gift guide: bean cellars

01st December 2012

Someone was good this year!

New! Chocolate beans.

Perfect gift.

Food and drink is everywhere at this time of year and it’s hard to know what will make a good gift and what will be banished to the back of the larder until Easter time. I can pretty much guarantee that anything purchased from The Bean Cellars will be pounced upon with delight and you’ll be hard pushed to have any left past Christmas day.

The idea behind the site is simple; bottles filled with delicious jelly beans and personalised for all occasions. You can choose from a vast variety of flavours (perfect for the personal touch) or mix it up with a pre-selected combination.

The bottles are purse friendly; the 250ml bottles shown above will cost you £4.50 and make the perfect stocking filler, secret santa or teacher present; who can resist the sugary goodness? If that doesn’t float your boat then there are plenty of other options available…

If you’re feeling adventurous then try the NEW chocolate coated beans. The folks at Bean Cellars sent me a selection of these to try and sceptical as I was they are damn good (chocolate mint?! divine!)

You can also buy bulk bottles or generally just stock up on vast quantities of your favourites; I wouldn’t say no to 600g of my beloved liquorice beans!

Are you a jelly bean fan and would you like to find yourself a six pack under the tree? What flavour will you be asking for?

xxx

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Daisychaindream x Lookbible

01st December 2012

I have my good friend Jill to thank for my newest online obsession as she was the person who first introduced me to lookbible, a new arrival to the internet who in their own words say

“We like to think of ourselves as Pinterest’s hotter, fashion obsessed little sister.

We’re a social network where members can organise and share all the beautiful fashion images and products that they find on the web. Users can browse through all the images

that are uploaded and follow people who inspire them.

Finally, we also have a small shop that stocks some of our favorite brands like Mink Pink,

Evil Twin and Cheap Monday”.

One of the founding Toms got in touch soon after I signed up and offered an exciting oppurtunity to readers of the blog which I could barely wait to share!

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That’s right folks, follow the simple steps above and you could win £100 to spend on the lookbible shop; full of covetable pieces from the likes of Cheap Monday and MinkPink (there are some utterly gorgeous pieces).

I’ll repeat those simple steps for you here, with clickable links just in case…

1. Join lookbible www.lookbible.com

2. Pase http://lookbible.com/user/1646 in to your browser and follow me.

3. Repost one of my images.

It’d also be a really good idea to leave a comment on this post with a contact e-mail address so I can easily get hold of the winner. Winners will be announced on 20/12/2012 and there are THREE runner up prizes of £15 to spend too!

Bonus entry if you like my facebook page (here)- let me know in your comment!

Good luck people, this is a really fabulous giveaway and I hope to see you on lookbible soon, it’s addictive and I predict most of you will be hooked the second you sign up…I can see my week off slipping away!

xxx

P.S. Winner of the shapewear giveaway is…Petra Hora, CONGRATULATIONS, I’ll be in touch shortly.

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Get Ready to Shwap

30th November 2012

The Fashion Shwap is an innovative retail platform that gives customers the opportunity to exchange unwanted items for credits to spend on new items from brands such as Rare London, Fairground and Reverse.

With an expert fashion team constantly sourcing affordable, on trend fashions to make their customers stand out from the crowd, The Fashion Shwap is THE place to bag the perfect outfit for the Christmas party season and for those big nights out all year round.

Customers don’t have to ‘shwap’ in order to purchase, but if they fancy saving a bit of money and bagging a discount then it’s the perfect way to snag a bargain.

Every girl has clothes in their wardrobe that they no longer want to wear, so The Fashion Shwap provides the opportunity to get rid of these items in exchange for new items from Sugarhill Boutique and Rare London.

What The Fashion Shwap does:

The idea of The Fashion Shwap is to allow girls to get rid of items in their wardrobe that are just gathering dust, never to be worn again and to give them the opportunity to purchase something new and on trend that will provide the perfect fashion fix.

In order to ‘shwap’, the items must be either new with the tags on or in perfect condition. The Fashion Shwap will do all the work and all that customers need to do is submit a picture of the items you’d like to ‘shwap’ using the Shwap form on the website.

For each shwapped item, if accepted by The Fashion Shwap team, the customer will receive store credit to spend online. An offer for each item will be made which the customer can accept or decline. A pre-paid postage bag will be sent to collect items and a unique store credit code will be on its way within 24hours of the team receiving the ‘shwap’ items.

Then; get Shwapping!

The items that have been shwapped are also available for sale on the website, so it’s possible to find some great one offs and sought after out of season pieces.

With plans to move into shoes and accessories once the retail platform is more established, there will be no stopping the young entrepreneurs behind The Fashion Shwap.

www.thefashionshwap.com

http://www.facebook.com/TheFashionShwap

https://twitter.com/fashionshwap

I think this sounds utterly amazing and I have a bag of goods I had earmarked for ebay that I think I’ll be shwapping instead!

If you fancy a browse and buy when the site launches tomorrow you can snag yourself a cool 20% off with the code LAUNCH20 too!

Let me know what you think and what you treat yourself to.

xxx

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staying neutral

30th November 2012

Jumper c/o Boden, H&M skirt, Superdrug tights, Shoes- desigual c/o Sarenza.

I think this Boden jumper should be re-named “the perfect knit” as I’ve never worn something so well fitting; you know when something just hangs nicely? I’m impressed! Wearing knits to work can sometimes feel a bit sloppy but I felt smart in this, especially teamed with a pencil skirt; something I haven’t braved for a while.

TGIF?! I am so ready for the end of the week, I can’t believe it’s December tomorrow though- that’s a bit worrying…got your advent calendar ready? I’m ready to count down to Christmas and enjoy the run-up. I think the day itself will be a tough one this year, without my Nan here, but you know, I have an amazing and strong family and we’ll get through. Same goes for my Mum’s Birthday (she turns the big 5-0) I know she’s not looking forward to it but I am determined to make it as special as possible for her. I think I’ll make it my mission to be off crutches by then…oh this foot and it’s ongoing drama. Next stop, MSK referral. Reckon I can sue Zara for trauma caused…free clothes for life might just placate me!

Enjoy your Friday folk, wrap up warm though as it’s mighty cold out there. Better than the rain and floods though, I’ll take frostbite over being submerged any day.

xxx

P.S. Big massive thank you for the kind and supportive comments on my posts this week, I can’t express how much they mean to me.