I wanted to share some more beautiful design conscious gifts for the whole family that I’ve had my eye on recently. I’ve tried to cover off as many different areas as possible - from kids to home and fashion across a variety of price points and brands. I hope this inspires you with some ideas for your Christmas shopping. I know I still have plenty to do!
Read moreThe Mamahood Christmas Gift Guide, Part 2
I’m very excited to share with you the second part of my Christmas Gift Guide in collaboration with The Mamahood - a directory of creative small brands across the UK. I hope this will bring lots of original ideas for presents for the family and encourage you to do some thoughtful planning and early purchases. Please try to avoid those last minute Amazon rushes as you never end up with the good stuff!
Read morePart 2: Finlay Fox Christmas Advent #ShopSmall #ShopIndependent
Part 2 of the advent is here! I can't believe we are half way through to the Christmas countdown already! A big thank you to everyone that has entered so far (over on Instagram) and to all the lovely brands for contributing to the advent.
Read moreChristmas Gifts: A Folk Tale Slippers
Slippers - the ultimate Christmas gift right? RIGHT! As a mum you spend so much time at home, more than ever before, so it's nice to have comfy slippers to slide your feet into - the ultimate go to home comfort, plus staying in is the new going out right?
Read morePart 1: Finlay Fox Christmas Advent #ShopSmall #ShopIndependent
We have some fabulous prizes to be won in our Finlay Fox advent calendar running throughout December! As part of our #ShopSmall #ShopIndependent campaign this Christmas we are giving away a different prize from some of our favourite small, independent and parent led brands, every day to one lucky person.
Read moreChristmas Gifts: Olive Loves Alfie
Lots of talk of Christmas presents at the moment - what am I getting for Finn and Violet and the panic of being organised and making sure what you have your eye on doesn't sell out by the time you get round to ordering it! As part of my #ShopSmall #ShopIndependent campaign for presents this Christmas...
Read moreChristmas Gifts: Little Florence Family Portraits
For our very first feature on #ShopSmall #ShopIndependent this Christmas I wanted to blog about Little Florence Art. I recently gave my husband a bespoke, personalised family print for his Birthday and it was such a hit that I had to share this unique and original gift idea with my readers. I hope you love it as much as me!
Read moreMama Meet Christmas Party
Last week we had our final Mama Meet of 2016 at Olive Loves Alfie East. It was a real festive affair with Christmas tunes, a portable prosecco bar made from the vintage silver cross pram, Christmas shopping, chalking for the kids, mince pies and homemade gingerbread men.
Read moreMore Kids Christmas Gift Ideas...
With just a couple of weeks to go until the big day and those advent calendar doors in full swing... it's the final countdown!! I'm trying to do my last few bits of Christmas shopping and not have that inevitable last minute panic. I thought I'd share a few more ideas of my favourite things I've spotted out and about (well online) to hopefully try and help some of you.
Read moreOlive Loves Alfie // Kids Gift Guide
We love kids' lifestyle store Olive Loves Alfie! It's got really original gift ideas this Christmas for your little ones. We love their ethos of investing in quality timeless pieces from honest origins that will last and can be handed down several times. Ashlyn, the owner, always curates a playful and imaginative collection of clothing, homewares and toys.
Read moreOlive Loves Alfie // Mama Gift Guide
Olive Loves Aflie East is home to our Mama Meets, a place where mums can come together over a cuppa and talk babies, toddler tantrums, good times and bad times. Olive Loves Alfie not only sell cool clothing and homewares for kids but they also have some fab stuff for mamas too. I wanted to share with you some of my top finds for some Christmas pressies (hint hint).
Read moreChristmas Gift Guide Kids
We've picked a few of our favourite pieces we've found that would make fab presents and stocking fillers for kids. It was pretty hard as there is SO much good stuff out there at the moment but we though these little gems had good universal and unisex appeal in most cases.
Read moreChristmas Gift Guide Mamas
Christmas is sneaking up on us so we thought it was time to start sharing our favourite ideas for some mama gifts which you may want to start hinting at. Our favourite shops for adult gifts are Liberty, Goodhood, Selfridges, Whistles, Oliver Bonas, Amazon and Space NK.
Read moreHygge // Scandibørn
There's a lot of talk of hygge (the auto correct desperately wants it to spell higgle!) around at the moment. In case you've been on another planet, higgle, no hygge is (roughly) the Danish word for cosiness and it is one of the words of the year apparently.
Read moreChristmas Kids Clothes
Next up we have an edit of our favourite finds for your kids to wear on Christmas. We love a fairisle knit, some retro velvet and colourful pyjamas that will still work beyond Christmas. The metallic trend seems to be hitting kids clothes too, how amazing is that pleated skirt (Zara also do a similar cheaper version here) which I'd quite like for myself.
Read moreChristmas Baby Clothes
If it's your baby's first Christmas you have to embrace the cuteness and check some of these must have pieces out! Those Christmas photos need to be extra special so a Christmas Jumper or dress and cosy booties are a must. Way too many amazing pieces around but we've picked a few of our favourites.
Read moreAdvent Calendars
OK so it's the end of October - time to mention the C word!!!! Yes people it's nearly time to buy your Christmas advent calendars! We have done a little edit of some of the nice ones we have found, a lot of which you can fill yourself and bring out every year, so worth the investment.
Read moreOliver Bonas Press Day
OK, so Christmas may be a little way away but I couldn't keep what I saw at the recent Oliver Bonas Christmas preview press day a secret.... there are too many good things to share and get excited about!! I'm never a sale shopper, I always want to know about the new things about to come into stores and get super excited about new trends and what we are all going to be buying in the coming months.
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