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Personalised Wooden Toy Boxes Fit for a Prince

Engraving Ideas & The Ones We Love

We really do love what we do here at Make Me Something Special. Our personalised engraved lettering on our oak gifts vary from the most heart felt messages to a simply initial. Names, dates, company and house names, generic messages and witty wording. These are some of our favourites. Burnt Toast… Now that is a good one! One of our…

Emma Bridgewater Has a New Range of Wooden Gifts

When we were asked to create a unique range of wooden gifts for Emma Bridgewater – naturally – we jumped at the chance! Davina has been a Emma Bridgewater fan since she was a young girl and we as a family have quite an extensive range of her beautiful products. If you have visited our website before you might have…

Oak Swings and Benches for the Garden

Let’s hope it stops raining! The sun will soon shine and that is when we all turn to our gardens. We relax and we personalise by making little improvements, planting veg and adding new flower beds or wooden benches. If this is something you are considering doing, I would definitely take a look at our personalised oak benches. Shop Benches…

Made To Order Oak Gifts

Over the years we are asked to make many unique, unusual and very special things. Special commissions are something I think should be available everywhere but not everyone makes there own products, It’s funny, generally every product we have made in our range of personalised wooden gifts comes from Davina and I either wanting or needing something at home. But…