Must-have Christmas gifts
Believe it or not, there are just over three weeks to Christmas so it is well and truly time to start thinking about gifts. We know some people like to leave it all until the last minute on Christmas Eve but if, like us, you prefer to have everything organised in plenty of time, here are a few great ideas to get you started.
Gifts for her
We did mention it in this month’s newsletter, but we think cake is worth mentioning twice! This is an ideal present for the person who has everything; after all, who doesn’t like cake? Choose a three or six-month subscription to the service and then pick the recipients favourite cake. Double chocolate, lemon, coffee, strawberry, Guinness & chocolate or carrot cakes delivered to the door each month, what more could you want? A three-month subscription costs £18.50.
We have to admit to being rather taken with the idea of monthly gifts! If you really don’t know what to buy the woman in your life for Christmas, why not arrange to have a small gift sent to her once a month? A different brand provides an exclusive gift each month, with previous gifts including a Tatty Devine collaboration, hand-carved boats made from driftwood and silk scarves from the Scarf Shop. When subscribing, you can choose to buy one, three, six or twelve gifts for a one-off payment or start a three-month subscription for £40. Prices start at £17.50 for a one-month subscription.
Personalised Storyteller Bracelet
Charm bracelets are nothing new but this is a whole new take on the old favourite. Have a silver link engraved with details from the recipient’s story – birth date, location of a first date; a secret romantic message… the only limit is your imagination and the space on the link. Each link can take two lines of text with a maximum of fifteen characters per line. The leather bracelet comes with one link as standard but others can be added either at the time of purchase or in the future. Prices start from £68 for a bracelet with one engraved link.
Gifts for him
Personalised Playlist Cassette Print
This is absolutely fantastic! Give the lovely people at Betsy Benn details of the recipient’s sixteen favourite tracks or albums and they will create a beautiful personalised Giclee print. The print has space for a title so you can name it as your wedding play-list, ultimate driving songs or whatever else you fancy. If the man in your life prefers his music in a different format, a print can be created showing vinyl or MP3 images instead. The prints are priced at £38.
This solid oak desk tidy from The Oak and Rope Company is functional and stylish all at once. Ideal for holding tablet computers, phones, paperwork and most of the other random things which have no home on your desk, the desk tidy can be personalised. Add the recipient’s name, the house number or something which reflects its purpose: “iPad Etc.”. Personalisation is hand engraved into the wood. This particular gift will cost you £75.
If the man you’re buying for has a hobby or dreams of trying something new, this could well be the perfect gift. City Lit in Covent Garden, London, offer a wide range of part time courses for adults, ranging from photography and film-making to street dance or even astronomy. Courses cost from £41 to over £200, depending on the subject chosen. If you know he would like to learn something but you’re not sure exactly what, you can buy gift vouchers and let him choose for himself.
Gifts for children
Alternative XYZ Building Blocks
Children may not appreciate the humour behind these building blocks but you will certainly raise a smile from their parents! The alphabet has been the same for eons and, frankly, it gets a little boring sometimes. Shake things up with this alternative approach to the ABCs, where A is for Apple, B is for Boring, D is for Donut and Z is for Zzzz… A set of sixteen blocks costs £29.95.
London children’s clothing brand, No Added Sugar, are a mother and father team who decided to design their own range after being disappointed with the available selection of clothes for their own children. No Added Sugar’s clothes have become somewhat of an icon in the world of baby and child fashion, with their colourful stripes, bold patterns and trademark slogans. We are yet to find a parent who wouldn’t appreciate a gift from here!.
It may seem a little old-fashioned compared to the consoles and gadgets coveted by many children nowadays, but a bit of magic always goes down well. This kit, priced at £15.95, contains fifteen tricks which can easily be mastered and shown-off to family and friends. Children will love the look of astonishment on your face when they show off their latest trick. The kit includes cup and ball, coin paddle, computer age cards and magic wand tricks.
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