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Nearly Watson. We discovered this site, www.elemental.uk.com, by seeing lots of their lovely products in shops near Spitalfields. I love the authentic things on the site and in the shops, but personally, I’m not too keen on some of the metal chest of drawers but there are a couple of bits that I would love [...]

The shopper has become a quintessential accessory, not only for Tesco trips but also as a general excuse for women to carry around even more stuff.
If you’re going to weigh yourself down, we love these jolly ones from Anthony Burrill.

Further into his site are some more haunting posters.

And we really love these window designs for [...]

Halloween at Fortnum Mason
Take your little witches and wizards down to the famous Piccadilly store for a day of Pumpkin Carving. Train them well and you’ll win a voucher for four people at the Parlour restaurant. There is a separate adult competition; the prize for that is a meal for four at the Fountain restaurant.
Halloween [...]

Have you seen Holly Fulton’s gorgeous new design for Smythson? We especially love the Soho Diary with its beautiful Swarovski clip.

The geometric shapes and the tone of the colours are similar to her gorgeous SS11 show from London Fashion Week.

Have you seen our new website? If you have received your Handpicked catalogue, you may have found another little surprise in the envelope. We launched Funpicked as Handpicked Collection’s naughty little sister. The idea is very simply, to make people laugh. We chose the products that started uncontrollable giggling throughout the office, and then put [...]

Last weekend, I was out the door at 9.30 am on Sunday morning (shock, seriously) with my four year old brother in tow. We whizzed round the Science Museum, the space rockets and the suspended Spitfire were of particular interest.
This week, instead of space ships and Spitfires, I’ll be visiting the museum for the silent [...]

There are a couple of things we’re looking forward to doing this weekend.
I think that next year, one of the big trends will be from Japan. There have been a few clues; a big one was Takashi Murakami’s Britney on the cover of the biannual Pop Magazine:
Now the exhibitions are starting. The Future Beauty Exhibition [...]

One of our new products that our customers have started showing interest in is our new Personalised Pebble. They make up part of our new (very inventively named) category, Personalised Gifts. We thought they would make lovely personalised place names for a dinner party or wedding. At first, our Marketing Intern Claire, didn’t [...]

There are lots of things that I have my eye on from our Christmas catalogue. One new product that I know for a fact has made it onto the lists of the majority of other girls in the office is Fit- Your-Life-In Clutch Purse from Aspinal of London (right). It’s dark shiny exterior contrasts [...]

It used to infuriate me when I saw adverts for Christmas puddings and shop decorations any before November, it honestly does get earlier every year. But since being at Handpicked, I’ve realised that the people behind the scenes talk about Christmas for months and months beforehand; we’ve been feeling festive since April. I enjoy it, [...]