Christmas Cheer

With the snow falling heavily all around us, we can be forgiven for being more festive than a Christmas pudding. We should also be forgiven for eating more than our own bodyweight in carbs and sweet treats. It's the cold, it just forces me into the biscuit jar.

The sweetest treat we have had this week has been a flurry of sales of our one-off items. Our Horn Bon Bon dish, Wooden Sink, hand carved Child's Foot Stools and Child's windsor chairs have all sold and gone to good homes.

The new year will bring with it a range of new products and a brand new-look website, so watch this space. We would just like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support over this past year, and here's to another successful and busy 2011.

With all love from

Emily and Emma x

Dick Willis - Children's Stools

Our friendly local genius, Dick Willis, has given us four gorgeous stools to sell. Each one has been whittled and carved locally in Bedale with a skill perfected over the years. Each stool stands approx 21cm tall, is 30cm x 20cm on the top and has 4 sturdy legs.

Each of the four stools we have in stock have an image etched on (with a burning rod - very clever): a Highland Cow, a Swaledale Sheep, a harnessed Horse and a Monarch Stag.

They are tall enough for little children to sit on, and small enough for grown ups to use as foot stools. Clever, versatile and affordable at only £20.

Good honest design here at the Little Present Company.

With love from

Emily and Emma x

Wooden Toy Frenzy

7 Sleeps to go until we can open our Advent Calenders!

31 days until Christmas day....

Plenty of time left to order presents at Little Present Company.

Following the success of our Wooden Toy sales at the Christmas fairs recently, we have split them into 'stocking fillers' and 'tree gifts'.

Wooden Tractor and Trailer £5.95 for small hands

Pushalong £7.95 in Cow, Pig and Dinosaurs. Great success with children from 12months - 3 yrs.

Snazzy Maracas £4.95

Wooden Coloured Ring Rattle £5.95, a colourful toy for little hands and teething teeth

Wooden Tool Box - interchangeable between Box and Stand, perfect for a 2yr + boy.

Jumbo Dominoes £10.95 for the whole family.

Large Wooden Bead Jewellery Box for active hands £11 each (see picture)

For those little girls who love the 'home' role-play, we have a wooden Kitchen Sink reduced from £60 to £50, Tea for Two set £9.95, Wooden Toaster £10.95 and Casserole Dish £5.95. Lay it all out on the Riding School Play Mat and feed the whole family. Not listed on our website, but in stock, are some Tin Tea Sets £16.00 which come in their own box, have tin cups and saucers, napkins and cutlery (see picture).

So, it's over to you. We have the goods so call us and place an order, or go online. You still have time, so keep Christmas real this year with wooden toys to last a lifetime.

With love

Emily and Emma x

Dick Willis Give-Away!

Following our blog on earlier in the year, we are having another Dick Willis hand-whittled splurge. His gorgeous distressed-finish Windsor style settle is reduced from £195 to £150 (gasp!), and his small Oak and Elm Windsor style chairs are reduced from £105 to £75 (double gasp!). He has created a new range of chair and 3 Legged Cottage Stools. We have lots of these lovely items in stock here, so either drop in to see them for yourself, or we can send photographs. Either way, they are a steal at such great prices....Form an orderly queue.

With lots of love

Emily and Emma

xx

Silver

We are re-designing our website over the coming weeks, and we have decided to put our Silverware department to bed temporarily. Sadly, the price of silver has risen dramatically so we can no longer justify the increased costs as they are passed directly onto our customers. We are, however, holding a few items in stock which we are going to sell at reduced prices... so, if anyone is after a handsome piece for that special occasion, you know where to come.

Bon Bon dish, Horn Baby Feeder spoon and Antique Silver Toast Rack are stunning and ready to go for £50 each. (original prices £78.95, £54.95 and £59.95 respectively).

With love from

Emily and Emma x

www.littlepresentcompany.co.uk

01748 810450 / 07789 000504

An Overdue Update from LPC

We are dead on our posh-shod feet. The physical toll of exhibiting, selling and marketing is showing itself in our bodies and minds and houses.... The long hours on our feet have given us swollen ankles, our minds are blurred and our homes are full to bursting with ironing do-to and breakfast bowls to clear away (from last month). BUT it has all been worth it. So far, our 2010 Christmas Fair season - which we are nearly half way through - has been a great success and we have handed out nearly one million leaflets and taken nearly as many orders. Thank you to everyone for giving us such a moral hug. It is a rare opportunity for us to be able to step out from behind the website and meet the customers face-to-face.

Our best-selling wooden toys have been from the small boy's range of pull along trains, push-along tractors and toolkits. We met a lot of grannies who were keen to buy sturdy presents for their little terrors, but they were not wanting to break the bank (Train is £9.95 and Tool Box £19.95) or break the peace at the same time. No drum kits this year, just good wooden toys for little hands and adventurous minds.

The small girls have treats lined up for their Christmas presents too this year. We sold lots of our gorgeous 'Jenny' Floral nighties (£16.95 makes it the most affordable long-sleeved cotton night dress out there) and our unique shaped blackboards. The Gingerbread Man with Bite attracted lots of attention (£12.99) and the Bunny and Heart shapes were a big hit too. We have only a couple left, so please order now if you are interested to avoid disappointment.

We cannot believe our luck. Our favourite Wood Whittler, Dick Willis, has introduced a new range of child's chair. We have a few here in stock: elm, oak and distressed finish available, all with yew back rungs. To celebrate this new introductory range, we have reduced all of the prices from £105 per chair to only £75 so get buying before we change our minds! Call us for more information...

We are getting ready for another fair tomorrow, but we are always around to take your lovely calls and your lovely orders. Happy shopping everyone!

With love from

Emily and Emma