A lot can happen in a year!

Today I celebrate my little boy Samson’s

(aka BIG Boy Bump, SamSam, Tsar, BamBam and naughty number 2)  

first Birthday.

The BIG 1

Woweeeee.

A lot can happen in one year. For starter’s my little boy has grown into a fully fledged coal eating, mud cramming in mouth and scattering round my house, walking, sort of talking, charming sweet little boy. He’s shocked me into the world of little boys. He throws, he chews, he bangs and he eats EVERYTHING!!! Literally everything. Cardboard, dirt,  bugs, you name it he’ll try it. And enjoy it and have it again. A delicacy! 

Such a lot of growing to make something so small turn into something so BIG and charming. He has a gorgeous sense of humour, a very cheeky personality and most certainly knows his own mind. And he’s such a BIG handsome boy! And i think looking like my Dad, his Granddad Allan everyday.

In the same way, little u-ni-k has grown. In the year that Sam has been around, u-ni-k has flourished and grown into a beautiful international company. Yes we have clients in Australia don’t you know!

Here is a little of what has happened in Sam’s first year.

Our cheeky paper friends featured in The Telegraph’s Christmas gift guide as well as our baby blankets in The Telegraphs S T Kids.

Our beautiful baby blankets featured in the beautiful Selvedge magazine.

All our beautiful gifts have featured in House Beautiful, The Sunday Post, Stylista Magazine, Simply Crochet, Angels and Urchins to name a few.

Samson himself and u-ni-k had a little preview in Baby Surrey’s Welcome to the World feature.

Our beautiful newly designed Website has grown and become something wonderful. I am very proud of its look and the coverage it and our beautiful gifts have achieved. The website is all Sarah’s handy work may I say! Sarah you make beautiful ideas come to life. Thank you for being the women “who knows” with website stuff. Without Sarah’s know how u-ni-k would not be! 

We’ve been shortlisted for a Mumpreneur award and managed to wangle ourselves a #WOW award from Jacqueline Gold herself!  Whoop Whoop!

Lily Allen’s little baby Ethel has a Shuktara baby blanket to snuggle up to at night.

And lots of lovely other babies and children get to treasure their u-ni-k gifts everyday.

We have new beautiful makers added to the website, like the beautiful patchwork blankets made from your babies old baby grows and muslins made by the lovely Susan. What Mum can throw away those tiny little baby grows!?? The perfect Keepsake for Mum and baby!

So what’s in line for u-ni-k's next year?

New suppliers in the pipeline…. beautiful new things to share with you all.

Most certainly weird and wonderful tales and musing from Sarah and I.

Plenty more Friday funnies….we always have plenty of humour !

A Theo Paphitis #SBS award perhaps?

A mention in a book?

And new babies ??

Who knows!

JOKE!!

Lily loves...

We are spring cleaning in unik HQ.
We are editing and making room for new stock. Tomorrow Sarah and I will be making final decisions and doing the part of our job we both love- ordering more lovelies.
So we are making space for new gorgeous things.

We will be ordering new wooden toys to fill the big gaps from the pieces sold over Christmas.
We are introducing a new "nursery" section on the website so we have been searching for new baby and new mummy products that are beautiful and fit the unik ethos.

We have new makers to add to the website and existing makers who have finished their exclusive products just for us. The Helen Beard porcelain Breakfast sets are being fired this week and will be in HQ next week, fingers crossed.

With the gorgeous comment by Mrs Lily Cooper (nee Allen) last week about the arrival of her new baby daughter, Ethel's, new "blankie" we have asked David of Shuktara to make lots of new lovely blankets for Spring and Summer babies to cherish and dribble over.

The website is nearly ready, we are finding space at unik HQ for all the new gorgeous products. We can't wait!

Until our new treasures are ready to see, we are spring cleaning with a little sale.  Click here to see all the lovely things that are looking to find new homes. They won't be on sale for very much longer so take advantage of our good nature's quick before the sale ends!

Happy Shopping!
Happy Spring Cleaning!