Lots of my customers buy clocks as gifts: they’re great in little girls’ bedrooms

butterfly clock

in little boys’ bedrooms

rocket clock

in kitchens

personalised cupcake clock

in studies

campervan clock

in bedrooms

pink spotty heart clock

for shoe lovers

shoe clock

for horse lovers

pink horse clock

They make great Christening or new baby gifts too.  Count the spots on the ladybirds to tell the time!

ladybird clock

All clocks come with a mechanism at the back which has an integral hanging loop for hanging from the wall.  They take one AA battery (not supplied).

Clocks are all available in two sizes: 18cm and 23cm.- more information on the website: www.1stuniquegifts.co.uk (more clocks too!!)

Best of all: because we hand paint all these to order in our studio, you can specify changes to them.  Different colours, special requests?  We can usually accommodate whatever you ask for!  Just ask wendy@1stuniquegifts.co.uk - there’s absolutely no obligation.

Campervans are one of our most popular images, and up to now it’s all been about the split screen van:

split screen campervan clock

But not any more!  This is one of the latest campervan clocks to go out - a Type 25 High Top:

At some point today I just knew it was going to be a good day - sometimes, you just get that feeling, don’t you?  Today was one of those days.  I didn’t feel like that at midnight, though, when I picked my daughter up from her babysitting job at a local pub and had to pass a serious road accident - twice. (I must admit I was very thankful I hadn’t left home two minutes earlier or I could’ve been part of it myself.)  Nor at 2.30 am when I couldn’t get to sleep.  And not even at 7 am when the bleariness didn’t want to go away!

I think it felt good from when I realised I had time in the studio this morning because the craft market was a late start.  It felt even better when, on the way, I burst out laughing at the sign on a chalkboard outside another local pub.  It read: “We’ve sacked the ugly one.  Come on inside!”  I’m very tempted to drive back and get a photo of it, but I’m quite tired at the moment.  (If I do get a picture of it, I will upload it for you!)  If you’re in Croft, it’s outside the Plough on Heath Lane.  Do look out for it!!

It felt great getting there and having lots of space, in a barn setting on a lovely farm with a fab shop and cafe.  With lovely, friendly, helpful people.  Oh, and cake.

chocolate ginger cupcakes

Oh my word, cake.  The cake (and chocolate) stall was courtesy of www.thecocoaemporium.co.uk who are based in Afflecks Palace, Church Street, Manchester.  Are you in Manchester anytime soon?  Then I can certainly highly recommend their chocolate ginger cake - it is just divine.  Gorgeous cupcakes, too - including vegan ones, no less!  They even do deliveries on a Friday afternoon within Manchester city centre if you pre-order by Wednesday.  Just the thing, I would’ve thought, for a Friday afternoon treat.

There’s even recipes on the website - well worth a look!

OK, the main aim of the day was getting out and selling my own goodies - and it was definitely a good day for that too!  Clocks were popular today.  Campervans

campervan clock

which of course get the personal touch with a numberplate of your choice.

Cupcake clocks too:

cupcake clock

This is the latest campervan in the range.  I’ve combined the sketchy campervan style with a splash of colour as a commission for a customer, but it’s worked so well I think I’ll be adding it as a standard option to the range.

personalised campervan clock

This clock is a smaller one to the others I’ve got - it measures approximately 6″ in diameter (about 18cm).  Again, this size hasn’t yet been on the website as a standard option but it will be before very long - it has been very popular at the craft fairs and markets. 

The smaller size will sell at £9.99 and the larger one (approx 9″ or 23cm) is £16.00.  These clocks are totally hand-painted especially for you so these prices do represent a bit of a bargain.  Oh, and don’t forget they are personalised with the numberplate of your choice - it can be a name, a name with an age, an actual numberplate… you choose.

I’m waiting for new stock of the blank clock faces, with not many blanks currently in stock, but hopefully it shouldn’t be long before I’ve plenty of them!

To order a clock, click here: http://www.1stuniquegifts.co.uk/clocks.0.html

Alternatively, for more info, or to request something different, email me at: wendy@1stuniquegifts.co.uk

If you’re in or around the Warrington area this Sunday (31st May), do come down to Grappenhall Community Centre on Bellhouse Lane, where you’ll find a craft fair - and me.  Well, not sure I’ll be any sort of attraction, but let’s hope there’s at least a slight ripple of interest in the 1st Unique Gifts range.  I know there will be a lot of other great craft stalls there - a really good mix. 

Father’s Day is on 21st June this year, just three weeks away.  Do you know a dad who’d like one of these?

campervan clock with personalised numberplate of your choice

dads shed penpot ideal fathers day gift

Either of the above would make a fabulous Father’s Day gift with a difference. Have your gift for dad personalised with your own choice of numberplate on the campervan clock, or choose your own message to go on the back of Dad’s Shed. It certainly beats another pair of socks!  You can buy them at  www.1stuniquegifts.co.uk - get yours now.

Getting away from Father’s Day, here are a few other things I’ve been working on recently:

cute cupcake clock for the kitchen

This cupcake clock would work well in a kitchen. 

ladybird clock

The ladybirds on this clock will help you tell the time - count the spots!

See you soon - maybe on Sunday at the craft fair?  Come over and say hello!

It’s all go in the studio at the moment.  Here are a few pics of what is keeping me busy at the moment.  For a kick off (oh dear, was that supposed to be a joke…?) there are these footballs which double up as clocks.  They can be personalised with any name or message, which I hope will go down well with junior footballers.  Sitting alongside them is something for mum or big sister - a shoeshop doubling up as a pen pot.  You probably can’t see it, because it’s not so good a picture, but there’s a sale on in the shoeshop!!  Again, it can be personalised.

football clocks and a penpot shoeshop are nearly done

And then there’s these cat goodies.  A cat clock, pen pot, moneybox and hook rail.  There’s a mirror, too, but it didn’t make it into the photo.  I’ve added some appropriately catty quotes - although because they are painted to order, I could add your favourite quotes.  Or even your cat’s name… now, that would be spoiling him!

hand painted cat goodies just needing finishing off

campervan clock nearly done

I also tried out a bit of a craft fair display, and here is a peek at some of it.  The mirror looks a bit raggedy round the edges because I’ve not taken the protective plastic off it yet - I need to varnish before I do that.

trying out a craft fair table display

My first craft fair’s on Sunday 31st May at Grappenhall Community centre in Warrington, Cheshire.  Because it is the first one, I’ll be offering introductory discounts on most things.  Come along and say hello!!