About Charlie Pickles

ABOUT US

CELEBRATING
20 YEARS
What started as a little stationery company in 2004 grew to be a beloved company delivery happy across North America
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Charlie Pickles is, in it's simplest explanation is we suppose a gift store. But ..... if you come in, or read more about us - and you'll soon realize there is so much more to us. Which you can read more about below, if you'd like.

But, our gift store is kind of magical. It's an outlet for our creativity, our obsession with good design, fabulous products, our love of gifting and the joy of creating the perfect gift - no matter the budget. We love simple pleasures and treating people with kindness.

 
As one young lady said when she walked in .. "It's like as if Unicorns pooped out rainbows." As a grandma said as she walked by with her friend ... "That's Deborah's favourite store". (Thanks Deborah for telling your friends about us) As a Dad walked by one evening, we're the store that is "never open" to his kid.*

Charlie Pickles a retail store, but we're also a design studio. We do personalized gifts. We have a corporate gifting division that does bespoke gift boxes for fortune 500 companies. We also have our in house stationery company - The Penny Paper Co. and we have our products in stores across North America.

*We are open 5 days a week. See hours here.

Don't just take our word for it....

"DEBORAH'S FAVOURITE STORE"

"IT'S LIKE UNICORNS POOPED RAINBOWS IN HERE"

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"WORLD'S GREATEST STORE"

- @ThatLisaHicks

"BEST.STORE.EVER"

Peter. Owners brother.

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LINDSAY STEPHENSON

Lindsay Stephenson, who started Charlie Pickles is a serial creative and product designer. She has been featured in National Publications and been a guest on shows, and keynote speaker on design. Lindsay had a bedding and baby line in stores like TJMAX across North America and her products sold in retailers like Indigo. (as well as at Charlie Pickles). Lindsay started working in retail as a teenager and fell in love with retail and product design. Lindsay is self taught and worked her way to be the lead designer at a major Canadian Toy retailer out of University - and left to started on own path. Lindsay feels passionately about kids mental health and finding ways to give kids oppertunities to find their spark.
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OUR
HISTORY

As we celebrate 20 years in business, we look back at how we started, what we've done, and some highlights through the years. As you can see, at our core we love happy products, good design, and now with our retail store - a community of amazing people.
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2004

Lindsay launches the company "Penny People Designs" A custom stationery company

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2004

Launches an blog for Penny People Designs.

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2007

Lindsay designs and releases a customizable Alphabet print which goes viral
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2008

Lindsay launches the Lindsay Stephenson collection of Art at TJMaxx stores across North America

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2014

Lindsay is a keynote speaker on design for Telus

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2012

Lindsay is invited to be the artist to work with Peter Mansbridge to design his "Brain" for the Brain Project READ MORE

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2020

The Lindsay Stephenson Collection at TJMaxx stores expands to be a baby bedding, pillow and baby swaddle collection

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2020

The Penny Paper Co. releases their retro sticker book and sells out in 1 week

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2022

The Penny Paper Co. breaks into two different companies and expands to Charlie Pickles

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2022

Charlie Pickles expands to a warehouse

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2022

Charlie Pickles opens its first retail store in Toronto's Upper Beach Neighbourhood

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2024

Lindsay throws the opening pitch for the Blue Jays
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The Penny Paper Co. breaks into two diferent compnies and expands to Charlie Pickles