Many people choose to get married at the end of the year to have a magical winter wonderland wedding. A wedding in the colder season can be an extremely stylish and enchanting affair; and couples can save a lot of money because service providers are usually cheaper during the quieter months.

Budding brides can go to town creating a fairy-like wedding with snowflakes and frosty backdrops. They can decorate the venue with roaring log fires, tree centrepieces covered in falling snow and use themed frosted colours like icy blues, reds and metallic silver.

Now many Brits ask for varying gifts for the wedding, such as items for the home. Traditionally men and women received presents in the form of kettle, toaster and coffee machines for the new house to which they are moving into. Nowadays many couples already live together before they get wed, so they might ask for money towards their honeymoon instead. But on the other hand, they may be in need of some new homeware to freshen up the home.

Ulster Weavers has some brilliant ideas to suit all budgets. Treat the newlyweds to one of our brand new gift sets that are perfect for a house warming, birthday, wedding or Christmas present. All sets come with matching co-ordinates and the designs vary to suit all tastes. Choose from different animal patterns including beehive, spotty pig, a cat or chicken; that comprise of tea towels, cosies, vinyl bags and much more.

Give the wife-to-be some cute cake tins or china mugs to enjoy life as a proper housewife baking and drinking tea, or offer one or our pretty PVC aprons which will come in handy when cooking for her new husband. Our V&A Strawberry Thief Cosmetic Bag is a lovely gift idea to store all your makeup and essential beauty products.

For him, our delectable men’s apron ranges are great when grilling over the BBQ and many of the designs come in manly stripes, blues and charcoal greys.

So if you know someone who is having a bewitching winter wonderland wedding, purchase them some quality homeware as a present with Ulster Weavers.

V&A Strawberry Thief Cosmetic Bag

Cat Cosy Gift Set

Where There's A Woman Cotton Tea Towel

This week celebrates bakers’ creativity and passion and is National Cupcake Week!

Get your aprons on from 12^th- 18^th September 2011 and satisfy your sweet tooth with cupcakes off all shapes, sizes and colours.

You don’t have to be a professional baker to get involved; have fun with the kids getting messy in the kitchen decorating buttercream and icing.

It is a great idea to amuse the little ones on a rainy afternoon and the whole family can sit down and eat the delicious cupcakes after tea.

There are hundreds of style variations and recipes to try and once you’ve baked the cupcakes you can decorate them with anything and everything from edible glitter, dusting powder, baubles, flowers and edible sugar!

Let the children’s creativity go wild and they can even be given as presents to relatives’ upcoming birthdays with their names penned on with decorative icing.

Ulster Weavers fantastic childrens aprons are perfect so the youngster’s clothes don’t get ruined and one can even dress them up in a matching chef hat so they really play the part.

And after all the baking has been done and the home is a mess why not pop the kettle on and have some lovely tea? A piping hot brew is a dream when scoffing a sweet-smelling scrumptious cupcake and Ulster’s cute cosies are ideal to keep your cuppa nice and toasty.

So get involved in National Cupcake Week with the family and have fun ornamenting your cakes…here are all the basic ingredients you need! And afterwards, store them away in some of our gorgeous cake tins!

Cupcake Recipe

The basic mixture for around six small cupcakes includes;

- 50g/2oz of self raising flour

- 50g/2oz caster sugar

- 50g/2oz butter or margarine

- 1 egg

Double or treble the quantities as required for the number of cupcakes being made!

Cassandra Rose Set of 3 Cake Tins

Home Sweet Home Child's Cotton Shaped Apron

Cakes PVC Apron

This July Marie Curie Cancer Care is encouraging all tea lovers across the UK to pop the kettle on and host a blooming great tea party to raise money for charity.

Thousands of people up and down the country will be trying to generate as much money as possible for terminally ill people with cancer and other illnesses in their local areas.

And what do you have to do? Simply don some aprons; get your tea cosies at the ready and gather the girls round to have a natter over a brew- it couldn’t be easier!

No matter what size the tea party is whether it is just a few women or the whole street round, have a good old chin wag  and gossip whilst drinking tea and raising cash for a good cause.

Last year the hosted tea parties raised enough money to fund over 30,000 hours of care and every £20 raised will pay for one hour of nursing care for ill people who spend their final days at home. So let’s beat the record and raise much more in 2011 by putting out cosies and getting immersed in the cancer mission by drinking tea.

You can even go the whole mile by making cheese and crackers and biscuits to eat, becoming ladies that lunch. With Ulster Weavers fantastic homeware ranges that include coasters, placemats and trays you can present all the delicious delights beautifully! But don’t worry if there is any food left over as our cake tins are perfect to store all sorts of buns, biscuits and cakes. And you can drink out of our delightful bone china mugs!

Make it the social event of the season; for more information on how to get involved and get a free fundraising pack simply go to mariecurie.org.uk. 

Cassandra Rose Small Tray

Flower Pot Shaped Cafetiere Cosy

Victoria Bone China Mug

Ulster Weavers has some brilliant new ranges that have just arrived that you must get your mitts on and one of them is gorgeous Cake Tins!

Whether you are an enthusiastic baker or budding chef looking for supplies to put your professional cakes in; or a domestic goddess seeking cute containers for the home our cake tins are perfect for you.

Cake tins are the essential necessity for all bake-ware and after hours of careful decoration and presentation it would be a huge shame to have your cake ruined by simply not storing it properly.

In fact, it can be said that they are of paramount importance. Many experts argue that the reason for so many cakes failing is that the size of tin was incorrect for the mixture; it can upset the timing of a recipe and the finished size of the cake.

But as well as being practical, why can’t your cake tin suit your taste, design and décor of the kitchen?

Our funky cake tins come in a variety of styles featuring everything and anything from cats, roosters and farmyard animals to different shades of flowers.

And the best thing is that you can bag yourself a bargain of a set of three cake tins for the low price of £23!

So whether you need to store a tiered wedding cake, fairy cakes or novelty biscuits; look at Ulster Weaver’s cute ranges that will definitely spruce up the kitchenware. Let us make your house a home with funky Egg Cosies, Kitchen Towels and more.

Cassandra Rose Set

Rooster Set

Sorrento Set