Eek. Spring has suddenly sprung into summer and summer into a drizzly version of spring, and all the while Tight Jeans and Jelly Shoes has remained as silent as a church mouse engrossed in a Bryan Jacques novel. Just where has the time gone? What on earth have we been up to? And while we’re at it, wouldn’t it be rather nice if the past simple of knit was knat?

Top 5 Spring/Summer Adventures

1. The launch of Lo-fi DIY
Aimed at renegade boys and tearaway girls with an adventure in their hearts and a taste for making things by hand, Tight Jeans and Jelly Shoes have launched a special monthly crafting night in association with vintage lovelies Ophelia Button. Taking place monthly at the Northern Quarter Craft Centre in Manchester city centre, it’s the perfect place to fashion a button brooch, knit a tea cosy or test out some performance poetry. For more information please visit the website of Manchester Craft Mafia.

2. Email sparketing for ArtsMix
Sparkly French Sophie of community arts organisation ArtsMix has engaged the Jelly Shoes contingent to add a little wit and whimsy to the group’s monthly email newsletter. Dedicated to the promotion of all things crafty in West Yorkshire and beyond, ArtsMix is the arts organisation behind the splendid Sunday craft market at Chancellor’s Court and the new spangly Loft project. Check out the latest events or register for their email newsletter at www.artsmix.co.uk

3. Oiling the wheels of Kuwait Finance Group Watheeqa
The internet is a funny but wonderful onion. Who’d have thought that a major financial institution in Kuwait would choose little old jelly shoes as its copy partner out of the myriad of internet marketing agencies out there. But thanks to our top notch search rankings – and our don for web copy – that’s exactly what happened this spring. Once the copy is complete, their website will be constructed to the highest specification courtesy of Tight Jeans build beauties Solutions Four. Watch out world!

4. Tight Jeans melt with Maison Bertaux
When you’re not admiring the Noel Fielding poems which adorn walls or tieing yourself in knots over which crème anglaise daubed dainty to post in your beak, you might take a moment to have a snoop around the delighful boutique in the basement of this wonky French patisserie on Greek Street in Soho. It’s truly to die for see. Run by a madame with a real nose for the sublime, no self-respecting belle would be de rigeur without a vintage inspired fripperie from this house of fun.

No wonder the Tight Jeans and Jelly Shoes team decided that it absolutely must get involved and lay its cloche hat at the alter of madame and friends. Who knows what the future may hold what with our copywriting skills and the delicousness of the items in that basement.

5. Tight Jeans and welly boots Mr Weatherman sir
Yep, striding the lanes of West Yorkshire in our wellington boots like a troop of horsey young ladies fresh out of Swiss finishing school. Lord love the traditional British summer and the puddles it produces.