by admingcg | 20, Jan, 2025 | News Post
What are the Benefits of Greeting Cards? Handmade paper cards have been used in Europe from the fifteenth century. A Valentine card sent in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, is now in the British Museum. And the earliest commercial Christmas card was produced in...
by admingcg | 13, Feb, 2024 | News Post
Early Valentine’s Messages On February 14th, St Valentine’s Day, countless people all over Europe and America will be sending Valentine’s Day cards to their chosen recipient. This romantic tradition became well established during the Victorian era....
by admingcg | 13, Feb, 2024 | News Post
The Two Species of Squirrel in the UK. The difficult co-existence of the red squirrel and the grey squirrel in the UK began in the 1870s, when the grey squirrel was imported and released into the wild by the Victorians. Red and grey squirrels cannot interbreed,...
by admingcg | 9, Feb, 2024 | News Post
Art for All Ages There are so many reasons why art is the perfect hobby, whatever age you are! In fact, one of the founder members of Goldcrest Gallery said they thought it was the best hobby, because you didn’t have to stop when you were old. It is possible...
by admingcg | 29, Jan, 2024 | News Post
How The Teddy Bear Story Began The Teddy Bear Story all began on a bear hunt in Mississippi, on November 14, 1902. The Governor of Mississippi, Andrew H. Longino, invited President Theodore Roosevelt (a big game hunter) to join him and a party of fellow hunters on a...
by admingcg | 22, Jan, 2024 | News Post
The Story of ‘Cinderella’: Early Traditions ‘Cinderella’ is considered to be the most popular and famous fairy story of all. The earliest oral traditions of the story of ‘Cinderella’ can be traced back to China in the 9th Century...
by admingcg | 9, Jan, 2024 | News Post
Classic fairy tales have been told and orally passed down the generations for thousands of years. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and “Rumplestiltskin” were first recorded as literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But research has...
by admingcg | 2, Jan, 2024 | News Post
Working from home is becoming increasingly popular, especially since the lockdown. More people are home working, avoiding the travel expenses and wear & tear of commuting. Savings on travel, work wear and food-to-go offset home energy costs. Later starts and...
by admingcg | 18, Dec, 2023 | News Post
Self-publishing your own children’s book can be a long and sometimes difficult journey. Thrilling as it is to hold the final product in your hand at last, you soon realise that there is another mountain to climb! How can you market your new children’s...
by admingcg | 15, Dec, 2023 | News Post
Creative Block is something that happens to all of us at some time. It can vary from being a downward swing in the quality of our work to a complete lack of motivation or inspiration. This can occur when our order books are full, or when no-one seems to notice our...
