Now all our Halloween sugar levels are off the scale and our eyes are still blinking from the bright fireworks it is time to really knuckle down to the Christmas preparations. This week is – Notebook Week (we really go all out on the naming of our weeks!) First choose a notebook. It can be […]
I am sure your HoHoHo is buried deep right now and you are just relieved to have got through half term and have absolutely no desire to even think about Christmas. Usually if I mention the C word around now everyone whinges and says not before Halloween, but we are going to get you all […]
There is a level of skill involved in shopping on the internet. It is so easy to get carried away, sitting in your pj’s, flicking through the websites until you suddenly find something that you just have to have. Or perhaps you are in such a rush, looking for that gift that you need by […]
After gifting myself to a The Cement Works concrete candle for the summer and then a bowl to photograph jewellery in, well that was my excuse for the bowl and is I’m sticking to it, I finally plucked up the courage to ask Emma, the founder of The Cement Works if she would consider stocking […]
Father’s Day is approaching and being the lovely people that we are we thought we would provide you with free printable labels so you can spend more money on the father in your life’s gift rather than the tag. Sorry, what’s that? What’s the catch? None! Well you do have to provide the paper and […]
Got to love a wedding even if we are not all invited! Royal Wedding Bingo We have started to get a touch of wedding fever in the office with the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle approaching, so we thought we would have a little bit of fun and you can join in with […]
Hang on a minute, don’t dismiss this as a blog piece that is going to be totally biased towards online shopping just because you are reading it on my online gift shop website. So, as you know, online shopping pays for school books for my four children, it pays for the food we eat and […]
So I have been reading about Mrs Middleton’s Mother’s Day wish list that she shared in her column with Baby London. Oh how I wish I could hope for just one present from that list! You see mother’s day is a bit of a pot luck day for me. One year my son’s, all four […]
What was that? How’s the husbands gift training going? Surprisingly well, thank you for asking. Yes! Seriously, he did not mess up this Christmas with his gifts! Well, he kind of did in that he left me to sort his families’ gifts again, and paid no attention to what we were going to get the […]
Ephemerids are photographs that depict scenes that are there for only that particular time. Sometimes this can look rather contrary to the subject for Ephemerids can be quite static looking objects or scenes that appear not to change. Change, however exists in most things and it is how we perceive the minutiae of detail that […]