Picnic I up - it's festival time!

Those long days where the sunlight lasts all evening, the grass smells sweet, the uptempo beat of the music keeps going sound tracking the chatter of your friends: that's what we love about summer.

We're not alone - perhaps it's the proximity to Glastonbury which means Bristol, our home town, is packed full of home grown festivals all summer long. We love it. This weekend is Bristol's biggest festival - the Harbour Festival - which is one of Europe's largest free festivals and takes place around the Harbour Side and other central sites. The crazy mish-mash of out there and loud local bands, contemporary dance troupes who can contort your concept of what shape a human body actually is, local history, the sweet dulcet acoustics of singer songwriters who sing poetry to music and a good helping of Bristol's best food and drink - all come together to make one amazing weekend.

Our new shop premises at Wapping Wharf is within the Harbour Festival site so it will be the first year we're fully part of it. To celebrate, we've a competition to win a set of Rice Melamine - the perfect companion to the festival picnic. The prize includes 4 cups and 4 small bowls in this summer's prints as well as a plate.

To enter all you have to do is like and comment on and share our posts on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter before the deadline 28th July 2017. Competition winners will be picked on 31st July and contacted via social media.

Competition Time: Win a Dybdahl Print

Heinrick Dybdahl is a tall Norweigan magpie living in Copenhagen. He's a collector of images. He raids archives for beautiful things, picking them over for the best bits and then meticulously and carefully works on bringing out their beauty.

Read on to win 2 prints - one for you and one for a friend.

His prints are vibrant and full of colour and the result of hours of work restoring and enhancing old found images. Sometimes he cuts those images up or finds finer detail in them, enlarges or shrinks them and crops them to choice bits. The resulting images are a homage to the days when people explored the world through the pages of books and through exhibitions. The days when travel was a real luxury but jumping into a picture was the way people learnt about the mysteries of the world.

We've a chance to win a pair of prints this week - one for you and one for a friend - on our social media channels. You can enter on Instagram, on Facebook and on Twitter and if you enter on all three you will increase your chance of winning. Please note the prints to win will be 30 x 40 in size valued at £20 each, unframed.

Deadline 4th June 2017

To enter on Facebook:

Click like and share on our competition post 

Name the friend you think would like a print in the post

To enter on Instagram

Like the competition post on Instagram 

Use their Instagram handle to name the person you think would like a print in the comments below the post

To enter on Twitter

Favourite the post on Twitter

Retweet the post and append the Twitter handle of the person you think would like a print to the end of your retweet

Competition Time!

Our favourite company Rice launch a new range of 6 prints each season and each season tells a story. This season’s “Be Extraordinary” range is dedicated to the creatives amongst us. They feature hand drawn illustrations, unusual patterns and paint splodges. The soft and inspiring colour palette would look so at home in an artist’s studio that we want to fill them with paint brushes, squeezed out tubes of acrylic and scraps of torn paper ready to collage together something both fabulous and definitely extraordinary.

We’ve got a competition for you to win a set of these extraordinary patterns - just check in to our Facebook page, Instagram feed or twitter and tell us what you find inspires you to make something extraordinary. For each social network you interact on we will give you an extra entry so up to 3 per person.

You’ll also need to fill in the form below so we know how to contact you if you win. And in even more great news, we have a 20% discount code which will get you a discount on any of the “Be Extraordinary” Rice range so if you just can’t wait you don’t have to! Simply add anything from our Rice Autumn 2016 range to your basket and use the code MyExtraRice20 or mention the code in the shop. The code is exclusively for new Autumn 2016 stock.

Competition and discount code end at midnight on 20th November 2016. Competition open to UK residents only. Delivery to UK addresses only.

The competition is now closed.

Summer Moods - Competition

Loving the summer? We are. As well as the summer mood boards we published earlier this month, we're running a competition - a chance to win a set of the melamine pictured above worth around £50. All you have to do is to tell us which of the 3 "summer moods" boards featured on our blog is your favourite and why? - comment on this or one of the mood board posts and fill in a quick form on Survey Monkey so we have your details if you win. The competition closes at midnight on Thursday 3rd July 2014. A winner will be chosen completely at random. One entry only per household, UK residents only. Winners will be informed on Friday 4th July 2014 by email.

Everyone's a Winner

Each entrant will also receive a 10% discount code to use on our site. This will be on the last page of the survey and it will be valid until Friday 4th July 2014. This code will be additional to the discount already on our mood board items. You can also use the discount code in our shop.

Follow us on Facebook?

If you follow us on Facebook you can also enter by commenting on the post on our Facebook page - it's a great place to find out what's new at fig1.co.uk - we update regularly with news and offers. 

How to Enter

To enter the competition please:

1. Comment on one of our Summer Moods blog posts or on the Facebook Page
2. Fill in the form on Survey Monkey so we have your details
3. Do all of the above before Thursday 3rd July 2014
4. The competition is available to UK residents only. Only 1 entry per household

The prize consists of 4 bowls and 4 cups from the High Summer Rice Melamine collection.

Please note - all comments on our blog are moderated and may not appear straight away.

We have a Winner

Thanks to everyone who entered our competition to win a set of Andrea Letterie melamine - it was a really popular competition and all the entrants came up with some great summer food idea. The winner was picked entirely at random from the entrants. Congratulations to Alissa Hankin from Southampton - your prize is on its way!

One theme stuck out from the entries seemed to be strawberries, cream and meringues. Being not far from the strawberry farms in the cheddar valley we can't help but agree that the strawberry is one of the highlights of the British summer. One of my other favourite ideas included a delicious sounding chickpea, feta, caramelised onion and coriander salad - sounds right up my street for a hot summers day. A few people also mentioned gooseberries - we used to have great bushes of gooseberries when we were kids and they got turned into jam, ice cream and fools. I love them!

As a small consolation prize we have a 10% discount code of MyGiveaway which can be used on our site in the basket page until Sunday 13th. And congratulations again to Alissa on her win!

Andrea Letterie from Rice DK - Competition Time!

It's competition time, folks!

NB - The competition is now closed!

Our favourite Danish brand Rice has launched this fab new range of melamine with prints by Dutch illustrator Andrea Letterie and we're so excited about it that we've decided to give a set away to one lucky fan. We're thinking ahead to picnic season here and we want your ideas for what you might pack up for the park to serve on your beautiful new tableware. So here's a chance to win over £100 worth of the beautiful melamine.

Andrea takes the inspiration for her artwork from everyday things - whether it's her collection of tea cups, her dog, or a bunch of colourful flowers from the garden. It's this love of bold, bright colour and simple pleasures which makes the collaboration with Rice DK such a good fit. As well as their fun and exciting design, we've always loved Rice for their ethical outlook, being one of the smallest companies ever to achieve Social Accountability 8000 accreditation, and it seems like a love of the simple things in life goes hand in hand with care and commitment to others.

Competition deadline: Midnight on 6th April 2014

How to win!

In case you hadn't noticed, we're very keen on food at fig1.co.uk. With the signs of spring firmly shooting up everywhere, we're thinking about picnics, barbecues and alfresco lunches - in fact, we rarely think about anything

else. So to help feed our obsession, give us some ideas of your favourite summer foods, either in a comment on this blog or on our Facebook page. Make it as simple or complicated as you like - go to town with a full recipe or a link to your blog, or just a quick word or two! We're looking forward to your ideas, but the winner will simply be picked at random with no judgement call so just a few words is fine if you are short of time. If you enter on Facebook we'd also like you to share the post about this competition - it helps share the fun!

This competition is only open to UK residents and shipping is to UK addresses only - we're a small UK focused company and our reach doesn't yet stretch beyond! Sorry to anyone outside of the UK!

We then have a simple form for you to fill in on Survey Monkey - this is just so we have details to inform people of the results - we'll use it to send one email to let you know if you have won or not, and we need the address so we can send the prize to the winner, but we will not store these details after the competition - you'll have to make sure you are on our mailing list separately if you want to receive future information from us by subscribing using the link on the bottom left of our home page at www.fig1.co.uk.

In Summary, to enter:

• Comment on this blog OR comment and share on the competition post on our Facebook page with a summer food idea
• Complete the form on Survey Monkey
• Deadline is Midnight on Sunday 6th April 2014
• Winners will be informed on Monday 7th April 2014
• UK entrants only

What you can win!

You can win a set of four dinner plates, cups and side plates with Andrea Letterie prints, an Andrea Letterie candle holder and one of these pretty glass bottle vases by Rice DK - worth over £100.

Good luck!