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| 14 May, 2013
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New Forest Aromatics Candle Gift Set

New Forest Aromatics Gift SetThere are two things to say virtually straightaway about the New Forest Aromatics Gift Set – The candles smell absolutely gorgeous and the set is so cheap! The Gift Set looks like it should have cost significantly more than the £10 I paid for it. Yup – just £10!  I reckon the perceived value is more around the £20+ mark.

The candles in the New Forest Aromatics Candle Gift Set are Lavender and Herb Garden and they couldn’t be more realistic if they tried. The scent is very natural and not at all cloying or overpowering. The lavender scent lingers long after the candle has been put out. My living room still smelled lovely and ‘lavendery’ 24 hours later so I’m well chuffed with the candles.

The candle set came from a website called Vinnie & D which specialises in selling VinnieandDproducts designed and made in Great Britain. Viniie & D is a lovely site which kind of houses lots of different ‘smaller’ designers who sell slightly unusual creative pieces for you and the home. There were so many things I wanted to buy when I was browsing and what started off as a quick look for a birthday present for a family member, ended up in a marathon session!

I’ve got to say that even though I intended the set as a birthday gift,  I was so taken by the candles when they arrived that I just had to pinch them for myself! Well why shouldn’t I treat myself now and again eh?

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| 9 May, 2012
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Birthday Biscuits

Hearts BiscuitsCupcakes & macaroons are soooo last year!  Birthday Biscuits – that’s the way forward. It’s Maddie’s 21st this weekend and I was flicking through some recipe books looking for the most chocolatey, chocolate cake recipe I could find, when it struck me that I could make a load of fancy Chocolate Chip Cookies instead – way easier, a lot quicker & much more transportable for taking back to Uni with her!

Anyway there I was sitting at my computer and I absent-mindedly typed ‘birthday biscuits’ into Google and lo and behold, a whole new world of biscuits Cupcake Biscuitsopened up to me. I loved the biscuits offered up on the BiscuitVillage site and they seem to do biscuits for every occasion in the book.

Birthday Biscuits For Her are fun & fab! I looked there first for obvious reasons but I was well impressed with the tins of Thank You Biscuits, Anniversary Biscuits, Wedding Biscuits, Valentine’s etc. etc. …. you name the occasion and it turns out they do biscuits for it.

So if you’re wondering how you can surprise someone with something different, then BiscuitVillage.co.uk is well worth a sneaky peak.

 

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| 6 May, 2012
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A Unique Piece of Jewellery & A Fab Birthday Gift

Boulder Opal PendantWhere to start when you’re looking for original birthday gifts? Google and a zillion sites pop up – the vast majority of which are anything but full of original, unique presents.

I had kind of come to the end of my tether when I happened upon Mi Jewellery. The site looks nothing special until you start clicking around and realise that it’s possible to buy an entirely original piece of hand-crafted jewellery for less than most of the high street chains charge for their bog-standard items.

It was my daughter’s Maddie’s 21st & I’d already bought a few bits & bobs like some champagne glasses and one of those ridiculously expensive Thomas Sabo Seahorse Necklacecharms to go on the bracelet she had for her 18th. When I saw this Sea Horse Pendant , I just thought how nice it would be for her to have something none of her friends would be likely to have. It’s a nice quirky design as you can see in the pic and I’m fairly sure she’ll have lots of people asking her where she got it.

Monica, who runs Mi Jewellery, designs and creates one-off unique pieces of jewellery and all her contemporary designs are handmade using sterling silver, precious and semi precious gemstones. It says on her website that she also does commissions so if you want something really special as well as affordable and completely original, then you can stop looking now!

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