Posts made in November, 2010
Pre-Christmas Christmas Shopping Top Tips #10 – Best Advent round up.
Well, you’re cutting it fine, now, aren’t you?
It’s the end of November, and you’re STILL looking for something different? Tsk.
Well – never fear, help is at hand.
Probably all you need to do is take a look at this page on NotOnTheHighStreet – if you can’t find one there then I throw my hands in the air and give up. As a quick pointer, here’s our pick of our own favourite advent calendars:
*want* LOVE this. That is all.
Rusty buckets for an advent calendar. Bonkers, I know. But LOOK how brilliant they are! And so flippin easy to fill, which is ALWAYS good.
Oh! Look! not only is a pocket advent (our very favourite kind), but they come ready filled with gorgeous felt tree decorations. PLUS - the sack makes a fab stocking. Genius!
The traditional route - gorgeous. Just gorgeous.
Okay, if you MUST - here's far and away the nicest chocolate one I could find. AND it's refillable - how brilliant is THAT?
There – how’s that? You asked for advent calendars with a difference, something traditional, something contemporary – and yes, something chocolate. I believe my work here is done.
Read More*Now Closed* – Letter Soaps from Jonny’s Sister
Jonny’s Sister are letting us give away six of their utterly gorgeous pink and/or blue letter soaps to one lucky winner!
The pink soaps with hearts are lightly scented with wild heather and hawthorn and the blue soaps with stars are lightly scented with an ocean fragrance. Hand wrapped in glassine paper in a white gift box, they make wonderful presents for children, friends, teachers, or just anyone that appreciates something a little different and personal. Use for initials, spell a name, or how about a word… BATH, WASH, SOAP, SUDS…
Click here for full details and entry form.
Read MorePre-Christmas Christmas Shopping Top Tips #9 – Maileg Pocket Advent
If you’re quick, you still have time. NO, not to pop out and grab a cardboard box filled with yukky cheap chocolate. Tsk.
No, to order this gorgeous Maileg pocket advent calendar from the always-lovely Armstrong Ward.
We make no bones about the fact that we love Maileg. The mice are major hits, but I’ve yet to see a Maileg product I don’t adore and *want* – and this calendar is no different. Simple, stylish, but fun enough to appeal to small excited morning people.
Your only problem is what to put in it. We’re going with the Playmobil nativity pieces, but the choices are endless.
Or maybe you should just…
Add.
The.
Chocolate.
It may be £45, but enduring and delightful as it is, this is an advent I’d be happy to see year after year after year.
Read MorePre-Christmas Christmas Shopping Top Tips #8 – Gorgeous Christmas wall stickers.
Just plain beautiful, no?
Well, not plain, obviously. But beautiful, definitely.
We’re huge fans of the Love Mae wall stickers, and when the Quick Brown Fox of Dulwich showed us these, we squeaked a bit.
Sooo pretty, and endlessly versatile aorund your festive home (with not a garish shiny tinsel flutter in sight).
Best of all? On twelfth night you can simply (but a bit gently) peel them off, put them back on the sheet, and tuck them away in your Chsritmas box ready for next year.
I can see already this would become a traditional decoration to match the ‘family history through the baubles we remember’ ritual. And knowing that it will be endlessly enjoyed over the years actually makes the £45 price tag very reasonable indeed.
Read MorePre-Christmas Christmas Shopping Top Tips #7 – Stockings.
Peanut & Pip have done it again. Every time I visit their (just plain gorgeous) site I find a little “oooh!” Moment Of Wanting. But these stockings really are very very special. Would you just LOOK at them? 
Sort of a contemporary traditional stocking, these most gorgeous of childrens stockings are handmade, sewn and beaded from layers of high quality wool felt.
The simple, but oh-so-very appealing decorations mean they’ll be much-loved, and treasured over the years – and will work for your one year old just as well as for a ten year old. Because I don’t know about you, but I just don’t want to buy new stockings. I like to use the same one each and every year, as yet one more part of our Christmas Traditions.
Each stocking measures a generous 8 inches wide by 18 inches long (from bell to big toe) leaving Father Christmas plenty of room to fill them with lots of goodies. Handmade and gorgeous, warmly endearing without any schmaltz – what more could you ask?
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