Whenever you go on a trip, you can’t avoid the gift shops. Most theme parks strategically place gift shops at every exit, whether it’s the exit from a ride or the final stop before heading to your car at day’s end. And they always offer magnets for sale, right? Why? Because magnets are a small, inexpensive way to remind us of the good stuff.
Maybe it was a trip to the Canadian Badlands or Coney Island or LEGOLAND California—or if you’re one of those lucky humans who’s visited anywhere outside North America, you’ve brought home magnets of a tiny British phone booth or a Scottish thistle or maybe a croc from the Australia Zoo. And every time you see it on your fridge, you think of the dinosaur fossils you saw in Drumheller or the Ferris wheel that you lost your hat on or the cackles of your kids while on the LEGOLAND roller coaster.
But what if you could PERSONALIZE your magnets? Customize them with YOU and yours at the beach or on the flippy-upside-down carnival rides or in front of Stonehenge?
That’s where Bard & Bloom can help. We love photos and magnets and memories and all that juicy life stuff. Someone else coined the term “glimmer” (as a gentle antidote to a “trigger”)—and we’ve commandeered it because that is exactly what we do. We remind you of glimmers.
The average North American takes more than 22 photos a day. My Photos album on my iPhone has over 30K digital pictures floating out there in the cloud. And in our house, we have boxes and baskets of analog photos, i.e., printed on photo paper back in the days when Costco had a photo department. I’ll bet you do too.
Memories are being forgotten and buried in the digital abyss. And who wants to share their kids’ faces online anymore with all the weirdos in the world?
Our house is basically a library slash gallery—the walls are decorated with photographs of the kids and critters—and I am taken back to those moments in our shared history whenever I look at them. Anyone call for some warm fuzzies, because I have a whole truck load of them hanging on my walls!
So the fam and I decided that photo magnets would be a terrific way to bring our memories OUT of the digital albums and off the social media feeds and put them FRONT AND CENTRE where they can be enjoyed all the time—on the fridge, the office whiteboard, the lockers where hardworking moms and dads and aunties and uncles store their gear before a long shift, on toolboxes, on those inexpensive IKEA white magnet boards we all love so much …
Who doesn’t want to see a happy reminder of WHY we do what we do, and the people we do it for, every single day?
Bard & Bloom is a small giftware business aimed at awesome people who believe that love is love and we’re only here for a short time, so we might as well plaster our day-to-day with glimmers. (Our magnets are even good for reminding you of those not-so-great moments—I made one of Brennie’s first black eye in a soccer match where the coach and GareBear had to hold me back from running onto the field because I am one of those parents—but that’s a topic for another discussion.)
Our flagship product: CUSTOM photo magnets of your most cherished memories, are available in three sizes (2” x 2” square, 2” x 3” rectangular, and 2.5” round). And you can order RIGHT MEOW.
How does it work, Jenn?
- Pop over to our Custom Photo Magnets page and choose your preferred size.
- Upload your photos right there on the page and crop how you want ’em.
- Keep shopping and treat yourself to a mug, a tote bag, or maybe some bookmarks.
- Complete checkout.
- We will print your glimmers with our fancy Epson printers onto high-quality photo paper and manufacture adorable mylar-protected photo magnets for you to slap on your fridge, whiteboard, anywhere you need a reminder of the humans, creatures, and/or memories that make you smile.
- And last but not least, we will ship to you as affordably as possible, with satisfaction guaranteed and all that jazz.
These glimmers are freaking PERFECT for gifts, party favours, marketing swag (looking at you, authors and artists!)—the possibilities are endless! (Also: I’m gonna need a bigger fridge.)
Because remember: LOVE IS MAGNETIC!
P.S. Also, we’re all over social media now: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok! We are a brand-new small biz, so please follow and like and share with all your cool friends. Welcome to the adventure!
