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Categories / Toys and Games

Retro Games Compendium at The General Toy Store

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With the advent of the summer holidays imminent, this Retro Games Compendium from The General Toy Store is perfect for rediscovering the joys of traditional childhood games.

The set comes in a wooden box with a sliding lid and includes all the old favourites: Jacks, Marbles, Dominoes, Yo-Yo, Pick-up Sticks, Bouncing Balls and a Pack of Playing Cards. A perfect holiday purchase, it could prove invaluable should the weather take a turn for the worse and it might just show the kids that there's more to life than YouTube and the PSP.

The set is currently on sale, down from £13.99 to £7.99 here.

 

Categories / Homeware

Thumbprint Notecards

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Take individuality to the next level with these thumbprint notecards.

They're fun and quirky and so much better than receiving an email. Get creative with these note cards and use the opportunity to reminisce about arts and crafts during your school days. The pack includes; 20 note cards, 20 envelopes, ink pad, stickers and instructions.

Get your Blue Peter fix from the Tate modern, online or in the shop, for £9.50.

Categories / Design and Interiors

Creepy Tree retro-style greetings cards and wrapping paper

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We've been meaning to feature Creepy Tree for some time, mainly because we love their retro-style greetings cards and wrapping paper.

Most use cartoon-like images, which remind us a lot of the vintage travel posters of the 60s, the Royston Cooper ones in particular. Cards are available for virtually every occasion, with wrapping paper in colourful repeat designs.

All are made and printed in an eco-friendly way and all are available online from the Brighton-based company. Cards are around £2 plus postage, with gift wrap around the same price per sheet.

Find out more at the Creepy Tree website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Neon Eighties Cards

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Stormy Knight Cards has produced a set of greetings cards that hark back to positive exclamations that were particularly popular in the 1980s (although undoubtedly some people do still say these things even now).

The Neon Eighties Cards feature speech bubbles with either “Brill”, “Cool”, “Ace”, “Fab”, “Mega” or “Yeah” in them. To add to the 80s feel, they are rendered in garish neon colours. The cards cost £2.50 each. There is also a matching gift wrap set containing three sheets of wrapping paper and three gift tags, priced £6.95. If the designer happens to read this, I’d be quite interested in a Sixties version with with “hip”, “groovy”, “far out” etc.

The cards can be bought from Stormy Knight Cards via Not on the High Street.

Categories / Design and Interiors

Mid-century furniture cards by Hellohellodesign

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If you can't afford the real thing, perhaps these mid-century furniture cards by Hellohellodesign will offer some consolation. 

Hellohellodesign is the work of Brooklyn based illustrator Katie Evans. Each cards is decorated with colourful furniture in covetable shapes that's sure to cheer up fans of the era. If you are a real fan of the design, you'll be pleased to know that it's also available on a mug. 

A pack of five cards costs $12. 

Buy them from her Etsy shop

via Bright Bazaar

Categories / Design and Interiors

Bonbon by Ingela Arrhenius at Lagom

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Earlier this week we showed you Sean Sims, whose alphabet artwork is now available as cards. Here's another designer to brighten up your greeting card selection: Ingela Arrhenius has worked on a range for Lagom called Bonbon. 

Like her individual pieces of artwork, these designs are packed full of retro charm. There are 16 designs to pick from, which range from elephants and flamingos to the cocktail hour shown above which has a distinct '50s flavour. 

The cards cost £1.92 each. 

See the range online