New online shopping site Coastal Designs offers this delightfully nostalgic metal wall art piece titled 1950’s Regatta. The all-metal frame continues the hand beaten finish of each sailing yacht to give it a really rustic and interesting beach sand look and feel.

The article is part of the new Beach Life wall art collection from Beachhouse Decor. Coastaldesigns.com.au are offering all four framed peices from the collection as a set at a reduced price. The firm are also offering free freight within Australia for orders over $300. Coastal Designs also offer beach girl figurines and surfy cars amoung other coastal theme home decor. So if your about to start a room makeover then keep an eye on this new internet store for exciting designs with relaxing seaside or coastal images.

According to Cell phone news site Cellular Mode, Philips has a new iPhone lookalike, cellular mobile phone that is about to be released. So far, there are scant specification information and no details regarding release date, however they are expected to be available in the near future says cellularmode.com.
 
As originally leaked reports indicated the new phone is codenamed Xenium X800 and shares a similar iPhone style with WiFi support, also a WQVGA “e2e” touchscreen and a new operating system that resembles on new BlackBerry OS 4.6.

An innovative online shopping for baby business established by two Sydney school friends is taking the gift industry by storm. Babycupcakes has been nominated as a finalist in five categories at the prestigious 2008 Gift Awards, including the Award for the Best Retailer. Winners will be announced at a glittering gala night on May 30th.

Kathy Bellingham and Marianne Camper met as fifth graders at opportunity school in the Sydney in 1981. The friends won academic scholarships to the same high school, cementing a friendship that would later develop into a dynamic business partnership.

“We are incredibly proud to be recognised by our peers in an industry of constant innovation and creativity. To be chosen as finalists amongst such a high calibre of businesses is an honour, and we already feel like winners, whatever the outcome on May 30th. We are especially excited because this is the first time an online business has been up for the “Best Retailer’ award” states Kathy.

The duo’s business, Babycupcakes®, was established in 2003, specialising in bouquets of baby clothing, nappy cakes and baby clothing cleverly folded to look like food. Whilst the business started as an online baby gift service, babycupcakes.com , high demand for such unique baby products meant an expansion to the wholesale gift market in 2005.

“We now send over 4000 baby gifts a year worldwide on a a retail basis, as well as stocking over 400 retailers around Australia. We currently export to New Zealand, and are in the process of establishing export channels to the UK and Europe” says Marianne.

The blossoming business is based in a warehouse in Southern Sydney.

” It is fantastic that we can run what has developed into a worldwide business from Sydney.  We state on our packaging that all our gifts are hand rolled with love in Australia, and we are very proud of that fact. By manufacturing our gifts here, in Sydney, we can be assured that all our products are professionally made, according to our own high standards”explains Kathy.

Six expert industry judges will evaluate the finalists based on creativity, innovation, packaging and design, and winners will be announced at a gala presentation dinner - The Gift Awards 2008, Friday 30 May 2008, Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont. 

Proudly supporting the Starlight Children’s Foundation, bookings to the black-tie event are now being taken, and are open to any company in the gift industry to enjoy what is fast becoming the industry’s night of nights. For more information, please visit www.thegiftawards.com.au.

For more information about Babycupcakes®, please phone Kathy Bellingham on (02)95243231 or email visit their website at www.babycupcakes.com

Take a wondefull nostalgic trip with this old girl. The old VW Kombi van remains one of the much loved vehicles of yesteryear particular for the surfy guys and chicks and not to mention the flower power people that enjoyed the coastal lifestyle in them.

This product is a wonderfull image from the past and great home decor for online shoppers and coastal image decorators. Its all metal except for the tyres. It really a whole car cut lengthwise in half . It is also deliberately distorted slightly to over emphasise the vanishing point, making it a true three dimensional artwork.

It’s a large metal welcome sign with metal chain, in the form of a 3D wall plaque with surf board on the roof rack, 40cm long from the Beachhouse Decor collection available in most Thingz Gifts stores in WA.