If you're someone that thinks candles are boring gifts, we hope that this blog will change your mind. 

Show them how important their special day is to you with a sentimental, personalised gift from MW Studio. 

This Friday 16th September is National Teaching Assistants Day.

This year will mark 10 years since its inception, having first coming about in 2012.

Teaching Assistants really do enhance the school experience. Their vital work to support children’s education has always warranted greater recognition and deservedly so, we have a day dedicated to celebrating the selfless, transformative work that they do.

There are currently around 244,000 TA's working in schools across the UK, with 96% of headteachers believing Teaching Assistants add value to their school - and of course they do! 

I remember how much my school TA's aided with my education as a child. From teaching me to read to talking me through the topics I struggled to grasp on a one-to-one basis. Additionally, they are also friends that you can confide in when you're feeling low. They were vitally important to my schooling career and I'm sure they were to yours, too! 

Unsurprisingly, here at MW Studio we believe personalised gifts are the best gifts we can give! 

When MW Studio was first conceived in 2011 - over the table in Melissa's kitchen - our focus was on one product: our personalised coin keyrings. This keyring was comprised of a silver disc - that we would hand engraved with your short messages - attached via a keyring to coins of your choice.

Since then (and thanks to our wonderful customers) the business has expanded, allowing the employment of more staff and the purchase of engraving machines, cancelling out the hand stamping and making the engraving process quicker and more efficient. 

Although we no longer hand engrave our items (apart from our Initial Keyrings), we still put so much love and energy into every item that we engrave. We read every message that you ask to be engraved and some of them have even made us cry! Personalising an item with words of your choice is such a unique and sentimental gifting experience and we try our absolute best to accommodate everyone's requests. We're absolutely sure that your personalised gift will raise a smile on the face of your recipient, even in their darkest hours. 

So, why choose a personalised gift? 

It's a hugely special time, they've done the thing! You've watched them grow into the incredible person that they are today and achieve the goals they've strived towards for so long. But what can you do to show them how proud you are of them? You want to gift them something sentimental to truly capture this moment in time. A small reminder of just how bad ass they really are, something that makes them feel unstoppable! 

Here at MW Studio, every personalised item that we make is, what we like to call, a 'Forever Piece'. A sentimental gift purchased with a loved one in mind,  commemorating that huge life moment. Our personalisable items serve as tangible memorandums that they can cherish for years to come!

Teachers do so much for us - not just educationally - they are our guardians, mentors and guides through the earliest years of our lives. The kindness, responsibility and selflessness that these Earth Angels possess is truly incredible and they deserve the biggest thanks. 

After everything that they do for us, they never ask for anything back. Sometimes saying 'thank you' simply doesn't feel like enough, and that's where this gift guide comes in. We have put together this blog post with some of our most popular products that sell at this time of the year. 

We may be a small business with a passion for sentimental gifts but believe me, we get it! It can be difficult to express in words how much somebody means to us sometimes.

Oftentimes it's easier to show them you care by giving them a gift, whether that be a thoughtful birthday present or your last biscuit in the pack. But knowing exactly what to write on a personal message card to go along with their gift can prove to be a bit of a struggle. 

The aim of this blog post is to hopefully ease the pressure of concocting a heartfelt, funny, respectful or romantic message for your recipient. We really hope this helps.

Hello lovely people! Sorry for going a bit AWOL over on the blogs, we've been super busy behind the scenes here at MW Studio thinking up the next best gifting ideas to show the important women in our lives just how much we appreciate them.

Since the release of our very popular Mother's Day candle boxes in March, we have been working hard to curate a new collection of gift boxes that include keepsakes, candles and additional extras to treat them on those monumental occasions, or when you just feel like showing your appreciation. We're talking: milestone birthdays, anniversaries, becoming a parent, graduating, getting married and even for the times when she just deserves a little reminder of how much she means to you.