The Band Wagon!

Once upon a time in a land far far away (Liverpool that is!) the boyfriend used to routinely help his best friends' band move their equipment from gig to gig. One of the main problems was that they had a hellova lot of gear and he had only a Citroen C2...If you imagine clowns piling into a mini, you may get a pretty good mental image of the chaos it caused!

One day we were talking about how often he would load up his car with band gear and we jokingly said that he should start up a band transportation company; it would be a super cool company that used only VW camper vans! We also said we would call it 'The Band Wagon'...What a perfect name! It was all just a pipe dream, a conversation that lasted no more than ten minutes but we always thought that we couldn't have come up with a better name if we'd actually tried!

Now, the boyfriend's birthday is coming up (though not for a good 3 months!) and I've started planning his presents. I knew I wanted to get him something from this blossoming hand made community that I'm now a part of and thought immediately of the fabulous 1st Unique Gifts and their amazing camper van work!

I emailed Wendy with a plan for a custom canvas, fully expecting it to be a little difficult to do and that it would take a good couple of weeks or even months to come into reality.

I couldn't have been more wrong! Within a couple of days I had a lovely little envelope full of paint swatches to help me choose the perfect shade, a couple of days after that I sent some pictures of what I wanted included in the image and barely a week after that I was sent this:



How amazing is that! Wendy even went to the trouble of painting the detail onto the scratch board of the guitar (which is actually the guitar I bought him last year for his birthday)! I am absolutely blown away by it!

Now...remember I said this was an extra early planned birthday present? Well I couldn't wait to give it to him so it's become a simple 'I love you' present and is already on the wall!

He loves it as much as I do and even wants more! In fact he wants 3 more to create a Warhol-esque display! I'll definitely be going back to 1st Unique Gifts for any customized canvases I fancy in the future!

Or clocks...

Or wall plaques..

or anything I need!

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