Harrods Village Advent Calendar
We love this Advent calendar offering from the fab people at Harrods, the Village Advent. What they say … Lend a charming spin to your Christmas countdown with East of India’s cute village advent calendar. Crafted in wood, it features 24 miniature painted houses with removable lids that are ideal for filling with personalised everyday gifts. Perfect for using year after year, it is guaranteed to become a treasured...
Have you got an old-fashioned Cassette player for your child? Pre-Christmas Shopping
Any child of the 70’s or 80’s will remember these… Oh the hours I’d spend, recording songs off the radio, wearing out tapes as I hit pause/play/pause/play line by line so that I could write down all the lyrics to Rick Astley. I have a couple of precious tapes of my sister and I singing as she practiced her guitar, and the mix tapes… Oh, the memories that are spooled onto those mix tapes! But...
Dishwashers. Definitely a must-have for my Christmas, but will a cheap one do? | Pre-Christmas Shopping
Back in September my dishwasher broke. It had been on its last legs for a while, and finally our lovely dishwasher-man shook his head sadly and said “its not good. It’s just not worth me fixing it this time – it’d be cheaper for you to buy another”. Oh woe. Being a 70’s child, I hadn’t had the luxury of a dishwasher growing up, and I was a little aghast after dinner that night that my four...
Advent Calendar Unicorn Fairyland – Pre-Christmas Shopping
We’re REALLY loving the new Playmobil Fairies range – cute animals, beautiful fairies, and loads of small pieces. What’s not to love? The Advent Calendar Unicorn Fairyland is similarly gorgeous – each day building until you have created a fabulously involved and absorbing woodland scene with a magical unicorn. This is a set that will be played with for months! Set 5492 includes backdrop, three...
Here’s the chocolate edition – it’s Thornton’s Advent Calendar! | Pre-Christmas shopping
There’s a name forcheap nasty choclate in this house – advent-chocolate. Ugh. Soapy, sickly and not chocolate-ey at ALL. So if you’re going to have a chocolate advent calendar (and let’s face it, why not?), please do your children a favour make it a good one! If you’ve not got a pocket advent to fill your own, then our pick of the pre-filled versions is definitely this one from Thorntons. Why not count...
Personalised Christmas Tree Wall Sticker | Pre-Christmas Shopping List
Oh, this is gorgeous, isn’t it? The perfect way to festive-up an empty wall space, and the personalisation gives it a really special touch. You can change two lines – last-but-one Spin Collective give you a choice of 12 phrases, and then you can make the last line your own. It comes in a whole range of 20 colours (I’m not sure you can go wrong with the festive red, but black would look really stylish, and the...