Mother's Day - March 14th 2010 - Save on our personalised photo cushion

No sooner is Valentine's Day gone than we turn our thoughts towards Mother's Day (this year it's March 14th).

And we've got another great offer for you - save £3 off the cost of our personalised photo cushion with luxury over-stuffed filling.

Normally sold at £22.99 - you can now get our best-selling personalised cushion for just £19.99.

If you're forwarding the gift onto someone by post, then you may be interested to know we also offer a cushion cover only option at £14.99.

Click here to visit our personalised photo cushion page now, add your preferred cushion option to your basket, upload your digital photograph file to personalise your cushion with and complete the online checkout to order. It's really simple.

Alternatively, there's still time to send us your printed photographs in the post (along with our postal order form and a cheque) - take advantage of our FREE scanning service for your chosen gift. We return all photographs by recorded delivery.

Photo Gifts - Back sooner than expected...

Your favourite personalised photo gifts company is back and happy to receive your orders after temporarily suspending taking new orders earlier this week, to give them a chance to catch up with the multitude of orders received over the last weekend.

As Mandy, the proprietor of Fabulous Photo Gifts pointed out "we're being responsible by giving our full attention to those customers that have already placed orders with us".

"However, we're caught up and ready to welcome everyone back. Our apologies if we caused any inconvenience".

Get in early and place your personalised photo gift order today - click here to visit Fabulous Photo Gifts.

Photo Gifts Newsletter - did you miss yours?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with keeping customers past and present up to date with new photo gift and personalised gift ideas that you may have introduced since they last bought from you.

So our last newsletter sent earlier this week (thank you to everyone that responded so positively), carried news of all the new personalised gift ideas we've been adding during the summer holidays.

And what busy bees we've been. It's only when you see them all listed out that you think "Wow! Did we really get all that done?"

So if you missed your or you've not yet sampled our legendary personalised gift service, then click here to read our latest newsletter to customers.

If you'd like to be added to future newsletters, please drop us a line or leave a comment and we'll add you to the next newsletter with pleasure.

Cheers!

photo credit: lollaping

Metal business cards proving so popular - they're getting their own website

When we blogged a couple of weeks ago, little did we know then that our newest personalised gift idea was about to take on a 'life form' of its own.

Unknown to us was the fact that our good friend and loyal customer - Alan at Compass Distribution - had been handing his first order out left, right and center - so much so that his second order are lining up on the presses now.

And that's prompted such interest that we've taken the decision to start work on a brand new website just for the metal business cards.

Don't worry - until it's finished, you'll be able to order business cards direct from Fabulous Photo Gifts (and probably afterwards as well). We just felt that because the metal cards were so specific, they really deserved their own site.

So watch this space and who knows, if you follow our RSS Feed, you may just be the first ones to see our new site in action.

Until then, and long afterwards, Fabulous Photo Gifts will still be there for all your personalised gift and photo gift needs.

Photo Gift company - as busy as bees ahead of Mother's Day

Photo Gift company - as busy as bees ahead of Mother's Day

Fabulous Photo Gifts have certainly been busy little bees lately, haven't they?

Firstly, their re-developed online personalised gift basket went live just this week. Photographic uploads to accompany your gift orders are now faster and you can see an actual status bar of the photo uploading before a confirmation message appears.

But that's not all. You see they've been busy working behind the scenes on a whole new and exciting range of personalised gift ideas - everything from comforter blankets and teddy bears to etched crystals will start being made available online with new name, message or special date etc personalisation options, in time for visitors to their website to order something for a Mother's Day gift with a difference.

Mandy said " We're very excited about expanding the range of personalised gifts we currently offer our customers. There's been a lot of late nights reviewing new gift ideas, discussions with suppliers and of course the web design work involved to allow our site visitors to personalise gifts with options other than just a photograph".

"We'd already added a new range of cushions, personalised bags including handbags and garden seats - personalised deckchairs and stools, but that was only the start!".

To embrace this new forthcoming range of personalised gift ideas, you may have noticed a small change to the company name and logo strap at the top of each page. Technical Partner and web designer Jonathan explains "After our last style change some 6 months ago, we agreed that the new look, although cleaner, was taking up a little too much screen space. It was also proving difficult to get the new logo in proportion when designing our new boxes for the boxed jigsaws. We decided with the basket programming changes and the new gifts coming online that we could achieve a re-design, keeping the familiar elements of the two jigsaw pieces, but in a vastly reduced space. At the same time, we introduced the idea that Fabulous Photo Gifts was more than just photo gifts - it was personalised gifts too."

Over the coming days and weeks, visitors will be able to choose from both their long standing line up of photo gifts, personalised with a photo to newer gift ideas that can be personalised online with names, messages, special dates and even postcodes. Each personalised gift idea when added to the basket asks you to 'personalise' it - this page then gives you the personalisation fields particular to that gift. Some gifts have more than one personalisation field.

Keen eyed visitors will also notice a new line up of Fabulous Photo Gifts oldest photo gift - the boxed jigsaws.

Previously manufactured in partnership with a European manufacturer - all photo preparation was and will still be carried out by Fabulous Photo Gifts - their new range is manufactured in England which will bring usual delivery times down from 16 days to 7 to 10 days.

Mandy continues "We were always acutely aware of the shipping times involved with having the boxed jigsaws manufactured in Europe and with euro against the pound rates climbing it became extremely difficult to continue to offer the boxed jigsaws at what we believed were realistic and affordable prices.

We are therefore extremely pleased to announce our new English made jigsaw range. We continue to do all the photograph preparation though, prior to actual printing and pressing". This new line up brings with it some new size options and reductions in price - notably the best selling 1000 piece boxed jigsaw has been reduced by £5 to just £34.99 (+delivery)."

There are 10 size options to choose from in the new boxed range. However, the review has seen one or two jigsaw puzzles dropped from the previous line up. Notably the 2000 piece and the panoramic (letterbox style) jigsaws. Mandy says "although we were pleased to be able to offer them, because of their size, weight and price they were not very popular, however we continue to develop our relationship with our new manufacturer and who knows? Maybe we will introduce more size options in the future".

It's obvious talking with Mandy and Jonathan that quality and attention to detail is still their highest priority, all the more evident when you see the lengths they've gone to in securing and adding new personalised items to their range.

I've had a sneak peek at just some of those new items being made available very soon and that commitment to quality is evident. I'm looking forward to ordering a Victorian Map Jigsaw of our home postcode myself.

It looks like a fabulous time ahead for customers of Fabulous Photo Gifts.

Mandy and Jonathan were talking to Karyn Milner of All Things Local.

Personalised Gifts for Men

Us men - we're a difficult bunch to buy for at the best of times aren't we? Well now Fabulous Photo Gifts has made it incredibly easy (you know how we struggle) for us to give loved ones a very good idea for a present, whether that's for a birthday or Christmas, when the time comes and your asked the dreaded question "what do you want?"

Nip over to the Fabulous Photo Gifts website and take a look at our wide range of personalised gift ideas. There's everything from personalised mugs, mousemats and t-shirts to personalised clocks, coasters and jigsaw puzzles.

Wouldn't a quality, useful gift, personalised with a picture of your kids, your hobby or even your other half make a really great gift idea?

Of course it will still be a complete surprise since you won't know what gift you're getting or what photo will be personalised onto the gift itself.

So the next time you're asked "what would you like for Christmas, I need some ideas?", whisper Fabulous Photo Gifts in their ears.

P.S Oh and when it comes around to her birthday or Christmas present, be quite the 'modern man' by surprising her with her very own personalised photo gift, without even having to ask her what she wants. (wink-wink).

Latest Customer Feedback for Fabulous Photo Gifts

We don't like to sing our own praises too much here at Fabulous Photo Gifts, however, when we keep receiving such glowing testimonials, we feel justified in sharing them with you.

However, far from resting on our laurels, we're just as keen to impress you with our quality of service and product. Take a moment to read just some of the many emails we regularly receive - quite unprompted.

We're sure you'll be as impressed as we are delighted.

"The jigsaw has arrived. What brilliant and friendly service.

We will be placing more orders. The people I have already told, but sworn to secrecy re the present will all be looking at your site. Once my wife has got the present, with your permission I would like to send the details to all my friends for the next time they want something special.

Once again thanks for everything"
R.

"I just wanted to say thank you very much for the fantastic jigsaw and service that you provided. The jigsaw was lovely, the recipient thought it was great. I have shown several people the jigsaw and given them your website address as I was really impressed and wanted to pass your details on."
C J.

Thank you for your kind endorsements of our service.

To read more testimonials - visit the Fabulous Photo Gifts testimonial page - click here.