Dear All,

Summer has come and gone, leaves are falling and we are looking into the face of shorter days and winter’s wet, windy weather, but it’s not all doom and gloom.

At Oyster Moon, we are always trying to make the day a little brighter. We think our latest product will do just that, it’s small, but makes us smile every time we look at it.

You may remember, when we first came up with the idea of putting our Ocean collection onto bone china, we had some issues with curves! The Hug a Mug was our first choice, we just couldn’t make our larger designs work on them. Being practical, we went with the Really Large bone china mugs and are happy to say they are very popular.

But we just couldn’t forget about those fabulous Hug a Mugs.

Fast forward a few months and we were looking for something new to add to our range of products. The sample Hug a Mug we’d ordered, and not used, sat on the shelf looking at us! Loving a challenge and not wanting to give in - we brainstormed and came up with four designs, two of which, use our Ocean collection in mini form and two have new graphic designs.

We love being positive, pretty things and, of course, the colour blue! We are Oyster Moon, after all! So here they are, four new Hug a Mugs, four positive sayings and four cute designs, there’s something for everyone. We can’t say enough about how well each mug sits in your hands, the teeny, tiny designs we’ve added to the front of the beautiful bone china and the message tucked away inside. We love them!

It just goes to show, sometimes when something doesn’t work out the first time, give it a chance, take some time and think about it and maybe, just maybe that something might turn out to be something wonderful!

With love and of course, hugs.

Oyster Moon

Each mug comes with an inspiration message inside.

We’ve been drawing and painting for a long time and the most wonderful thing about art is that you learn something new every day. It always amazes us how each medium brings with it its own level of difficulty, pleasure and pure ‘tear your hair out’ moments!

Probably one of the most important lessons we have learned recently, is to leave some things to the experts. Oyster Moon is growing and our beautiful designs will soon be on 100% cotton tea towels and bone china mugs. Both of those things we have used all of our lives, but never designed or made. So after much searching we’ve found two great British companies to make them for us.

Todays lesson: When you decide to put your designs onto different products, nothing is easy. Take our new mug design. We had grand thoughts of putting our Ocean designs onto a plump, round, cradle in two hands, china mug, something to drink from while sitting in front of a warm fire. In theory it all sounds wonderful and there are some amazing mugs out there. But it turns out that if you take something like a Seahorse or a Whale and want to put it onto a curvy mug - things soon go pear shaped! Our flat, watercolour Seahorse design didn’t like being wrapped around in two different directions onto a bulbous mug and the Whale rebelled.

So after much deliberation with experts, we decided to leave the plump mug for a bit and instead we’ve gone completely in the other direction with a giant, white, bone china mug, with straight sides. The crisp clean lines take our watercolour Seahorse, Whale and Sea Turtles perfectly. The generous size of the mug feels at home either sitting on a dresser in a coastal cottage, hanging on a hook in a beach hut or on a mug rack in a city kitchen.

A drink of tea or a latte tastes beautiful from the bone china and if you love hot chocolate (who doesn’t), there’s plenty of room for whip cream and marshmallows! You are welcome.

The tea towel was a little easier, but getting our designs onto fabric and on a much larger scale also took some planning. We tried making our whales small and putting hundreds on one pattern, but it just didn’t look like us! So our new design gives you our Ocean collection on one tea towel, with our Whale Shark, Narwhal and many more designs all big, bold and beautiful and in fabulous detail.

In putting our new products together, we’ve found some great companies and very clever people in the UK and look forward to working with them.

Over the last few years, Oyster Moon has taken on a certain look, driven by our love of the sea and everything coastal. Our look isn’t fussy, it’s clean lines and beautiful blues and we feel going forward our products reflect just that.

Our cotton tea towel and Really Large bone china mugs will be available early in the new year and we hope you enjoy them and they bring a smile to your day.

A sneak peek at our Really Large Mugs and 100% cotton Tea Towels.