Abbazappa in Derry have brand new record players. Prices start at £45, the suitcase version is £100 and there's a £130 player with USB and radio connections. Retro just for futuristic. Call into Abbazappa to buy.
Avenue32.com have the very exclusive, red-carpet-esque Temperley London collection available to browse and purchase. There are some stunning dresses. Which do you like?
These are my favourites, a girl can dream! Click the photos to travel to the Avenue32 store.
Just a last minute reminder that the last order date for Pony Cycles in the UK and Ireland is 1pm on Friday 20th December (2013). If your child is still at a loss for an idea for their big present, you couldn't go far wrong with a Pony Cycle. Featured on The Late Show as one of their top toys of Christmas 2013, prices start at £150. They are great for exercise and are sure to astound on Christmas morning.
You can read testimonials from parents and children all over the world on the Pony Cycles site. Maybe Heidi the Horse will be the pony for you.
Heidi is £150
I must admit though, I've a bit of a soft spot for Fifi the Unicorn.
Fifi is £175
I know, I make such sacrifices for you. When Hotel Chocolat offered me a Christmas Wreath to give away to you readers, it wouldn't have been fair for me to accept without testing some of their treats first, right? To make sure they were good, of course. So I tirelessly ate my way through this exquisite box of Classic Chocolates and I can happily report they are beautiful.
Pistachio, port-infused, mini-eton messes, each sweet has a flavour that explodes in your mouth. If you're looking for a last minute thoughtful, romantic present, or something for someone who fancies themselves a bit of a foodie, then the Hotel Chocolat web store is a great place to click through to now.
If you're already sold on Hotel Chocolat from a previous gift, then there are half price bargains to be had with their advent calendars packed with chocs on 50% off. Click on any of the following photographs to be taken to the page to buy.
Last day for postage is 23rd Decemeber, so you've plenty of time.
Alternative Mince Pie £1.95
The Gingerbread Crew £7
The Deluxe Christmas Hamper £150
Advent Calendar on half price sale at £6.25 Dark Chocolate variety also available
The H-Box Everything Selection £12.50
The Rather Large Christmas Cracker £40
This time of year is tight for everyone, but charities still need help. Kill two birds with one stone (glad this isn't for the RSPCC.....) and donate any amount to the NSPCC (they recommend £5 but you can change the amount & still receive a letter), and Santa will send a personalised letter to your little one next week. There are several themes to choose from, so if you've more than one child the letters will all be different. There's also an adult themed letter, for your naughty or nice other half!
So visit the personalised Letter from Santa page and make a difference this Christmas.
Click to create your own letter
Madame Cocoa (Alex Begley) undertook the mammoth but delicious task of creating this to scale model of Belfast City Hall. The project is in honour of her small business which is going from strength to strength alongside her fellow, local business buddy's Matthew who started up Campaign Social.
Unreal detail!
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The taxidermy lover in my life is me, so I was delighted with these anatomical prints from Ikkle Lovelies. Some of these would make beautiful tattoo designs too. I adore the snake. They are printed on pearlised, high quality card that has a beautiful sheen.
I simply bought four plain, black frames from my local Ikea, so they were framed for £20 in total. PS. We really need to paint our hall....
The Jar of Dreams is a nifty little web-app which monitors the temperature of the world's dream experience. It collects data from Twitter when dreams are mentioned, and weighs up what percentage have had happy dreams, and how many people have woken up on the wrong side of the bed that morning.
Designed by Time4Sleep, the Jar of Dreams makes for addictive clicking, and noshing into other people's dream states.
The Jar of Dreams is a complex piece using both front-end and server-side technology to produce the finished piece. A harvester script checks Twitter for tweets about dreams, both negative and positive, and stores them. A separate script builds this data into an easily-accessible JSON file.
The front-end work grabs these daily sets of Tweets, works out the percentage of good and bad Tweets, draws up the treemaps and puts the Tweets on the screen. It’s a fairly Javascript-heavy piece, but uses CSS animations where possible to reduce load and render times.
Why not give it a go?
As heard on BBC Radio 6's Lauren Laverne Show.
