The Alternative Advent

November is the perfect time to start planning and making your own advent for loved ones. In this months blog we explore some alternative advents and give you our top ideas for packaging and display!...

How to Guide – Prettily Packaging a Homemade Gift!

Homemade gifts are back in fashion and that's official! Over the years the home crafted market has been growing organically but add in a global pandemic and lots of people with a need to fill lots of spare time or a need to save money and...

When life Gives you Lemons (and Lemon Gift Wrap!)

It's been a difficult few months and life really has given us our fair share of lemons hasn't it? Thankfully we're a really resourceful and creative nation with our glasses half full and so throw us a lemon and we're likely to pop on...

Ode to the Daffodil…

I've always had a huge love and appreciation of Daffodils. For me, when Winters end is dragging its heels and the sky is hung over us like an oppressive grey cloak, they pop up from the ground like a cheery friend to uplift and remind...

A bit of a do – Peter Rabbit Style!

There's something rather special about a first birthday isn't there? Turning one is such a milestone and warrants a certain amount of effort on the party front...

If cake be the food of love…

If you're wanting a truly bespoke gift for someone then how about creating a hamper for them?  A wicker basket, a bottle of port and some smelly cheese may be lovely for some but thinking outside the box  (or wicker basket) can mean you end up...

Baking days

  I often dream of having time to bake, to try new recipes and potter in the kitchen on a Saturday morning...