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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Whitby is a gorgeous north east coastal town that isn’t very far from the office and from my home so I love to drive across the moors for a visit. So when I spied these gorgeous ceramics at the Top Drawer trade show in London I knew I wanted to sell them.

The range is called Whitby and the design evokes the stormy & chilly North Sea and the design captures the movement of the sea.

The range features all you would need for those afternoon tea purposes & includes, mugs, tea cups and saucers, side plates and a simply stunning cake stand.

Tags: afternoon tea, anchors, cake plates, cake stand, coastal, fishing boats, lighthouse, mugs, North Yorkshire, seagulls, seaside, side plates, tea cups and saucers, whitby
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Giveaways galore!

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Have you seen what we are giving away for absolutely nothing this month! On our competition page we are giving away a red Joseph Joseph Bread Bin worth £41.99. It has such an ingenous design with the lid being made fom beech and so doubles as a chopping board. Just enter your details and we will keep our fingers crossed for you!

Another great giveaway this week is for a Set of Classic Penguin Book Mugs, over on our Facebook page, just pop over, like us and tell us what your favourite book is and why and you will be entered to win these gorgeous mugs.

And finally we have a great competition running on the fantastic Little Stuff Blog. This competition is to win a piece of unique children’s artwork with the design including the child’s name.

Tags: children's artwork, Classic Penguin Book Mugs, Classic Penguin Books, Facebook, Joseph Joseph, Joseph Joseph Bread Bin, Little Stuff Blog, mugs, NameArt
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The Pantone Phenomena

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

The Pantone Colour System has been a renowned authority on colour for more than 47 years and has been an inspiration for design professionals since its development.

The system was created by Lawrence Herbert, in 1963, and he created a system that enabled professionals to identify, match and communicate colours and solve the issue of producing accurate colours within the graphic design industry. His insight that the spectrum is seen and interpreted differently by each individual led to the innovation of the PANTONE® MATCHING SYSTEM®, a book of standardized colour in fan format.

Pantone has continued to expand its colour matching system concept and is now used for example within industry, fashion, home, digital technology and architecture and is a vital tool for these industries for accurate colour communication.

Each year Pantone sell design licensees in over 100 countries and many products are designed based on their system. We love the Pantone mugs with their single block colour bringing simplicity and chic design together.

Tags: colour block mugs, mug, mugs, pantone, pantone mugs
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Mr Men & Little Misses – timeless classics

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

As a child I loved the Mr Men with their simple shapes, characters and personalities. We all had a different favourite, mine being Mr Small with the concept of everything in the world being bigger than yourself, which I suppose is just how a young child views the world.

But Mr Men & Little Misses are timeless classics and my own children loved them in equal measure and my son’s favourite was Mr Bump who he loved pretending to be by bumping into things!

The author of these fabulous books was Roger Hargreaves, born in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire in 1935 and he produced a total of 48 Mr Men books and following his death in 1988 his son Adam produced further books including some unpublished characters his father had created. The 1st Little Miss book was Little Miss Bossy which was published in 1981.

The world of the Mr Men and Little Misses was expanded with the launch of an animated series on television in 1974.

Last Christmas one of our best sellers in our gift range was our Mr Grumpy mug…..not sure what that’s about girls! We love the new aluminium drinks bottles that have just arrived with Mr Messy proving to be a popular choice.

Tags: drinks bottle, little miss, little miss naughty, little miss sunshine, me messy, mr bump, mr greedy, mr grumpy, mr happy, mr lazy, mr men, mug, mugs, roger hargreaves, water bottle
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Spotted!

Friday, April 9th, 2010

We love watching the products we sell turning up in all sorts of tv programmes. Over breakfast at the moment on GMTV we keep spying the Orla Keily mugs which we absolutely love. The Red Abacus mug is such a lovely on trend retro style.