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The 2011 Essential Christmas gift guide

 

 

Christmas gift guideMums in business usually work all hours in order to achieve their work life balance. So when do they get time to find their perfect Christmas presents? In conjunction with our "alternative" Business Mums gift guide, we are compiling the essential Christmas Gift Guide for Mums who are too busy this December to spend time trawling through the shops buying for Dad and the children.

This guide isn’t filled with computer games, interactive toys or silly socks but unusual and thoughtful gifts for your loved ones this Christmas. So in between work, cooking, cleaning and childcare, take 5 minutes to go through our Gift Guide and it may, just may, save you that mad dash round the shops. The only thing we can’t help with is the wrapping …….

Thanks to Donna Pinnell; MumsClub head of S.P.E.D and owner of gift boutique littlelilypad for compiling this fabulous guide.

For Him

 

Festive Fine Grooming - Organic Shaving Kit –
Reduced to £25.00 – www.greenpeople.co.uk 
Now ladies, none of us like stubble rash after a kiss under the mistletoe do we??  The clever Green People have come up with an amazing range of grooming gifts for men. This Organic Shaving kit is currently reduced to £25 and includes Shave Now - Wash & Shave, Cool Down with a Shaving Brush & Razor Moisturiser. This is an investment indulgence piece for both you and your man. It is practical, personal and a perfect gift for the man or men (!!) in your life this Christmas.

festive fine grooming

Italian Spaghetti & Olive Oil Set
- £12.00 - http://www.nudo-italia.com
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, so give the gift of love this Christmas with the Nudo food gifts. They have a fantastic range of gifts, perfect for that “foodie” friend or the person who has everything. The Spaghetti and Olive Oil set comes in a stylish tin that can be re-used in the kitchen after the food has been eaten. There is also an “Adopt an Olive Tree” option on their website, which allows people all over the world to adopt an Italian olive tree and receive its oil. In giving financial security to the olive farmers, the programme makes viable the traditional farming methods which, quite simply, produce the world’s best olive oil. So if you want to give the gift of love this Christmas with Nudo.

spaghetti

Jabra Drive
£49.99 – www.amazon.co.uk
Is your man a gadget loving guy? Then he will love the Jabra Drive! It boasts that it is the easiest in-car speakerphone on the market to-date, the Jabra DRIVE oozes with style, canconnect to two mobile devices at a time and requires no setup, allowing drivers and passengers to stay in touch with family and friends while on the road and in compliance with hands-free driving laws. The Jabra has20 hours of talk time which wins huge points with the chatter boxes here at Mumsclub HQ and with an impressive 30 days of standby time, the Jabra DRIVE is equipped with enough battery life to survive the longest journey (and chatterbox).

Jabra DRIVE

For Her

 

Mobiroo App Gift Voucher -
£10 each – www.mobiroo.com
At Mumsclub we love our Blackberry’s so we were super excited to find an app gift card for Android™ and BlackBerry®. Whether you need directions because you’re forever getting lost, music for when you’re bored, games for the children or your other half wants to keep up to date with the latest scores, check out the world’s top-ranked apps on the Mobiroo app store. We are not suggesting you spend your “work time” playing on apps but with Mobiroo app gift cards are available at ASDA, Gamestop, GAME, and The Carphone Warehouse, a little light hearted fun on your smartphone can’t go miss?

blackberry-app-card

Elbow-length Kid Leather Gloves -
£150 – www.luxuryartisan.com
These luxurious elbow-length gloves are handmade in Florence, Italy from the finest kid leather with 100% silk lining. These opulent gloves are perfect for that glamorous evening out, or party. Available in a rich purple leather, wearing these gloves out will make you the talk of the town. They maybe called “kid gloves” but this gift is definitely one for the grown ups!

gloves

For baby

 

Gro – Egg - £21.99 www.gro-store.co.uk
Do you like your eggs sunny side up or simply glowing?? This is as much for mum as it is for baby and with a new baby in the Mumsclub camp, we just love this product. The innovative Gro-egg™ changes colour to let you know at a glance whether the temperature of a room is too low, too high or just right. A yellow glow suggests a comfortable temperature for children to sleep in, whilst a blue glow suggests it's too cold and a red glow suggests it's too warm. Whilst it isn’t the cheapest room thermometer on the market, it is perfect as a nightlight in baby’s room so it is dual purpose! This gets a big thumbs up from the MC team.

Gro-egg

Chicco Penguin Activity Walker - £34.99 -
www.chicco.co.uk
Anyone with an inquisitive baby will thank goodness for the Penguin Baby Steps Activity Walker. Unlike a lot of “seated” walkers, baby has to find their own balance and the walker produces a fun tune as soon as they take a step – and it stops when they do. The Baby Steps Activity Walker also doubles up as an activity centre with games, lights and sound effects which makes it an extremely good value gift and perfect as a first Christmas gift.

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For the children

 

Pointless - £19.99
www.amazon.co.uk
Do your children love Alexander Armstrong’s BBC game show Pointless? Well you can now join in the fun from the comfort of your own home.  The aim of the game is to fight against your natural instincts as you try to score the least number of points by guessing the least popular answers to general knowledge questions. Does it sound pointless? It sounds like a whole heap of family fun to us!

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Candy Floss Dressing Up Set
£16.99 - www.fairiesandfriends.co.uk
This is a perfect gift for those fairy princesses. This pretty pink fairy set includes tiered skirt is edged in silver ribbon with gorgeous glittered wings and a butterfly wand. It’s a great way for girls who love to flutter by the hours by dressing up!

fairy outfit

Whirlee –£16.99 -  www.mookie.com
Now something for the boys (or tom boys), Whirlee is a brand new wheeled toy from the clever folk at Mookie. It is super-light weight (just 865 grams), so when they get tired, you should have enough energy / strength to carry both toddler and Whirlee! The product's stackable design makes it ideal for packing into the boot of a car for holidays or day trips too.

Whirlee blue with boy low res

Munchkin Disco Tub Lights
£5.71 - www.munchkin.eu.com
Does your little one light up your life? Well we have something to light up their bath time! The fantastic sea-shaped lights glow and blink as they either float in the water or stick to the wall of the bath. One of the fantastic features of these lights are that they even shut off automatically after 90 seconds to help preserve battery life.

bath-lights

Find It - £15.99
www.amazon.co.uk
We love this highly addictive game which will keep your kids absorbed for hours. The plastic tube contains 48 hidden objects hidden within alot of colourful plastic pellets. It can be played alone or with friends, everyone will enjoy spinning it, shaking it and twisting it until all the objects are found. This really is a family friendly, easy to use game, making it ideal to play anywhere: at home, in the office or even in the car. So you may never hear that fatal question “are we nearly there yet” again, as the children will be too absorbed in the game!

findit

Stocking Fillers

 

3m Scotch Post It Note Dispenser
£8.99 – www.amazon.co.uk
Have you got the impossible task of finding a secret Santa gift for under £10? Or if your Christmas budget doesn’t quite stretch to a designer handbag, this cheeky but useful gift could be the solution. It is elegant, yet practical and ideal for dressing up a desk whether at home or in the office. Due to its weighted base, it’s a great paperweight too!! Multi-talented …… a little like a woman!

postit

Last minute gift ideas!
If you really have forgotten someone off the gift list and missed the last posting dates, fear not, for a generation of app loving individuals, we have some great App recommendations for you ….

iF Poems App – supporting Save the Children
This App is a brilliant way for families to share classic poetry in a modern format. 10 downloads of the App for iPad would buy a mosquito net to protect a child from malaria, or buy a blanket for a newborn baby living in poverty in the UK as the winter comes around. A few more than that would provide a child in the UK with educational books or toys to help them with their development while the App helps your child with theirs.

The iF Poems app for iPad and iPhone are available now for download in November, priced at £1.99 for the iPhone and £2.99 for the iPad version in the UK. Ten per cent of all sales goes to help fund the work of Save the Children.

blackberry-app-card

Keep Me Safe App
www.keepmesafe.co
Keep Me Safe is a personal safety tracking app, like a ‘Sat Nav for people’, to ensure that women feel safe when travelling to meetings alone or making their way home from work night’s out. By selecting up to two nominated people to have the ability to see your location when the tracking facility is switched on. The app also has two alert functions, which lets your trackers know if you are in trouble and stores your location even more precisely. It also lets you send a message to your trackers to let them know you’ve safely arrived at your end destination, be that at home or work meeting that you’ve had to travel to. Its perfect for teenage girls who want to go out to nightclubs but also ideal for the business woman travelling alone!

The app is free to download from the Android app store from early December and then subscription to the tracking service costs £39.99 per year and can be paid on a monthly basis.  

keep-me-safe

The Kodak Big App.

It’s an online tool that lets users upload their photographs (or chose existing ones off the site), and blow them up, printing them across numerous pages. It can easily be used to create some unique and personal Christmas decorations, or even fun wall-hangings for the kids’ rooms.

All the details are at http://www.emediarelease.de/kodakbigapp.html

kodak

Don’t forget!
Alternative Christmas Gift guide

 

 

 

 

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