When holidays come, your mom is usually the hardest person to select a gift for, especially since she raised you. Even though you might not have the slightest idea about what she wants, going for something conventional might work in your favour. With the holiday season fast looming over us, go for a 3 birthstone necklace for mom. This type of jewellery has a customisation birthstone setting, which means you can opt to choose her birth month gemstones or combine a few others in the necklace.    Why you should opt for a necklace as a gift to your mom There are only a few things that can make your mom…

Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it is also the busiest. On top of all our usual work and family commitments, we now have to order presents, decorate our homes, wrap the said presents and literally add task after task to our already crowded lists. In addition to this, our social calendars can become quite packed, with parties, visits to family, Christmas shopping and meet ups, school plays, panto’s, Christmas fetes, the list is quite literally never ending. But the house and all its chores remain unforgiving. We still have to cook, clean and do all that laundry. Or do we? The cleaning definitely has…

If you are buying presents for your children they have probably already presented you with a list as long as their arm detailing what they would like this year. So this guide is more about some different ideas for stocking fillers, and gifts for babies who haven’t yet started to demand the universe complete with a unicorn. A Personalised Toy From The Personalised Gift Shop Babies are notoriously hard to buy for, but a personalised item is a lovely way to celebrate a first Christmas. The Personalised Gift Shop has personalised items for all ages, and I just love the Personalised Guess How Much I Love You Large Plush Hare. The…

Dealing with a chronic skin condition is a challenging experience during the winter. Rosacea is a skin condition that is characterised by skin redness or flushing in the face (sometimes known as red face). People dealing with this skin condition suffer the most during the cold seasons. The chilly and stormy winter weather worsens the symptoms by triggering flare-ups. According to the National Society of Rosacea, flushes, bumps, and pimples develop adversely during winter. With time, the blood vessels on the face become more prevalent and can even lead to thickening of the skin. How Winter Worsens The Condition Though the skin redness and irritation are experienced throughout the year,…

The most iconic of all Christmas stories is Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. In 1994 it was adapted into a musical that played annually every December at Madison Square Garden until 2003. A critical and popular success, this musical version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ is this year’s choice of Christmas production by the Birmingham and Midlands Operatic Society, with the show opening this week at The Alexandra. I went along to the press night last night and can safely say they have an overwhelming hit on their hands. It is classic and charming, and has a brilliant Ebenezer Scrooge in  leading man Alistair Jolliffe. The story of A Christmas Carol is…