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Colony of Artists Edinburgh
We are delighted to be taking part in the 13th annual Colony of Artists exhibition in Edinburgh. Local residents in the Abbeyhill colonies open their doors and host more than 50 artists in 30 different venues. As well as artist exhibitions there will be talks and live music. We have loved working on this exhibition as it has given us the opportunity to get back into screen printing. We are very excited about the pieces that we have created and we would love you to come and see our exhibition. If you are unable to attend, don't worry, we will be...
Scottish Cards and Gifts
At Neon Magpie we are very proud to be living and working in Edinburgh. I have lived here all my life and Chris moved to Edinburgh 7 years ago to go to Edinburgh College of Art. After finishing his degree he decided never to leave! We thought it was time to introduce a Scottish range of cards to the Neon Magpie collection. The illustrations were designed to be part of an A - Z of Scotland collection. However, I didn't manage to complete all 26 illustrations before our deadline so now we have a collection of 8 designs. I am...
Neon Magpie Custom Invitations
We are very excited to announce our new range of invitations and party accessories.
A Late Welcome to 2018
Hello and a very late Happy New Year from the Neon Magpie team. We are doing our first blog post of 2018 in February because we have had an extremely busy start to the year. At the end of January we exhibited at Scotland's Trade Fair in Glasgow. Between Christmas and the show we illustrated and made over 100 new products - these have started making their way onto our website. You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram to keep up to date with our new designs and product launches. Straight after Scotland's Trade Fair we were sucked into...
Stocking Fillers
The legend of how Christmas stockings began goes like this... A long time ago, there lived a poor man and his three beautiful daughters. He had no money pay for his daughter's weddings, and he was worried what would happen to them after he died. St. Nicholas was passing through the old man's village when he heard villagers talking about the girls. St. Nicholas wanted to help the old man but he wanted to keep it a secret. After dark he threw three bags of gold through the old man's window and one landed in a stocking which was drying by a...