Wordless Wednesday- The beauties have arrived!

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Finding a perfect Home 2

A lovely new home for our beautiful Shuktara blanket.

This blanket has a very very new owner.
This beauty has the very new baby Elsie to snuggle up with every day and night. When she is freshly out of the bath the cotton layers keep her warm.

Sitting beside the vintage curtains, the mobile her mummy made her and the Vintage Care Bear, I am sure this blanket will be well loved and well used. Elsie already is rarely seen without it!

Ssshhhh......the very lucky lady, Elsie P also got a single bed size blanket as a  special treat from her Aunty A. A blanket big enough to sleep with when she is a teenager, take to her first flat and remind her of home and then put over her knees when she is a old lady as she drinks her tea and does the crossword just like her Daddy. But thats another story altogether ...

To read a little about what makes these blankets so special please click here.

Take a peek at www.unikgifts.co.uk to see more blankets.

Monday Mentor- THANK YOU Shuktara

Thirteen years ago yesterday - 1st July 1999 - The Shuktara charity began with Anna and Sunil. 

David with Bapi and Rekha at Howrah Station in 2000. 

Today, the charity has helped house and educate many children with various disabilities and let these children smile again. David Earp and his caring team have made a difference to many children's lives and today I would like to say thank you to them for giving these children a reason to smile. Not every child is as lucky as our own.

Thank you!

Every child is important.

Every child deserves to smile.

Photo by Paula Harrowing

If you would like to know a little more about David's work with his charity, Shuktara , click here.

To say thank you with a donation click here for Shuktara's Just Giving page.
A few pounds go a long way!
To see the beautiful blankets that David makes for us click here. 10% of the proceeds goes to the Shuktara charity.

Flowery Boys

Having come from a family of all girls (the middle one of three ) when I found out I was expecting a little boy at my 20 week scan I was over joyed but a little bewildered.

What do boys wear? What do they play with? What this, what that?
Yes i know the answers are simple but for me it has been very much a learning curve.

Miss naughty is very much a mini me. Since she was tiny I have adorned her with my love of flowers by dressing her in pretty flowery leggings, flowery blankets, flowery dresses and surrounding her with flowers in the garden.

One of the stupid things I worried about whilst pregnant with BIG boy bump was how can I put my little boy to sleep under a Shuktara blanket...they are floral!!! Can boys do flowers? I just didn't know. To me a Shuktara blanket is a baby basic. A blankie for comfort, a easy washable bed piece, a pretty accessory, a picnic blanket and a breathable blanket in Summer and Winter. Perfection.

I loved Ida's flowers and just couldn't work out what I was going to do with my coming boy.

I had an image of the little boy inside me already, a gentle BIG bear.

He is pretty much just that except  with white blond rather then the dark hair I had in my mind.
I decided the only thing to do was to wait for the boy himself to arrive and then see the face and then contemplate what to do.

And I can happily say that smiley  handsome BIG bear Samson is perfect with certain florals. See what I mean.

So.....the moral to my tail is... 

flowers can be boy and girl...

you just need to find the right flower!

Here is another handsome boy that looks good sleeping under his flowery blanket. Sam's little friend James.

To see the blankets available click here.
If you are looking for a larger blanket for a older child, contact sales@unikgifts.co.uk