Just a quick update today to say a huge thank you to everyone who attended Arts and Crafts for Summer, exhibitors and visitors alike!
40 talented and unique artists and designer-makers from the East Midlands region displayed their fabulous work and it was wonderful to hear the appreciative and admiring comments from the stream of visitors who flooded through the doors throughout the day!
The County Assembly Rooms provided an elegant and inspiring setting and many people expressed their delight at this "hidden treasure" of Lincoln.
Our next event will be Arts and Crafts for Autumn, on Sunday 3rd October, in the idyllic Lincolnshire village of Leadenham. Please keep checking the website for updates and a new photo gallery will be posted shortly too!

Are you enjoying the lovely Summer weather we're having? It's the perfect time of year for lazing in the garden, soaking up the sunshine and indulging in a good read, with a long, cool drink! Here at Tempo Promotes, much of our inspiration is taken from the English countryside, and what could be better than the vivid colours of Summer? Well, perhaps, the golden shades of Autumn, or the crispness of Winter or the cheerfulness of Spring!
We love all the seasons here!
As well as preparing for Arts and Crafts for Summer, this Sunday, 11th July, we have secured a fabulous venue for Arts and Crafts for Autumn! The Village Hall at Leadenham will host the event on Sunday 3rd October. Leadenham is perhaps one of the prettiest villages in Lincolnshire, nestling quaintly
between Lincoln and Grantham, in the heart of the Cliff Villages. Think of village greens, stone cottages, duck ponds and cosy hostelries! The perfect place for our delightful show-case!
Now, back to the garden, the sunshine, the cool drink and block-buster novel! (And the page won't have been lost whilst this blog was being written, the place was prettily marked with one our our new range of book marks!). And if you want to see what they're like, you'll have to come the The Assembly Rooms on Sunday!

Time to put on a pretty dress or a dapper shirt and enjoy the ambience of a traditional English Summer Fete at The Elms, Elm Drive, Louth, tomorrow!
Come and enjoy homemade cakes, cream teas, garden fete games and much more! They'll be a raffle, tombola and some great craft stalls including stained glass work, salt dough gifts, textiles, paintings, chutneys, shabby chic furniture, jewellery and plenty to keep all the family happy!
Free admission, open 11.00am to 4.00pm

We're enjoying the fantastic sunny weather here in Lincolnshire! Yesterday we were stallholders at a lovely School Summer Fair in Lincoln.
Our pitch was under the shade of an old yew tree, and we were very grateful for the shade it gave us too! Thank you to all the customers who bought from us and showed their appreciation for our work. It's very rewarding to hear that you like what we do.
Next week, (Sunday 4th July) Tempo Promotes are working in conjunction with The Elms Residential Home in Louth. They have an organised a Traditional Summer Fete for their residents, their families and staff and for local visitors too. Think of cream teas, bunting, homemade cakes and garden-fete games on the lawn and you will know the kind of event this will be! We are delighted to have secured some lovely and talented craft exhibitors for the event, with everything from stained glass work and embroidered gifts to shabby-chic furniture and pickles and chutneys!
Admission is free, families are very welcome. So why not enjoy a day out in the Lincolnshire Wolds? (Open 11.00am to 4.00pm)

Lots to tell you all about, so here we go! Firstly, thanks to everyone who made the village event at Nocton Social Club so successful. All the stands looked magnificent, and the homemade cake stall was laden with calorific treats!
Secondly, we're very pleased to be providing a crafty element to The Elms at Louth's Summer fete on 4th July. Why not come and enjoy the ambiance of a traditional Summer garden party (No! We don't mean umbrellas and cardigans!), with cream teas, fair weather games, even more homemade cakes and of course, lovely stalls including beautiful stained glass, vintage furniture, salt dough gifts, pretty textiles, hand made cards and much more.
It's free admission and families are of course very welcome.
And finally, don't forget Arts and Crafts for Summer on 11th July, in the County Assembly Rooms, Bailgate where over 30 of the very best designer - makers in the region will be show-casing everything from alpaca wool handbags to shabby chic furniture and designer home furnishings.
More details later!

It's certainly hot and sunny here in Lincolnshire and a great excuse for a barbeque for tea complete with home-made blackberry and apple pie and cream for pudding! Delicious!
We're pleased to say that in tonight's Going Out Supplement of the Lincolnshire Echo, there's a great write-up of last weeks Open Art Competition.
Don't forget that next Sunday, 30th May, it's the Nocton Craft and Gift Fayre, organised by us as a fund-raiser for the Social Club there.
It promises to be a lovely family event with great crafts, quality gifts, homemade cakes, tombola and snacks too. It's on 12noon to 3.00pm in the Social Club in Nocton. Look out for the ducks crossing the road!

Congratulations to Brenda Wilkinson, the winner of our recent Open Art Competition, with "Lincolnshire Summer Harvest", painted in acrylic.
Have a look at our homepage for photographs of Brenda and her winning painting.
Second prize was awarded to Mrs N Pannell, with her watercolour "Poppies", third prize to Stephen Taylor with his oil painting "Outer Space" and the Lincoln Print and Copy Centre prize was awarded to Brenda Bucknall with her watercolour "Caught in the Dark".
Congratulations and thank you to all the exhibitors.

Many talented artists from the Lincoln area brought their work to our Open Art Competition yesterday!
And what a day it was! We were there at 5.00am in readiness for the work arriving at 7.00am as it takes a lot of hard work to display 200 paintings!
With picture hooks to be put up (and removed at the end of the day), picture stands to be arranged and re-arranged and the largest pieces being displayed on the stage, there was a lot of physical and mental effort!
Visitors streamed in all day and were thoroughly amazed with the wealth of talent on their doorsteps! Our winners were thrilled too and no doubt will be keen to spend their art vouchers and to try out their new art equipment and a host of lucky people will have new paintings to display in their homes too as many pieces were sold, to the delight of the artists!
Thank you everyone who made yesterday so successful. Thank you (in no particular order..you are all the best..) to Pete, Steve, Emily, Issie, Christine, Zelia, Elena, Karen, Norah, Alan, Brenda and our very generous sponsors too.
There will be photos on our website very soon.

So much to do... and it's all being done!
All in preparation for the Open Art Competition this Saturday, 15th May! Thank you to Christine for working so hard to create a data-base to administrate all the entries, truly a work of techno-wizardry!
With 200 paintings to hang, it's going to be an early start on Saturday! (definitely up with the early birds!). We're hoping for lots of visitors too to enjoy all these lovely paintings!
Have a look at the website for all the details!
www.tempropomotes.co.uk

Check out page 31 of the April edition of The Bailgate Independent Magazine for a great editorial and fab photos of our newest designs! Bright, colourful and eye-catching...you can't miss it!

130 entries for the Open Art Competition on 15th May and counting!!
So why not pop down to the Methodist Church Hall in Bailgate for a cup of tea and slice of cake and enjoy the wealth of talent brought to you by local artists?! Many of the works of art will be for sale too.
Families,as always, are very welcome and as the venue is right in Lincoln's lovely Historic
Quarter, why not make a day of it?

We've been busy making the most of the brighter weather conditions today, taking lots of photographs that will be used for our new on-line boutique. It's surprising how you see your own things differently when viewed through a camera lens!

The gallery of photos from Arts and Crafts for Spring at The Petwood Hotel is now on the website! Have a look to see if you can see yourself! www.tempopromotes.co.uk
(We've done our best to represent as many exhibitors as possible, but the bright and sunny conditions [yay!] made some photos difficult to use... but there are galleries from our other events too!
Why not have a look there!)

It's the Tempo Promotes Open Art Competition and Exhibition on Saturday 15th May in Bailgate Methodist Church Hall.
At only £1 per entry and with excellent art-related prizes kindly sponsored by Raw Motor Group of Lincoln and the Lincoln Print and Copy Centre, why not dust off your paint brushes and come and take part? Entry forms are available now from www.tempopromotes.co.uk
The competition will be judged by international artist Norah Ranshaw and businesswoman Karen Arnold and if you want to sell you works, there's that option too!
And if you just want to enjoy some fantastic works of art by local people, come and view the exhibition from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
It's free admission, families very welcome and they'll be tea and cake on offer too!

Our gorgeous Easter bunnies and gift bags are now in stock at Hair Innovations in Nettleham!
Just right for decorating a classic Easter tree (made with a handful of twigs), with a little bag of mini chocolate eggs too!

If you'd like to have a go at some simple and effective craft techniques, why not get in touch with us and find out about our fun and informal craft sessions, which include tuition, specialist materials and tea and cakes!
And if you'd like to have an informal and informative talk for your craft group, ladies group, church group etc, contact us again!

Thanks to everyone, exhibitors and visitors alike, who came to The Petwood Hotel on Sunday!
It was a gorgeous Spring day, cold and frosty, with a clear blue sky, perfect for a lovely day out, and we are delighted to say that so many families chose to come to Arts and Crafts for Spring!
And there were so many appreciative comments too! Comments about the high quality of our exhibitors work,
comments about the excellent variety of work on display and wonderful comments that it was the best event that people had been to! Needless to say we are very happy!

Fantastic! There's a great feature in today's Lincolnshire Echo, all about Arts and Crafts for Spring (only 3 days to go!) and the event also gets some space in the March edition of Lincolnshire Life magazine!
It's very exciting to read about yourself and we hope that lots of people are inspired to come to Woodhall Spa on Sunday!

It's all systems go here! We've been knitting, sewing, crocheting and painting so that we have a lovely stand at Arts and Crafts for Spring and can't wait to show-off our new ideas!
And not only that, the Gift and Craft Fair we are organising in conjunction with Nocton Social Club is now fully booked! We have been working on a poster and flyers after popping down to Nocton (before the snow!) to take some photographs that show off the village in all its beautiful English quaintness.
And! We are delighted to say that  plans for the Open Art Competition and Exhibition are going brilliantly!
We have the sponsorship of two fantastic local businesses, and two judges, a local businesswoman and an internationally renowned artist!
Watch this space (or get in touch!) for more details!

What a lovely way to spend a couple of hours, enjoying toasted tea cakes, clotted cream and a pot of fresh coffee at Branston Hall Hotel! We were there to discuss hosting our 'Tempo on Tour' craft workshops. We'll keep you posted! It's looking good!

A busy day making Easter gift bags, painting art stones and making a to-do list!

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