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Trade Secrets: Handcrafting Welsh Slate

Over the past 8 years, Slate House has been creating Welsh slate homeware and gifts, slate house signs, memorial plaques, and grave plaques, and awards for customers all over the world including we...

Caerphilly Castle - Exploring the 'Slumbering Giant'

If you read our recent Castell Coch blog post, you’ll know that we now supply numerous Cadw gift shops and information centres with our Welsh slate products and handmade soy candles. As a result, w...

Discovering the Magic of Castell Coch...

Regular visitors of the Slate House website will be aware of the Welsh slate products we hand craft and sell from our website and shop in Neath. However, you may not be aware that from our workshop...

Trade Secrets - Making Natural Soap

Alongside our handmade soy candles, at Slate House we also make handmade natural soap. Over the past few years, we’ve trialled many different methods and recipes and now that we’re proud of the fi...

Trade Secrets: Making Soy Wax Candles

Over the past few years, the Slate House team has been practising the art of candle making and through many, many trials we have developed a technique and finished product to be proud of. If you h...

Welsh Whisky Uncovered - Penderyn distillery tour

The dramatic landscape of the Brecon Beacons region provides a stunning backdrop to a small village in South Wales called Penderyn. But it’s not just the scenery that’s special about this place. ...

Extreme Sailing Series - Welsh Slate Trophies

On August bank holiday weekend, 2014, Cardiff played host to the internationally recognised Extreme Sailing Series. In true bank holiday style, the weather was grey and the rain was pouring, but it...

Savoury Honey Recipes (and a bit about Winnie the Pooh!)

If you’re lucky enough to have known Hundred Acre Wood when you were growing up, you will be more than just familiar with a certain underwear-less honey addict – one we all affectionately know as ...

Redecorating Hints and Tips

Whether you’re a serial re-decorator or a DIY-dodger, at some point in your life, you’ll be faced with a tired room that needs to be updated. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bedroom, kitchen or living...

Barbecuing steak - How to be a Grill Daddy!

It’s BBQ season. Living in Wales, a country dominated by precipitation, we can’t limit ourselves by saying something so silly as “BBQs are for the Summer’”. Oh no, as long as it’s not snowing, whet...