The full Spring 2010 collection is now live at Cath Kidston!
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, there are some beautiful wife gift ideas for you to choose from.
Click any link to go to the Cath Kidston site- home of one of Britain’s leading and most loved designers.
A beautifully designed ‘tower block’ advent calendar made from organic cotton with a Green and Black’s miniature bar for each pocket. This fabulous gift is the perfect count down to Christmas with enough variety to keep everyone happy. The advent calendar’s sustainable design ensures this calendar will be used at Christmas for years and years to come. The wood used to hang the calendar comes from a renewable source. Delivered in a recycled gift box with lid and hand tied with G&B’s Christmas satin ribbon.
You can even indicate a preference for Dark Chocolate or Milk Chocolate.
1 x Organic Cotton Advent Calendar by Lisa Stickley
24 x 15g Miniature Bars: Dark, Milk, Dark with Ginger, Dark with Cherry, Milk with Butterscotch, Milk with Almond.
The joy of chocaholism can be a guilty pleasure, so why not make the pleasure of chocolate even better and get her a gift that you can share!
Green & Black’s chocolate sharing hamper is a perfect way of saying Happy Christmas.
A luxurious selection of Green & Black’s intense chocolate products ranging from The Assortment – 20 bespoke dark, milk and white chocolates with a perfectly balanced selection of centres to our intensely flavoured Miniature Bar Collection. The sharing hamper contains our classic dark, milk and white organic Chocolate Squares box and a selection of Green & Black’s ribboned bars.
This box is the ultimate in sharing!
You can even make your own choice of 100g chocolate bars in the gift when you Checkout.
Contents:
1 x 200g Organic Assortment
1 x 200g Organic Chcolate Squares (Dark, Milk and White Chocolate)
1 x 180g Organic Miniature Bar Collection
5 x 35g Bars; White, Creamy Milk, Milk with Butterscotch, Dark 70% and Dark with Maya Gold
1 x 100g Milk Chocolate Bar
1 x 100g Dark Chocolate Bar
1 x 100g White Chocolate Bar
£30.00
Wedding Pearl Jewellery “Minnie” White Freshwater SUperlong necklace/bracelet, originally uploaded by www.virtudej.com.
Pearls are a classic gift and with good reason: no other gem has stood the test of time and style quite like them.
Right now pearls are fashionable again (and not just for brides), especially in the guide of this super-long necklace that can be worn in a huge number of different ways or even stacked as a bracelet.
Jewellery can be difficult to buy for your wife, but if you go for a classic like pearls that is also incredibly flexible, then it’s a sure winner.
PS This item has free delivery and gift packaging.
With the party season around the corner, your wife may be dreading the whole thing- not just the not-drinking but the “what shall I wear” crisis is suddenly much worse!
Help her feel her best with something form the gorgeous range at Isabella Oliver.
There are a whole range of fabulous outfits, dresses and other essentials for the stylish mum-to-be.
Isabella Oliver. Designed to make you feel fabulous throughout pregnancy,
Red lingerie is especially festive for Christmas period, like this gorgeous Florence set from luxury lingerie brand MYLA.
Florence is an adorable range in sheer mesh with a delicate, scalloped edge trim picked out in contrast colour and rows upon rows of distinctly delicate Myla frills.
Vintage glamour to catwalk cool – Myla is the choice for discerning lovers of luxury lingerie.
The Isabella Oliver 365 new Autumn Winter 2009 collection has arrived and there’s free delivery available with the banner below.
The new Isabella Oliver 365 women’s wear collection has been created for the modern multitasking woman in fabrics that flatter. Iconic ready-to-wear clothing for easy chic that works from am to pm. The collection includes fabulous women’s dresses, timeless women’s outerwear, and effortlessly stylish separates from tops and trousers to chic skirts. Whatever the occasion, Isabella Oliver 365 offers versatile ladies wear that mixes classic design with contemporary details; perfect for selecting a must-have LBD (little black dress) or updating essential work wear.
As worn by Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba, Gwen Stefani, Heidi Klum, Naomi Watts, Minnie Driver and Jennifer Lopez
Welcome to Wife Gift Ideas Part II in which we demystify gift-giving at Christmas. But before we get to that, how did you get on with Part I? Did you do your homework and ask some of those questions? If not then get to it, you’re going to need the answers for your Christmas shopping.
It seems to be there are unwritten rules associated with occasions like Birthdays, Valentines and Christmas well here’s my top rule for Christmas: LuxFactor
Of course, you must work on your Thoughtfulness Score, but gifts at this time of year tend to stick to one of the main Christmas Categories, but we’ll get to that later.
Lux Factor is the luxury rating that you can apply to any product. Like with cars: a BMW Series 1 can cost less than a Renault Espace but the BMW has the LuxFactor.
We’re looking for gifts that ooze luxury. Important note: this doesn’t always mean expensive, just the best-of-breed or the most decadent in its class e.g. chocolate- choose a luxury (organic) brand with a high percentage of cocoa solids, for a scarf we want cashmere or silk.
High LuxFactor items are generally those that she would never normally buy for herself, as they’re too luxe for every day.
Plus for high LuxFactor you need suitable wrapping materials, you can cheapen a wonderful LuxFactor by using rubbishy wrapping paper but on the other hand score loads more points with an lower LuxFactor gift by dressing it up with some quality finishing materials.
Christmas gifts fall into a few well-defined categories:
This is fantastic news as it means you don’t have to wrack your brain thinking about the wackiest/most unexpected present, instead you can zero-in on the areas you know your partner likes (thanks to those questions in Part I) and just make sure your get the LuxFactor right.
Note on recommendations. All the things I recommend are from brands I know and love or brands that my mother, sisters or female friends know and love! I’m including some links to make life easier but above all because I, hand on heart, believe that these products are fantastic and will make well received gifts. My aim is to help you pick out the gems that will hit the mark.
Good luck and don’t leave it until the last minute!
Although if you do, Amazon vouchers must surely be the best way to instantly save face: redeemable against millions of products and you can even print your own certificate to give her.
