It’s time for a super-duper clearance sale… Out with the old and in with the new! Who’s ready for the Katie Alice Spring clearance sale? We are finally getting closer to the arrival date of our new stock – yippeeeeee! The first drop of newness is going to include lots of our sold-out bestselling items…
New products and a spring mixtape Spring is here! Well, if you ignore the random blizzards we’ve been getting in between the sunny spells. That’s quite enough now, thank you snow. We have tulips and magnolia flowering in the garden and the crab apple is covered in little buds ready to explode in a…
Chocolate and Guinness Loaf Cake for Paddy’s Day Well seeing as we’re not in the pubs sinking pints of Guinness this St Patricks days, Guinness cake seemed like the next best thing. And this Chocolate and Guinness Loaf cake is the perfect home bake option. It also seems perfectly timed as we have a few…
Cakes + Co. Carrot Cake Cakes + Co have quickly become an institution in our lovely market town of Stamford. Their beautiful, Instagram-able layer cakes are available to buy by the slice at weekends, as well as whole celebration cakes also available to order! Think chocolate, honeycomb and caramel cake, carrot and walnut mini loaves,…
Hello there! This blog post has been a loooong time coming! ‘Where are your ceramics made?’ is one of the most frequent questions we get asked as a tableware business in an increasingly conscious world. As we are about to launch our first small collection of English made ceramics, we thought it was the perfect…
Whiskey shortbread with orange and caraway, served with blood orange curd Sounds fancy but isn’t! This is my super rustic but absolutely delicious recipe for Whiskey Shortbread with orange and carraway – indulgently served with a big dollop of orange curd! Shortbread is so very easy to make at home and so rewarding! You can…
A Comforting Potato soup for January Potatoes are not the enemy! I repeat, potatoes are not the enemy! Especially potato soup! It can be easy to fall into the January diet trap and cutting out carbs. But, during this cold month, it’s good to treat yourself to something warming and good for the soul. This…
5 things we’re looking forward to in 2021 Happy New Year! And what a start to the year it’s been! Just as we thought we were saying bye-bye to the Year of The Pandemic…. Hello, fresh new January Lockdown ? What a way to kick start 2021… It’s easy to get caught up in a…
Ideas for a socially distanced Christmas There is no getting away from the fact that this Christmas is feeling hell’a different to every other single Christmas, ever. Sure, some familiar components are there… But even though the music is playing, and the bright, glistening wrappers of Quality Streets are twinkling against the LED’s, there’s definitely…
Setting the Christmas table Christmas Day dinner is arguably the most hyped up and extravagant meal of the year. Such a special occasion deserves some extra special thought when setting the Christmas table. This year, a lot of us are going to be having smaller, and quieter Christmas Day’s than we might be used…
What’s the deal this black Friday? Hello Friends! It’s that time of year again! Hands up if your email is stuffed to the brim with “once in a lifetime prices…” or “we never normally do sales but…” and “get ALL your Christmas shopping done NOW WITH US”. Black Friday is problematic, and I’ll tell…
It’s Christmas Gift Guide time! Ho Ho Ho-w are we at Christmas again! Seriously. I feel like I only did last year’s Christmas gift guide a few weeks ago. This year has genuinely felt like the longest year ever AND the quickest year ever all at the same time. I don’t know how that’s possible,…
Our first Christmas Card collection Chritsmas is fast approaching, which means the Christmas card lists are being written… Enter the new min-range of Katie Alice Christmas cards! This is a brand new product area for us this year, so you can imagine how excited we are to share them with you! They are all…
Celebrating black-owned businesses this Black Pound Day Hello! It’s been a while since we all posted our black squares on Instagram to show solidarity with the black community. Many of us had our eyes opened up to something that perhaps we hadn’t had to think about before. Months have passed, do you still remember how…
A trip to Cornwall It’s been a long time since I wrote a travel blog! I guess we haven’t really been traveling so much… but we did have two amazing weeks in Cornwall at the end of September which I thought would be nice to share. Especially as many of us will be avoiding air…
Hot New Recipe Alert – Salted caramel apple and ginger upside-down cake …and a perfect way to use up a few of those windfall apples! I’m sure there are a million other things I could have done with the apples my mum brought round from her garden last week, but could I think of anything…
Changes are afoot! We have been quietly beavering away in the background, working hard and getting ready to take over the wholesale of our ceramics business! What does this mean for Katie Alice? This is a huuuuge step for us! Since Katie Alice started, I have always had a licensing partner for ceramics.…
Brand new phone cases now available After the successful launch of our phone cases at the start of the year, we’ve decided to add a few more to the collection! Our bestseller by a long way has been the Bee Kind case – so much so in fact that we have a Bee Kind…
Back to school – or the Autumn reset. “September will forever feel like the first page of a crisp new notebook or the softness of a new sweater, all fresh starts, optimism and hope.” I read this on an account that I follow on Instagram recently and it resonated with me so…
Katie reflects on lockdown… A few weeks have passed since we emerged from the depths of lockdown… P.E with Joe has come to an end, the banana bread Instagram posts have fizzled away and we are casually making plans to meet with friends we haven’t seen in many months. Life isn’t quite back to normal,…
Hello! Welcome to the Katie Alice blog! This little space is where I can keep you up to date with what we’ve been busy doing, as well as new product and collection launches. I also like to throw in the odd recipe, music playlist or competition, and sometimes just a bit of general chit-chat is in order. And almost always with pretty photos... Enjoy!
