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As the founder of SheerLuxe, the ultimate online shopping guide, Georgie Coleridge Cole is the ideal person to reveal what girls really want.
If you’re her other half then don’t buy things that are secretly for you. She does not want a Sky Sports subscription when she isn’t interested in sport. Feigning interest in the World [...]

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The weather may be taking a turn for the worse but there’s still time to brighten your day with one of our carefully chosen gift ideas at a special discounted price. Once all the things in our 75% off section won’t be coming back once we’ve run out of stock. Our [...]

On a rainy Sunday afternoon, I could think of nothing better to do than redesign my recently acquired Photo Tray. Now if you’re unfamiliar with the layout of the Photo Tray here’s our photo from the website:

The inside mount is removable and as I’m such a hoarder I thought I would put a small sample [...]

What better way to launch our Valentine’s Day gift ideas than with this little cutie brought to our inboxes by Daily Puppy… there’s one particular member of our team (no names mentioned, Natasha) who gets much pleasure from the daily email sent by Dailypuppy.com - an extraordinary service that sends a picture of a puppy daily to their [...]

I was reminded why we had decided to introduce the Five Way Cashmere Poncho last night when, after a day in the office, followed by kids tea and bath-time, I had minus ten minutes to get ready to go out to a party. I had to choose between a dash of make-up and changing – [...]

With great delight, I was allocated as chief tester of our new Rainbow Maker.  That night, I duly stuck the little gadget with its suction pad to a sun-facing window in my bedroom and went to sleep wearing my Cath Kidston eye mask.  So effective is this mask that instead of waking to a light [...]

If you’ve been out and about recently, you’ve probably seen one of these posters for our brand new and exclusive product – The Ila Dusk.  This gorgeous accessory is actually a personal safety alarm which screams with a piercing female voice rather than an innocous siren. We love it at Handpicked for the fact it looks [...]

Customers often ask where we find the gifts and products we sell. ‘Loads of different ways’, we always answer. But however we find them, getting them into the catalogue is all about teamwork. Take our smart new jewellery tree. Managing director Jo mentioned her love for jewellery trees when Handpicked first launched. We laughed, told her she [...]