Greetings Cards Discounts * More the Merrier

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We’re a Founding Co on Holly & Co

Holly & Co is abuzz with many businesses and their innovative, colourful, fresh and quirky things to delight the eye. Have you also seen The Home of Small Businesses a whole house full of the Holly & Cos products, curated and art directed, with room tours, discussions and inspiration springing from there. A whole hub of nourishing content that can only grow and grow! Im currently hooked on Holly Tucker’s podcasts too Conversations of Inspiration- so much food for thought, especially as we all navigate similar life/family/work challenges.

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Brilliance of Pop-Up shops. Test yourself in retail!

..it started with Christmas cards, some t-shirts for presents - and then a market stall a few weeks before Christmas. And then we popped-up a mini shop in the delicious Harp Lane Deli, Ludlow, Shropshire - our home town for 8 years. And then the penny dropped! By assembling our wares in a lovely space, gave us the chance to see how we looked as a retail proposition and we liked it! We got to make things we like and get to meet people who like what we do. The perfect antidote to years of working in media, computers, commuters, in offices, long hours, all nighters. Now at least our all nighters are physical, active work - not hunch backed screen burners - not getting any...

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Cleaning up Ice cream - spellcheck!

Oh goodness we’ve had a week - so happy was I to broadcast our latest print, the ice cream map of Devon and Cornwall - to then get the messages from eagle eyed followers, letting us know (and I'm very grateful for those gentle messages) we had not one, but two spelling mistakes on the map, we were sent crashing into horror and embarrassment for our oversight and wasted efforts! But then ..we took a deep breath, and set about trying to make amends. First out telling everyone who’d already bought a print, offered their money back or a slight delay, that we were going to reprint the whole edition after some serious double, triple spellchecking!! What began as a...

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Plat du Jour - limited edition food prints

Since Onglet - we’ve seen prawns, platters, anchovies, quick reference condiment cards and most recently our most complex print, flower ladies at a Ukrainian picnic, made especially for Stand Tall Art Auction - they are selling out of their editions so the walls are looking a bit bare foodwise, in the shop - so it is about time to step up the pace and feed our customers some fresh platefuls!

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