More photos from the fireside; this time it's a few nice gift ideas using bits and bobs from The Body Shop*. I don't mind a pre-prepared gift, but I must say that I quite enjoy putting together my own packages so that I can pick out my favourite items and customise...
A nice reader offer to end the week: Pai Skincare are giving away a free, award-winning Fragonia & Seabuckthorn Instant Hand Therapy Cream with every order of £30 and over. This includes the beautifully packaged Christmas gift sets which are priced at £30 for the...
On Mr AMR's Christmas list: a kayak, a "strong torch" (?), a remote control helicopter camera that takes aerial views (of course), a snazzy dressing gown. His words. He'll kill me for making this list public, but I wanted to demonstrate how difficult men are to buy...
I don't know about Ginsberg being God but somebody definitely is - whoever made this candle, for a start. It's absolutely gorgeous! It has a really unusual scent that reminds me of when I used to hide in my granny's greenhouse, tucked into the tangle of branches and...
I promised you some "gift splitting" ideas and so here they are. Just a few pointers to get you going - there are hundreds of multipacks and gift sets out there that lend themselves to this particular way of shopping. ("Gift splitting" is the art of divvying up bigger...
You may have noticed an increase in video content here on A Model Recommends; that is because I am now trying to produce two videos every week on my Youtube channel. And it would seem churlish not to post the videos here, too - some of them are absolute stonkers....
I've been faffing about with beautiful little books and soapy morsels and bits of wrapping paper to create what I think is the ultimate pretty (and affordable) present. The "Perfect Pretty Parcel". Ideal for Christmas, which is handy considering the time of year, but...
I can't get over quite how gorgeous Penguin's Clothbound Classics are. I feel as though they should be framed! I'm going to talk more about pretty Christmas gifts on Monday but I thought that these deserved a standalone mention - just look at the flamingos...
Continuing along merrily with my "Christmas Gift for them, Christmas Gift for you" theme: a reader offer from Diptyque. Spend £80 online and receive a gorgeous 70g Baies candle (above) - cult scent, all-round crowd-pleaser. So, you could spend £80 on gifts and treat...
Ah, Space NK with another of their little bags of beauty treasure! These gift-with-purchase customer events seem to be getting more and more frequent - which is good, I suppose, if you regularly need to stock up on pricey treats, but bad if you're trying to keep a...
Yves Saint Laurent have super-swished two of their most iconic products; the Touche Éclat pen and their fragrance classic that for many of us is perfume "marmite": Opium. For me, Opium has incredibly warming associations; my Mum wore it from when I was very little and...
Every year I am filled with a sense of abject horror when people tell me that they have completed their Christmas shopping already. "But it's only the start of November!" I say and then they give me a pitying look, the kind of look that your Mum gives you when you...