Welcome to the Hugs Unlimited Blog

Hello and welcome to the Hugs Unlimited blog page and to our first post.

Hugs Unlimited was started by Dawn James in 1986 and soon became an outlet for her traditional artist bears. She later expanded to include embroidered bags, cushions and other items. Earlier this year, her husband, Chris Elliott (that's me!) joined Hugs Unlimited full time after a career in IT and we're now working together and hoping to expand our range and to develop a range of embroidery designs and personalised items. So watch this space (as well as our website, Facebook page and Etsy pages) as we hope to add new items regularly as well as giving news of fairs where you can visit us and say hello.

We also have a store selling craft materials - Teddyadam's Emporium Of Delights (named after Dawn's own teddy bear, who helps out from time to time when he can be bothered) - where you can find a growing range of buttons, charms, beads, Victorian boot buttons (great for teddy bears' eyes) and interesting one-off items like dolls' wigs and miniature police helmets.

Our particular interest lies in the slightly out of the ordinary, so you'll find that as our stock changes over time there will be an increasing number of items with fairies, witches, wildlife, steampunk and mystical themes. And anything else that appeals to us as we develop.

Thank you for paying us a visit. Please come again. We'll try to keep posting on the blog as often as we can. Sometimes it will be me, sometimes Dawn. We look forward to seeing you.

                                                                                        Chris xx