Spotted! Knitted Drawing Stuff Bag
Knitted Drawing Stuff Bag by Sally Nencini - Sisters Guild - £28.00
My five year old son always has some kind of vessel with his essential drawing and colouring stuff to hand, in fact, come to think of it, he has several, dotted all around the house – coloured pencils, felt tips, blobs of sticky tack and lots of little note pads and wads of Important Papers. Whether it’s an old shoebox or a canvas shopping tote or the cute little gift box he swiped from under my nose on my birthday.
He would LOVE this knitted drawing stuff bag so very much – who wouldn’t? It includes the matching coloured pencils too!
Sling it over your shoulder or across your body and off you go, ready to face whatever colouring and drawing inspirations await you. Wonderful!
Read MoreSpotted! Playon Crayons – Perfect for Little Hands
Playon Crayons at Smallable - £10.32
Perfectly shaped for a little fist to wrap around whilst creating masterpieces and when their work is done much fun to be had with stacking them. Genius.
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Spotted! Beeeeeeeautiful Summer Sandals at Topsy Turvey
Livie & Luca Blossom Girl's Sandals at Topsy Turvey - £34.95
Aren’t they beautiful? I love that they aren’t, you know, obviously pink.
Read MoreSpotted! Gorgeous child’s mug from Big Tomato Co – PLUS a secret 20% discount code!
Love love LOVE the Big Tomato Company – and love love LOVE this range of children’s mugs. The duck is my favourite, but the lamb is seriously lovely too.
PLUS… we happen to know that for the next 48hrs there is a Secret Sale.
Oh yes.
20% discount on everything if you use the code SSHHH1312.
That makes this utterly brilliant £30 Retro Robot child's breakfast set reduced to just £24...
And this £70 Use Your Loaf bread crock is reduced to just £56...
Go, look, shop – there’s Pretty to be had…
Browse The Big Tomato Company ‘s site – there a factory clearance section too, which is always worth a look.
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Spotted! Really Useful Lockable First Aid & Medicine Storage
Many moons ago a friend told me a story about why she now keeps all medicines in the house under lock and key. All medicines were kept in an unlocked box on the top shelf of a high cupboard in her kitchen. She thought they were safe enough, she assumed her children hadn’t even clocked that they were kept there.
One morning, she came downstairs after having been upstairs for a short while (putting laundry away or some such menial chore) while her two children were playing in the living room. She walked into the kitchen to pop the kettle on and discovered a chair pushed up against the kitchen counter and the contents of the medicine box spread out over the kitchen side, including an open box of ibuprofen tablets with some missing. Gulp. She could not remember how many were in the packet when she last took some out. There followed a frantic-but-trying-to-keep-voice-calm conversation with her five year old to figure out what happened and whether any medicines were consumed. Turns out the three year old had a sore finger and the five year old was looking for a plaster and some medicine to make it better. My friend could not figure out if any of the tablets had been taken so it all ended with a trip to A&E, observation and two children who were absolutely fine in the end. Phew.
Ever since hearing this story I’ve been on the look out for a lockable medicine box and have discovered these….
Lockable First Aid Tin - Great Little Trading Company - £28.00
Lockable First Aid Cabinet - LocksOnline.com - £38.45
Lockable Glass Door Medicine Cabinet - aplaceforeverything.co.uk - £35.00
'Mon Petit Hopital' Lockable Medicine Cabinet - The Holding Company - £45.00
Spotted! Simply fabulous wall art. There’s Penguins and Whales and Balloons!
This was genius spot by Katy – how much do you LOVE these prints?
The Showler & Showler site is crammed full of sheets of brilliance, and we want them. All of them.
Mr Penguin above is wonderful, but so is this piece of Happy...
Or maybe being a big fish is more your thing?
All prints come in various sizes, ready for you to frame. Prices start at £12.99 for an 18 x 24cm print, and there’s about a gazillion fantastic styles to choose from over at Showler & Showler.
Read MoreSpotted! Brand new Koochu Capri Changing bag *flutters*
LOVE this bag!
I don’t even use a baby changing bag any more, and I still *want* it.
Not released until the end of June, the Koochu Capri is available on pre-order from Mummy & Little Me. All that pretty, and yet it’s a totally practical and sensible Baby Bag too.
Brilliant.
Koochu Capri Changing bag is £130, available now on pre-order from Mummy & Little Me.
Read MoreSpotted – Hootie McTootie baby blanket!
Love this Hootie McTootie baby blanket from Scamp. It’s pink, but not too girlie, not too babyish so it has longevity in your baby’s room, and backed with super-soft bobbly lushness.
And, of course, it has OWLS!
Hootie McTootie Snuggle Up Baby Blanket is £35 from Scamp Handmade Baby gifts.
Read MoreLush Chocolate Hamper from Thorntons and we have a 15% Discount Code!
Okay, so it’s a bit of cliche; but really – what’s wrong with a hamper of chocolate on Mother’s Day, huh?
And this is a pretty delicious hamper, in anyone’s books.
AND those brilliant people at Thornton’s have reduced the hamper from £30 to £25.
Oh yes.
AND – we have a discount code you can use to take another 15% off that.
Oh YES!
Pop ‘RTMD‘ in the box at the checkout, and that hamper comes down to £21.75
Baaaargaa-a-a-in!
The I Love Chocolate Hamper is available on the Thornton’s site – be quick and order (*cough* someone else to get it) today if you want it sitting ready for you on Sunday Morning…
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Mother’s Day Gifts – The Head Case
Is it wrong to really have snorted at these?
Like most of Twisted Twee’s items, they’re quirky, foolish – and a lot of fun.
Naturally of the best quality Egyptian Cotton, though.
And this one made my boys snigger too…
(Though I’m not sure if that’s indicative of my mood upon being woken, or my sculpted bed head hair…)
All Head Case pillowcases are £15 berzackly from the ever-odd-but-always-brilliant Twisted Twee.
Read MoreMother’s Day Gifts – Pretty Little Glass ‘Mum’ Key Ring
Back in the dim and distant past i used to collect key rings. I had a large chain in my bedroom, and I used to clip them on – I think I had over 250 at one point.
Sadly, I no longer proudly display 250-odd dangly things to decorate my bunch of keys – but it did leave me with a deep-seated affection for a pretty keyring.
Nothing bold and brash and obvious, but there’s always room for a little ‘pretty’ on your bunch of keys.
And when I saw this on the Born Gifted site, I did a little “oooh! That’s Nice!”.
And at under £15, it’s a pretty attainable Mother’s Day Gift, too.
Read MoreMother’s Day Gifts – Maminka Slippers = *happy feet*
Don’t you just *love* these?
Oh I WANT them.
I do I do I do.
And I bet you thought these were only for babies, right?
As always with Starchild, you get gorgeous Italian leather, and the slippers are actually made right here in the UK.
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Mothers Day Gifts. Ugg Boots. Like you’ve never seen them before… *seriously pretty things*
So.
If I say ‘Ugg Boots’ to you, what springs to mind, huh?
Come on, you can say it.
Ugly slouchy scuffy slipper boots.
Warm, cosy – but oh-so UGG-ly.
*nods*
But.
Just hold your horses there, young missy.
I have a surprise for you.
Just you climb down off your high horse and cast your eyes over this little lot…
Lucianna Silk platform wedge £140
Not quite so Ugg-ly now, huh?
But of course, platform wedges may not be your thing. So how about some fabulous canvas kicks?
Womens Evera Canvas Kicks £110
Or maybe the most perfect of summer Totes?
Womens Straw Tote £255
There. Told you I’d surprise you…
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Mother’s Day Gifts – Delicious Helter Skelter Cuff Bracelet
Oh.
Oh oh OH!
I love this bracelet!
Inspired by the swirls of a helter skelter – I can think of nothing more cheerful to wear on your wrist.
Helter Skelter Wrap Cuff Bracelet, designed by Lynda Hayes and available from her Etsy Shop for £62.
Read MoreMother’s Day gifts – The Tea Towel. No, really.
I’d like one.
That’s all really.
The ‘Proud To Lick Cake Bowls’ Tea Towel is £8.50 from the marvellously named ‘Joy of Ex Foundation’ over on NOTHS.
Read MoreMother’s Day Gift – The Thumprint Tree
I love this idea! So simple, so personal – and yet so perfectly treasure-able.
The kit comes with the personalised bare tree print and an inkpad – you simply need the relevant thumbs to create the leaves.
The Personalised Mother’s Day Thumbprint Tree is £18 from Brown Betty Stationery’s NOTHS shop.
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Mothers Day Gifts – Achingly Pretty Lisbeth Dahl Willow Picnic Hamper
I would like one of these please.
Filled with delicious little nibbles, and carried for me to a nice quiet spot, near the sea, with the sun shining, and a nice rug to rest upon while you pour the drinks.
Thank you.
Read MoreMothers Day Gifts – Beautiful Handcrafted Recycled Glass Pintie Kellogs Jug
*swoon*
When I’m a grown up, I’m going to have time in the mornings to sit at a beautifully laid table (with a cloth and flowers and coffeepot and everything) and eat my breakfast in peace and tranquillity. And when I do, I intend to have the milk on the table in this.
In the meantime, I might just keep it on the kitchen windowsill with daffodils in.
You know, just to remind me.
The Handcrafted Recycled Glass Pintie Milk Jug is a drop under £20 from our pals at Gifted Penguin.
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Mothers Day Gifts – Simply Beautiful Dandelion Cushion
Funky Little Darlings list this cushion of loveliness in their Children’s Rooms section.
Blow that.
I want that patch of graceful loveliness in MY bedroom. Did you spot the little bird in there?
Dandelion Fields cushion £48 from Funky little Darlings.
Read MoreMothers Day Gift Ideas – Louie & Pete
Bonkers?
Yes.
A le-e-e-tle bit ugly?
Oh yes.
Brilliant?
Oh my yes.
Want one?
Yes yes yes. Pleasethankyou.
The expression on that cat’s face (that’s Louie, by the way) makes me laugh every time I look at it.
( The SparrowPrimitive Art Dolls reference items made by American pioneer women who used scraps from clothing, quilts or even feedsacks to make something for their children to play with. Items would be created from whatever came to hand in order to adorn the home and nothing was wasted – this has developed into an art form of its own as people have realised that they add warmth and charm to the modern home.)
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