Macdonald Sporrans

We’ve just launched some great new hip flask designs. Many of these fit into our new category of contemporary hip flasks.

We have some great Q-Bic designs which feature a sateen finish and square corners and come with a variety of enamel finish caps. We also have some special shaped flasks such as the grip shaped hip flask and the stirrup shaped hip flask which we’re sure will be popular.

We’ve also created a category for plain hip flasks which is full of flasks with no patterns so that you can have them engraved with logos or text, or if you just like a plain flask.

We’re pleased to present a jumbo sized addition to our range of hip flasks. The 26oz giant pewter hip flask is big enough for you and a few friends to share a drink!

This huge flask measures approximately 20cm high by 10cm wide and is roughly 2.5 cm deep. It is hand made by experienced pewter manufacturers and can be engraved with a personalised message or logo.

All that, and it comes in a silk lined presentation box as standard!

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve just reviewed and reduced the prices of many of our hugely popular prince charlie kilt outfits and argyll kilt outfits.

Many of the kilt outfits have come down in price, some by over £50!

However, we have got 1 price increase, and it’s something we’re quite pleased about. Our Contemporary Prince Charlie Black Shadow Outfit has gone up slightly, however, the outfit has been improved considerably. It now features significantly better quality accessories, including full leather brogues, custom made belt and buckle, contemporary functional sgian dubh and funky thistle kilt pin.

We hope you’ll like the new changes and as always, please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.

Happy New Year from everyone at Macdonald Sporrans. We hope the new decade brings peace and prosperity to all.

Found this when searching for ‘New Year’ on Flickr.

found here by Paul Moody.

We’re signing off for the last time in 2009.

See you at 9am on the 4th January 2010!

As you may be aware, UK Value Added Tax (VAT) on sale of standard rated goods is due to increase from 15% to 17.5% at 00:00 on the 1st January 2010.

You can find the relevant HMRC report here.

We’ll do our best to make this change at midnight, but in reality we’ll probably be sipping whisky and singing Auld Lang Syne as the fireworks roar over the city centre.

For all our international customers who live outside the EU…the prices will remain exactly the same.

Due to high demand, we advertised our Standard Tartan Trews a few months ago, and we’re pleased to say that they are proving very popular despite not having a single image of our trews!

I’m pleased to say that we now have some quality images of our standard trews, and hope to have images of our fishtail back tartan trews and military style tartan trews in the near future.

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and we wish you all the very best for the new year.

We’re hoping that the snow stays away so that Edinburgh’s famous Hogmanay celebrations can go off without a hitch this year.

After a Christmas rush on our popular tartan rugs, I’m pleased to say that our hugely popular Antique Buchanan tartan rug is now back in stock.

Tartan blankets are a great gift for someone this Christmas. They’re roughly 60″ by 70″ in size, which makes them big enough to cover your car seats, to throw over your couch or any of the other useful things you can think of to do with them.

We’ve also upgraded our processing time of our lambswool tartan rugs and can now dispatch them within 1 working day. So, if you’re looking for a rug to snuggle up in this cold winter season, a lambswool tartan rug may be the ideal solution.

Despite the recession, we’re busier than ever and happy to report that we’re still providing our excellent order processing times and general high level of service.

I mentioned a couple of months ago that we were pleased to hit 200 positive feedbacks in the last 30 days on our eBay account.

I’m very pleased to say that for the last couple of days, we’ve hit over 300 positive feedbacks in the last 30 days! Busier than ever, and providing service that’s better than ever!