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The Adventures of the Wishing Chair

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Our mission is to provide women with playful, creative design solutions for their living space while also supporting local communities in India by employing women artisans to make our products.

Vases & Planters: These charming wishing chair planters & vases are the perfect way to add a touch of greenery to your room. They come in a set of 2 planters, and each one is handpainted with a delightful design. The best part? You can also light up your space with their beautiful glass vases.If you love plants, but don't have a green thumb, the wishing chair planters & vases are perfect for you! These beautiful ceramic pieces are hand painted with intricate designs, and make perfect indoor plants. Plus, their small size makes them ideal for any space.Over the course of the books they travel to all kinds of weird and wonderful places — the Land of Dreams, the Village of Slipperies, Mister Grim's School for Bad Brownies, the Land of Goodies and many others, meeting characters like the Grabbit Gnomes, Witch Kirri-Kirri, the Snoogle, Mr. Spells and Winks the brownie. Enid Blyton used some of the same lands in her Faraway Tree series. Bed Linen, Cushions & Throws: Add a touch of luxury to your living space with The Wishing Chair’s gorgeous hand-embroidered cushions that are the perfect addition to any room in your home. Place them on your plush couches and enjoy sinking into their soft embrace. You can also use them to add a touch of luxury to your living room sofa. Our cushions come in a variety of beautiful designs, so you can find the perfect ones for your home.

While visiting a giant's castle, Peter and Mollie rescue a pixie named Chinky. He comes to live in the playroom at the bottom of the children's garden, where they keep the wishing-chair, and he is able to alert them whenever the chair grows its wings and is ready to whisk them off on yet another fantastic adventure. Serveware: Tired of using cheap, flimsy serveware that doesn't last? With our best-selling, handpainted, and beautiful designs, get something that'll stay with you for years. Give a gift that's sure to be treasured for years to come. These serveware sets make great wedding, housewarming, and birthday presents. With designs ranging from nature-inspired flowers and butterflies to classic, elegant lines and patterns, there's something for everyone. These serveware sets are available in a variety of designs, and we are confident that you will find the perfect set for your needs! We design and handcraft, limited edition high quality homeware & gifting products that allow you to express your artistic self. Whether it's through our ceramics, wall art or decor, we want to give you the opportunity to explore and play with your style every day.All pieces of our homeware are thoughtfully handcrafted and deeply rooted in Indian craft techniques from start to finish! Small is Beautiful: Ours is a self-funded business with a lot of help from our friends and family. We aim to be responsible and sustainable in the long term. We hold our values sacred, and would never compromise on them in pursuit of mindless growth. In a perfect world, we would like both – so let’s see what the future holds! Our Process When Peter and Mollie wander into an antique shop to buy a present for their mother's birthday, little do they know how enthralling life is about to become. Quite by accident, they acquire a wishing-chair which sprouts wings and flies them wherever they want to go. The first book about Mollie, Peter and the Wishing-Chair, The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair, was published in 1937. It contained 36 chapters that had originally been serialised in Sunny Stories magazine during that year. In 1939 a new edition came out, reduced to 31 chapters. Editions from 1963 to 1968 had 27 chapters and the current edition has 26. In 1950 a second book, The Wishing-Chair Again, was published, having been serialised in Sunny Stories the previous year. In 2000, a new collection entitled More Wishing-Chair Stories was published, containing some of the removed chapters from the original edition of The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair as well as additional Wishing-Chair stories from Sunny Stories and the 1952 Enid Blyton Omnibus.

An animated series, Enid Blyton's Enchanted Lands, based on stories from The Wishing Chair and The Faraway Tree series was broadcast in 1997 and 1998. A selection of episodes, "The Ho Ho Wizard", "The Grabbit Gnomes", "Poor Lost Jigs", "The Land of Dreams", "The Disappearing Islands", "The Magician's Party" and "The Chair Clowns About" were later released on VHS and DVD. The complete series was later released on VHS in 1999 on 2 separate tapes with 6 other episodes added which included: "The Invisible Chair", "The Great Escape", "The Snoogle", "The Slipperies", "The Land of Goodies" and "Mr Spells and the Wandering Castle". The voice cast were: Richard Pearce, Julia Harrison-Jones, Mark Channon, Nigel Pelgram, Adrienne Posta and David Holt. Handmade and Artisanal: We hand paint all our designs; from our ceramics to our metal-works, which are handcrafted and painted in small batches, and produced by karigars across IndiaMinor editorial amendments have been made to the books over the years to bring text in line with the editorial standards above, including changing the name of the main pixie character to Binky in 2018. Mugs - set of 2 , ceramic serveware, soy wax candles, desk accessories, jewelry box, measuring cups, measuring spoons, handpainted bowls, teacup and saucers, unique wall shelves, gifts for her Top Rated Dining The most common types of ceramic you'll find in stores are Earthenware, Stoneware, Dolomite, Porcelain & Bone China Gift Guide Mollie and Peter, searching for a birthday present for their mother, find a mysterious antiques shop which appears to be run by fairy folk. There, they find a magic Wishing-Chair with the power to grow wings and fly. After the chair rescues them from the shop, and gets them home, they decide to keep the chair in their playroom. On their first adventure, they rescue a pixie called Chinky (renamed to Binky in revised editions and Jigs in the TV series) [1] from a giant. The pixie comes to live in their playroom, and the remainder of the book concerns the adventures of the children, as the chair takes them, and Chinky (later named Binky) to various magical places.

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