National Thinking Of You Week Event

National Thinking of You Week has been launched by the Greeting Card Association to highlight the emotional power of sending and receiving greeting cards. The aim is to create a wave of love, caring and happiness across the nation by getting everyone to send a card a day during the last week in September.

We're so happy with this initiative as it's just exactly what our cards and our philosophy is about. We've never been about birthday cards; we've always been about special cards for special people (and that's all of us) for any occasion and for "just because" occasions. 
So completely out of character, we are joining in the celebrations and are holding a week long event at our HQ - it's actually quite exciting!

This is what we are going to do, and it would be fab if local people could come along and support us:

• Pick up your address book and come to our HQ in Garboldisham between 9 and 12 every morning in the week of September 22 - 26
• Choose up to 7 of our woolly cuddly cards at half price - what a great opportunity to have a good look at all the zillions of woolly animal cards we do, and to discover that we're more than just about sheep and dogs.
• Sit at our lovely big kitchen table and write each of the cards to someone special in your life. We will have some creative help on hand to help inspire you 
• Drink our tea or coffee, eat our cake (I must improve my baking skills, so am keenly watching the BBC's Bake Off series for some hints and tips!)
• Enjoy some time out of your normal routine to sit and relax. 
• We will post the cards for you - we will have stamps available.
• For every card you write and send, you will receive a free raffle ticket. So 7 cards sent gives you 7 chances to win the raffle (which will be some sort of stationery products from our portfolio)

We will also be highlighting how we will be supporting our charity of the year. This year we have chosen to support Nelson's Journey, a Norfolk charity supporting bereaved children. You can read about the amazing things they do here

We will be showcasing these 2 activities at the business exhibition in Diss (open to the public and to businesses), Diss on View so do pop along and find out more

It's going to be a really fun week, and we would love to see lots of people queuing at the door with pen and address book in hand.
Will you be there?

Border Collie Whisper Makes a Difference

You may have noticed a new page on our website dedicated to our border collie products. This is because, sadly, our lovely collie Whisper has been diagnosed with a tumour with no chance of recovery. 

Whisper has been just the best border collie a girl could have wished for - the kindest, the most amusing, the most loyal, the most annoying... So for that reason, we have decided to donate 20% from the sale of any of our border collie products to The Animal Health Trust. The Animal Health Trust is a charity based in Newmarket that works to fight against injuries and diseases in animals. They’ve had numerous success stories - you can read some of them here - and do amazing work. They also serve a very good tea and cake!

Whisper was loved by everyone in the Lindop house and everyone at Penny Lindop Designs, even if he did get in the way and make a general nuisance of himself on occasions! We’ve had him since he was a small and fluffy puppy.

I used to take him to dog training (not sure how successful that was!) where he seemed to spend a great deal of time cleaning out the ears of a huge German Shepherd dog! We also tried our hand at agility – we even won a couple of rosettes! Although I think Whisper mostly just did as he pleased.

Evidence of this also exists when you take a look around our garden; firstly there’s Whisper’s very own secret den underneath an old tree trunk. He dug this all by himself, it took him quite a while, but he looked very proud of the finished result. 

 

There’s also a potato plant in one of our flower beds; Whisper had a habit of stealing potatoes from the kitchen; they’d often turn up around the house or in his bed, but this one ended up sprouting!

He loved a stick or a ball and he loved the seaside

These are just some of the many memories that we have of our lovely boy, and we’ll never forget him. We shall give him the best that we can for this last part of his life.

We’re sure many of you have dogs or pets that you feel the same way about, so any support for the Animal Health Trust would be very welcome and greatly appreciated. You can buy our products here, or if you’d just like to give a donation to The Animal Health Trust, you can do this here.

It would be great if you could spread the word of what we are doing...

Thanks

Emma