BG Christmas gift guide 2011: stocking filler ideas under £1

Welcome to the BG Christmas Gift Guide 2011. Austerity measures may be in place for Christmas this year, but that doesn’t mean you need to forgo the traditional stocking. And cheap needn’t mean nasty. We’ve trawled the web to find a myriad of mini treasures for less than a pound. Bookmark and refer back when [...]

Hot Preview: Muji Christmas Gifts

Here at BG, we’re mega Muji fans and every year I keep an eye out for their always amazing Christmas collection of gifts which are always high quality, well designed, lots of eco friendly wood, and popping with imagination and style. This year, Muji have actually tipped us off early and given us a preview [...]

Muji alphabet and funny face books

Poking around Muji the other day, I came across two fun-looking activity books. It’s a shame the pictures on the Muji website aren’t a) bigger and b) more exciting, because these did look like potentially excellent gifts. They’re also just the kind of thing I like to snap up so we have activities ready for [...]

10 Best: Ideas for a New York-themed room

After researching goodies based on London’s iconography, I got to thinking about New York as a possible theme for a children’s room. Then a prompt from a BG reader for ideas propelled me into action. Firstly, the walls. There is so much Manhattan art around, but I really like the educational slant (and blue and [...]

Muji Bag-in-Bag

I love my vast collection of handbags but I hate the fact that putting my hand in what are often my everything -but-the-kitchen-sink sized bags is like putting it into a black hole. It’s also super annoying to change bags and then find that something has been left behind, which is likely to happen when [...]

Muji Wooden Playsets

We seriously heart Muji especially at this time of year when they fill up with a veritable explosion of wooden delights. One of this years favourites are their wooden playsets. There’s a Christmas version where they can act out Santa and Rudolph delivering presents for the next few weeks, or there’s a farm yard or [...]

Muji Flat Pack Chair

As soon as I saw this cute little cardboard chair on Molly Meg’s blog it was instant infatuation. It comes flat packed for you to build yourself and is fully customisable. Sadly it is only available in Japan (Boo hiss) and so will have to remain an object of international desire until released in the [...]

Muji

Japanese lifestyle brand Muji has a philosophy that embodies a desire to make simple products at reasonable prices. We love their art supplies and children’s gifts especially any of their wooden delights for tiny world play.

Bambino Goodies Christmas Gift Guide: Tiny world toys part two

There are so many tiny world delights out there, we want them all! Following on from part one yesterday, we bring you delights from the best in tiny world toys – Plan Toys, Pintoy, Habitat, Le Toy Van and Muji. From fighting fire, to tending to patients, to sailing the big seas or hanging with [...]

Bambino Goodies Christmas Gift Guide: Tiny world toys…part one

Pretend and imaginative play is where it’s at in toddlerhood and there are such cool tiny world buys homing in key scenes such as to infinity and beyond up in space with Pintoy’s space series, to BG favourite Plan Toys eco friendly airport series and their garage, to Muji’s fantastic wooden toy buys at excellent [...]

Hot Alert! 20% off at Muji with Elle Decoration!

I actually felt the rush of shopping palpitations as I flicked through the December issue of Elle Decoration and saw that they have 20% off discount code for the Japanese, understated high design that is Muji – praise the shopping gods! I rounded up several of my favourite buys from their gift section a few [...]

International lustfest: Muji’s highchair

Two words: Love it! OK, more than two words… Why oh why isn’t this on sale in the UK yet? A little reminiscent of the thirty six year old iconic Stokke Tripp Trapp, Muji have carved out a league of their own, with this sleek, understated buy, which features armrests that give it a relaxed [...]

Muji’s Linen Ballet Slippers

I admit. I was meant to be looking at Father’s Day gifts and had a swoon session when I spotted these fab-u-lous linen ballet slippers at quietly stylish Muji. Nice and light for summer, they’re only available in ‘ecru’ grey for a wallet friendly £10.95. Oh and if you’re due to have a baby, they’d [...]

Three Hot Coat Racks for Children’s Rooms

   I do love a coat rack, so much so that I still can’t make up my mind on one as there is too much choice! First up are the very cool Squirrel Coat Racks from Utility Design which feature three squirrels clambering up a tree in either the glossy orange pictured or in matt [...]

Hot Toy List for Toddlers – Dolls Houses

Hase Weiss Puppenstuben Doll’s House This dolls house is made from birch plywood. Each room is separate and is available in one of four pastel colours. The beauty of this modern modular creation is that it can be rearranged as one house or even a whole street. Measures: 45 x 70 x 24.5 cm depending [...]

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