A Casual Man Pin Badge Set

Fellow menswear and lifestyle blogger Craig from A Casual Man has taken matters into his own hands by creating this nice collectors set, for fans of this site and badge enthusiasts out there.

The ACM Enamel Pin Badge Set comes with two 1" badges, designed by Craig himself, limited to 100  sets and Made in the UK. I was lucky enough to be sent a set, doing a bit of a trade-off for one of our Northern Goods Co. Key Clips. Good deal. It's great to see people wanting to enhance their blogs by creating unique content and product which they believe in. I've been toying with the idea of creating a product for Buckets & Spades for a while now.

Visit the A Casual Man store here.

We're in Brighton Monday to Wednesday this week, via Thorpe Park on the way! So apologies if I don't reply to any of your comments or emails, I'll be on that when I get back.

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Best Buddies - Acme Couriers

Best buddies ride sidecar, everyone knows that. My mum found this ACME Couriers motorbike and sidecar duo a few weeks ago, she said it was my grandad's from years ago. A bit of research tells me this neat toy was reissued in 2010. It's pretty clear where I get my obsession with collecting things like this from, he had what now seems like a bottomless pit of oddities from all around the world.

These fellas now sit proudly on my desk, next to my collection of Bearbricks, staplers and notepads.

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Collect - Tea Tags

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I think I've found another thing to collect, Tea Tags. I don't think a week went by after I started my pursuit into collecting old American stamps before I discovered these tea tag collections on Pinterest (follow me at mat_buckets). I drink tones of the stuff so I may as well be ripping the tags off and adding them to a collection; I think they've got the potential to look really smart in a frame. Similar to my old stamp collection (something I really need to share with you all, some are over 100 years old and have war prints on them!) they're all typically varied in design, shape, colour and country of origin. I'll be turning to eBay and my own cupboards in search of some corkers.

I'll be interested to hear if any of you collect tea tags or anything else connected to tea. Do you guys collect anything in particular? 

Next week I'll be launching a sweet little giveaway, the prize will make a nice Christmas present so keep your eyes peeled for that one.