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Our buying team have trying to track down all the loveliest souvenirs with which to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee. Our favourite so far is this gorgeous jug by Jan Constantine. See all our ideas here.

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Archive for November, 2009

Last Royal Mail Posting Dates for Overseas

We found a useful resource today that we thought would be helpful for our customers.  If you want to find out last Royal Mail posting dates just click onto their useful tool on their website to find out. 
Don’t forget we can deliver parcels around the UK on standard £4.95 delivery until the 18th December.  After that [...]

Ila Dusk

We’ve done quite a lot of shouting about our Ila Dusk; but with good reason.
I am still holding strong to my last remaining year of teenage-hood and as this is one of the quintessential age groups to Ila, I thought it appropriate for me to write about it.
As you can see from my picture; my [...]

Tick Tock Clippety Clock

I now tell the time with pictures and memories with our clever Clip Clock.  It’s been one of our biggest sellers since Handpicked began and I thought that really it was time (weak sorry) for one to live on my kitchen wall.  I bought the white one and I was a bit worried it wouldn’t look [...]

A Few of My Favourite Things

We’re no different to anyone in that we get a lovely warm glow when anyone says something nice about us. Especially when it’s a genuine from-the-heart comment. So we were really touched when the influential US blog myfavouritethings featured us not once, but twice. It’s a blog we particularly like because it holds dear so [...]

Spinning Rainbows

With great delight, I was allocated as chief tester of our new Rainbow Maker.  That night, I duly stuck the little gadget with its suction pad to a sun-facing window in my bedroom and went to sleep wearing my Cath Kidston eye mask.  So effective is this mask that instead of waking to a light [...]

Something for the mid-week?

Good news, bad news from our friends, Mr & Mrs Smith… The bad is that their biggest promotion of the year, offering two nights for the price of one across a wide choice of hotels, has only one month left to run. The good? Some hotels still have rooms available, so if you haven’t yet managed to [...]

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Our sweet Bunny Ring Holder is a thoughtful gift and is also this week’s Deal of the Week; buy two for £10, usually £6.95 each.

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