“Our everyday jobs immerse us in trends, designs, styles, accessories, homes and interiors. We’re done with bunting, we’re done with cup-cakes and we won’t Keep Calm! We’ve always loved wool pompoms. So we’ve started with a small choice of handmade wool pompom garlands…” PomPom Galore.
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| PomPom Galore stag & white pompom garland. Image by Victoria Macken Photography. |
PomPom Galore is brand new handmade business set to take the wedding and party industry by storm. A twist on bog standard bunting, pompoms give off a fun and playful vibe. Be as colourful as you like! Wind them around banisters, chairs and tables. Decorate the walls and hang them from the ceiling. Wherever you put them they are guaranteed to raise a smile. Pompoms tie in great with a winter wonderland wedding theme. Add some pompom happiness to your wedding day.
Kat and Marisa are the founders of the vibrant new business PomPom Galore. Here is what they have to say about all of the pompom madness…
Where did the idea for PomPom Galore come from?
Working in homewares and interiors PR we are constantly in front of new trends and designs, decorations and products, often working at least 6 months ahead of the season. With the big craft movement, we’ve seen a lot of bunting. It just came out of a conversation in the office one day back in May. We were surrounded by colour palettes, fabric swatches and product samples, working on trend forecasts for Christmas 2013. Our faces lit up when talking about wool pompoms and it has all stemmed from there. The conversation kept popping up, and our ideas starting spiralling seeing a gap in the market for a yarn pompom garland decoration. As the garlands are strung with multiple individual wool pompoms PomPom Galore just came out of a brief brainstorm. We wanted to use real wool. They are wool yarn pompoms on waxed cotton thread with loops at each end. They are a handmade product.
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| PomPom Galore colourful pompoms. Image by Victoria Macken Photography |
What are your backgrounds and how has this helped with developing PomPom Galore?
Kat worked in product development for 14 years in the homeware accessories industry and Marisa worked in luxury interiors PR setting up her own business to work with small makers and designers from across the UK. We visit a lot of trade and design shows as well as working with bloggers and press all within this sector. We have utilised our shared skills, initially focusing on decorative garlands for Christmas. Working outside of regular office hours we have done the product development, website, branding and photography ourselves. And of course the marketing and PR. Kat’s brother, Jim Stephens, took the photographs on the hottest day of 2013 where we threw fake snow all over fir trees to get the festive look.
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| PomPom Galore multicoloured pompoms. Image by Jim Stephens. |
How do you see PomPom Galore developing in the future?
We have been live since mid-September and have had a super response, especially from the wedding market who we introduced ourselves to via twitter #weddinghour. We’ve been sending PomPom Garlands all over the UK! Things have been hotting up in the last few weeks, with customers really getting the pompom garland vibe, and seeing how they can be used as an original decoration. The key to bringing the garlands to life was to get the styling right. From the start we knew how we wanted it to look. The garlands are extremely well made using the finest materials, we want customers to be able to use them year in year out. We see huge potential, and will be developing the range to introduce new colours and sizes for Spring / Summer 2014. We have just had a chat about Autumn / Winter 14 -15 too.
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| Colourful pompom garland. Image courtesy of PomPom Galore. |
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| Marquee pompom decor. Image courtesy of PomPom Galore, taken at the beautiful Iscoyd Park wedding venue. |
Fancy adding a splash of colour and fun to your venue? Find out more about PomPom Galore (I’m a poet and I didn’t know it)…
PomPom Galore www.pompomgalore.co.uk also at The Wise House www.thewisehouse.co.uk
Pinterest: For some great pompom pinspiration www.pinterest.com/pompomgalore
Twitter: @pompomgalore
Images by Jim Stephens, and Victoria Macken Photography
