What a clever customer

We thought this was such a good idea for a birthday present (thought up by one of our clever customers) that we'd share it with you. Have a look at our gorgeous and vibrantly coloured leather journals (£35). Although you can't yet order spine engraving online, do give us a call and we can help you decide what you want for just £3/character. Any engraving on the front of your journal is a bargain at only £2 per character.

Gema's Visit to our Bindery

A couple of weeks ago we sent our photographer Gema to our bindery to get some shots of what goes into the making and engraving of our Noble Macmillan books and albums. We thought you might be interested to see what goes on...

So here's our chief book binder Ryan..

and these are some of the gold edging tools used to make the gold lines on our Original range of books and albums. And this is Darren, hard at work engraving.

Rolls and rolls and rolls of leather...

Lots of letters lined up for engraving These letters are used for hand engraving on the spines of our albums.

Drawers full of letters in lots of different fonts and sizes.

Goodbye Tim

Today is a sad day at Noble Macmillam as we say goodbye to Tim after 15 years. Tim you will be missed by all, masses of luck and come back and see us between holidays.

Beautiful Swimming Shorts

I think the amount of sun we've had in the last week has had a direct effect on the holiday calendar in the NM office; it's filling up fast. And if you're booking your summer holiday and like to be the most stylish man on the beach the lastest Eley Kishimoto/Orlebar Brown collaboration, the Best of British Flashprint swim short, is a definite must-have. Available on ASOS in limited numbers, don't miss it!

New Member of the Team

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to our MD Tom and his wife Nicola on the birth of their beautiful baby boy last Thursday...name still TBC. We can't wait to meet him!

Leaving on a jet plane

My best friend is moving to Hong Kong for 2 years. I'm a little bit distraught. It's not that I'm not extremely excited about her new job and the prospect of a visit, it's just that I'm selfishly wondering how I'm going to manage without her. Who is going to be on hand with top fashion advice for weeknight shopping trips to Westfield and what about our mini-breaks to lovely hot places? So I came up with a genius plan. To ensure that she does come back one day, I gave her one of our new pocket journals engraved with a promise to come back to London (which I consider legally binding). Fingers crossed Easyjet is about to open up a London-Hong Kong flight.

Mother's Day ideas

I've got my finger's crossed that my mother wont read this in the next 2 weeks, I'm not sure that she's so doting that she reads this so I'm going to risk it... So I've been trawling my favourite sites and blogs for ideas of what to give for my mother's day present and there are just so many ideas to choose from. I think I've made up my mind though, and I found it on the Country Living Website, http://www.allaboutyou.com/. They have a great list of 50 ideas of thoughtful things to make for your mum and I'm going to go for the feast of flavour herb box so that she can think of me every time she's cooking something yummy!

And I can't talk about mother's day without mentioning our brand new and best selling double photo frame keyring which only came in a week ago and is flying out of the shop in 9 fun colours. It looks so sweet when engraved with 'Mummy xx' and is guaranteed to melt her heart.

Double Photo Frame Keyring, £39 Available in Fuchsia, Sapphire, Poppy, Tangerine, Lemon, Cyclamen, Mocha, Tuscan, Pansy