Category: ADVENT CALENDAR ’23
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Advent Story #11 | I Can’t Help Falling In Love…
‘You’re not driving back tonight, are you?’ Hendrix asked Ife as she continued typing on her laptop, engrossed in whatever she was doing. He’d been watching her for most of the time, working away in her own world sat in the corner. She would on occasion crease her brows, mutter something then go back to…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS | SELFRIDGES
Best in show by a country mile! Because Selfridges really said if there is a prize I am taking it. I AM TAKING ALL THE PRIZES. I would imagine sitting round the table in the visual merchandising strategy meeting for Christmas, no ideas were off limits. It came, it ate and left NO CRUMBS. Selfridges,…
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Advent Story #10 | Mothers and Their Secrets
The chauffeur pulls into the driveway, safe behind the gates where the mob of reporters vied for blood and what photo they can grab from the comings and goings of the Richmond home of Ife and Tristan. Josephine Walden lets herself out of the back seat beating the chauffeur to it, and the front door…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS | CARTIER
If fantasy was a watch word, Cartier reinvented the wheel; because few brands evoke fantasy like they do every freaking Christmas season and it is always, always magical. It understands proportions and its relation to emotions so very well. As a single brand that does items in the really, really, really high price range for…
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LAZY GIRL’S GIFT GUIDE – THE TRAVELLER
We travel that we may know, that we may connect with a deeper part of ourselves that is revealed to us as we journey on in the world on lands that will always remember us. The gift of travel is an absolute privilege to behold and one of the most wonderful and cherished gifts you…
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Advent Story #9 | Girls Walks Into A Bar
When Ife walked into the pub, she knew she was where she ought to be, far away from Uni on the other side of the country. Far away from her worries and the pressures from her mother and her incessant phone calls and their arguments. She’d had enough and wanted to fall off the face…
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LAZY GIRL’S GIFT GUIDE | A FINE CURATION
We all know someone who likes a bottle of something fine, that person who can be a right royal paint to shop for hence we are going to get them a bottle of something stupendous that does not have to break the bank. Yeah I know, we can play it safe with a bottle of…
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Advent Story #8 | This Damn Morning
Hendrix was having a pisser of a morning that continued from the night before and it had nothing at all to do with a wild night spent in a woman’s bed, something he hasn’t done in over two decades, or from a hangover after a late one with the guys, something he did once a…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS | FORTNUM & MASON
You know how I feel about Fortnum’s it is my favourite department store in London. If ever there is a store that knows its brand, its consumer down to a fine science and understands that relationship with them? It is Fortnum’s. Absolutely completely so. Afternoon Tea the iconic jubilee tea salon that feels like one…