Turkey with the Midas Touch

This picture and recipe on the BBC website caught our eye - a gold plated turkey to bring sparkle to the Xmas dinner table. All you need to do is cook your turkey as normal and then gild it with 25 small sheets of 25K gold leaf! That's all, and the turkey is still edible....Not so sure about the green stuff around it though. Thanks to Tanya for alerting us to this great recipe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/food/2010/11/stefan-gates-golden-turkey.shtml

BeGolden in Fabulous Magazine

Although you can't see our products in the above image, our best-selling Seletti gold mugs and our gold teapot both featured in this weekend's Fabulous Magazine (News of the World 28/11/10). They look gorgeous in a festive interiors photoshoot which displays metallic hues, rich jewel colours and a touch of frost. Thanks to Sophie, the stylist who selected our products to be included!

Gorgeous Gold Dust Skull

I'm not actually sure that 'gorgeous' is the right word. This  gold skull amazing though and strangely mesmerising when you see it in the flesh. Made from ceramic and then dipped in gold and sprinkled in gold dust it is a work of art. We decided to invest in a few skulls as we've really noticed that they are scattered around everywhere at the moment and we'd read in one of the design magazines that they were going to become the 'antlers' of 2011. Also, we can't help but be swayed by everyone else and when we spoke to Andrew our supplier who makes them he said, ' I've only got a few gold ones left and one of the big fashion houses has shown interest in them for their next season'. We had to buy more.

Gold Exhibition at the Field Museum Chicago

Gold Exhibition at the Chicago Field Museum

I recently had a short trip to Chicago and when I saw that the renowned Field Museum was staging a temporary exhibition on Gold, I had to pay a visit. There were plenty of historical and scientific facts, but the most striking exhibit was the 300 square foot room covered in 23k gold leaf. I discovered that there is peach gold, purple gold and black gold as well as the better known white, yellow and pink versions. I also found out that my weight in gold would be worth over £3million! But overall, I was slightly disappointed - they could have done more to display the enduring beauty and glamour of gold (and it's application in fashion, interiors and jewellery). The obligatory gift shop at the end of the exhibition was disappointing - tacky gold knick knacks, they most definitely need some of our tasteful BeGolden delights in there.

BeGolden Products featured in Elle Decoration & Essential Kitchens, Bathrooms, Bedrooms

These gold leather journals are featured in this month's Elle Decoration magazine as part of an article on Christmas gifts "the most fabulous treats around".  Elle Decoration is the world's best selling homes magazine and frequently features products from Liberty, Selfridges, Zara Home etc so we are very pleased to be included.  Our gold leather stationery range is a popular staple of the BeGolden collection. Lovingly handmade in West Sussex using the best quality recycled paper and leather in a gorgeous shade of gold. 

Thank you Elle Decoration - we have bought almost all the copies in the shop!

And the other good news is that we're in EKBB magazine (December) with our acrylic gold candelabra from Titi Madam. This is part of a gorgeous feature on using candelabras to create festive dinner tables. This candelabra is a modern take on a very traditional design using contemporary materials to update the look.

We're very excited this week as two of BeGolden's products made it into the glamorous Kitchens, Bedrooms, Bathrooms magazine (November edition). They have a gorgeous feature on metallic home accessories called Bronze Age - let your home dazzle this autumn with shimmering metallics in bronze, gold and rich copper shades. The products featured are our gold brass toothbrush holder and cotton wool pot. It's certainly the season for introducing some golden accessories into your home, so hopefully this will inspire more people to take a look at our shimmering range.

Such a Pretty Ring!

We've just got the new collection of Lucas Jack Gold Button Rings and the pink one is absolutely divine. The colour of the stone is just like raspberry sorbet and it goes so well with the gold. I took this photo out in the garden and am so pleased that it really captures the beauty of it. (Photography is all new to me and I am swiftly turning quite nerdy about it)

BeGolden celebrates 1st Anniversary

Bobby, Lorraine & Kate Celebrate 1st Anniversary

We celebrated the first anniversary of BeGolden on Saturday night and above is the photo and champagne to prove it. An evening of laughter shared with our husbands celebrating our first year. Food, wine, gifts, toasts and a quiz to test our memories (including.....what was our biggest single order, which product is our best seller, what was the name of the driver who braved the snow to deliver emergency stock in time for us to fulfil last minute Christmas orders?) - all made the evening one to remember. We celebrated a great first year of trading online and talked about the many plans and aspirations we have for the years ahead. We are looking forward to continuing to delight and inspire our customers with many more gorgeous, new golden products.

Preparing for the Christmas Shopping Season at BeGolden

Christmas comes early in online retail and so at BeGolden we are getting ready. We are currently taking delivery of our new gold product ranges - including new gold kitchenware and homeware, a new gold jewellery range and gorgeous gold Christmas decorations - as well as planning our marketing campaigns. It's a busy time for all of us. Bobby is exercising her photographic skills, Kate is getting the website ready and Lorraine is chanelling her efforts into PR. Things are falling into place.......we're delighted with the BeGolden design update. Dominic, our designer has given us a fresher home page design - something that is still distinctly us (gold and beautiful!), but cleaner and lighter in execution. We've also been really encouraged by the reaction to our PR efforts - a number of magazines have contacted us for product samples including Elle Decoration, Good Housekeeping, Living etc, Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms so we are crossing fingers and toes that we will get coverage in their Christmas editions. We'll keep you posted on progress over the coming weeks.

BIBA loves gold!

Wow, I visited my local House of Fraser this weekend and was bowled over by the fabulous Biba collection just in. Gorgeous gold and black floaty evening numbers caught my eye in particular and although it's too early really to be thinking about the party season ahead, I might just have to splash out sooner than I had expected. The Biba brand has been through its ups and downs since it launched in the 60s (read about it on Wikipedia), but it's great to see that it is back on form and with gold a dominant theme in the latest collection, we just had to give them a mention on the BeGolden blog! If you like gold too, you will love our own BeGolden ranges of gold handbags, accessories and jewellery.

Autumn & Christmas products are coming soon

We've had a busy couple of weeks placing orders for our new collections for the Autumn/Winter and Christmas seasons. We had a successful shopping trip to the Top Drawer trade show at Earl's Court in London and as a result have some great new homeware products and a new range of jewellery to add to our site as soon as they arrive. We were inspired by the vintage look of the Miss Etoile collection from Denmark. This is all about beauty, feminity and French boudoir. Quite a contrast to our best-selling and contemporary, funky Seletti gold homeware and therefore giving us more variety and depth to our catalogue. We were also delighted by the intricate jewellery we found at Mirabelle and again this contrasts very nicely with our contemporary Lucas Jack jewellery range. Keep a look out on our site http://www.begolden.co.uk/ for these new products over the coming weeks.

New Limited Edition Handbag Range

Limited Edition Metallic Gold Leather Tote Bag

Finding a gold leather bag that is glamorous but not too glitzy can be difficult. We have sourced a limited edition range of gold handbags made from the softest leather and produced in the UK using traditional techniques. Each handbag is beautifully hand-crafted and finished to perfection. There is a great range of styles from the Tote bag as shown above to fun cross body style bags to large and practical hobo bags. These handbags are so versatile - bringing pizazz to your daytime attire or adding glamour to your evening wear. Prices for our gorgeous gold leather handbags start at £65. Handbags such as these are an investment and we're sure you will be delighted by their styling and features. Click here to take a look at all the options in our store today.  

New Jewels in Town

How gorgeous are these!!! This is part of the latest Lucas Jack collection and it's all just so lovely. 

I've just bought a turquiose and gold maxi dress from Monsoon and it NEEDS these earrings. It also needs the necklace and the cuff but that's being greedy...

See our complete Lucas Jack jewellery range by clicking here

Vintage Gold Coming Soon!

We are collecting our new vintage gold range as we speak and can't wait to share it with you. We've already found beautiful teasets, antique mirrors, pearlised teapots, gorgeous cake stands and so much more. We will launch our vintage range in early Autumn so keep an eye on our website www.begolden.co.uk. You can be sure that you will be getting something quite unique as everything is a one-off.

Welcome

Welcome to our new blog where we will keep you up to date on what we're doing in our BeGolden online shop (www.begolden.co.uk). We set up BeGolden 12 months ago when we realised there was a gap in the market for a collection of gifts, homeware and accessories inspired by gold. We knew it was time to bid farewell to the minimalist world that is silver and to welcome back the warmth and decadence that is gold.

We spent several months researching and sourcing suppliers who could meet our expectations and deliver unusual products that delight and inspire. The BeGolden.co.uk website went live in late 2009 and we've had a fantastic response to our range with bestsellers from gold milk jugs, to gold gnomes, gold Hunter wellies, gold photo albums, gold teapots, gold umbrellas, gold bags and much more. 

We are now busy sourcing for the Autumn/Winter and Xmas 2010 season so look out for more gorgeous items from Lucas Jack jewellery, gold leather handbags, wallets/purses and laptop bags to die for from Owen Barry and Barbara Wiggins and new luxury stationery items from Undercover.