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Our lovely receptionist waved excitedly as we walked into our building this morning. She was clutching The Stylist Magazine and showed us that Handpicked is mentioned on page 4!! It’s all down to Victoria, who is our friendly as pie customer services manager; she’s been trying her hand at PR and ends up that she [...]

We’re loving the recession busting-ness of all the online discount designer stores that are by no means a coincidence of the recession. Top of the list is theOutnet.com. A brilliant website full to the brim with beautiful designer merchandise from Alexander McQueen to Chloe and Marc Jacobs. And with all these at hugely discounted prices, [...]

With the end of Lent fast approaching and the supermarket shelves stuffed with chocolate, here at Handpicked we’ve tried to come up with a few ideas that don’t consist of mountatins of chocolate to tempt your away from weeks of control. As with the rest of our range, we’ve made sure that if you give [...]

We already loved Sophie Dahl, hence being so keen to stock her Voluptuous Delights book. And signed copies make them that important little bit more special. Having watched The Delicious Miss Dahl on BBC2 earlier this week (click here to watch on BBC iPlayer), we might well keep hold of the few copies we’ve got [...]

Amanda Fox, The Handpicked Collection’s creative director, hunts down the best ways to make an Easter egg trail to remember
Easter egg hunts, according to my son, are ‘more funner than even birthday tea’. But what does he know? He’s only just turned four and can’t possibly remember last year’s lacklustre affair when we [...]

We played a new game at the weekend. It all started with a present we gave to friends in the glorious village Sussex village of East Dean (where, hot off the press, the Tiger Inn will shortly be opening five pretty new bedrooms, perfect for walkers and lovers of fine ale, local sausages and traditional [...]

What better way to start a Monday than with cake from a kind blogging soul? Handpicked embarked on the Secret Post Club recently and I was so so excited to receive our first gift from Amy of http://amylane.wordpress.com/. She sent some gorgeous homemade lemon squares and chocolate shortbread as well as a little recipe book [...]

Spring Clean Your Home & Freshen Up Your Life
I think I spotted my first daffodil desperately trying peep out through its green leaves this morning and I suddenly got rather excited about the prospect of Spring – some very welcome sunshine, pretty flowers adding a splash colour after the dullness of winter and a sudden [...]

We’ve an offer running at the moment on one of our favourite products, the very Handpicked Clip Clock. If you pop to the website or give us a call, when you spend over £50, make sure you put a Clip Clock of any colour into your basket and then enter or quote the code FREECLOCKBLOG [...]

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