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I don't think pink gets enough air time if I'm honest. It often gets overlooked as too girly, too sugary, too brash but it really is an amazing colour. Watching the Barbie film this week made me reaffirm my love of pink. It has the boldness of red but without the harsh heat, the glow of yellow but just more depth and a frisson of fun that blue, green and grey just don't have. We have lots of shades of pink here at BeGolden ( another plus point - its huge range of variations). In our linen range we have...

When you go on holiday how many photos do you take? Why not go old school and make a photo album up! Get those photos off your phone and put them into a luxuriously handbound photo album.

This question 'which colour foil should I use for the personalisation on my guest book?' is a really common one, and it's actually quite tricky to answer as it's so subjective. When we started the business 15 years ago we were champions of gold ( hence the name BeGolden ) as it was the heyday of all things white, grey and silver and we wanted to be different. The White Company was massive, piles of silver bangles a must, grey interiors the only way and everyone wanted silver embossing. Out of 20 printed orders only one would be gold and...

Glassine pages are the smooth, translucent, tactile, delicate pages that interleave every page of all our albums. Flipping them over is one of my very favourite ASMR moments as it makes the best ever, soft yet crisp sound. The fundamental strengths of glassine paper is that it is air, water and grease resistant so excellent at protecting the photos from the elements and also your cup of tea and your sticky fingers. The paper sheets also protect the photos from each other - so when you close the album you don't have one photo ( with all its inky chemicals...