Christmas Gift Guide for kids - a hell of a lot more enjoyable than compiling the men's gift guide, I can tell you! Although sifting through the tonnes of plastic crap to find nice stuff is a bit of a mission - plastic pots of goo, plastic bags filled with plastic...
I'm writing this post on the train to Paddington. My MacBook Pro, which is too big to fit on the pull-down table, is wedged sideways on my lap so that I'm having to type around a corner. My iPhone, which lasts approximately three minutes before running out of battery...
Here we go then, bang on time with my Christmas Gift Guides (I get lots of complaints when I leave them any later): we'll start with presents for the ladies in your life. Mums, sisters, friends and daughters or, alternatively, yourself. There's no shame in forwarding...
Oh, I've been having a right old chortle to myself over some of the stuff I've bought recently. Mouse-statue reading lamps and polar bear side tables and silly little notebooks with owls on them. It's as though the part of my brain responsible for buying things has...
It's no secret that I find buying presents for men incredibly arduous - my Men's Gift Guide is one of the most taxing posts of the year. I think it's because the men in my life (and by that I mean Mr AMR and then male family members, I don't have multiple husbands!...
I appear to have developed a penchant for the sort of beauty packaging that looks as though it's come straight from the set of an Alice in Wonderland film. I've become a real sucker for vintage-style perfume bottles, interesting pots, dainty tins, jars with fancy lids...
Whilst browsing for a lamp shaped like a monkey (as you do) I stumbled across a brilliant page with ideas for alternative Christmas decorations. It was on Amara*, a designer interiors website that I buy home stuff from quite a lot - they do some really interesting...
If you're still Christmas shopping and starting to panic (I have three presents left to get, I'm with you!) then prepare to be saved: not only do many of the things in my previous gift guides come from online stores with one day delivery (get it on Friday if you order...
I've had a bit of help with this teen girl gift guide; massive thanks to Rosalie who sat with me and went through all of the things she would be pleased (or not pleased) to receive as a Christmas present, and then did exactly the same thing putting herself in her...
Here it is: the women's Christmas Gift Guide. I find that women are much, much easier to buy for than men. My friends like almost anything that smells or looks or feels nice. I like almost everything that smells or looks or feels nice. I honestly don't know how people...
My top winter palettes, on video for your viewing pleasure; perfect picks if you like to treat yourself to a little glitzy makeup number before the party season. Or, y'know, at a push, give people presents, but I do feel that these are too nice to earmark as gifts!...
Right. This is always the tricky one, isn't it? Presents for the man/men in your life. It doesn't matter whether it's your Dad, boyfriend or brother, the things that are regularly paraded in front of us as suitable Christmas offerings are just so...drab! I've tried to...