Got Kids? Know anyone that has? Right, that’s all you lot covered then….Now check out the most amazing, personalised gift idea I have seen.
Enhance-Me offer the service of enhancing images of your little ones, altering the backgrounds to great effect. I URGE you to go to the Enhance-me web site. My two boys wanted to be super heroes - in New York (The eldest is really into Jay-Z), Enhance-me delivered a wonderful image, capturing and enhancing everything required.
These magical images will come back to you as a Hi res Image which can be distributed to all your friends and family as many times as you like and printed out again and again. £13.99 for this much timeless, precious, unique magic is stunningly good. (They make awesome screen savers too!)
As far as a review goes, this is one product / service that speaks for itself. I mean really, what does £14 get you these days? GO TO THE SITE AND SEE THE MAGIC!!!!
As a gift, Mothers day is nearly with us. But these image enhancements would work wonders for a newborn gift or birthdays. How about absent through miles Grandparents?
Got Kids? Know anyone that has? Now you have a perfect gift idea sorted.
Divine Chocolate company are unique as they are Co Owned by the Fair trade Cocoa farmers. Ethically speaking, this is a big plus for Chocolate that already stands alone in terms of quality.
The Mothers Day baking Hamper (£30.00) can be purchased at Divine Chocolate shop. The ultimate gift for Mothers day, this hamper contains white, milk and dark chocolate. Also included is the Cocoa powder that runs deep into Divine Chocolate’s success and taste. Naturally produced under the rain forest canopy, these magic beans are the pride of it’s farmers - It’s easy to see why! The powder is the universal, all powerful ingredient that makes the difference between chocolate and Divine chocolate.
The Hamper also comes with a recipe book by baking and Chocolate expert Linda Collister, once favoured by the Queen Mother.
This Mothers day, create some choc magic from one of the recipes with your Mum - time well spent.
Divine chocolate also have the wonderful Raspberry and Strawberry Duo, 1 bar of creamy white chocolate with real strawberries and 1 bar of 70% dark chocolate with raspberries (£3.99 from Waitrose).
The white chocolate and strawberry combo is heaven, the Dark chocolate clean, sharp and sophisticated.
The Divine Chocolate shop offer so much more, if you need a solution for any gift idea, you would do well to investigate further!
More Chocolate? well, not quite as above but you can give Chocolate to your Mum that is good for her, 100% calorie free!
The skincare range from Ikove, pleasingly, again uses fairtrade chocolate as one of its ingredients in this wild natured skincare range. Straight from the Amazon along with Acai, these products deliver astonishing results. Acai is the latest must have health superfood, renowned for its anti ageing and nutritional properties.
I was sent the Açai Chocolate Age-Resisting Serum (£19.36) to test. The 100% plant derived concentrate uses nutrition-rich rosehip oil to protect against the negative signs of ageing and environmental damage while nourishing the skin. It performs really well, easy to apply, good absorption and really positive results.
The range is unique and quirky enough to be considered a great gift, some more examples of the range below.
Açai Chocolate Body Polish A gentle yet effective skin buffer using cocoa butter and babacu oil to hydrate newly revealed skin
Açai Chocolate Body Moisturizing Lotion This lightweight organic lotion is formulated with the powerful antioxidants of açai and chocolate along with potent rainforest botanicals that nourish and revitalise the skin
Açai Chocolate Shampoo Adds vitality, shine and natural nourishment
Açai Chocolate Conditioner Anti-ageing and nourishing it works especially well on damaged and/or coloured hair. The ultra rich formulation detangles and hydrates using capuacu butter, babacu oil and cocoa butter. Açai and vinegar help revitalise
Priced from £6.63 - £19.36, a fantastic, alternative Mothers day gift.
When you think of Compilation CDs, The massively successfull Now thats what I call music series would spring to mind. My first album was Now 4 (it had Ghostbusters on it).
I would like to think my musical taste has evolved since then, So have the Compilation sets.
100 Hits released their first set in 2007 and have shifted over 2 million copies. 100 hits MUM was released this month and it is a surprisingly brilliant mix of 80s, 90s and current Feel good tracks.
You get a bit of Simply Red, Otis and Aretha and the Corrs (real Mummy pleasing tracks) but what sets this apart are some of the covers….
Jamie Cullum doing Radioheads High and Dry, World Party working their magic on Robbie’s She’s The One (they wrote it!) and the mighty Lemonheads covering Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful are great tracks that need to be heard.
I also appreciated the last song, I think deliberately placed so as not to leave Dad out completely. Nizlopi’s JCB song is a perfect homage to Dads everywhere, the sentiment within is striking.
Depending on retailer, the set goes for around £8, yes 8p per song.
Sorry Mum, I loved this 5cd set so much that I am keeping my promo copy!
Posted by Paul Handley on Wed 24th February 2010 at 10:50 AM, Filed in
I have written about Inverawe smokehouse before, Scotland’s premium Smoke house which offers home delivery on a range of sumptuous, gastronomically gorgeous goodies.
Last time, I had a range of smoked cheeses which turned me a little bit silly, I raved about the smoked Brie. Incidentally, last weekend, I grated the last of my smoked cheddar into some scrambled eggs. There wasn’t a lot of cheese, but taste wise, it changed everything – it goes to show what a difference quality ingredients can make.
Imagine my joy at receiving the Mothers Day gift basket (Unless you too have tasted Inverawe, you couldn’t imagine, you wouldn’t even come close)
The Basket comes in self cooled poly box ensuring optimum freshness on delivery. Inside, the best Smoked Salmon you will taste – I mean it, Heidsieck Monopole Champagne, 37.5cl, 150g MacLean’s Cocktail Oatcakes, 70g Inverawe Luxury Chocolates and Inverawe Smoked trout pate 150g.
The basket is all I have left.
Everything is as you would expect, absolute quality. The one surprise for me was the Smoked Trout Pate which is on a par with the smoked Brie from last review – stunningly moreish. With the cocktail oatcakes, I became a crazed cookie monster. The Pate is dangerously good!
All the above is yours, or Mums, for £38.50 plus P&P – bargain!
If I had to convey how good this all is, Inverawe Smokehouse have holiday cottages on site. I am planning on my own food pilgrimage this summer. Call it Quest for the Smoked Duck. I have never factored food into a holiday destination before….
Hopefully, You now understand how lovely the Inverawe range is. Maybe you would consider Your Mum to be just as lovely – I hope so. Surely your Mum deserves the ultimate compliment for being so good for all these years?
