Hawkin's Bazaar Blog

Up Close and Personal

We have a winner! Entries have flooded in to our 'Up Close and Personal' competition, ever since we set the task of identify some of our best loved products from obscure close up images, in the second edition of the Bazaar Times. The competition is now closed and we can confirm the lucky winner of the £50 Hawkin's Bazaar voucher is Carolynne Woodgate, who correctly gave the following answers:

1: Ten Move Puzzle Box
2: Techno Robot
3: Fisher Price Two Tune TV
4: Stylophone
5: Squishy Mesh Ball
6: Weather House

Congratulations to Carolynne, commiserations to everyone else who entered. But don't be down-hearted we have exciting new competitions coming very soon. Watch this space.

Unexpected visitors

It’s not every day you’ll be served by Giraffes in one of our shops, but that’s exactly what happened in our Chelmsford store last week. Quite a crowd was drawn when a family of five Giraffes wandered in to the store and started taking over. Ok, they were French people dressed as Giraffes, but the costumes where remarkably realistic.

It was a week of surprise visits, with Fifi and Bumble also turning up in our Poole store. Apparently the stars of children’s television were driven into the store to shelter from bad weather and received a warm and dry welcome from the Hawkin shop team. We can't wait to see what will happen next?

What a Racket

We spoke to a very nice lady called Fae yesterday. Apparently she had been in one of our shops and played our Miniature Accordion. We understand she made quite a ruckus, but we don’t mind that, especially as she has featured it on the shopping page of the TVHits website. Click here to read what Fae had to say.

You Won't Believe Your Eyes!

	A debate has been bubbling away at Hawkin HQ for the last few weeks  over these amazing visual illusions. The problem is the incredible  visual effect is 3 dimensional – very difficult to describe or  replicate on a flat page or screen. But Fergus Sullivan, the brains  behind the images is very passionate about his product (rightly so) and  convinced us to try them - they are very good and after all, they are  the perfect Hawkin curiosity, brand new and unlike anything you are  likely to have seen before.
They aren't in any Hawkin publication, but finally available on our website. There are two designs - click on the links below to read all about them.
London Moving Eye Illusion Trick of the Eye Illusion

It's a Jungle Out There

Gemma Harvey is the latest to capture the natural behaviour of one of our toys in wild. This wind-up caterpillar was photographed in the swamps of deepest, darkest Devon and later, hitching a cheeky ride on
the back of a ferocious Turkish Tortoise.

If you should see any of our wee beasties roaming the world make sure you send us a picture - if we publish it in the Bazaar Times it will earn you a £20 Hawkin voucher.