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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 May, 2011
ECMOD Awards Ceremony Video – The Handpicked Collection wins Best Brand
A while ago we won Best Brand at the ECMOD awards. We were up against some tough competition, so the whole team were really proud when Jo, Handpicked’s Founder, and Natasha, Managing Director, came back with the good news. Click on the image below to see a video of them being presented with the prize [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2011 under Handpicked News, In the Press, People and Places.
Tags: ECMOD Awards, Jo McGivern, Natasha Cubitt, The Handpicked Collection
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The Handpicked Collection Father’s Day Competition
Our brand new Father’s Day competition launches today! We’re giving away a fabulous Fathers Day gift to one lucky winner. We’re asking all our Facebook followers to choose their favourite thing from our Fathers Day Gifts section. We’d love you to take part. All you need to do is find the gift idea from our [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2011 under Competitions, Handpicked News, Things we love.
Tags: Father's Day Gift Ideas, Fathers Day Presents
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Father’s Day Gift Ideas
He’s a soppy soul, the modern dad. Happy to change nappies (70% of dads in the developed world get busy with the baby wipes as often as mums, according to Pampers – and they should know), keen to take over night feeds, and always taking time off for Nativity Plays. Pre-paternity leave dads might scoff, [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2011 under Gift Ideas, Gifts for Boys.
Tags: Father's Day Gift Ideas, Fathers Day Presents, Personalised Father's Day Presents
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Father’s Day Gifts – Travel Photo Album
We’ve got all stations covered with The Handpicked Collection’s range of unique Father’s Day gifts.
One of our favourite Fathers Day gifts is our sleek Travel Photo Album to carry your home. When we introduced this to our collection we had travelling in mind. We’d give this to dads who are off jetsetting around the world [...]
Posted: May 23rd, 2011 under Gift Ideas, Gifts for Boys, Product Reviews.
Tags: Father's Day Gift Ideas, Fathers Day Presents, Travel Photo Album
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Backpack Picnic Set
Call us optimistic, but we’re still waiting to see this heat wave that everyone keeps talking about. As summer is fast approaching, we’ll need to get our picnic gear all sorted out soon. Our new summer collection saw the introduction of a whole range of really useful melamine plates, bowls and salad bowls but our [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2011 under Gift Ideas, Product Reviews, Things we love.
Tags: Backpack Picnic Set, gardening gifts, Picnic, Summer 2011
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Unusual Father’s Day Gift Ideas
We can’t quite believe that it’s already halfway through May, the weather is gloomy today but apparently we’re set for a two-day heatwave starting in the next couple of days! It also means that Father’s Day is just around the corner. Here at The Handpicked Collection we’ve been sorting through all our new gift ideas, [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2011 under Funpicked, Gift Ideas, Product Reviews, Top Tips.
Tags: Father's Day Gift Ideas, Fathers Day, Fathers Day Presents
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Our NEW Summer Collection is HERE!!
After a long long wait and lots of debating which new ideas fit well together, our new summer collection is finally landing!! We’re all very excited about the reception that our new range will get from our customers.
Click here to browse our catalogue online or here to see all the products on our website. If [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2011 under Gift Ideas, Handpicked News, Product Reviews.
Tags: Handpicked Summer, New Summer Collection
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FREE commemorative keyring to our favourite Royal Wedding photos!!
Did everyone have a lovely wedding? We did. A handful of handpickers joined 200, 00 others in front of the big screens at Hyde Park, London just round the corner from where the ceremony was taking place. There were strawberries, champagne, cake, flags and a LOT of British cheer.
We had so much fun that we [...]
Posted: May 3rd, 2011 under Handpicked News.
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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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