Original Art that you CAN afford – Christmas Gift Guide
Dec03

Original Art that you CAN afford – Christmas Gift Guide

This site plopped into my inbox this week – and I fell instantly in love, and have revisited many times since. It’s just… brilliant. Being married to a photographer our walls are filled with images; not just his, but all types of visual art. Sadly, though, much as we love to browse art galleries it’s incredibly rare that we can afford to take hom the art that we fall in love with. So imagine my joy when I saw...

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Syma S33 from Halfords! Christmas Gift Guide
Dec02

Syma S33 from Halfords! Christmas Gift Guide

  Absolutely LOVE this Syma S33 2.4G 3.5 Channel Remote Control Helicopter; it may seem a little pricey – but for a helicopter this good it’s a great price! Definitely a must-get if you know someone who loves this sort of thing! This Syma Helicopter is easy and stable to fly and has a transmitter with an LCD Screen. It has a two speed modes to control the helicopter and over 10 people can fly together without...

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Perfect for Chocoholics – Thorntons continental signature selection
Dec02

Perfect for Chocoholics – Thorntons continental signature selection

Let’s face it – those people who you’re not sure what to get for Christmas, you really can’t go wrong with chocolate. Male or female, young or old… we all love the melty brown stuff. Particularly if it’s the good melty brown stuff, that’s unbelievably delicious and comes packaged in beautiful boxes and feels like a real treat just to open. So we’d just like to point you towards Thorntons...

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Sylvanian Families Camper van. We LOVE. Christmas Gift Guide.
Dec01

Sylvanian Families Camper van. We LOVE. Christmas Gift Guide.

We all love Sylvanian Families, don’t we? And having spent the Autumn driving 4,000 miles in a motor home, I can’t think of anything more perfect than the Sylvanian Families Camper Van set for my girl this Christmas. It’s just TOO perfect! Everything you need for the perfect Sylvanian holiday – and just like a real life motorhome, this camper van holds a lot more than first meets the eye. There are pull down...

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Jellycat, the very Softest toy kitten who proved that yes, I am a bad mother
Nov26

Jellycat, the very Softest toy kitten who proved that yes, I am a bad mother

  This is Star. She’s a ‘caffuffle cat’ by Jellycat, she’s soft and silky, utterly delicious and supremely cuddlable. She’s also proof that I am a Very Bad Mother. My daughter is incredibly lucky – thanks to my job, she has been gifted and sent an enormous array of amazingly fabulous soft toys over the years. Some really really great ones – soft, luxurious, amazingly cute, perfectly...

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Fabulous vintage-style dress for Christmas!
Dec19

Fabulous vintage-style dress for Christmas!

It’s so prettyyyyyy. When I came across 20th Century Foxy, I actually squeaked and ooh-ed loud enough to make people wonder what I was looking at. I love love LOVE them. It’s an online boutique selling vintage reproduction clothing from the golden era of style – the 1930s, 40s and 50s. British designer, British-made… and oozing style and quality. So when they offered to send me a dress to try out I leaped at...

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