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father’s day – making it a success!

Father’s day – I am sorry to say to all those dads out there – is not up there on the list of priorities with mother’s day. Retail sales will tell you this the world over. This still doesn’t solve the dilemma of what to buy our dads. My Dad is the most impossible man [...]
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a few of my favourite things

I love turquoise and I love colour and it would be very unlikely you would find me in a chain store. I like to support the little guy and I also don’t like to be seen in the same outfit as the person next to me. My dad once had a party where three of [...]
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wrap it for charity

We wrap so many presents in our store – it is part of the service we like to offer. We also have a wall of 30 different wrapping papers and a ribbon table of 1,ooo ribbons. We had a thought, well it was Caroline’s thought (our store manager) and a wonderful thought at that. We [...]
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susie’s babyshower

Susie is one of our graphic designers. She has been sitting by my side for three years. She is one of the five people in the last three years that I have spent most of my time with. We started in the first Papier d’Amour store in the tiniest office you have ever seen. We [...]
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