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Clock these gorgeous products!

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

We are so excited by the fantastic new products that have arrived this week by the award winning designer Becky Broome. Becky graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons) in Embroidery in 2009. Her aim is to design quirky kitchen textiles and homewares and these products are inspired by British ephemera. The Co-op textile prints brought back memories of both my grandmother and mother having Co-op savings accounts as well as saving the Co-op stamps. Just love the quirkyness of the design and the use of something from the past being used in a fresh new way for the present day.

The pocket watch cushions are also a beautiful item which will enhance any sofa or bed and again their quirky design will bring a fresh look to your home furnishings this season. All of Becky’s products are made here in the UK with the highest quality materials. Now how many cushions can I fit on my sofas?!

Tags: art, Artwork, cushion, cushions, framed artwork, home accessories, made in the uk, pocket watch, pocket watch cushion, pocket watches, textiles. textile artwork, uk designer, wall art, watch
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New Year – New Plans

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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Valentine’s Day

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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Name Art

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Have you, like me, on numerous occasions thought what can I give as a newborn gift, or a christening gift that’s unique and something really special and guaranteed to bring a huge smile to the recipient’s face. Well your quest is at an end with our discovery of a new talented artist who is producing gorgeous artwork for children.

Charis Slade came up with the idea of producing such unique personalised artwork when she was trying to source some fabulous artwork for her own children’s bedrooms and after drawing a blank decided to create something herself. Following the making of these early pieces Charis started to make and give these as gifts for friends which attracted such a positive response her business was launched and as the saying goes the rest is history!

From her studio near Bath she started by creating gifts for newborns incorporating their names into striking images of teddies, toys and animals, and this has continued to expand incorporating a variety of personalised gifts. All her artwork is hand drawn and adapted to the customers requirements and so no two pieces are alike.

We know you will love these beautiful pieces of high quality art as much as we do, and how thrilled will your friends and family be when they receive such a unique gift.