Category: Misc

After the rush of Christmas is out the way we gear up for a busy couple of months in Valentines Day, Mothers Day, St Patrick’s Day and of course Easter. We do badges for all occasions.

Easter is getting more popular but our favourite event to make badges for has to be St Patrick’s Day. It’s a really fun celebration and people upload some great custom badges to wear & we also sell a fair few designs too. So be sure to check them out.

Here are a few badges that have been made over the past few weeks. ... Continue Reading

We have been making Valentines badges for most of?Ǭ�February?Ǭ�and thought we’d show you some that have been sent out. We have a really great selection in our online store. Most of them are?Ǭ�appropriate?Ǭ�for any special occasion, when you want to tell someone that you love them. So if you are looking for slushy romantic badges then we may have what you’re looking for.

On Sunday 27th January Me (Vicki) & John from koolbadges headed down to Staffordshire to attend mini fair. Organised by the British mini club this is a massive get together of old & new minis, retailers, auto jumble and concourse cars. John has loved minis since he was 9 and my first car was a mini. John has restored/dismantled 4 classic minis and now runs a modern Mini Cooper, but this is the first event we have attended (with the exception of charity runs & meets).

The mini fair was great, so many cool cars including the tunnel clubman, found in the tunnels below long bridge and classed as the last mini to roll out of the historic plant. There where some great restoration projects and some nuts & bolts rebuilds that looked better than they ever did rolling of the production line. Also this years theme was the clubman, johns favourite style of mini and the first one he owned. ... Continue Reading

It’s always chaos starting a new year as an online retailer. The rush during the build up to Christmas is instantly followed by a dip in activity on the site. This is generally the time of year we, like so many other retailers, run a massive sale to help everyone out. We know money is tight after Christmas and we have to thank you all for the epic response to our 50p badge sale. We had so many orders placed during the sale and we have only just caught up with processing all of your orders. ... Continue Reading

For most small handmade business’s Christmas is such a busy time of year – at koolbadges all our badges are made by hand so we take time over each order and work long into the nights fuelled by mince pies and tea. 2012 has been a really fab year for us here and we have had some of the nicest customers & we wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to all our new customers & also to our returning customers. We appreciate each and every one of you.

We hope to make badges for you all agin in 2013. Hope you all have a had a Merry Christmas & we wish you all the best for 2013 ... Continue Reading

Lots of Halloween badge orders kept us busy in October & we are quickly heading towards Christmas. It’s crazy how fast it’s approaching. We are never organised for it here. I think it’s because we are so busy working in the months & weeks leading up to Xmas Day that it seems to catch us unawares every year.

So we have done a lot of Coffee drinking these past few weeks & trying to get out and enjoy the lovely Autumn weather. We love the changing of the?Ǭ�seasons. The beautiful Autumn colours. It’s always nice to get out and walk during this time of year. Hope you’re all enjoying this Autumn weather. Its our fave time of year for sure ... Continue Reading

We are going to try really hard this year to buy as many Handmade Christmas presents as possible. We hope you do the same. Koolbadges is a handmade business – me & my lovely hubby make all the badges by hand & we love it. Its fun & we have so many great customers. We love seeing your repeat business and we love that you support our handmade business — Thankyou xxxx

Our button badge packs make great inexpensive Xmas gifts and we have been updating the site with lots of new badge sets. We are sure there is something for everyone. ... Continue Reading

So many lovely people are getting married and they are entrusting us to make their Wedding, Stag and Hen badges. We love doing this and we enjoy making them so much. We have added quite a few new Wedding Badges to the site over the past month. So there are plenty of new designs to browse through.

Here are a few Wedding Badges that have been sent out this month.

We have had such a buy few weeks here. We have moved house and are finally getting?Ǭ�settled?Ǭ� So we have seen lots of flat pack furniture and trips to the tip these past few weeks. Its been hard work moving and keeping the badges open for business. We didn’t want to close the shop as Halloween is so popular and we get lots of you buying our Halloween badges.

We managed to do it somehow and we are finally all?Ǭ�settled?Ǭ�and the house and business are back to normall. Just in time for our Halloween rush and many of you are already buying Chrstmas badges. You are very organised!!

Here is some of what we have been up to lately.