Happy 4th Birthday to us

Double Loyalty Points this weekend - get your coupon code below

April 1st might be full of jokes, but it's a special day for us at Chocolate Baroque as today is our birthday!!

Chocolate Baroque started trading in April 2011, a phoenix arising from the ashes of our previous business, but with a brand new vision and determination to succeed.  And we have passed one major milestone - did you know that most new businesses will fail within their first three years?  Well we've reached our fourth birthday, and that's a good thing to celebrate.

I'm also celebrating Sue Page, our lovely, wonderful, talented artist who draws pretty much all of the designs for Chocolate Baroque stamps.  She's such a humble and self-deprecating artist who draws everything by hand in painstaking detail.  Sue doesn't do any of her designing on a computer, but lately I have been using mine to create collage stamps from her drawings which you can see in our range of individual cling mounted stamps. 

Over those four years, we have been privileged to work with some super people on our Design Team, many of whom are still with us today.  Special thanks go to Design Team Leader, Judith, who works tirelessly behind the scenes, looking after, not just  the Design Team blog, but also our Challenge Blog which she was instrumental in setting up last year. 

Our business plan can be summed up in three words - integrity, quality, service.  And the quality is provided by the eagle eyed Val who both manufactures and quality controls every single stamp that leaves the building - and if they are not up to scratch, they leave the building in the trash!  Her eye for detail is what ensures the stamps you receive are in perfect working order (and if ever they are not, then we will replace them without quibble).

And while I'm in award ceremony mode, I have to give a very big shout out to the person who's been by our side from day one, doing anything and everything that it took to get this ship afloat and sailing.  Lesley has been my right hand woman for the last four years (despite having a complex fracture which actually left her without the use of her own right arm for two of those years!) and I'm more grateful to her than she will ever know.  Lesley has been managing the day to day running of the business on her own for nine months now and I think you will all agree she's doing a cracking job.

But of course it doesn't matter how brilliant we are, YOU are the ones who have made this business a success.  You buy our products, you tell us straight if you like them, you encourage our design team with your thoughtful comments, you produce beautiful artwork with our stamps and you share our news on social media.  So we thank YOU for being part of our business too.

And to say thank you properly, I have a little birthday/Easter coupon for you.  From now until the end of April 6th (Easter Monday) you will get double loyalty points on anything you buy when you enter the code EB15 into the coupon box. Loyalty points expire after 12 months, so if you have some, don't forget to spend them!  If you need more information on how our loyalty point scheme works, click here. 

You need to spend £5 or more for the coupon to work and you can only enter one coupon code per order.  You also need to be a registered customer to earn loyalty points - if you check out as a guest, then we have no account to assign points to, so why not click here and register your details before you shop.

I am also having a little trip down memory lane and putting some of our older stamps on special offer so have a look in the Current Offers department and see what's there.

Let me finish by wishing you all an eggcellently eggstravagent Easter weekend and here's to the next four years!