Archive for January, 2009

Sales! Sales! Everywhere!

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Unlike a lot of the giant high street stores — who have massive warehouses crammed with old stock they want to shift (and, admittedly, some hefty overheads) — we here at Larkin & Catcher are not going down the MEGA SALE/SALE TO END ALL SALES/EVERYTHING MUST GO! route. That ‘route’ is the road to disaster for the customer and retailer alike, as far as we’re concerned. Eventually, yet more stores will close, more people will lose their jobs, choice and variety will be lost and all that will be available to buy (for most people — apart from the super rich) will be a load of generic tat. So, we’re not jumping on the MASSIVE SALE bandwagon.

We’ve got an Archive section with all items at 60% off and there’s also a Special on until the end of January, with some decent discounts off a variety of this years items.  These are genuine items from our stock and not items bought in for the purpose of putting it On Sale.

There, it had to be said. We feel so much better now.

 

Free Lipsticks!

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

We’ve got some Stargazer matt ‘gothic’ lipsticks to give away. They’re in black, purple or blue and we can’t guarantee what colour you might get. Just place the word Lipstick in the message section when you place your next order. We’ll keep giving them away until they run out — apologies in advance if you are not one of the lucky ones.

The Mechanical Horse is Back!

Friday, January 9th, 2009

We’ve just taken delivery of some more of Mullanium’s strangely wonderful mechanical horse pins.

mechanical_horse_brooch.jpgMechanical Horse Brooch

The brooches are made of recycled metals and antique watch parts and it is fair to say that they are not the kind of thing you’ll find in high street stores. The brooches are handcrafted and so are slightly different each time — and we reckon these are the best batch yet.