Essentials Magazine Winner

Well done to Mrs Galloway our latest competition winner as featured in Essentials Magazine Summer Edition who has just received her chosen delights from Gifts From Handpicked......enjoy!!

Mercedes Benz Funday

We had a lovely day at Market Rasen on 26th June at Mercedes Benz Family Fun Day. It was lovely to meet customers face to face and receive great reviews of our gift and homeware selection. The winner of our competition is Lisa Smith, well done Lisa!!

Plan your garden this Summertime

For the garden enthusiast, planning your garden for the forthcoming season, or for many years to come, is one of the most interesting and rewarding parts of the gardening year, here Gifts from Handpicked have two beautiful garden planners which would make perfect gifts for any budding gardeners. With a colourful loose-leaf section and storage pockets, this practical Garden Planner is designed to grow with the garden. It provides the ideal place to make notes as the seasons change and record those vital plans for the next year of successful gardening. Enthusiastic gardeners will love the seasonal reminders, the yearly planner and the value of having all the information they need together in one place. My Garden Journal is a ringbound book with 4 tabbed pocket dividers, 6 plastic pockets and 2 fold-out A3 gridded planning sheets. There is plenty of space for adding photos of your gardening space, and a fold-out year-to-view planner. There is space for you to mark off your seasonal tasks and reminder pads for all-important notes. There is also a pocket to hold up to 12 business cards, labels for filing care tags and a deep zip-lock bag for any other important documentation.

Garden Planners Priced between £9.95-£14.95

Fathers Day 19th June 2011

Fathers Day Gifts from Giftsfromhandpicked.com

If you’re looking for a fabulous Fathers Day present you've come to just the right shopping boutique. Whatever your Dad is into, be it sports, gardening or cooking we’ve got a lovely range of fabulous Fathers Day Gifts that are sure to be appreciated this Fathers Day.For a Fathers Day gift with a difference and sentimental value our Dear Dad - From me to you book is a stunning way to capture Dad’s memories and for you to learn everything about his childhood and thoughts. The new Scratch Map is also proving to be popular, Dad can personalise and reminise his travelling days and scratch off the places he has travelled or holiday destinations.For more inspirational ideas take a look below at our Fathers Day Gift selection.Make Dad happy this Fathers Days by making a great gift choice.

Mothers Day Gift Ideas

Mother's day is fast approaching, we have some lovely unique gift ideas to spoil Mum. Our favourites include the unique Dear Mum Journal. A beautiful concept, a blank book with questions for your Mum to answer that are inspiring to include : Tell me about the time and place you were born . . . What were your favourite childhood toys or games? What would you do for a night out when you were dating? When complete and handed back it is a lovely story that you can treasure forever and pass through your family in generations to come. On a less sentimental note we have a Mary Poppins inspired teatowel "Practically Perfect in Every Way" and lots of choice if Mothers Day for you is gifts from the grandchildren. There is plenty of choice take a look at our chosen favourites for Mother's Day.

Spring Fair a Big Success

Here at Gifts From Handpicked we have had a lovely few days at the Spring Fair at Birmingham N.E.C. looking for lots of lovely new gifts and homewares. Keep checking our website over the next few months as we have lots of quirky and stylish new finds that will make great gifts all year round. We are so happy that we have found lots of gift ideas for men, ( why are they so hard to buy for! ) so for Father's Day, Birthdays and Christmas you can be inspired here at Giftsfromhandpicked.

What does blog mean?

So now to begin our blog, what does this blogging malarchy mean?

When in doubt "google it" as my Dad would say ( with the irony being that he doesn't even know how to switch a computer on, let alone search the internet but when in doubt he will always say "google it"!!)

And google returns with a straight forward answer, "Its short for web log. Its an online diary."

With diaries not being my strong point and entries few and far between I am sure this online version will be similar ( apart from the posts in my blog will be work related, with a little bit of juicy home gossip along the way! )

I will be back shortly to let you know what has been happening at GFH HQ ( in case you havn't worked that out GFH is our shortened name for Gifts From Handpicked )

Ta Ta for now Natalie x

New Year.....New Blog

Happy New Year to you all. I love January 1st, it is a time for a fresh start and to make resolutions. 2011 marks a time to meet with friends more often, plan more holidays and be more organised! My Gifts From Handpicked resolution is to get involved with the ever talked about social media and to blog! So far I have a diary to get organised, have met with my good friends over coffee and have booked a holiday, definately a good start to the New Year......and now to start our blog.