From Dragon's Den to QVC

If you caught last night's Dragon's Den you would have seen the ingenious TrueCall answering service given a thumbs up from the hard-nosed dragons.

And with Peter Jones' praise for the item still ringing in your ears, you can get this TrueCall unit here at QVC!

The TrueCall device is a 'spam filter' for your home phone, which helps you to screen your calls so you don't need to speak to telemarketers or nuisance callers if you don't want to. It also holds up to 140 hours of messages and recorded phone calls.

Sounds pretty handy if you ask us.

To watch it on last night's show, visit the Dragon's Den site.

Sarah Crosland and Dawn Bibby on Craft Day

Are you looking forward to Craft Day on Sunday 3rd May?

We'll be bringing you a whole host of crafting goodies and expert guests for you to enjoy.

In particular you should look out for a special show presented by the dream pairing of Sarah Crosland (left), editor of the crafting magazine Crafts Beautiful and our own Dawn Bibby (right).

Tune in at 3pm on Craft Day to see our premiere Crafts Beautiful show in which Dawn and Sarah will bring you top tips, expert techniques and unmissable demonstrations.

Plus, if you decide to subscribe to Crafts Beautiful magazine you can get your hands on a Kanban crafting kit gift worth over £16, which you can have a look at during the show!

To subscribe to Crafts Beautiful call 0844 815 0028 (open Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm, excluding bank holidays, and Saturday from 9am to 1pm) or visit www.crafts-beautiful.com/qvc

Catherine and Kathy attend the pre-BAFTA bash

QVC are the official jeweller for the annual British Academy Television Awards.

In preparation for the awards night this Sunday 26th April, we sent Catherine Huntley and Kathy Tayler along to attend the Nominees Party at the Mandarin Oriental.

Read about how they got on in Catherine Huntley's blog.

Don't miss Charlie Lapson on GMTV this Friday

Hi everyone, Charlie Lapson here.

I don't know if you caught me on GMTV earlier this week, but if you did you're in for a double treat as I'm back on there Friday morning.

I'm SO busy at the moment getting ready for the Oscars, not to mention the fabulous pre-Oscar parties that are happening around Hollywood right now.

I've been working with some of acting's finest. Just this week I loaned jewellery and accessories to Anne Hathaway, Sean Penn, James Denton and the lovely Dana Delany from Desperate Housewives (you can see her pictured with my red ostrich pattern leather bag - watch out for it appearing on QVC soon!)

Tomorrow on GMTV I'm going to be showing off the most amazing million dollar diamonds. In these credit crunch times they're the thing of dreams, but hey, why not recreate the look with some of my dazzling Diamonique designs?!
                                                  

And while you're at it, accessorise like the stars too with my must-have bags - if you keep an eye out tomorrow morning, you'll spot some of my latest designs.

                                                  

See you guys in June when I'm back on your screens.

Cheers from the red carpet,
Charlie xx

Success for QVC in the 2008 Craft Awards!

We're really delighted to announce that QVC have been awarded not one... not two... but three awards in the Crafts Beautiful 2008 Craft Awards. Get us!

Categories we won...

Best Website for Customer Services - QVCUK.com Craft

Best TV Shopping Channel for Craft - QVC

Best Mail Order - QVC

Also among the winners were a few QVC favourites;

Best Overall Card Designer 2008 - Dawn Bibby (right)

Best Independent Store - North of England - Topaz Crafts, Lancashire

Plus, regular guest Leonie Pujol walked away as runner-up in the Best Craft Book category.

The winners were all voted for by Crafts Beautiful readers and craft enthusiasts across the country. You may remember that we asked QGossip readers to cast their votes for QVC, Dawn and Leonie.

So, a huge thank you to all of you who voted to make QVC and our friends such a huge hit in the Crafts Beautiful 2008 Craft Awards, and here's to 2009!

Shop for beauty gifts this weekend on QVC Beauty

Find the perfect beauty gift this Christmas with a little help from our gift weekend - only on our beauty channel QVC Beauty.

There'll be something for every taste and for every budget from stocking filler goodies to pampering gift sets - we have it all wrapped up just for you! Just tune in on Saturday 29th December and Sunday 30th December.

You can find QVC Beauty on Sky 24/7 simply by pressing the Red button. Then you can watch all your favourite beauty shows whenever you want.  

Read more about QVC Beauty.

Anthony Heywood reports from the IFA electronics show 2008

Hi everyone, Anthony here,

I'm actually sat in my hotel room in the heart of Berlin after a second exhausting day of filming at the IFA electronics show. It's the largest showcase of electronics in Europe and the second largest in the world just behind CES in Las Vegas. I went to see what's happening in the world of tech and am here for three days in total - you really need that amount of time to get to see everything here - it's so vast.

I flew out from Heathrow's new Terminal 5. All the gates there have large flatscreen TVs from Samsung, who actually have one of the largest halls at IFA, and coincidently that's the first hall I came across when I got to the show.