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Archive for January, 2011
Monday, January 31st, 2011
Tags: bag, bags, Dandy Weekend Bag, holidays, Moomin Spring Design Weekend Bag, Paper Plane Weekend Travel Bag, pear tree overnight bag, Pretty City Weekend Bag, short breaks, Travel, Vintage Rose Weekend Holdall, wagtail weekend bag, weekend bag, weekend bags
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
Now the Christmas rush is over and we’ve all taken a collective breath it’s time to start thinking about the year ahead. One of key aims here at the penguin is to continue bringing fresh and exciting products at great prices and our continued growth indicates we are getting this right a lot of the time. One of the areas we expanded in to last year was artwork and this proved a huge hit with our customers and our Name Art children’s artwork was an extremely popular choice with parents and especially grandparents. Typographic art was a real growth area and the stunning artwork from the designer Lisa Long and our typographic map art were great sellers. Last year we were also lucky to have two new members of staff join us who have proved to be worth their weight in gold and we would hope to expand again later in the year with a new office manager joining us.
So now we are thinking about the year ahead, what areas to develop, what new areas to move into and we have a lot of ‘background’ development going on. It’s an exciting time of year as we evaluate and then start writing our business plan for the year ahead. We want our existing customers to continue shopping with us by offering new fabulous products and are looking forward to welcoming new customers who we hope will be as excited as us with all we have to offer.
Tags: art, Artwork, bespoke artwork, children's artwork, personalised artwork, type map, typographic art, wedding artwork
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Monday, January 17th, 2011
Tags: baby keepsake box, East Of India, Keepsake Box, Keepsake Boxes, memories, memory box, photo album, wedding keepsake box, wooden keepsake box
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
We know Christmas has only just begun to fade from the memory but if you’re anything like me I have to have something positive to focus on to get through the next few dark and rather wet miserable weeks. I have sat daydreaming about far flung holidays, days at the beach and glasses of wine in the evenings whilst sitting in the garden.
One brighter spot on the horizon is Valentine’s Day. It’s a day when we all like to think someone loves us enough to tell us with a card and maybe even a special gift. Haven’t we all secretly longed to get an anonymous card even though we may have been married or have been with a partner for years just to give our ego a little mid winter boost?
I love these two beautiful screen prints that we are stocking this year whose simple words sum up how love can feel. Today. Tomorrow, Always is exclusive to us and is being sold in limited numbers.
Tags: anniversary, Artwork, birthday, love, screen print, valentine, valentine's day, wall art, wedding
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As the sun streams through the office window today my thoughts began to drift away to warmer days and thoughts of weekends away, being able to sit in the garden, picnics on the beach and of course a lovely summer holiday. In retail you are always having to think ahead and it won’t be long before the site has products which will make you long for those warm spring days and bright summer evenings out in the garden with a glass of wine. 
