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Head's up! Mother's Day is fast approaching, 10th March to be exact. And to steal Mum's thunder, make sure you don’t forget about Grandma, Mum-in-Law and any mothers-to-be. Mother’s Day is the annual occasion to celebrate all the wonderful women in our lives.We understand that working out which Mother's day gifts are worth buying and which aren't is often a job and a half.What if there was someone to give you all the tools you need to make this Mother's day her best experience yet?That’s where we come in. Allow us to showcase our personalised wooden Mother’s day gifts, handmade in the United Kingdom from the highest grade European oak; made with mothers in mind. From our range of handcrafted oak products, here are some of the most delightful personalised wooden Mother’s day gifts you'll find anywhere. Mum’s G&T Board When a relaxing gin and tonic is on the cards, what better than your own G&T board to cut the lemon? Made from solid European oak, its generous depth (42mm) allows for engraving on the front and back edges. You can also get a personal message engraved on the base. This is one of our most popular personalised Mother’s Day gifts. It’s unusual, superbly handmade and a practical option to get gin lovers of all stripes excited. Make Mum’s day with this spectacular board. View online   Cake Stands and Boards Your intended may pride themselves on their baking, so why not give their creations the pride of place that they deserve. Alternatively they may simply enjoy the finer things in life, so why not treat them to one of our cake stands or boards. Our most recent collection is crafted to the same high standards that our clients have come to expect, and with the correct care should be a gift that lasts for many years to come. Also don't forget you can personalise your gift with an engraving of your choice to make it as unique as your recipient! View online Mum’s Keys Let us engrave your personal message onto a beautiful oak key ring. Hand-selected for its graining, the wood will be sanded four times; the final time by hand. A coat of Osmo TopOil will ensure the perfect finish, whilst a ring will be firmly attached with a piece of rustic twine. Our key rings are a safe bet for mothers everywhere. You might create one for her house keys, her summer house key, or a key to her special storage chest. Whatever the purpose, these Mother's day gifts will last for years.   View online       Personalised Candle Holders (various sizes) These pretty candle holders can be made in many sizes; from two candles upwards. Suitable for use anywhere in the home, they’ll safely create that calming, candlelit atmosphere we all love to relax in. Choosing just the right piece of oak for your gift, we’ll create it to your specification, carefully engraving it with your personal message. The front and back edges can be utilised, in addition to the base. Just tell us what you’d like. View online   Personalised Bath Caddy What a fabulous caddy! Be warned - she’ll never want to get out the bath. Delivering sheer indulgence, our oak bath caddy is far more than a shelf to sit over the bubbles. We can add a wine glass slot, a clever recess to safely hold her tablet, and hollows to hold low candles. You just need to supply the bubbles and wine! Your caddy will be created from the highest-grade European oak (we use nothing less) and finished to absolute perfection. We want both you and your mum to be thrilled. And true to style, you’re free to personalise the engraving as you wish. Choose your words for the front edge and a personalised message for the base if you wish. Mothers of all kinds will be delighted to get such a thoughtful and practical gift that can take pride of place in her bathroom and add a whole new element to her home. View online   Did you know? Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday dates all the way back to ancient Greek times. Since the early 20th Century, we’ve followed the Americans in how we celebrate the day. But the date remains firmly in the Christian calendar – the fourth Sunday of Lent. And three weeks before Easter Sunday. Before you go... Not found your ideal gifts for Mum yet? You’ll find many more ideas on our website. From personalised chopping boards to welly stands. Toast racks to tablet stands. And if you’ve got a bespoke idea, we just love creating one-offs. Read about the man who’ll create your Mother's day gifts Upon receiving your order, our turnaround time is a mere five to seven days. Your gift will be handmade to order in our Worcestershire workshop, and then dispatched via a tracked next-day delivery service. You’ll find authentic workmanship and friendly service at The Engraved Oak Company. Simply decide on your personalised Mother’s Day gifts and we'll see to the rest. Your mum will be glad you did! View our online shop

IMPORTANT REMINDER... Don't forget Father's Day on Sunday 16h June! Stuck for an alternative to the usual run of the mill gifts? We’d love to help you solve your Father’s Day gift challenge. The Engraved Oak Company offer great gift ideas for that special someone. All our products are hand crafted to order and are made to the highest quality. Gifts can also be personalised with a special message, see our product pages for details. You can easily order online. And as we’re real people, living and working in Worcestershire, you can phone us too. We’ll happily chat through your ideas ahead of your order. Everything is bespoke-made to order, so please allow up to seven days for us to make and deliver your gifts (10 days for larger items). Need it faster? Just pick up the phone and we’ll do everything we can to help you.Browse our shop Here are a few suggestions for that special man you call dad, and don't forget the latest you can place your Father's Day order with us is midnight on Monday 10th June. Personalised Father’s Day gifts to guarantee smiles #1: Bespoke signDoes your dad have a man cave? Daft question, of course he does! Be it a study, garage or even allotment shed, they all do. Acknowledge his territory this Father's Day. Create whatever message you want on a bespoke sign that will suit either internal or external applications.  View our wide choice of signage #2: Large personalised carving boardDoes Dad always carve? I think it goes back to the hunter gatherer thing. Central to the family meal, Dad loves to provide the meat. So, why not treat him to his very own wooden carving board?Hard wearing and a beautiful centrepiece, we can engrave it with your personal message; front edge and base. It really will belong to Dad. And he’ll be proud to use it: week after week; year after year.We also offer an extra-large carving board if you prefer. Or can tailor-make something to suit you.“Much better than I expected and such a great gift. Thanks so much.”View our large personalised carving board   #3: Dad’s welly boot jackIs he a keen gardener? Or a dog walker? Then, wellies will be regular footwear. Welcome him back inside, muddy boots removed, using his personalised wooden boot jack. We’ll engrave whatever message you’d like on it. And it’s oiled with Osmo UV-Protection, making it suitable for outdoor use.Heavy weight and sturdy, it can sit in your porch, by the back door, or even next to Dad’s shed. They’re useful personalised Father’s Day gifts – you’ll want one yourself!“Very pleased. It was present for Dad. And it works perfectly.”View our welly boot jack   #4: Personalised Father’s Day keyringsThere’ll be somewhere he likes to lock up regularly. His special shed, the garage, the greenhouse. Even the house if you like! We offer two sizes of our personalised Father’s Day keyrings.Handmade from European oak, they can be 10cm or 15cm long. That ensures he never loses his keys and leaves enough space to engrave your personal message. We can even engrave both sides if you like.“Fantastic! Dad will always find his keys now. And not confuse them with mine.”View our personalised Father’s Day keyringsDid you know…Father’s Day is celebrated in well over 100 countries across the globe. Whilst Catholic Europe has been celebrating it on 19th March since the Middle Ages, the UK, and many more countries, follow America’s lead: the third Sunday in June. Other regions choose dates throughout the year. We found this Father’s Day Wikipedia article very interesting. You might too?  

As with most things, we believe Valentine’s Day should be done properly - and you'll probably need to buy more than just a card. That’s why we’ve devised a brief list of some of the best premium oak gifts that are designed to make this Valentine’s Day extra special, to help you shop for something they'll love. Make this year stand out! Wooden Valentines gifts for her that are guaranteed to please: The following three featured gifts are mostly aimed at the important women in our lives – unless your husband, boyfriend or partner has exceptionally good taste, at which point a premium bath tray is sure to win the day! To help you celebrate: Nobody’s going to complain if this becomes a Valentine’s Day staple. Our excellent gin and tonic chopping board will ensure that you celebrate in style! Handcrafted from premium quality European oak (all of our wood is sustainably sourced), with a range of engravement options, this board is designed to bring joy for scores of Valentine’s Days to come. Nothing says I love you like a personalised wooden bath tray: By far the most luxurious product on this list, our bath tray is an excellent gift to let that special someone relax. Created from quality European oak, with an ingenious wine glass holder, spaces for candles and a tablet-stand all included, we’ve thought of just about everything they’ll need to wind down properly. Although be warned – you may lose your partner for hours at a time. Quality tea light holders to complete the experience: In a similar vein, why not add even more candles? Our personalised candle and tea light holders are available in a range of sizes and are an easy way to create the perfect romantic atmosphere with some unique personal touches. Not to foreshadow anything, but these charming items could find use as wedding decorations one day... For the man who has everything: Most blokes are notoriously difficult to shop for, so with that in mind, here’s a list of high quality gifts worthy of practically any man-cave. Beautifully practical boot jacks: Going for an obligatory romantic walk this Valentine’s Day? Why not add a personal touch to the annual ritual with our charming boot jack? Balancing functionality and style, our boot jacks are a great product for our more practical and outdoorsy partners. Tech stands for tech addicts: Married to his phone? At least he’ll have somewhere nice to put it. Our phone and tablet stands are a timeless addition to even the most modern home. As with all our products, our stands are available with an impressive range of engravement options, so why not leave a personal message in case you need to remind him what’s really important. The way to a carnivore’s heart: Finally, here's an item for the favourite chefs in our lives. Our personalised carving board is a strong candidate to become his new pride and joy. Made with precision from a single piece of excellent European oak, and finished with two generous coats of Osmo TopOil, he’ll still be talking about this unique gift several Valentine’s Days down the line. We hope this has given you some new ideas to ensure that this Valentine’s Day is a special one, but if you’re still on the hunt for some premium romantic gifts, please do have a look at the full list of our personalised products found in the shop page on our website. As always, if you have any bespoke gifts that you want us to wow that special someone with (at any point in the year), please do let us know - sometimes we like to get stuck in with a challenge!

Even with shorter days and unpredictable weather, it’s still important to wrap up warm and enjoy the great outdoors this Winter. That’s why we’ve selected some of our favourite personalised wooden products that should help you and your loved ones do just that for several Winters to come. You might have found yourself and your family some comfy wellies that can power through whatever elements your Winter walk throws at them, but have you got anywhere to put them when you get back? Our personalised wooden welly racks and stands are designed to help you with just that conundrum. Available in multiple sizes, with a wide range of engravement options, these convenient and ergonomic outdoor essentials will add some beauty to what is probably one of the most mundane parts of your home. Get ready to transform your porch, utility, or hallway into somewhere your family will truly treasure. It’s time to say goodbye to muddy floors and missing wellies. In a similar vein, our personalised wooden coat racks are designed to be just as functional for you and your family. With options catering for anything from two to twelve coats, your outdoor arsenal is safe with our racks. To bring a touch of joy before you step out into the elements, all of our racks come with a wide variety of engravement options, allowing you to personalise this quality product as much as you see fit. Go wild! If you’re wondering where to put your hat, scarf, and gloves, then worry no more! We also create incredibly functional coat racks with shelves to solve even your most specific outdoor Winter woes.  We even have specially designed personalised wooden coat racks for kids. These might just help you convince them of the joys of the great outdoors (good luck with that!). Looking for a way to relax after battling with the Winter elements all day? How about a nice hot bath? That’s where our personalised wooden bath tray comes in. Featuring a nifty tablet stand, nook for your wine glass, and four tea light holders, and coming in three standard sizes to fit perfectly with your bath, we’ve thought about just about everything you’ll need to help you unwind after soldiering through the wind and rain all day. It goes without saying that as with all of our products, our bath tray is crafted in our Worcestershire workshop from high quality, sustainable European oak, which should put your mind even more at rest. As always, if you’re after another unique wooden item to brighten up your Winter days, please do have a look at our website, where you’ll find our full range of expertly crafted personalised wooden products.

Didn’t get what you wanted this Christmas? Let’s change that! Whilst you might have ordinarily brushed off any sub-par Christmas presents, after the year we’ve all had, such a disappointment could truly turn into the straw that breaks the camel’s back. So, with that in mind, we’ve decided to run a site-wide sale from Boxing Day until New Year’s Eve, to help you treat yourself to the Christmas presents you deserve. Simply use the code ‘BOX2020’ to get 10% off your order. In our humble opinion, some of the best post-Christmas presents you can treat yourself to are our personalised wooden boards. Beautiful additions to your kitchen that will bring you functionality and beauty for years to come, we’re confident that our boards can make up for almost any questionable Christmas gift that came your way this year. A classic favourite, our personalised wooden chopping boards come in three sizes, with a wide array of engravement options, allowing you to truly make this unique gift your own. Crafted from a single piece of premium, FSC and PEFC certified European oak, under the roof of our Worcestershire workshop, it’s hard not to be chuffed with quality craftsmanship like this. Alternatively, if you’re wondering what to do with the turkey, our personalised wooden carving boards are another excellent choice. You can have a personalised message engraved on the front edge and bottom face of this board, making it likely that this premium product will be the party piece of your kitchen well into the future. Finally, if you fancy adding a touch of class to the post-Christmas period, our personalised wooden cheese boards are definitely worth a look. You can’t have guests over to impress this year, but sometimes showing off to yourself is just as important. Like all of our products, this special gift is crafted from high quality European oak and finished with a generous coating of Osmo TopOil for added longevity. Maybe we’re biased, but we think you ought to treat yourself. If none of the personalised wooden products we’ve featured here quite take your fancy, then please do head over to our shop page to view our full range of items – all of which will be discounted from Boxing Day until New Year’s Eve.

The world might be full of uncertainty this Christmas, but behind the doors of our Worcestershire workshop, we’re hard at work creating the same personalised wooden gifts that produce reliable smiles year after year. So, without further ado, here are some of our favourite creations for you to spoil your family, friends and maybe even yourself with over this peculiar Christmas. Charming Cheese Boards A quality Christmas staple, one of our bespoke wooden cheese boards is guaranteed to bring a touch of class to your Christmas celebrations. Crafted from the highest quality, sustainable European oak before being finished with a couple of coats of Osmo TopOil, our personalised wooden cheese boards are purpose-built to impress for scores of Christmases to come. Made to order in our workshop, our cheese boards are available in two sizes. Additionally, all of our cheese boards can be engraved on the top face and around the circumference, giving you the freedom to truly make this ideal Christmas gift your own. Our Welly Racks Are Second to None Stepping into your wellies and heading out for a Winter walk is a timeless part of the Christmas routine, and with the help of our personalised wooden welly racks, you can create the perfect space to store the entire family’s muddy boots. Tailored to your preferences, our racks can cater for anything from two to eight pairs of boots and can be engraved with a personalised message of your choice on the front face. Naturally, we’ve paid special attention to even the smallest of details, which is why each of the posts on our racks are set at a slight angle, allowing every boot to sit neatly in place. Characterful Coat Racks For similar reasons, we’re also giving special attention to our personalised wooden coat racks this Christmas. Flexible as always, our coat racks can cater for two all the way to twelve coats – that should be more than enough to cover your household bubble! Crafted out of one or two cuttings of FSC and PEFC certified premium European oak, our personalised wooden coats racks can bring a bundle of functionality and character to your home this Christmas. They also make perfect personalised Christmas gifts. So, even if Christmas is a little bit different this year, we hope that this short list have given you a handful of gift ideas, some of which you may even want to keep for yourself! As always, to view our full range of personalised wooden products, please take a look at the store page on our website.

Fed up with Black Friday? So are we! Instead of quietly keeping our frustration to ourselves, we’re doing things a little differently this year. We’re changing Black Friday for the better! Our tools? Personalised wooden gifts, of course. As therapeutic as your typical Black Friday buying binge may seem, when was the last time you picked up a questionably good bargain that you’ve continued to treasure for scores of subsequence Black Fridays? There’s no shame in getting caught up in the moment and splashing out on something you wouldn’t have otherwise bought, but there must be a better way. To distinguish ourselves from the riff raff of Black Friday deals, we’ve stretched out our offer over an entire week, letting you ponder your potential impulsive purchases at your own pace. In our bid to beat Black Friday, we’ve focused on our most popular gift range over the festive period – our kitchen boards that include chopping, carving and cheese boards. From 23rd to 30th November we are offering a 10% discount on this wide range of boards. With an array of engravement options on the front or back faces, these eye-catching original gifts have the potential to take pride of place either in your kitchen or on your festive dining table. Crafted with care in our Worcestershire workshop, exclusively from sustainable, FSC and PEFC certified European oak, before being generously finished with two coats of Osmo TopOil, you might may want to pocket the saving or perhaps upgrade to a normally more expensive larger board. What’s more, we’re also offering free delivery on all orders over £100, allowing you to save money even on things that you did plan to have turning up on your doorstep. This might just be the best Black Friday deal you’ve stumbled upon yet.

Shopping sustainably is more important than ever. We understand that for your own peace of mind when you're considering purchasing our personalised eco-friendly gifts, you’ll be eager to know whether we’re as particular about the environmental impact of our products as we are about their quality. Why Wood? For starters, we already have the advantage of working exclusively with wood. On top of being a material that’s full of its own unique character and unrivalled in its quality, the European oak that we use to create all of our gifts is 100% renewable. Wood is one of very few materials on the planet that can lay claim to such sustainable reassurances. We’re very particular about the resources that make up our eco-friendly gifts. By exclusively using European oak, we significantly reduce the number of miles under the belt of our materials before they reach our workshop. None of our oak is tediously shipped across an ocean or driven between continents by road. This goes a long way towards curbing our overall carbon footprint. Whilst harvesting wood does have an unavoidable short-term environmental impact, we’ve worked hard to ensure that every piece of oak that enters our workshop is sustainably sourced from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers. This essentially means that where trees are cut down to supply our workshop, reforestation quickly follows, helping to reset the ecological balance. Our materials tick all the right boxes even before we get our hands on them. After our gifts are brought to life in our workshop, we generously coat them with Osmo TopOil. This is a UV stable, food safe and environmentally friendly oil that helps to dramatically extend their longevity. If cared for correctly, our eco-friendly gifts are designed to last a lifetime. Handcrafted Under One Roof We craft everything under the roof of our Worcestershire workshop, That way we enjoy total control over even the smallest steps and tiniest details of the manufacturing process. This is what allows us to be uncompromising on both the quality of our eco-friendly gifts and the sustainability of how they’re manufactured. In the long run, our gifts'’ impressive lifespans will preserve both your wallet and the planet’s natural resources. Buying costly replacements every few years will become a thing of the past. This is especially true for the eco-friendly gifts of ours that are designed to undergo extensive regular use – such as our range of personalised wooden chopping boards. You’ll be doing both the planet and your purse a favour. Equally, as we all try our best to minimise our reliance on plastic, our wooden chopping boards in particular offer a high quality, durable and sustainable plastic-free alternative to the numerous plastic chopping boards available. What About Waste? Our commitment to the environment isn’t just for show and it doesn’t end when our finished eco-friendly gifts leave our workshop. We have a plan for every inch of oak that enters our workshop with a tried and tested system for sustainably handling our waste. We’re extremely precious about the materials we use. The European oak that we handle in our workshop usually arrives in large pieces, which enables us to assemble our eco-friendly gifts from the same length of oak, giving them a uniform appearance and an altogether smarter finish. However, this process does produce potentially wasteful offcuts. Fortunately, we devised a simple solution that still enables us to keep our waste to an absolute minimum. When creating larger eco-friendly gifts, such as our boards and bath trays, we carefully keep hold of our offcuts and save them for subsequent use. Where we can, we then use them to make some of our smaller eco-friendly gifts, such as our personalised wooden keyrings. When it isn’t possible to reuse our offcuts in house, we donate them to the wood burners of some of our friendly neighbours – after earnestly reminding them that this is some of the highest quality firewood they’ll ever lay eyes upon! You thought we’d forgotten about our dust and shavings? Not on our watch. Admittedly, we’re rather limited in our means to reuse the dust and shavings that we create within the confines of our own workshop, but that doesn’t stop us from finding thoughtful uses for our waste elsewhere. We donate all of our dust and shavings to a local farm to help them with their animal waste (we’re sure we don’t have to elaborate about the details any further!). Personalised Eco-Friendly Gifts That Cut No Corners So, with all this in mind, we mean it when we say that our products are the perfect personalised, eco-friendly gifts. From the woods to your worktop, we’ve tried to make sure that every step of our manufacturing process is air-tight in its efficiency, quality and sustainability. Cutting corners just isn’t something we do. With that being said, we’re always keen to see how we can be even better. So, if you’ve got any sustainable suggestions or want to know more about our manufacturing process, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and rack our brains. As always, now that we’ve hopefully given you some proper peace of mind, please do take a look at the full range of personalised wooden gifts on our website. And if you’ve got a unique idea and want us to tackle a bespoke creation, we’re more than happy to take on the challenge.

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