Fabulous Photo Gifts - Latest Photo Gift news, features and gossip

Say hello to 2010 - say hello to 2009's best selling Photo Gift

2010-01-05T20:52:00.004Z

Did you all have a good Christmas and New Year? We hope so.

After the last minute rush of Christmas photo gift orders were completed, we took a few days off ourselves to spend with the family before re-opening on the 28th.

As popular as our Boxed Photo Jigsaws and Glass Chopping Boards were during 2009, the big success story was our Personalised Photo Cushions. Since the introduction of our 'cushion cover only' option last year, they've been a steady best seller and we've been delighted to receive some really smashing photographs from our customers and make them into personalised cushions for you.

Later on in 2009, we were able to source a new cushion cover that had more of a canvas / cotton feel to it but still gave outstanding results when printed.

Our personalised cushions make great gift ideas all year round - as our website says - treat yourself, your sofa or a friend.

We'll be back with more news of 2009's best selling photo gifts and some of the new ideas you can look forward to during 2010.

Bye for now.

Fabulous Photo Gifts - Delivery Times Amended due to Christmas Rush

2009-12-07T22:07:00.002Z

Dear Customers of Fabulous Photo Gifts.

We've just placed a small announcement on our website to the effect that if you've recently placed an order or are doing so from now, we have had to revise our delivery times due to overwhelming numbers of orders again over the weekend.

Please add an additional 2 days to your advised delivery time.

For most photo gifts, this means a current delivery time of 7 to 9 days.
For Boxed Jigsaws, this means a current delivery time of 12 to 14 days.
For all other gifts, please add two days to the current specified delivery time on your shop basket page.

We're sorry for any inconvenience, we know how important your orders are to you and we're working literally around the clock to make sure no one is disappointed.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Mandy and Jonathan - Fabulous Photo Gifts.

Photo Gifts - Back sooner than expected...

2009-12-03T19:05:00.003Z

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.

The Responsible personalised photo gifts company

2009-12-01T23:37:00.002Z

As of 23:15 on Tuesday 1st December (GMT), Fabulous Photo Gifts has temporarily taken its online photo gift ordering system offline.

Mandy Collins - proprietor of Fabulous Photo Gifts explains:

"We had such a rush of orders over the weekend, we were quite literally snowed under, as we are currently telling visitors to our website.

We took the decision to temporarily disable our shopping cart system so that we could devote our full energies to completing the orders we'd already received.

We feel this is the most responsible course of action we can take and we look forward to welcoming customers back to our website when we re-open the online shopping basket on Friday 4th December (2009) - latest.

We'd like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding but we're confident they'll agree that it is unfair on those customers who have already ordered to be kept waiting longer than is necessary for their orders to be completed and shipped."

"We are a small 2 person company where every order - every photograph really is hand prepared, printed and packaged so we're sure you'll understand - thank you for your patience".

You can still view all the available gift selections online at Fabulous Photo Gifts - why not take the few days before they re-open their online ordering system, to go through your online photographs and pick your favourite out, ready to order with?

Are our photo gift delivery times for real?

2009-11-26T21:59:00.003Z

You might be forgiven for thinking that our stated delivery times on our range of personalised photo gifts are a little on the quick side? Can we really be serious? Can we really turn your photo into a fabulous photo gift in that time?

Each individual personalised gift idea is unique - the amount of time it may require under our heat presses or cold pressing afterwards etc. That's why each individual gift page states the usual delivery time for that particular gift item. We won't rush quality though.

If you've added an item to your basket, then you'll see a confirmation of the expected delivery time.

We say expected because we really try to pull out all the stops and deliver on time, every time, without compromising on quality or finish. Occasionally though, things do conspire against us - large influxes of seasonal orders (we're a small hands-on company) or when a printable's supplier is late getting our orders to us (but on the whole they're a pretty good bunch and we love them).

New 1000 piece photo jigsaw - collage option available in time for Christmas

2009-11-25T22:43:00.002Z

Our 1000 piece boxed photo jigsaw continues to be a firm favourite with customers looking for a unique personalised gift for someone special (or difficult to buy for) this Christmas.

So you'll all be delighted to know that we've just introduced another personalisation option based on the 1000 piece jigsaw.

You can now order our 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle and personalise it with a collage of different photographs.

It's very easy to order, just add the 1000 piece collage option to your basket and when your prompted to personalise it, add one of your pictures. Proceed to checkout and complete your order.

Then simply email us with your additional photographs (up to 10 photo's allowed in total including your original picture) and we'll create a lovely and unique collage for you before printing and pressing your jigsaw puzzle.

Click here to order a boxed photo jigsaw now from Fabulous Photo Gifts.

p.s Please include a telephone number when you email us your other collage photographs, just in case we need to contact you prior to printing.

New Lower Priced Personalised Photo Dinner Tray Collage option

2009-11-21T08:50:00.003Z

Busy weekend?

Don't forget whilst your thinking about Christmas presents that we've just reduced the price on our Personalised Photo Dinner Tray's collage option from £32.99 to just £29.99.

It's not a gimmick or a short term price reduction - just a genuine saving as the technology to produce stunning collages from your received photo's has improved greatly since we first started offering them.

Click here to order your personalised photo tray with a photo collage now.

*Our personalised dinner trays are printed and assembled in our own workshops - to order a collage tray, simply add to your basket, personalise with your main photograph and checkout. Then email us your remaining photographs (up to 9 additional photo's in total allowed) quoting your order reference which you'll receive by return email after placing your order.

Personalised photo cushion - new soft linen feel

2009-11-20T19:55:00.003Z

Personalised Photo Cushions - New soft linen feel

Sorry to interrupt you all in the middle of Children in Need (is it possible they'll raise even more money than last year?) but we've just made a very important update to our personalised photo cushions.

We've been able to secure a new, softer linen feel cushion cover that replaces our previous 'silky feel' cushion cover option.

We thought it was a hard act to follow, but when we got our hands on the first linen cover and did some test prints (here in our own workshops), we were impressed.

Can it get any better? Oh yes it can (enough of that it's not Panto season yet!) - prices are the same - for both the cushion cover only and the cushion with luxury over-stuffed filling.

When any old cushion won't do, head over to Fabulous Photo Gifts' personalised photo cushion page - normal delivery in just 5 days and hand printed in our own workshops.

Oh yes they are - (now don't start that again!)....

NEW - Personalised Name Sterling Silver Bracelets

2009-11-16T20:47:00.003Z

I know we don't normally introduce new personalised gifts onto our website this close to Christmas but when we saw these, we knew you'd want them sooner rather than later.

We've just introduced a range of Solid Sterling Silver Name Bracelets - 12 different designs featuring a range of Solid Sterling Silver Letter Blocks - you can also choose 2 additional Solid Sterling Silver Symbol Blocks - entwined with a delightful range of beautiful Grade A Fresh Water Pearls and Swarovski Crystals.

There are 5 different symbols to choose from - Cross, Dove, Flower, Heart and Star.

49 Strand Professional Beading wire is used to construct our Bracelets which are also double crimped for strength and safety. Sterling Silver crimp covers providing a seamless finish before the bracelet is mounted in a professional Jewellery Box.

Suitable for ages 3 to 12 years, they make a fabulous gift that will be treasured forever - Christmas, Birthday or how about a special Christening or Communion present?

And because it's Fabulous Photo Gifts, we've made it incredibly easy to order and personalise your Name Bracelet online - simply choose your preferred bracelet style, personalise with name (up to 8 characters), 2 symbol blocks (of your choice) and tell us the recipients wrist size either by age or in cms (we are very good at judging size by age but if you prefer to measure, don't forget to add an extra inch for movement!

To see what's got us so excited, click here to visit our new personalised Sterling Silver Name Bracelets now.

Even our local Denby Bottles Church has a website

2009-11-11T21:48:00.003Z

One of the great things about living in a small community like ours in Denby, nestling as it does in between Ripley, Belper and Kilburn, (Derbyshire), is that word very quickly spreads around about what you do.

Anyone whose read our blog or visited our website - Fabulous Photo Gifts .co.uk - will tell you we are a small, friendly personalised photo gift business. Our technical partner also does the odd bit of web design (purely on request) for other local people and it was for this that our local church - Denby Bottles Church - sought us out.

They run so many different activities for the community - mum and toddler one morning, after school drop-in another, that they were always being asked for times for this and times for that etc. So much so that it was decided a website was the only way to keep everyone informed.

So it happened and now their website is live and serving the community.

We're very pleased to be able to help them and of course we'd love for you to visit their new website - click here - and take a look yourselves.

School signs up for our Fund Raising scheme

2009-11-09T21:53:00.003Z

Just a quick update on our 'fabulous' fund raising scheme for schools, clubs, groups, charities etc, Mandy went to see a local school last week and they were really impressed with the work and thought that had gone into our Funds for Life scheme.

So much so that they're using our leaflet design (designed especially for the schools ready to hand out to parents) this week in the first parent newsletter.

And whilst we're on the subject of Schools....

Fabulous Photo Gifts will be putting on a display of just some of the marvellous Christmas gift ideas they personalise, including the full range of engraved crystals, at Heanor Gate Science College Christmas Fair on Wednesday 18th November so if you're in the area, why not pop in and say hello to Jonathan. He'll be somewhere in the main hall.

November's Photo Gift Newsletter...

2009-11-02T03:00:00.000Z

In case you're not on our mailing list, here's a link to our November edition of our popular Photo Gift newsletter.

This month, we showcase our new fundraising scheme for schools, clubs, teams, groups and charities as well as informing readers of further gift ideas added to our engraved gifts for her and engraved gifts for him / novelty gifts, just in time for Christmas.

We finish with a profile on our ever-popular boxed photo jigsaw range which come in sizes from 9 pieces to 1000 pieces.

They're just like you'd buy in the shops - a two part box with the completed picture (your photograph) printed on the lid.

We've already seen demand jump as people start getting in early for Christmas. Last year, we were so over-whelmed with orders that we had to bring our last order dates forward, so please order early to make sure you don't miss out.

Our newsletter finished by re-iterating our guaranteed courier service which will continue to run through the postal strike and may even run up to Christmas - we'll see how it goes.

So thank you for your continued readership - we look forward to updating you all around the end of November with our next newsletter.

The Fabulous Photo Gifts Team.

Say Hi to our new Teddy in a T-Shirt...

2009-11-01T12:51:00.004Z

One of the perks of this job is when you discover a photo gift idea that's even better than the one you're currently offering customers and so it was when we found this little chap:

He's our new Teddy Bear in a personalised t-shirt. At 25cm tall, he has the softest fur and a really cute face. We fell in love with him the minute we opened him and we're very pleased to be able to offer him at the same price as the original bear, he replaces.

The Teddy's t-shirts which have your own photograph printed on are also a better quality - a tighter cotton weave - making your photographs print exceptionally well.

If you'd like to order your very own Teddy Bear in a personalised t-shirt, then visit our website now.

It's incredibly easy to order - just select the gift of your choice, personalise by uploading your own photograph directly from your own PC when instructed and checkout (or if you prefer, print off our postal order form and send in your photograph and payment).

This Bear is also available on our Postal Strike disruption busting guaranteed courier delivery service.

Fund Raising made easy with Fabulous Photo Gifts

2009-10-31T12:30:00.004Z

When we sat down and thought long and hard about starting a fundraising scheme that schools, clubs, groups and charities would really use and benefit from, we came up with a shortlist of key features:

1) The scheme had got to be incredibly easy to administer for the schools, groups etc.
2) The rewards had got to be worthwhile a school, group etc taking part.
3) There should be no time limits or restrictions on use.

The result - Funds for Life! A ground-breaking fund raising scheme that any school, group or charity etc can take part in, raising much needed funds for their individual 'good causes' without any complications or form filling. You can earn 20% commission on all qualifying gift orders (certain gifts are excluded from the scheme), for each and every order.

That's £1 for every £5 you spend!

Here's how Funds for Life works:

Your school, group or charity etc contacts Fabulous Photo Gifts for your FREE info pack and 'membership' number.

We send you a few sheets of information about the scheme, what gifts are included etc and a poster/flyer for you to fill in with your own 'scheme member number'.

That's it! You're up and running.

Now all you have to do is remind parents, members etc to use the code whenever they need a gift for someone on our website.

They simply type in your member code once they've finished personalising their items before proceeding to checkout.

We get the order and send you the commission earned on that order to your specified bank account.

There's no time limits or limits on the amount of orders we'll accept - it really is funds for life. All you've got to do is keep reminding your parents or members with your regular newsletters and communiques.

If you've got a website or blog, we can supply a FREE banner (to your size specs) for you to encourage even more people to use your code. Just contact us if you need a banner making.

Funds for LIfe - earn 20% commission on every qualifying order your members or families (and their friends and families - spread the word) place with Fabulous Photo Gifts.

Why are we being so generous?
Well we've got 5 children ourselves between us and we've served on numerous fund raising committee's and PTA's etc so we know hard it can be to raise funds in a way that doesn't involve any work and will work all year round.

Click here to find out more about our brilliant fund raising scheme.

How you arrange your Blog sidebar says a lot about you - SEO Tip

2009-10-28T19:26:00.003Z

How you arrange the side bar of your Blog reveals a lot about serious you are about connecting with people and making sharing your blog with others.

And no more so than if your blog has a commercial flavour where the life-blood of the exercise is to reach as wide an audience (and potential customers) as possible.

Here are a few tips to help you spread the word.

Place your rss subscribe link and email subscribe links at the very top of your side bar. If they're buried beneath other side panel 'widgets', the chances of them getting seen are pretty slim. It makes sense to make them as visible as possible.

My 'model' for a commercial blogs side panel is this:

RSS / Email and Twitter subscribe links first.
- i like to add a little please comment logo here also -
Your latest offer
Your twitter feed - last 5 comments is plenty
Blog archive
About you.
….anything else.

Even if you're using a standard blogger template, there are still things you can do to make it look a little more unique and business like.

Customise the header with an image - your company logo for example.
Customise the fonts, colours of headings and links etc.
For those comfortable with html and css, consider going into your Blogger template and making it wider than it is at present or add a custom background.

Now that your blog is ready for customers, the next thing you need to do is get both your content 'out there' and let potential customers know your blog exists.

Use social media sites like Digg and Stumbleupon to share your content. To attract readers, publicise your latest posts on Twitter or weave them into your genuine comments on other blogs and forums.

You've got em' - now how to keep em'?

Gaining a new following is all well and good but how exactly are you going to keep them coming back for more?

You've made it easy for them to keep up to date whenever you post something new - via RSS or email alerts - even Twitter is automatically tweeting new posts.

In a word - Content.

Gimmicks are short lived - it's content that will keep people coming back for more. So it may take you a while to discover exactly what sort of content and what style of writing most appeals to your readers.

Vary the styles a bit until you find a format that works for you, but also feels comfortable to write. If you enjoy it, then you're more likely to make a success of it.

A general rule of thumb is shorter posts with links to 'read more', which Blogger now supports, rather than long posts but it really depends on your audience. If they're looking for a really in-depth analysis, then a longer piece might convey that it is more in depth.

Cheers and good luck! - Jonathan.

Jonathan is technical partner for Fabulous Photo Gifts - online personalised photo gifts and presents. When he's not busy updating the website, he likes to blog useful seo tips for other small businesses.

Personalised Baby Photo Albums - 1st pictures

2009-10-26T21:35:00.002Z

Well Blogger seems to be over its technical issues, so here are a couple of pictures of our lovely new personalised engraved baby photo albums:

Each baby photo album can be engraved with up to 50 characters, on a special metal plague mounted on the bottom-front of the cover.

To see our entire range of personalised engraved baby gifts and moneyboxes, please visit our website.

Personalised Baby Photo Albums - New

2009-10-18T15:24:00.003Z

Firstly, thank you for your orders for our new range of engraved personalised gifts, which we recently started adding to our range.

In fact, it's been so encouraging that we've extended all ranges - gifts for baby & child, gifts for her and gifts for him & novelty gifts.

Under Gifts for Baby & Child - Moneyboxes etc, you'll find 4 new gift ideas:

Silver Plated Egg Cup & Spoon: Silver plated egg cup and spoon with teddy design, which can be personalised (engraved) with any name or message of up to 15 letters.

Silver Plated Yoyo: Silver plated yoyo measures 5.5cm x 5.5cm x 3cm and is a great gift for a little bridesmaid, flower girl, pageboy or any childrens special, which can be engraved with any message of up to 60 letters.

Baby Boy Fabric Photo Album (6x4"): Baby boy fabric photo album holds 100 6 x 4 inch photos, which can be engraved with any message of up to 50 letters on a metal plaque on the front fabric cover.

Baby Girl Fabric Photo Album (6x4"): Baby Girl fabric photo album holds 100 6 x 4 inch photos, which can be engraved with any message of up to 50 letters on a metal plaque on the front fabric cover.

We'll be back later in the week to tell you more about our new His n' Her engraved gift selections.

Guaranteed courier delivery available from Monday 19th October

2009-10-17T07:43:00.004Z

Like any business that relies on the Royal Mail to deliver orders to its customers, we've been very concerned by the recent proposed strike action by Royal Mail workers and how that would affect your personalised gift deliveries.

Fabulous Photo Gifts is not here to take either side in this dispute. We would politely ask, on behalf of our customers that all sides return to the negotiating table and 'get it sorted'.

In the meantime, we've been forced to explore alternative delivery methods and we're very pleased to announce that, from Monday 19th October, we'll be able to offer a guaranteed courier delivery service option on most of our personalised gift range.

When you add a photo gift to your basket and you've personalised it, you'll see those gifts available by courier delivery offer that choice.

Because our photo gift range is so extensive, we're unfortunately unable to offer it on all our gift ideas, hence the option appearing 'per item'.

When you're ordering more than one gift and one or more have the courier delivery option, you only need to specify it for the first item in your basket.

Otherwise you'll find you're adding the extra courier charge multiple times.

Please note: Our guaranteed courier delivery service is not a guaranteed next-day delivery service. The guaranteed delivery will show you the date by which we'll deliver your item/s (available on guaranteed delivery).

Fabulous Photo Gifts is not the 'fast-food' of photo gifts. On each order, your photograph is hand adjusted for balance and tone, before being printed and hand pressed etc. Much of our gift range involves heat pressing at very high temperatures - sometimes for 20 minutes or more so it takes a while for them to call down during final pressing.

Your order is then hand packed, taking care to offer each item the maximum protection on it's journey to you.

Fabulous Photo Gifts is all about choice so if you're happy to pay our standard delivery charge and have your order despatched via Royal Mail, then there is still that option available.

Standard delivery is still £2.49. Selecting our guaranteed courier delivery service option will add £5 to your order but (where available), it will ensure you receive your order within a guaranteed time frame, avoiding the possibility of it loitering at the back of some sorting office whilst the Royal Mail work through accumulated back-log of deliveries.

photo credit: winton

Two new engraved money boxes to choose from

2009-10-11T11:06:00.006Z

If you're looking for the perfect Christening gift or baby's first Christmas present - well it doesn't have to be for a baby - we'd like to tell you about two new money boxes we've just added to the sterling silver engraved money box collection at Fabulous Photo Gifts.

We can now offer you a Digger shaped money box which has room for a 60 character engraved message on the roof of the drivers cab.

We've also introduced a special silver plated train money box. Again, the train can be engraved with your own message of up to 60 characters. What makes this train perfect for a baby gift is the wagon which has a special compartment for baby's first lock of hair and first tooth.

You'll find loads more engraved gift ideas for children, ladies and men on our website and it couldn't be easier to order. Simply choose your preferred engraved gift, personalise it by entering your text - a counter will tell you how many letter you've got left. When you're happy with the message, press confirm and either shop for more gift items or checkout and pay online.

Your engraved gifts will be personalised and dispatched normally within 10 days.

Mary's Wedding

2009-10-10T16:45:00.004Z

Meet Mary - a typical photo gift customer.

The following is based on a true customer order.

Mary is getting married next month. Everything's booked, the invitations are coming back in nicely and the honeymoon flight tickets arrived in the post this morning. Everyone is getting very excited.

That includes her two little nephews who are going to be pageboys. They've promised to be on their best behaviour but Mary's worried that when it comes to the speeches, they'll soon get fed up of 'sitting quietly'.

Luckily, her chief bridesmaid suggested Fabulous Photo Gifts and getting both boys a personalised wooden jigsaw puzzle which they can unwrap before the speeches and build whilst the speeches are taking place.

Luke loves motorbikes and there's a great picture of him sitting on Uncle Steve's motorbike - that'll make a brilliant jigsaw picture. Mark's more into his pets so his Mum secretly took a picture of his hamsters in their cage - won't he be surprised?

Mary got her nephews photographs and went online to Fabulous Photo Gifts, chose our 30 piece medium wooden jigsaws and personalised them with the two photographs.

We received Mary's order and had the order printed and pressed and in the post that week.

Mary was delighted with her jigsaws - so much so that she wrote us a short email thanking us and telling us who the jigsaws were intended for and her idea for the wedding.

Fabulous Photo Gifts - not just for Christmas and Birthdays.

photo credit: neate photos

Personalised Gifts for under £10 - part 2

2009-09-22T09:18:00.000Z

More great gift ideas - personalised gift ideas and all less than £10.

Hand printed, hand optimised for the best print possible and if you need it in a hurry, give us a call, we may be able to help.

Personalised Photo Mousemat - £6.75
Hard-wearing (well I've been using mine now for over 3 years) fabric mousemat with your photograph or logo printed in full colour.

Personalised Ceramic Mug - £8.49
Quality ceramic mug with your picture or text printed on both sides - wrap around style - at no extra cost. I'd say that was pretty good value. Our colour changing 'WOW' mugs are only a few pound more.

More? Well we have plenty more personalised gift ideas for under a tenner to show you later this week.

Personalised Gifts for under £10 - smashing ideas

2009-09-20T09:15:00.000Z

When we say there's a personalised gift idea for everyone at Fabulous Photo Gifts - we mean it.

Kids, Mums & Dads, Grandparents, Couples, Wedding Parties - Best Man & Bridesmaids, Best Friends and even babies.

And we've got personalised gifts for every budget too. This week, we'll be introducing you to just a few gift ideas all of them under a tenner (that's under £10)...

9 Piece Boxed Jigsaw - £6.99
Our classic boxed jigsaws - personalised with your photographs and just like you'd buy in the shops - with your picture printed on the lid and everything for under £10? We're not joking.

15 piece Wooden Express Jigsaw - £7.99
Our durable wooden jigsaws with your photo on them. Solid chunky pieces with a high gloss finish. Need a photo gift in a hurry? Give us a call - we may be able to help.

More great photo gift ideas for under £10 later.

Helping the writer of the 83rd best politics blog in the UK

2009-09-18T17:21:00.005Z

Look who just got a mention by the writer of the blog, which has been voted the 83rd best politics blog in the UK, according to the Total Politics Top 100 blogs survey.... and who is attending a big award ceremony in Bournemouth this Sunday...

Taken from Stuart Sharpe - Sharpe's Opinion

"Lastly, thanks to some very last minute arrangements with Jonathan at Fabulous Photo Gifts I may even be able to wear a tee shirt featuring my much-loved strawberry logo. Everyone else will be recognising each other by their Twitter avatars, now (hopefully) you’ll be able to recognise me by mine."

Thank you Stuart for that glowing endorsement - you shall go to the ball - your t-shirt is under the press as we speak. Good luck at the awards on Sunday.

If you need a photo gift in a hurry, why not drop us a line. We may be able to help - we'll certainly always try to be as helpful as possible.

Photo Gifts Newsletter - did you miss yours?

2009-09-17T10:13:00.000Z

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

The Photo Gift Company that really delivers - a case of Summer Lovin'

2009-09-14T10:05:00.000Z

Summer Lovin'...

How did you spend your Summer Holidays? However you spent them, we hope you had a great time and feel all refreshed and ready for Autumn.

We were as busy as ever turning your photographs into fabulous photo gifts - everything from jigsaw puzzles to our new engraved moneyboxes.

And from our mailbag, it's obvious you've loved giving them and receiving them as much as we've loved seeing your fabulous photo's.

Here's a small selection of your more recent comments:

Hi - Just to say our jigsaws arrived yesterday - very speedy service! - and we're absolutely delighted with them. The quality of the jigsaws is very good and I know our little granddaughters will love them. Many thanks!
Jill

Thank you very much thats a great help and you've made my day!!! its a 70th birthday present for my grandmother x
N.D.

Mandy thank you for the puzzle it turned out brilliantly and even better i'll get to give it to him on his birthday on sunday.
thanks again.
Adam

Hi Mandy. Just to confirm that I am delighted with the product
Steve.

Dear Mandy. I just wanted to let you know that the jigsaws arrived at the end of last week - in plenty of time - and that they are perfect. Thank you so much for your help with this. Best wishes
Kevin

Mandy they are fantastic, thank you so much for you fast service.
Ro.

The mugs are great! 'Fabulous quality', you have made my day.
S.

Received and fab, fab, fab is the verdict!
R.

So with Christmas just around the corner - we feel justified mentioning Christmas as our local Post Office recently set out their annual Christmas card rack - what are you and your holiday photographs waiting for?

Visit Fabulous Photo Gifts today - hand printed, hand optimised, hand packed personalised photo gifts. Oh, and in case you were wondering who this 'Mandy' is that everyone keeps referring to - she's an award winning digital photo artist and proprietor of Fabulous Photo Gifts.

photo credit: le vent