Tag: Christmas Gift Ideas 2009
Mibo Christmas Creatures
Back in August, Kat featured adorable download and print owls by Hove based designer Madeleine Rogers of Mibo – if you browse around her shop of temptation you’ll see gorgeous contemporary lighting stocked in the likes of Heals, Habitat, and The Conran Shop. In plenty of time for Christmas, Madeleine has designed a Christmas Creatures [...]
Cook Express by Heather Whinney
Ever since I’ve had kids and subsequently become self-employed, I’m more than a little time poor but still on the look out for inspiring meals without having to lose half a day to achieve them. After a recent trip to the new Anthropologie store on Regent Street (heaven itself – check out the coat I [...]
Animal Hands
Kids love puppets and the bambino finds it particularly funny when we use our hands as makeshift puppets. For added silliness with the cool factor, Animal Hands are temporary tattoos that turn talking hands into animated, colourful animals. £3.95 for a set of 8 from Colloco. You could use these to go into party bags [...]
Hot Roundup! Modern Advent Calendars for Cool Kids
I’ve been on the hunt for cool advent calendars, both paper and reusable. They’re all decorative in their efforts to count down to the big day, with some great for role-play and story telling, and others that will be treasured and anticipated in excitement each year. Starting from £4.99 up to £59, from whimsy traditional [...]
Habitat Advent Calendar
I had a quick jaunt on Regent Street this past weekend and of course couldn’t go there without stopping at Habitat and when I hit the kids section, I spotted their fabric Countdown Advent Calendar. Bold, minimalist, and totally bucking the twee Christmas vibe, the pockets are nice and big too for squeezing in all [...]
Heirloom Advent Doll
If you want to go all out on an advent calendar that also ticks the unusual box and is designed to last and be taken out Christmas after Christmas and passed down, look no further than these Heirloom Advent Dolls. Whimsy and charming, there’s a girl in a dress and boy in dungarees version featuring [...]
