Category: ADVENT CALENDAR
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THE HOLIDAYS- GUEST WARDROBE
In the event we go into a lockdown post Christmas, here is your chance to live it up high life style because you just never know when we’ll be able to dress up like this again. COVID is still circling back and touching base, and we are at her mercy. So, what are you wearing?…
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#12 | GIFT OF A GOOD NIGHT
My only New Year’s resolution for next year is to get more sleep and not just any kind of sleep, I mean a good night’s sleep as much as I can wherever I am. I want to be that insufferable person who is in bed by 10pm, listening to Rege Jean Page whisk me off…
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#11 | FOR WHEN YOU JUST DON’T KNOW
Light the fires, if you have a fire place, put on something christmassy from Hallmark or Netflix, get out the blankets, pull your nearest and dearests closer for a snuggle on the couch and indulge in a little picnic of your own making. Maybe offer to take your nieces and nephews for the day, the…
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#10 | FOR THE HOST/HOSTESS
As far as perfect gifts for hosts or hostesses go, this is it. The table planner; an absolutely excellent gift; the featured is from Not Another Bill. It keeps the party moving, creates the absolutely ideal setting for conversation to flow, laughter to ripple down the table and nary a boring seat in sight. Trust…
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HOSTING – PAIR YOUR WINE LIKE THE PRO YOU ARE NOT.
I am by no means a seasoned wine drinker, champagne is more my lane BUT countless wine making and wine tasting day trips when I travel has cleansed and to a great extent, refined my palette some. So if you’re hosting and need your wine paired, stick with me: Bacchus: seafood deserves a really good…
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#9 – GIFT OF A LITTLE LUXURY
Picks a brand and splurge on something just for you. It can be anything, beauty, home, fashion… whatever, just pick one and absolutely go HAM on their products. A treat, a necessity call it what you will. MADAM’S EDITS: Pomegranate noir diffuser Townhouse collection of candles; fig and cassis Cake soap collection Entire Townhouse collection…
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#8- FOR LITTLE AND NOT SO LITTLE ONES
All credit to my sister who is an avid children gift shopper and an expert researcher when it comes to gifting children because any old book just won’t do. Any old rag doll is not okay. Give books, always to children, but where books have been given and given and given again, try something from…
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BOTTOMS UP- THE HOLIDAY PAUSE
It’s the most wonderful- busiest- stressful- delightful- magical- everything is everything- time of the year and we can often forget to take it easy, pause and breathe. Compounded by the fact that we may or may not be in lockdown over the holidays; it is a lot to ask and put on ourselves. Hence I…
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#7 | FOR THE KITCHEN
Every kitchen must have a good bottle of extra virgin olive oil and short of going to Italy, there is a shop in London that gets you closer to the country without having to jump on a plane. Debraggio in Richmond is such a shop and the second best place for Italian in the county;…