Father’s Day. Is it just us, or are Dads the hard­est people to buy for?

Well, if you’re strug­gling to think of a gift, how about Coulson Macleod’s ‘I Am The Daddy’?

Coulson Macleod’s ‘I Am The Daddy’ is from the ‘Gift Col­lec­tion’. A solid square of salvaged reclaimed wood, hand-painted white, and then over-printed with dis­tressed typography.

‘I Am The Daddy’ is packed in a nat­ural jute hes­sian mater­ial and presen­ted in a Coulson Macleod–branded gift box made from recycled cardboard.

The per­fect gift for your Dad this Father’s Day.

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Very excit­ing news for you today. Why? Because Coulson Macleod is run­ning a giveaway on the Cre­ateGirl blog. Have you seen it yet?

Julieann (or @CreateGirl on Twit­ter as we know, and per­haps you may know her too) runs a Boston-based interior design ser­vice called Jace Interi­ors.

And she is well known in the design/interior world and has guest blogged on Holly Becker’s decor8 & Cas­sandra Lavalle’s  coco+kelley blog.

Once a week Cre­ateGirl runs ‘Home Typo­graphy Tues­day’ and Julieann asked us if we’d like to put one of our typo­graphic art prints into a giveaway. So we did!

Julieann writes on her blog, “Today I am so excited to announce a very spe­cial giveaway with my friends at Coulson Macleod! How could I not do flips over a com­pany that com­bines home décor, typo­graphic art, and eco friendly mater­i­als? The company’s focus is more on the design aspects of the piece and using reclaimed mater­i­als, which means for us gor­geous wall décor with all its nat­ural knots and imperfections.

At Coulson Macleod you have the option to pur­chase one of their ready made pieces or you can cre­ate one of your very own by select­ing your frame and send­ing in your text. Can any­one say end­less options?! I love when a com­pany encour­ages creativity!

Of course my mind is swirl­ing with quotes and ideas! My hope is to cre­ate a very spe­cial piece for our own wed­ding day!

As you know I just become an engaged girl, but did you hear so did Han­nah and Mark the über cre­at­ive duo behind Coulson Macleod, so it is appro­pri­ate that we chose this “Soul­mates Forever” piece as our giveaway today!”

So if you fancy win­ning one of our ‘Soul­mates Forever’ prints pop on over to Cre­ateGirl. The Giveaway ends Sat­urday, May 14^th 2011 at 11:59pm.

Our ‘Soul­mates Forever’ piece is a solid square of reclaimed wood, hand-painted white, and then over-printed with dis­tressed typo­graphy. The art­work is packed in a nat­ural jute hes­sian mater­ial and presen­ted in a Coulson Macleod-branded gift box made from recycled cardboard.

The per­fect gift.

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Intro­du­cing our latest cre­ations and six per­fect little gifts. Guess what we’ve called this collection?

The Gift Col­lec­tion. Obviously!

A solid square of gor­geous reclaimed wood. Hand-painted white. Then over-printed with dis­tressed typo­graphy. The art­work is packed in a nat­ural jute hes­sian mater­ial and presen­ted in a Coulson Macleod–branded gift box made from recycled cardboard.

The art­work dimen­sions are 21cm x 21cm x 2cm and the Gift Box meas­ures 26cm x 26cm x 3.5cm.

The reclaimed wood is cut and sanded by hand before being painted. We retain any defects in the salvaged tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece. And they are full of char­ac­ter. These can include knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks, so each art­work is totally unique.

Now you never need worry about what to buy someone.

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We want to give you £150. Yes. That’s right. A whole whop­ping £150 to spend on Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art from our website.

We can hear you all shout­ing “Ooh me please!”

So this is how you can enter our fun little com­pet­i­tion in the run-up to Christmas.

First of all you need to be a Coulson Macleod customer.

Then simply take a photo of your typo­graphic print hanging in your home. Aren’t we nosy?

We’ll post your pho­tos on our Face­book page, on this blog, and then when we have enough we’ll put all your pho­tos on a ded­ic­ated page on our web­site.

To get you star­ted here are some pho­tos of Penny McCormick’s apart­ment in Dubai. Penny is the editor of Emir­ates Home and her apart­ment also appeared in the 2010 issue of ‘Hot 100 Homes’ magazine (also based in the United Arab Emirates).

Now we don’t expect you to have a magazine worthy pad like Penny’s. We just want to see what our typo­graphic art looks like hanging in your home.

We’ll announce the win­ner on 10^th Decem­ber. Just in time for you to pick some­thing out for Christ­mas. Ding dong mer­rily on high!

Hope this gets you into the fest­ive spirit.

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Launched today, the Coulson Macleod Gift Pack.

We’ve designed it so it doesn’t look like a last minute pur­chase. Or a ‘I haven’t got a clue what to buy. Oh a voucher will do’.

A Coulson Macleod Gift Pack is more than just a gift voucher. What you’re in fact buy­ing is a little work of art. A Coulson Macleod hand­made work of art. Simple, dis­tressed, typo­graphic… just smal­ler than usual.

We send our Gift Packs in a simple, brown, but utterly gor­geous Coulson Macleod-branded gift box. Made from recycled paper. Of course.

And inside is a unique Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art­work.

• Unique as it’s hand­made from reclaimed Vic­torian roof timbers.
• Unique as it’s white-washed by hand.
• Unique as it’s prin­ted by hand.

Of course, each of these stages brings its own slight variations.

• Each piece of wood has its own knots and cracks.
• Each paint stroke car­ries a dif­fer­ent amount of paint.
• Each hand-inked print is laid on to a dif­fer­ent sur­face tex­ture and a dif­fer­ent amount of pres­sure applied.

Res­ult­ing in a one-off piece of art. Which is what makes own­ing a Coulson Macleod so special.

Then of course we add your Gift Voucher. You can add your own per­sonal message.

Then your spe­cial someone can use their Gift Voucher as pay­ment, or part-payment, for any of the art­work on our website.

Well, that’s your Christ­mas presents sor­ted then!

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Coulson Macleod now offers a per­son­al­iz­a­tion service.

Coulson Macleod bespoke art. Per­fect wed­ding gift.

The bespoke piece has to based on these best-selling prints from our Love Collection:

Simply pick a sim­ilar num­ber of words and sen­tences that you want to incor­por­ate, and we do the rest, res­ult­ing in a one-off piece of bespoke art­work that’s totally per­sonal to you.

An ideal gift for someone get­ting mar­ried or a wed­ding anniversary.

Our bespoke prints cost £249.

The fol­low­ing ‘Spe­cial Offers’ at Coulson Macleod end at mid­night on Sunday, 10^th January:-

SPECIAL OFFER 1: Stock Clearance

Buy any print cur­rently in stock (see list below) and get all three prints from our Dec­ades Col­lec­tion FREE.

• 3 x What Is Love?
• 2 x Do You Love Me
• 2 x Defin­i­tion Of Love
• 2 x Defin­i­tion Of Romance
• 2 x I Love You Now. I Love You Always.
• 2 x Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner
• 1 x Love Makes The Ride Worthwhile
• 1 x I’ll Never Let Go
• 1 x Rule Brit­an­nia 14″ x 20″

SPECIAL OFFER 2: Buy one, get two free

Buy any print from our Dec­ades Col­lec­tion and get the other two prints FREE.

SPECIAL OFFER 3: Buy one, get one free

Buy any lim­ited edi­tion print made-to-order (i.e. not in stock) and get a FREE print of your choice from our Dec­ades Collection.