How Gloven is Aiming to Implement Eco Ideas & Footprint all our manufacturing

We have had a great iniative offered from Lancashire University to look at ways Gloven can be more eco friendly.  To also wisely follow the footsteps of all our manufacturing.  I am really pleased about this as it was one of my main ethos at the beginning of building Gloven.  I was really disappointed that every avenue I looked at was at a premium cost.  My question is, if the items are being recycled and as a company you want to embrace this why is it that the  cost is so extreme?  I think this is something I would really like to address.  We are aiming to look at all of our items to how we can make changes.  One I am going to do straight away is every packaged item the plastic and cardboard can be posted back to Gloven headquarters at Liverpool with a post paid insert.  All you have to do is reverse the card and post it straight back.  Alternatively you can opt online for a cotton re-useable bag.  The other option is you can leave the packaging in the shops and also ask for a free cotton bag.  Let me know your comments please on these ideas.

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A morning in central Liverpool Radio City visit 96.7

Well its been a busy day starting with a meeting in the city for BNI then it was over to radio city for a quick meeting.  I have to say it was such a stunning view of the city that I took a few pics on my phone.  I felt quite ill coming down in the lift and did not realise how far up we had gone!

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The Cunard, Queen Victoria at Liverpool Mon 26th July

We travelled into the city of Liverpool on Monday to see the cruise ship Queen Victoria at Liverpool Docks.  It was very impressive to see we missed the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla who attended at 1pm.  We only managed to get there for 5pm due to working.  We were hoping to get invited on board as my in-laws were having there wedding vows blessed by the Captain Wright at 5.30pm.  They have been married for 53 years which I think is pretty impressive.  Unfortunately we were unable to get on board.

Royal Highness Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, sounded the midday whistle on the liner Queen Victoria in Liverpool Mon 26th July 2010.

 The Duchess made an official visit to the liner during the ship’s first call at Liverpool to commemorate the 170th anniversary of Cunard starting services from the port.

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Cooking a passion

cooking with Grandson Jam Roly Poly

Helen’s feedback was a great reminder of why I invented the Gloven.  I absolutely adore cooking.  Sometimes I just do not get the time to do more experiments with food but I can honestly say I rarely cook the same meal twice.  Helen mentioned baking bread.  Well I do bake a fresh loaf every Sunday mainly because I have a bit more time.  I also use my Gloven oven glove when taking the bread out of the bread maker as the bread machine can be very hot.  It is very good for lifting the loaf out and then with the other hand you have hold of the very hot metal bread container.  I sometimes make the bread with fresh yeast but I have to say I have cheated this weekend by buying a mix.  The speciality breads that you buy from the bakery are not a patch on what you can do in the bread machine.  I have a really good cook book from Marks & Spencers and it has some great bread recipes, including all the speciality breads that are so popular now.  They are really easy to prepare and as long as you have some good strong bread flour in the cupboard and some dried yeast then you are good to go.  I have tried the fresh yeast which you can always get from your local supermarkets free but I am never sure about the quantities to add.  So if anyone has used fresh yeast for a bread machine please let me know the weight of quantities.

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Our New Home Creative Kitchen Ware – Gloven Accessories

We are really pleased to be designing some new kitchen accessories.  We feel that we have got a selection of great new kitchen gift ideas.  We have a few practical designs to add to our increasing range. We now have the aprons, pure cotton tea towels, tea cosy and coffee warmers that are excellent quality. 

black cotton bag new kitchen gift ideas oven gloves apronsgloven oven glove accessories

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Review from Amazon – Thank you Helen! really helps people to see how good they are…

absolutely fabulous!!, 15 July 2010

By	helen – See all my reviews

Bought these in early March 2010 and have used them every day of the 5+ months since then. They are tremendous and I haven’t had any of these awful back of hand and wrist burns since I got them. You can even wear them while you are cooking. For example if you are a bread maker, you can take the tin from the oven with one hand tip it up over the other hand with which you can hold the newly baked loaf. If you have a wood burning stove and the log you want to put in the fire needs a bit of manoeuvering to get it into the stove – use the gloven! You can put your hand right into the firebox and shift the log, all with no ill effects. Because they are soft and move on with your hands like ordinary gloves they give a much safer and better grip than old fashioned oven gloves. In the past I’ve dropped oven trays because the pot holder or oven glove I’m using isn’t flexible enough.

Gloven – I’m a total convert

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JULY OFFER! FREE CHILD APRON

FOR JULY WE ARE OFFERING A FREE GLOVEN child’s APRON WITH YOUR ORDER OF A GLOVEN – WOULD MAKE A GREAT GIFT.  JUST ENTER JULYOFFER AT CHECKOUT

JULY OFFER PURCHASE A GLOVEN get a FREE CHILD's APRON

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raffia

raffia

thirty8, king street, clitheroe

01200 538086

Thank you Charlotte for your fabulous pictures that you sent me through today.  I just love the sound of what you have created with your shop:

Raffia was formed in November 2009

 Customers love Charlottes unusual  range of products. “They like the fact that they can come to me for something different and that I tend to have something for all age groups. It makes me happiest when people compare me to “cool shops in Manchester”.  To offer something metropolitan in a rural setting but without isolating customers.”

We are a contemporary gift and lifestyle store who intend to bring you distinctive, design-led products in a fresh, funky atmosphere. Our mission is to stock brands that shoppers cannot get anywhere else in Ribble Valley and in doing so we are proud to have helped some young companies get their foot in the retail door. We cover cool kitchenware, statement jewellery and exclusive glassware under one roof and we specialise in helping you find the right gift for that awkward person on your extensive present-buying list! You can even order beautiful bespoke wedding stationery and super scrumptious cupcakes with us. 

You’ll find us just up the road from Clitheroe railway station – we’ll be the one with the quirky window display!

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Using my Pink Oven Gloves!!

I caught my husband using my Gloven’s this weekend and had to take a picture on my phone.  I did have a pair of blue ones made for him so I was annoyed he was using my pair.  I just thought that it showed they can be used by both in the kitchen.  These are a medium size and we obviously both wear them! 

Ant wearing my Gloven Oven Glove

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Website Review – Again!…..

Working as always

Well I had a good meeting about the website – we have had a few issues this year and hopefully we should get them all sorted in the next few weeks.  The picture is of me working hard at Gloven’s headquarters in Liverpool.

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