Santa Clauses coming to town – and to our Etsy shop

Jane and I have spent many happy hours over the years scouring through the bottom of “Everything 20p” boxes at car boot fairs, snapping up grimy job-lot tins at auctions, scooping lost little objects off the pavement – all for our own delight.

Sorting through our ever-expanding archives never stops

But this year Jane had the inspired idea of sharing some of our “kipple”, typography and ephemera collections with other enthusiasts through our Instagram account – and her daily “tiny treasures” posts have seen our number of followers climb steadily – to our excitement – towards 4,000 now. Maybe it will reach 5,000 by Christmas…

… (cough, cough) speaking of which – due to the suggestions from many followers of our Instagram feed that we should produce a book or cards based on our collections – we’ve decided to create a set of six cards for this Christmas featuring some of the tiny Yuletide treasures from our ever-growing archive.

Our set of six new cards for Christmas 2015 – Happy Holidays!

There are Xmas pins, corny cracker jokes, Christmassy deer, classic cake decorations, plastic holly and a jolly assortment of Santas. We’ve had a lot of fun putting them together, and now we are now very happy to say that you can get your hands on them through our Etsy shop.

Cracker jokes – it’s the way you tell them

Just like the ones we used to know … memories make Christmas

He knows if you’ve been bad or good or been to Debenhams…

There are only 10 more weekends till Christmas (I know) – so have a look at them now – we don’t think you’ll find cuter cards anywhere else.

It can’t be a Happy Holiday without at least 300 cover versions of Last Christmas

Too early to think festively? Not if, like me, you’re the kind of person who’s on the look-out from January to December for weird and obscure Christmas music for your special seasonal playlist… but that’s another post…

David