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Camaloon – a cool way to transform your travel snaps into fridge magnets.

Trish Burgess Posted on14/10/201307/08/2016 Reviews 20 Comments
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XS size fridge magnets from Camaloon

For all I like travelling, I’ve always been a bit hopeless with regard to souvenirs. As a child I brought home castanets and maracas from Spain and, unintentionally, a rather well-endowed bull from a Majorcan glass factory. I remember asking Mum why it had five legs, one a bit shorter than the other four, and she told me it must have come from the seconds bin. I believed her for years.

Since our trip to Iceland in 2007, our son, Rory, has collected fridge magnets as souvenirs and this has proved to be a simple, cheap purchase to make and unlikely to cause any awkward parenting moments. We have quite a collection now but it has always frustrated Rory that we haven’t any magnets from places we visited prior to Iceland, plus we forgot to buy one from Lake Garda and our magnetic bottle opener from Berlin is broken.

Camaloon came to the rescue. This cool, young company, based in Barcelona, offered to create some fridge magnets for me, using my own photographs from each destination. Why didn’t I think of that before?!

I emailed over some images and they turned them into fabulous magnets. They sent me a selection of magnets: some were rigid with a shiny finish (Hunstanton and Rome) whilst others were flexible with a matte finish. Barcelona and Bardolino were classed as medium (105 x 74 mm), Berlin and Venice were small (74 x 52 mm). ย Despite my photographs not being the best quality (the Rome and Venice images were scanned from old snaps) the magnets look brilliant, even better than the photos below as the colours are sharper in real life.

 

Camaloon fridge magnet HunstantonCamaloon fridge magnet Berlin

 

 

Camaloon fridge magnet Bardolino

These magnets were made for me, with little effort on my part, but to order online seems simple enough – choose size, type of magnet and have fun adding icons such as the heart next to Venice or a flower in place of an ‘O’ in Bardolino.

fridge magnet Camaloon Venice

Of course, you can choose anything you like to go on the magnets: design something relevant to your child which you could then use to stick their artwork onto the fridge door? You could even experiment with the shape if you choose a flexible magnet: there are no limits to your imagination.

Camaloon fridge magnet Camaloon

Camaloon also provide skins for iPhones and iPads plus stickers, buttons and wall stickers. It’s a bright, fun site, easy to use and prices vary depending on how many of each you order. Delivery was speedy via DHL.


Camaloon provided me with a selection of fridge magnets at no charge, for review purposes. For further details on designs, prices and delivery, take a look at their website: Camaloon

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20 Comments

  1. Mac n' Janet Reply
    14/10/2013 at 3:26 pm

    I love this! This will make a great gift for our daughter, I'll surprise her with a handful of them.

    • Trish Burgess Reply
      14/10/2013 at 6:37 pm

      They are a great idea, aren't they. I have a feeling the shipping may only be within Europe but hopefully you can find something similar in the US.

    • Eddie Pezzopane Reply
      16/10/2013 at 8:29 am

      Hi Janet and Trish! The shipping is worldwide, so no worries for that!

    • Trish Burgess Reply
      16/10/2013 at 8:35 am

      Excellent! Thanks Eddie.

  2. Steve Reply
    14/10/2013 at 4:55 pm

    OK. I need to get new spectacles. I could have sworn the title said "navel snaps".

    • Trish Burgess Reply
      14/10/2013 at 6:38 pm

      Now that would make for interesting dinner party conversation if had one of those on my fridge.

  3. K Ville Reply
    14/10/2013 at 5:19 pm

    Seconds bin? Seriously?! Oh bless you. Girls school my love?!

    • Trish Burgess Reply
      14/10/2013 at 6:39 pm

      Yes….convent!

  4. Curry Queen Reply
    14/10/2013 at 6:34 pm

    Love the fridge magnets but still snorting at the bull with 5 legs!

    • Trish Burgess Reply
      15/10/2013 at 5:24 pm

      Sheltered upbringing – no pets either!

  5. Funky Wellies Reply
    14/10/2013 at 8:16 pm

    What a great idea! And not coming from the seconds bin, I take it? ๐Ÿ˜‰ xx

  6. Trish Burgess Reply
    14/10/2013 at 8:25 pm

    Indeed not! X

  7. Tattooed_Mummy Reply
    15/10/2013 at 1:17 pm

    ooh these look good, the flexible I can make myself (sheets of printable magnetic stuff can be bought easily) but the shiny harder ones sound excellent! I shall have a look!

    • Trish Burgess Reply
      15/10/2013 at 4:51 pm

      Ooh you're clever to make the flexible ones yourself. I keep thinking of other ideas – if I had sent them the image for my blog header I could have turned them into unusual business cards!

  8. BavarianSojourn Reply
    15/10/2013 at 7:22 pm

    What a fabulous idea. I had to start reading this post about 3 times. I couldn't get past the bull with the five legs, you are funny! ๐Ÿ˜€ xx

    • Trish Burgess Reply
      15/10/2013 at 8:08 pm

      I'm sorry. I ruin a perfectly sensible item about magnets with my nonsense!

      Your photos would be fantastic done this way.

  9. Sarah Reply
    17/10/2013 at 1:48 pm

    What a nifty idea. I'll have a look at those for Christmas pressie ideas.

    Good thing they aren't in France or they'd already be a defunct business.

    • Eddie Pezzopane Reply
      18/10/2013 at 7:54 am

      HI Sarah, we are thriving! So no funerals in sight for us! Get in touch with us for xmas then .-)

    • Sarah Reply
      18/10/2013 at 12:44 pm

      I'll be looking through my photos. I'm glad to hear that Spain is good for businesses. ๐Ÿ™‚

  10. Emma Reply
    22/10/2013 at 10:09 am

    oooh, how cool! What a lovely holiday memory. x

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