sea Green, Pacific, Dusty Pink, Wine
  • 1.5mm Leather Thonging in Gold
  • 1mm Leather Thonging in Red, Royal and Silver
  • 1mm Waxed Cotton Cord in Violet, Turquoise, Pale Pink, Lilac, Sky Blue
  • More Motifs including Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, flowers, Leopard, Tiger and Xmas
  • Winnie the Pooh Zip Pulls
  • Foam Stickers - Glitter Heart Mini, Bee, Teacher, Glitter Words & Hearts, Star Snowmen, Glitter ABC, Bright Heart
  • Bracelet and Necklace Sets

CRAFT BITS GUESTBOOK

We had been asked in the Exit Page Survey for a Guestbook so you can give us feedback about our service and let us know you received your parcel. We set one up a little while ago and it seems to be working well. It can be found HERE, plus there is a link in the 'parcel sent' email we send out, on the Info Page on our website and there is also a link when you click the Forum link. You do not need to add your email address, or even your full name, but please state your order number so we know which parcel you received.

If you have feedback or requests for us other than about our service then please use our Customer Forum or email us.

CRAFT KITS WEBSITE

Don't forget that www.craft-kits.co.uk has lots of Pocket Money Kits for kids of all ages plus some great beginner kits. We have a long list of items which we received 2 days before Xmas but just haven't had time to put online. If you are interested in any of the following please let us know and we will move it to the top of the 'to do' list.

  • Craft Factory First Knitting Kit & First Sewing Kit
  • KSG Sequin Jewellery Kit & Ceramic Jewellery Kit
  • KSG Latch Hook Kits - Dolphin, Butterfly, Duck, Panda, Kitten, Angel Fish, Parrot, Penguin, Rainbow, Teddy
  • KSG Bead to Bead Kits - Dolphin, Butterfly, Ballerina, Friends Forever
  • KSG Stitch to Stitch Kits - Dolphins, Horses, Puppy, Kitten
  • Caron Latch Hook Kits - Butterfly, Dolphins, Shaggy Good Boy, Shaggy Kool Kat
  • Cuddletime Emerald Teddy (furry soft toy)

If you want to comment on anything in this Newsletter or anything else about our website / stock please email us at or add a message on the Customer Forum - we really do look forward to hearing from you all.

Webmaster
Craft Bits
CPU Enterprises

18.02.10

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