Love Birds card by Fran Evans
SKU: IF193
Fran Evans has worked closely with Two Bad Mice for over twenty years. She lives in Wales with two children and is very well known for her book illustrations.
Two Bad Mice produce a wide variety of cards and gifts for Animal Lovers by contemporary Artists. Fran’s cards are especially strong on images with badgers
Each card comes with an address label and coloured envelope
Birds and Blossom Washi Tape by Julian Williams
1.5cm wide x 10 meters long
SKU: WJ101
Washi is a tearable, repositionable, decorative sticky tape made from natural plant fibres. Washi was developed in Japan over 3 decades ago where they are very popular and found in every high street store. Customers use them for wrapping parcels, craft making and decorating household items like iPhones.
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Another range that would make good gifts for bird watchers are our blue and white ranges. One of the ranges features Mute Swans
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Our Blue and white birds range was developed by Julian Williams
These page links may be useful;
We have a limited range of blue and white china suitable as tableware for bird watchers
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For our off the shelf range we have only used two of the seven garden birds. Using the bespoke service we have seven options, and you can widen the selection further by mixing the garden birds with the swans.
We are developing a bespoke service which will allow customers to make orders for these other designs. For instance if you combine the bird with tall mugs you get a set that will look like this. An ideal gift for a bird lover
There are draw backs to using the bespoke services
The birds can also be used for kitchen and bathroom splash backs. The transfers can be used to make all sorts of interesting patterns
Love Birds Card by Anita Jeram
SKU: M325
Anita Jeram has worked closely with Two Bad Mice for over twenty years, She is very well known for her book illustrations, especially for the Little Nut Brown Hare painting from the classic best selling children’s book “Guess How Much I Love You”.
Two Bad Mice produce a wide variety of cards and gifts for Animal Lovers by contemporary Artists.
Each card comes with an address label and coloured envelope.
Lavender and Ladybirds Small Bowl by Fran Evans
SKU: KBSF9
Small Sized Fine Bone China Bowls; Diameter 8.5 cm
They make popular gifts for garden lovers
Come with colourful gift boxes
The range are very collectible
Lavender and Ladybirds Medium Bowl by Fran Evans
SKU: KBMF9
Diameter 11.8 cm : Lavender & Ladybirds Medium Bone China Bowl by Fran Evans
They make popular gifts for Wild Flower and Nature lovers
Come with colourful gift boxes
The range are very collectible
Charming The Birds card by Anita Jeram
SKU: M271
Anita Jeram has worked closely with Two Bad Mice for over twenty years, She is very well known for her book illustrations, especially for the Little Nut Brown Hare painting from the classic bestselling children’s book “Guess How Much I Love You”.
Two Bad Mice produce a wide variety of cards and gifts for Cat Lovers and Animal Lovers by contemporary Artists.
Each card comes with an address label and coloured envelope
You may find these links interesting: Ideas for Cat Lovers
Merry Christmas Birds inserts – Folding inserts for use inside Two Bad Mice Cards
Instructions
Download the PDF
Print on an A4 sheet of paper
There are two inserts on each printed sheet; cut out each insert with a straight edge and sharp razor knife or scissors
Fold the inserts along the centre
Stick the insert on the inside of a Two Bad Mice card (a single dab of glue on one side is usually enough)
Every insert have areas where a personal hand written message can be added.
Feeding Birds In The Snow – Folding inserts for use inside Two Bad Mice Cards
Instructions
Download the PDF
Print on an A4 sheet of paper
There are two inserts on each printed sheet; cut out each insert with a straight edge and sharp razor knife or scissors
Fold the inserts along the centre
Stick the insert on the inside of a Two Bad Mice card (a single dab of glue on one side is usually enough)
Every insert have areas where personal hand written message can be added.
MAKE YOUR OWN SEASCAPE USING OUR TILE VIEWER
This page is experimental to demonstrate products we are developing for the future
MAKE YOUR OWN SEASCAPE USING OUR TILE VIEWER
This page is experimental to demonstrate products we are developing for the future
Two Birds And A Bear Card by Fran Evans
SKU: IF13
Birds in a Bush Card from a watercolour by Anna Shuttlewood
SKU: ID43
Ladybirds on Lavender Card by Fran Evans
SKU: IF108
The Birds And The Bees Card by Anita Jeram
SKU: M156
Anita Jeram has worked closely with Two Bad Mice for over twenty years, She is very well known for her book illustrations, especially for the Little Nut Brown Hare painting from the classic best selling children’s book “Guess How Much I Love You”.
Two Bad Mice produce a wide variety of cards and gifts for Cat Lovers and Animal Lovers by contemporary Artists.
Each card comes with an address label and coloured envelope
You may find these links interesting: Ideas for Cat Lovers
Birds Yellow Gift Wrap by Anita Jeram
SKU: GM04
1 sheet of giftwrap 40cm X 70cm
Pearlite paper (it has a glistening surface)
It is best to buy a mailing tube to avoiding folding
Birds Black Gift Wrap by Anita Jeram
SKU: GM03
1 sheet of giftwrap 40cm X 70cm
Pearlite paper (it has a glistening surface)
It is best to buy a mailing tube to avoiding folding
Birds Pink Gift Wrap by Anita Jeram
SKU: GM02
1 sheet of giftwrap 40cm X 70cm
Pearlite paper (it has a glistening surface)
It is best to buy a mailing tube to avoiding folding
Birds Pale Gift Wrap by Anita Jeram
SKU: GM01
1 sheet of giftwrap 40cm X 70cm
Pearlite paper (it has a glistening surface)
It is best to buy a mailing tube to avoiding folding
Three Birds Platinum card by Fromental
SKU: IW4
Visit www.fromental.co.uk to see their wonderful handpainted wallpapers
Birds and Blossom Washi Tape by Julian Williams
1.5cm wide x 10 meters long
SKU: WJ102
Washi is a tearable, repositionable, decorative sticky tape made from natural plant fibres. Washi was developed in Japan over 3 decades ago where they are very popular and found in every high street store. Customers use them for wrapping parcels, craft making and decorating household items like iPhones.
We have divided our ornithological ranges of cards and gifts into section. These are the links to focus your “ideas for bird watchers” searches.
Julian Williams, one of the directors of Two Bad Mice, has had an life long interest in birds and bird watching. He has written a blog post about how these images were developed https://shop.twobadmice.com/cards-and-gifts-for-birdwatchers/
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In the coloured cards and ceramics link above you will find how to purchase our coloured bone china mugs and bowls.
The ceramics are packed in gift boxes
We have a good selection of cards featuring many of the garden birds that are attracted to the bird table. Again these will be found using the coloured cards and ceramics link
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Our cards are especially interesting as they include a text description of the birds ecology on the back, and information about the bird’s folk names and folk law
Another stationery item are our memo pads for shopping list or to put beside the telephone.
Bespoke products have to be made to order at our factories in Staffordshire. For this reason they will take a few weeks to make and there are minimum order value requirements
WE have ranges of blue and white birds which can be put on to a selection of whites; Bowls of various sizes, different mug shapes and tiles or cork backed ceramic coasters. For instance thee swans are put on to a variety of objects and they make a set.
Our new bespoke services will allow us to provide a much wider range of products – like this set of seven tall mugs each with a differnt bird
We will even be able to make dinner service.
We have not altogether worked out how to display such a wide variety of options on the website, or how to make it easy for customers to put their choice of objects together. We have opened a bespoke section on the website where all the options can be seen.
Pinterest page : Gifts for Bird lovers
Jenny Wren https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/05/jenny-wren-troglodytes-troglodytes.html
BullFinch http://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-bullfinch-pyrrhula-pyrrhula.html
Goldfinch http://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-goldfinch-carduelis-carduelis.html
Mute Swan: https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/british-birds-mute-swan-cynus-olor-mute.html
These cards and gifts have special features that make them suitable greeting cards for Butterfly Lovers and lepidopterists. For instance we have chosen butterflies you would find in a European Garden. On the back of the cards we have written descriptions about the ecology and folk law associated with the birds.
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This is part of our Nature Notes series of cards to go along side our card for birdwatchers. Read in our blog about how they were designed
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Visit this page for for more ideas for Bird Watchers
Swallowtails butterfly card by Julian Williams
SKU: B48
Greeting card with coloured envelope featuring butterflies
These butterfly cards are part of our Nature Notes Series
These cards include an introductory text on the back of the cards. TEXT written on the back of this card reads:
European Swallowtail Papilio machaon on Queen Anne’s Lace
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Anyone who has visited Southern Europe will have noticed the European Swallowtail which is unmistakable butterflies, they seem to be everywhere. In Britain we have a sub-species (P. marchaon britannicus) that only feeds on Milk-parsley and is now confined to a few scattered colonies on reserves in the Norfolk Broads. Britannicus is a smaller, weaker insect than its Continental cousin (gorganus)
In recent years there have been increasing numbers of migrants of the larger and far more robust European varieties crossing the Channel and breeding. The caterpillars of the continental gorganus feed on a broader range of umbellifers than our native sub-species; such commonly found plants as wild carrot, wild angelica, fennel and hogweed. This silent invasion is raising hopes that gorganus could soon be established and seen more widely across southern Britain.
Almost all swallowtail species have forked tails on their hindwings from which they get their common name. Their caterpillars are equally exotic, often marked with fake eyes to make them look more frightening to birds and armed with glands that excrete pungent smelling oils if disturbed.
Clouded Yellows (Colias croceus) on Crown Vetch (Securigera varia) butterfly card by Julian Williams
SKU: B47
Greeting card with coloured envelope featuring butterflies
These butterfly cards are part of our Nature Notes Series which can be seen here: Greeting Cards for Butterfly Lovers and Lepidopteritsts
These cards include an introductory text on the back of the cards. TEXT written on the back of this card reads:
Clouded Yellows (Colias croceus) on Crown Vetch (Securigera varia)
These pretty migrants from the Mediterranean used to be appreciated by Victorian and Edwardian butterfly collectors for their wide variety colours which can vary from vivid oranges and lemons to whites, they also have richly patterned lemon-green underwings. The rarer pale almost white females (Illustrated) were most prized amongst collectors.
In the spring large numbers fly north from their southern overwintering strongholds, sometimes arriving in very large numbers and breeding again to produce what have become known as Clouded Yellow summers (1947, 1983). The butterflies tend to congregate on chalk downland where they feed on the nectar of wild meadow flowers, especially clover, Birds Foot Trefoil, vetches and Lucerne. Their caterpillars are unable to survive damp frosty winters.
Europe has 10 species of Clouded Yellows.
Crown Vetch: is native to Europe, Asia and Africa. Since its introduction to the U.S., it has spread throughout the country. It is currently reported as invasive in many states, especially through the centre of the country and along the eastern seaboard
Know Your Tits Card by Julian Williams
SKU: B42
Greeting card with coloured envelope featuring common visitors to the bird table
The cards and mugs in this series are ideal gifts and cards for bird lovers
TEXT written on the back of the card
Know Your Tits
Blue Tits are small acrobatic birds with pretty blue caps. They are very common visitors to the bird table
Great Tits are one of the largest tits easily identified by the black bibs that run in a thick black stripe over their bright yellow breasts. In spring they have distinctive loud song and can often be seen singing high in the trees.
Long Tailed Tits are very social birds almost always seen in larger groups. They will only visit the bird table if you put out suet balls
Marsh Tits and Willow tits. These two species have black caps and look almost identical to each other. Experienced birdwatchers separate the species by their call and wing stripes. They are occasional visitors to bird tables
Coal Tits are identified by the white stripes that run down the nape of their necks.
Crested Tits live in pine forests. They have a widespread distribution in Europe, but in Britain are only found in Scotland
links
https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/05/jenny-wren-troglodytes-troglodytes.html
https://www.borealbirds.org/bird/winter-wren
Bullfinch card by Julian Williams
SKU: B41
Greeting card with coloured envelope featuring common visitors to the bird table
The cards and mugs in this series are ideal gifts and cards for bird lovers
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Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
The rose red breasted bullfinch with its black cap and bright white rump is one of the easiest garden birds to identify, but they are quite shy birds and quite easily missed. Experienced birdwatchers will often hear their mewing calls before seeing their presence.
In spring they feed voraciously on the buds of fruit trees. Their name bullfinch maybe a shortening of Bullace Finch (Bullace being the Tudor name for the wild plum trees that they cultivated in their orchards). Other folk names derived from their habit of stripping the buds from fruit trees include Bud finches, Bud pickers (Devon) and Plum birds.
A more widely believed theory is that the bullfinch got its name from its large thick head and stocky form, like bull dog and bull frog. Some birdwatchers claim to have seen the birds head-butt other finches off the bird table. Other folk names include Alpe, Nope, Pope and Monk.
The female is a pretty pale pink.
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This a new section of Two Bad Mice products. We have a big selection of tiles that can be arranged in a wide variety of different ways from which to design your own splash backs for your Kitchens and Bathrooms. most of these order are bespoke and will take sevearal weeks to make.
Using our bespoke services you can now creates unique splash backs from our wide variety of tiles. It might take you a while to look through all the options
For those that wish to keep their cost down we recommend you scatter few tiles scattered on a white background
The opportunities are endless. To help you nail down the design that will suit you best we have come up with some options
This page is designed to help you find the card or gift you want for your animal loving familiy and friends
We have big sections in the following categories
and smaller ranges in these categories
Welcome to Two Bad MicePurveyors of Fine Bone China Gifts, Greetings Cards and More
We supply high quality bone china ceramics and greeting cards which make the perfect gift for animal lovers in your life. Our cute bone china gifts and stationery, ceramic tiles and linen feature beautiful exclusive designs from gifted illustrators including Anita Jeram. Anita Jeram illustrated the Children’s Best selling Classic “Guess How Much I Love You” with the Little Nut Brown Hare. Other award winning artists include Fran Evans, Julian Williams and Anna Shuttleworth.
If you are looking for a unique cat gift for a cat lover, gift ideas for dog owners, or bone china featuring a range of cute animal designs, lose yourself in our charming selection of crockery, greetings cards, and linen. Struggling for ideas? We also have gift sets and hampers available including matching greetings cards and bone china mugs featuring a range of creatures, from dogs, cats and rabbits to badgers and more.
Are you a self-confessed dog lover, cat lover, or rabbit lover? Why not treat yourself to your very own bone china cat mug or dog mug so you can enjoy a relaxing cup of tea with your favourite companion. We are proud stockists of high quality bone china and unique, charming gifts which we ship to cat lovers, dog owners and animal enthusiasts alike across the UK, Europe and internationally.
If you have any questions about any of the gifts in our unique range, please feel free to visit our FAQ page, give us a call, send us an email, or fill out the enquiry form on our Contact page. We’re very proud of our beautiful bone china gifts, cute greetings cards, ceramics and gift sets and we’re sure you’ll find the perfect present for your loved one.
On this page you can see the images that are available to be used in making bespoke products.
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by Anita Jeram
We have many hundreds of products, and it can get hard to navigate to see everything you want to see. To help you we have set up some theme pages. For instance if you are looking for a card or ceramic that would be suitable for a valentines, you can go on to the Theme “for Lovers”
You will see the themes listed on the drop down menu bar on the top of the screen.
Theme pages are work in progress. In future there will be a wider selection of theme pages and they should become easier to use as we become more experienced at setting them up.
Here is a list of themes set up so far:
We are working with Duchess China, a tradition English pottery in Stoke on Trent, to provide a Bespoke Delft Ceramics service to our customers. Customers can cross images from our library of blue and white transfers on to a selection of “whites”. (Whites are the undecorated ceramic bowls, mugs and tiles).
There are draw backs.
This is an example of the sorts of tableware you could order by crossing one transfer (Swan No 5) with a selection of mugs and bowls.
It would also be possible to tile your kitchen with the same Swan images, (see below).
We have stock of what we call “Whites”. Whites are the base units to which transfers can be applied.
Our Whites come in two sorts:
The images below show the range of fine bone china “whites” we are using to launch the bespoke service. At present there is only one item in our range made by Duchess; The Pasta Bowl. All the other items are selected from the exclusive shapes that were developed by Two Bad Mice for our ranges of off the shelf ceramics. (Customers who have bought Two Bad Mice ceramics in shops will be familiar with these shapes).
Duchess have many more shapes that are not included in our initial offerings. In special circumstances, where a customer might want a dinner service, or tea cup and saucer, we should be able to help.
We have a wide range of blue and white transfers that you have never seen. You can choose any of these transfers to make your own combinations of bespoke delft ceramics. There is no reason you should not mix the between the range, but for your convenience the transfers are organised in groups
You can explore the bespoke delft ceramic options by using the links below:
You can create a big selection of options by combining a range of transfers with a stock White. For instance in the image below we have combined the Pasta Dish with the transfers from our Rustic Figures by WH Pyne. The result is stunning bespoke set of pasta dishes. The sort of unique blue and white tableware that only super rich can usually afford.
It is not just blue and white tableware!. The same ranges of transfers may be used for making delft tiles for Kitchen and bathroom splash backs. This is an example of our swan range used with corner transfers. You can make all sorts of patterns!
These images can be crossed with “whites” that we have chosen for this service. (Whites are the undecorated shapes available in the range)
These links will help you discover the bespoke made to order products that are presently available
The use of our bespoke Delft ceramics services improves our abilities to create and gift options suited to specific niche markets. WE do however also provide an off the shelf service for a more limited range of blue and white tableware
For instance we have working on developing ranges under themes such as
Anita’s Blue Rabbit Images are very quirky and a lot of fun. So far we have used these transfers on Mugs, Coasters and Tiles
We will also have plans to take special Bespoke orders to use these images on a wider range of products, such as pasta dishes, plates and a larger selection of mugs
You may like to use these links to other Blue and white options
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These cards and gifts have special features that make them suitable for bird watcher. For instance we have chosen birds that visit the bird table. On the back of the cards we have written descriptions about the ecology and folk law associated with the birds. Read in our blog about how they were designed .
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you might also like to look at the butterfly cards in the Nature Notes series
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We have divided our ornithological ranges of cards and gifts into section. These are the links to focus your “ideas for bird watchers” searches.
In the coloured cards and ceramics link above you will find how to purchase our coloured bone china mugs and bowls.
The ceramics are packed in gift boxes
We have a good selection of cards featuring many of the garden birds that are attracted to the bird table. Again these will be found using the coloured cards and ceramics link
Our cards are especially interesting as they include a text description of the birds ecology on the back, and information about the bird’s folk names and folk law
Another stationery item are our memo pads for shopping list or to put beside the telephone.
Bespoke products have to be made to order at our factories in Staffordshire. For this reason they will take a few weeks to make and there are minimum order value requirements
WE have ranges of blue and white birds which can be put on to a selection of whites; Bowls of various sizes, different mug shapes and tiles or cork backed ceramic coasters. For instance thee swans are put on to a variety of objects and they make a set.
Our new bespoke services will allow us to provide a much wider range of products – like this set of seven tall mugs each with a different bird
We will even be able to make dinner service.
We have not altogether worked out how to display such a wide variety of options on the website, or how to make it easy for customers to put their choice of objects together. We have opened a bespoke section on the website where all the options can be seen.
Pinterest page : Gifts for Bird lovers
Jenny Wren https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/05/jenny-wren-troglodytes-troglodytes.html
BullFinch http://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-bullfinch-pyrrhula-pyrrhula.html
Goldfinch http://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-goldfinch-carduelis-carduelis.html
Mute Swan: https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/british-birds-mute-swan-cynus-olor-mute.html
Robin Tall Mug by Julian Williams
SKU: NTJBB5
The Robin Tall Mug is the first of a blue and white series of bird watcher gifts. The series will include cards and mugs featuring birds that visit the bird table.
The Tall mug shape is exclusive to Two Bad Mice and was first commissioned for sale from Jan 2016.
These mugs make ideal gifts for bird lovers
Fine Bone China
Ideal size for tea or coffee
The exclusive shape is very modern
The come with pretty gift boxes
Many have cards to match the mug
Vol 300ml Height 11cm Width 6.7 cm
Another range that would make good gifts for bird watchers are our blue and white ranges. One of the ranges features Mute Swans
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We have divided our ornithological ranges of cards and gifts into section. These are the links to focus your “ideas for bird watchers” searches.
Julian Williams, one of the directors of Two Bad Mice, has had an life long interest in birds and bird watching. He has written a blog post about how these images were developed https://shop.twobadmice.com/cards-and-gifts-for-birdwatchers/
In the coloured cards and ceramics link above you will find how to purchase our coloured bone china mugs and bowls.
The ceramics are packed in gift boxes
We have a good selection of cards featuring many of the garden birds that are attracted to the bird table. Again these will be found using the coloured cards and ceramics link
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Our cards are especially interesting as they include a text description of the birds ecology on the back, and information about the bird’s folk names and folk law
Another stationery item are our memo pads for shopping list or to put beside the telephone.
Bespoke products have to be made to order at our factories in Staffordshire. For this reason they will take a few weeks to make and there are minimum order value requirements
WE have ranges of blue and white birds which can be put on to a selection of whites; Bowls of various sizes, different mug shapes and tiles or cork backed ceramic coasters. For instance thee swans are put on to a variety of objects and they make a set.
Our new bespoke services will allow us to provide a much wider range of products – like this set of seven tall mugs each with a differnt bird
We will even be able to make dinner service.
We have not altogether worked out how to display such a wide variety of options on the website, or how to make it easy for customers to put their choice of objects together. We have opened a bespoke section on the website where all the options can be seen.
Pinterest page : Gifts for Bird lovers
Jenny Wren https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/05/jenny-wren-troglodytes-troglodytes.html
BullFinch http://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-bullfinch-pyrrhula-pyrrhula.html
Goldfinch http://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-goldfinch-carduelis-carduelis.html
Mute Swan: https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/04/british-birds-mute-swan-cynus-olor-mute.html
Two Bad Mice are developing a new line of Blue and White ceramics. Some of the products are available off the shelf and will be distributed through shops, other products will only be available through a special order bespoke service.
You may like to use these links to drill down the selections
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Amongst the new ranges are blue and white ceramics are two ranges that feature birds, and make ideal gifts for Bird lovers.
One range features garden birds. So far we have only released the Robin and the Blue tit
and the other Swans
Blue and white is suitable to be put on many things, maybe we can team up with a pottery and produce, pasta plates, teapots and ceramic boxes. We expect to expand the two ranges in the near future!
Go to this page to find pages where you can buy gifts for bird watchers
Blue Tit Large Blue and White Bone China Cereal Bowl by Julian Williams
SKU: KBLJBB7
Large enough for Breakfast Cereals
This is the first of blue and white series of bird watcher gifts. The series will include cards and mugs featuring birds that visit the bird table.
The Tall mug shape is exclusive to Two Bad Mice and was first commissioned for sale from Jan 2016.
These bowls make ideal gifts for bird lovers
Fine Bone China
The exclusive shape is very modern
The come with pretty gift boxes
Many have cards to match the mug
Robin Large Blue and White Bowl by Julian Williams
SKU: KBLJBB5
Large enough for Breakfast Cereals
This is the first of blue and white series of bird watcher gifts. The series will include cards and mugs featuring birds that visit the bird table.
The Tall mug shape is exclusive to Two Bad Mice and was first commissioned for sale from Jan 2016.
These bowls make ideal gifts for bird lovers
Fine Bone China
The exclusive shape is very modern
The come with pretty gift boxes
Many have cards to match the mug
Blue Tit Tall Mug by Julian Williams
SKU: NTJBB7
This is the first of blue and white series of bird watcher gifts. The series will include cards and mugs featuring birds that visit the bird table.
The Tall mug shape is exclusive to Two Bad Mice and was first commissioned for sale from Jan 2016.
These mugs make ideal gifts for bird lovers
Fine Bone China
Ideal size for tea or coffee
The exclusive shape is very modern
The come with pretty gift boxes
Many have cards to match the mug
Vol 300ml Height 11cm Width 6.7 cm
Wren Card by Julian Williams
SKU: B40
Greeting card with coloured envelope featuring common visitors to the bird table
The cards and mugs in this series are ideal gifts and cards for bird lovers
TEXT written on the back of the card
The Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
The wren is Britain’s most common breeding bird. The loud clear complex song of the male is amongst the first of the Dawn chorus. He will build up to eight nests to attract his bride to be, but he is shy to be seen and we only catch occasional glimpses of him poking about in holes or skulking in thick clumps of brambles.
Wrens were once kept in cages as oracles. The Welsh called them “Dryw”, which is also their word for druid. The English word Wren is derived from Drian, ie Draoi-en, “The Druid’s Bird”. Ancient Sumerian stories tell of a wren who outwitted an elephant. A thousand year later Aesop recounts a fable about a congress of birds which had organised a competition to find the bird that could fly the highest. The Eagle soured highest, but then a little wren that had hidden himself in his feathers flew a few inches higher and chirped “Birds look up and behold your King“.
The wren, sometimes called Jenny, Kitty-me-wren or Our Lady’s Across Europe they use his name to celebrate his kingship. The Latin word for wren is Regulus; Greek Basiliskos (Little King); French Roilet (Little King).
links
https://drawingandillusion.blogspot.com/2017/05/jenny-wren-troglodytes-troglodytes.html
https://www.borealbirds.org/bird/winter-wren
Robin card by Julian Williams
SKU: B39
Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Greeting card with coloured envelope featuring common visitors to the bird table
The cards and mugs in this series are ideal gifts and cards for bird lovers
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Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Robins are bold opportunists that will follow us around the garden to cash in on insects and worms, they can become extremely tame and some will feed from the hand. In medieval times it was popular to give birds human names as in Jack Daw and Jenny Wren. Robin, was originally a diminutive of Robert, other older names include Rudduck and Robinet.
There are many stories about how the Robin got a red Breast, one is that it was scorched whilst fetching water for the souls of purgatory. Another legend has it that the Robin’s breast became stained red whilst it sang to ease Christ’s pain on the cross, but this is not the reason why the bird occurs on Christmas cards. The birds became associated with Christmas cards grew up in Victorian times when the postman delivering the Christmas cards wore red jackets and were nicknamed Robins.
Goldfinch card by Julian Williams
SKU: B37
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Greeting card with coloured envelope featuring common visitors to the bird table
The cards and mugs in this series are ideal gifts and cards for bird lovers
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The Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
Goldfinches are adapted to feed on thorny plants like thistles and teasel. Folk stories developed that the goldfinch, sometimes known as Saviour birds, acquired its red face after it got splashed with blood whilst pulling thorns from Christ’s brow. In medieval pictures goldfinches were often depicted with the Madonna and Child and John the Baptist as a forewarning that Christ would save humanity through his crucifixion.
In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer mentions the cook “gaily dressed he was as is a goldfinch in the woods” In the 18th century used “goldfinch” as a slang word for a wealthy person in fancy clothing.
Goldfinches, renowned for their beauty and pretty song, were trapped each year to be sold as cage-birds. They were so popular that by the 19th century the trapping had caused the population to crash. The numbers recovered following the success of one of the earliest conservation campaigns by the then newly formed Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Other common names include thistle tweaker, thistle finch, goldie, gold linnet, redcap and King Harry. The collective name for goldfinches is a charm, is derived from the old English c’irm, describing the birds’ twittering song.
