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We found out today that we’ve won the Sheer Luxe Shopping Award for Best Online Gift Store. We’re so thankful to everyone who voted, it really does mean a great deal to us, so we’ve decided to offer everyone 15% off until midnight on Sunday. The offer applies to very nearly everything across the site. [...]

We feel like it’s about time we took in a bit of culture. To quench our thirst, culture queens that we are, we’ll be heading over to the Globe. Frankly, that’s culture for you already but we’ll actually be heading through the gates to hear a talk by John Wolfson on Macbeth.
It is strongly believed [...]

Our mantra here at Handpicked is ‘make shopping easy and enjoyable for our customers’. It’s the reason our company was founded three years ago – to help people find a thoughtfully selected but large range of gifts all in one place.
Sometimes though, we do have to betray our Handpicked loyalties and look to a couple [...]

We’ve got a bit of guest blogging going on this week. First off is a lovely product review including a little tub of marbles and twenty-something-year-old kid at heart otherwise known as Handpicked customer service manager Victoria. Cheers Vic.
We recently had a tub of marbles make its way over to the Handpicked Office and I [...]

Handpicked love Liberty and their beautiful signature prints. Congratulations to them for securing their sell and leaseback. Where would Regent Street be without the gorgeous mock Tudor landmark?
To celebrate 50 years of Carnaby Street in London, they have created these pretty ribbon watches. These babies are limited edition so they’ll be snapped up fast.

Remind you [...]

Bad news, the weather isn’t set to hold for the Bank Holiday – according to the not so trusty BBC Weather website, rain’s a comin’. Fear not. Here at Handpicked we’ve tracked down lots of things you can do that involve less picnicking and more sightseeing. There are some cracking exhibitions on at the moment. [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Handpicked Collection’s new Blog! We’ve just moved over to a new system so please bear with us whilst we sort out a few kinks and make it look nice again.

Lucky us got to attend our Expert Panellist, Thomasina Miers’ launch of her brand new book ‘Mexican Food Made Simple’ last night at her restaurant Wahaca.  We were plied with incredible taquitos, tortillas and tostadas and drank way tooo many of their brilliant margueritas* (1,500 were quaffed apparently – not bad for a Tuesday night). 
 The [...]

I love websites that genuinely and easily give you the information you want so was pleased to discover www.childfriendly.net . It describes itself as providing information on “child friendly places in the UK” and does exactly that. When I was heading off to stay with my parents in Cambridge for a few days with my [...]