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We have been internally testing a new form of delivery service, and are pleased to announce that the results have been outstanding. We’re rolling out the service on iTasveer in selected cities and plan to start with the NCR region. Without further ado.. presenting the iTasveer DDS. DDS stands for dog delivery service, and we are proud to announce that we have been able to train a pack of dogs to make deliveries locally within Gurgaon.

Woofy - our mascot

Danny the dog carrying a mug safely to it's destination

Now for the juice on this. In our experiments we found that much like homing pigeons, dogs can also be trained to deliver to a particular location and return. The problems with pigeons was, that our packages were often too heavy for pigeons to carry for even short distances. The answer emerged from where we least expected it. Danny, our in house Alsatian, has always been super efficient at fetching the news paper. And the idea struck “hey.. wait a minute. if he can fetch the newspaper, can he also deliver it elsewhere”, thought Ashish. The experiments started, we tied a mug on Danny’s back and sent him off to our neighborhood residence. It worked!

So after some testing and getting convinced that this could really be a disruptive service, we’ve decided to launch it in limited locations. Let me tell you why this is so disruptive

1. It is environmentally friendly. No machines, no petrol.

2. Dogs are faster than courier trucks in heavy traffic. Or even in light traffic. Our dogs don’t have to take the road you see, they’re as comfortable offroad.

3. Dog is a man’s best friend. Who better to deliver your packages to you than your best friend.

So the next time you order from us, and see a faithful ol’ dog at your doorstep, don’t be surprised!

[update: now that we're past april 1, I just thought I'd specify that this was posted on april 1 :p]

First, the biggie!
We are introducing super sized teddy bear for all you valentine love birds. The teddy is about 3 ft. tall and wears a t-shirt which bears your picture or message. And going by the hugs he’s getting from the girl in the picture below (thanks Bulbul for posing!), they already love it.

It’s a no-brainer girls love teddies (See What Girls Say) . Moreover even Himanshu, our design team member, fancies them and gladly poses away :P (No, he was neither threatened, nor promised any perks to do this – he willingly volunteered!)

When they say love is in the air, we say, well let’s make it a little more real – love is in the bear! So gift your valentine a super-teddy and get ready for super smiles and super hugs!

While we won’t tell you (just yet) what we have in store for you this new year, we bring you back some calendar themes that had gone missing, such as the rich black Colored Strings, the super fun Creature Creep, the paintsy Pastels and some more. Most of these are available across different calendar styles: Desk, Split, Wide and Wall.

And guess what, we give you a blog-and-social-media-exclusive offer of 15% discount on all calendars valid till 30 November. Use the coupon code CAL15OFF on the shopping cart to avail this offer.

Ready to make some calendars?

Note: Photos for this post are courtesy of Photos India.

Besides the unique Diwali Photo Candle and offers we have for you (which are ending soon – so hurry :) ), we recently introduced three interesting new products:

The photo personalised Piggy Bank (or गुल्लक as we call it in Hindi),

This is made of ceramic and about the size of the classic white coffee mug we sell at itasveer.

A photo tray

This one’s a wooden tray with a black finish. Your design’s printed on the metal plaque that is fitted in the centre.

and the rather unique Silver mug

This one’s a 330 ml ceramic with a silver finish.

So which one’s it gonna be? Are you going to save with the photo piggy bank , serve on a personalised tray or sip in a sparkling coffee mug?

8"x8" Standard Square, starts @ Rs. 1399 for 20 pages (sides)

8"x10" Standard Landscape, starts @ Rs. 1499 for 20 pages (sides)

Both sizes available with the following specifications

• Hard cover
• Perfect binding
• 170gsm gloss paper with Satin-matte lamination.

Let me just run you through the process of designing photobooks real quick (most of you who’ve already used Doodlepad will be right at home)

Step 1. Select your size and other preferences

Step 2. Select your theme and the book will load up with blank placeholders

Step 3. Select the photos you want to add from the photos panel. You can also use your Flickr and Picasa photos directly from here

Step 4. Now just start dragging and dropping photos on to the placeholders. If you don’t even want to do that, just press auto fill and let Doodlepad fill up your photos across all pages

Step 5. Add your captions. Or add whole stories. Go wild!

Step 6. Voila! Your book is ready to be printed. You can flip through the pages in the preview. Make sure you haven’t missed out and left any pages blank.

Step 7. Take out your credit card and ka’ching! Sit back, relax and let us work the magic now. We promise to awe :)

So if you’re still wondering why you’d want a photobook at all, here are a few ideas. They’re great for keeping travelogues of your trips, complete with the photos you clicked on the way. You’re a budding photographer? then these are absolutely lovely for a printed portfolio that you can conveniently carry around. You’re a parent? how about a book of your kid’s birthday. Moms.. perhaps you’d want to do your own recipe book with all the sumptuous photos of your cooking! Not to mention the great Indian wedding lends itself particularly well to be captured in such books. Or maybe just your honeymoon. Well we could go on and on about the ideas. Also if you have a custom request, do not hesitate to contact us via our contact form here.

Feedback is very much awaited as always. Happy photobooking!

If you want splendid hardbound coffee-table books with your own photos, wait no more (Okay, just a few more days) !

It’s a beta release, and we guys have been keeping track of all the feedback you are sending us. Expect a blog post on the new doodlepad soon.

In the meantime, we wanted to tell about a cool product you can buy online at itasveer this Rakshabandhan – the photo personalised Rakhi!

Along with lots of mithai, family bonding and fun (and bhaailog ending with much lighter pockets) -  make this Rakhshabandhan special with the Photo Rakhi from itasveer.

It comes in a special Rakhi pack with roli-chawal and is Rs. 99 only including shipping and taxes!

Plus, you also get free shipping on all personalised products at itasveer (except prints, mounts and collages) till 5th Aug with the discount code ‘RAKHI2009’.

So, ready to shop ?

Continuing our tradition of our yearly birthday photo (see here and here), here’s our latest. And ofcourse there’s three of us each in this one. This took almost the entire day to create. Well worth the effort I’d say.

Cheers to all of you! Thanks for being with us in this tremendous journey so far. Nothing more to say.. I’ll just part with the line – “the best is yet to come” :)