About

The third side

Every order has two sides — the person giving and the person receiving. We are the third: the side that turns those two into something you can hold. That is what the three faces of the mark stand for: amber for the receiver, ink for the maker, coral along the base for the giver. The maker's face is the quiet one at the back, which is where we like it.

The Marikina workshop

Thirdside Works is a small workshop in Marikina, the city that has been making things by hand for a hundred years. We make personalised pieces in full colour — name keychains, photo lamps, cake toppers, plaques, framed photo art — and we deliver them across Metro Manila the same day, because a gift that arrives a week late is a different gift.

The workshop is not a storefront; it is a room with machines, a packing table and a window that looks at the Marikina River. Pickups happen by arrangement. Everything else goes out by rider or courier, with a photo before it leaves.

The owner

I started Thirdside Works because I kept making name keychains for friends' children and the parents kept asking where they could buy one. The honest answer was nowhere: the shops that could do full colour needed a week and a minimum order, and the ones that could do it fast could only do one colour. So I bought the machine that could do both, and set it up in Marikina, where I live.

I run the workshop alone, which means the person who answers your message is the person who prints your order, checks the spelling twice and packs the box. If something is wrong, you tell me and I fix it. That is the whole structure of the company, and I intend to keep it that way for as long as I can.