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We have launched our brand new Facebook Competition!! We’re very excited to announce that we will be awarding one of our Facebook followers a £500 voucher to spend at The Handpicked Collection. All you need to do to enter is Like our page and we will select any one of you to win on the [...]

 
Extracted from The Virgin Gardener by Laetitia Maklouf
This not just for the realm of the ultra-organised. Wreaths are deliciously easy to make and welcome you in to your own home after a long day at work, which is delightfully self-respecting and cheery
TIMING: Winter
YOU WILL NEED: A good armful of evergreen foliage. This could, of course, be [...]

Christmas is a time of fun and frolics, delicious food and getting together with friends. It can also be a season of stress as you watch the clock count down and think you’ll never have enough time to get everything done. So to help you enjoy the festivities we asked Lorraine from the Party Times, [...]

Thank you so much for all your comments, there were some really good ideas and so useful to share any knowledge or experience that each other has in a dangerous situation. We chose Sandra Nixon, Nicola Clare and Andy Williams to win an ila alarm each. Congratulations!! We’ll be in touch shortly to get your [...]

Happy Monday! January blues are kicking in; there are definite sniffles coming from all corners of the office and Christmas is now behind us. What a wonderful Christmas we had here at Handpicked though. Thank you to everyone who thought to stop by the website or who had a flick through the catalogue.
We really hope [...]

First appearances count
A vase of flowers and scented candles help guests overlook the stray coasts/bikes/post in the hall.
Light the way
I spotlight tables, and achieve the same effect at home by dimming lights and ;iling on the candles.
Be friendly
We’ve all been that person who doesn’t know a soul. Ask a few friends to act as ‘party [...]

We asked our some of our team what they would most to be given from the Handpicked catalogue…
Natasha – Managing Director
I would like the Porcelain Rose Candle Holder to help furnish my new flat.

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Claire – Marketing Intern
Please can I have the Aspinal Fit-Your-Life-In-Clutch? So I can have everything to hand.
Liza – Customer Services Team
Pure Cashmere [...]

This week we’re sending out an email to all our subscribers every day with a spread of gift ideas for every person you can think of in your life. First of it’s the boys, young or old, we’ve got them covered. Who says they’re hard to buy for? Be sure to sign up to our [...]

At Handpicked, we get (a little embarrassingly) over-excited about Christmas. We also love being nice to our customers, so we decided the best way to incorporate these two things was to give our customers free presents. Yes, that’s really how much we love presents. Every day up until Christmas we are going to giveaway a [...]

When we style products for our catalogues, we try and imagine how they’d look if we had them in our own houses. For creative director Amanda, this isn’t a huge leap for the imagination because she has so many Handpicked bestsellers that her house is something of a showhome for our catalogue. We take many [...]