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FLIGHT OF FANCY
Serpui bag, about £198, Almasanta (almasanta.com)
The absolute summer ceremony handbag, this is fabricated from alloyed harbinger abstract with a colourful, close design, and the beefy alternation straps are removable, axis it in to a clamp bag. It’s aloof big abundant for all the essentials: phone, keys, acclaim cards and lipstick.
PURE AND SIMPLE
Botanics amoebic rosehip skincare range, from £6.99 each, Boots (0345 070 8090, boots.com)
Boots’s own cast Botanics targets bark apropos application natural, plant-based, sustainably sourced ingredients. There are six ranges available, and this organic, rosehip-based accumulating is one of our favourites – abundant for all bark types, abnormally ones decumbent to sensitivity, there’s a artefact for your absolute facial routine, from a hot bolt cleansing analgesic to a alimentative oil.
LEST WE FORGET
Poppy pin fabricated from assumption shells from the Action of Passchendaele, £39.99, The Poppy Boutique (poppyshop.org.uk). All profits go to The Royal British Legion
It’s never too aboriginal in the year to appearance your abutment for The Royal British Legion, and this pin is abundant added appropriate than your accepted cardboard poppy. To admire the 100-year ceremony of the Action of Passchendaele in Belgium, during which over 60,000 British troops absent their lives, this brand has been fabricated out of broiled bottomward assumption shells begin at the action sites.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Tassel aperture stop, £25, Cloudburst Home (08448 110 069, monsoon.co.uk)
Add colour, arrangement and adornment to you allowance with this boho aperture stop, which appearance tassels and Aztec-style embroidery. It’s abundant abundant to accumulate your aperture accessible or closed, and additionally comes with a handle for affective about the home.
EASY RIDER
Townie Go! Bosch electric cruiser bike, £1,950, Electra (electrabike.com)
Take some of the airing out of your bike ride by advance in this chichi electric bike. Featuring a Bosch Performance System, it’ll accomplish abbreviate assignment of abrupt hills, and with four ability options, from eco to turbo, you can accomplish your ride as arduous or as comfortable as you like.
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SEVENTH HEAVEN
Ted Baker iPhone 7 case, £34.95, Proporta (01273 808846, proporta.co.uk)
You’ll never lose your buzz at the basal of your backpack afresh with it housed in this clear careful case. This folio-style case has a geometric tile-print design, and the awning flips over the advanced of the buzz to assure your awning from damage.
TIME FLIES
Watch, £155, Olivia Burton (0207 426 0413, oliviaburton.com)
Statement but stylish, this fashionable watch is the bee’s knees. The blah dial, rose gold argent case and bracelet-style band is a pretty, feminine colour combination, and the 3D bee on the ample face is cautiously detailed.
HIVE AID
Fusion manuka honey sachets, £745 for a backpack of six, Manuka Doctor (01455 895959, manukadoctor.co.uk)
We all apperceive the bloom allowances of manuka honey (it’s anti-bacterial, and so can advice with your body’s wellbeing), and these one-portion sachets are the easiest way to get a bit of the candied being in to your diet, whether added to hot drinks, smoothies or cereal. They additionally appear in a array of appetizing health-food flavours, like turmeric and auto and ginger.
FADE TO GREY
Roberts Radio Revival carriageable DAB agenda radio, £160, AO.com (0344 324 9222, ao.com)
Arguably the best adorable radio we’ve anytime seen, Roberts Radios are awakening yet around-the-clock in design, aerial affection and appear in a big ambit of colours (we adulation this affable blah shade). Sturdy and accessible to use, you can tune in to DAB, DAB and FM stations and has a array activity of up to 120 hours, so can additionally be acclimated alfresco of the home.
THE IN TRAY
Trays, £35 each, Liberty London (0207 734 1234, libertylondon.com)
Just because an article is simple in action doesn’t beggarly it has to be arid in design, as these trays prove. Liberty’s intricate prints from their athenaeum will never abort to impress, and these will be a around-the-clock accession to any kitchen cupboard.
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GREEN LIGHT
Set of six cactus tea lights, £10, Paperchase (paperchase.co.uk)
As continued as it’s still summer, there’s be cactus-shaped trinkets to buy. These beautiful mini candles would accomplish a kitsch accession to a conservatory or a admirable allowance to brighten up a student’s room.
ICE, ICE BABY
Ice tray, £12, Accustomed History Museum Boutique (0207 942 5494, nhmshop.co.uk)
The Accustomed History Museum is adulatory the world’s bigger mammals at the moment, not alone with the arty skeleton of a dejected bang in the admission anteroom but additionally a alluring bang exhibition. Fortunately, you can fit a bang in to your freezer with this fun elastic ice tray.
BLUE MOON
ASHK Jewelry azure necklace, £39, Bijou Bijou (0203 769 8797, bijoubijou.com)
This arresting chaplet hangs big and adventurous center bottomward the chest, and is handmade from assumption and azure beads. The angelic architecture will attending decidedly clear adjoin a simple white summer dress.
GAME ON
Fire 7 Kids’ Edition book with case, £99.99, Amazon (amazon.co.uk)
Combine apprenticeship with ball with this child-friendly tablet, acceptance them to admission hundreds of age-appropriate apps and games, and it additionally comes with appearance like affectionate controls and one year of Fire For Kids Unlimited.
With 16GB of accumulator and an eight-hour array life, it will accumulate them active for ages. It comes in a colourful careful case, but if they do administer to breach it aural two years, Amazon will alter it for free.
CLEAN LIVING
Method anti-bac cleaners, £3 each, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose
Household affairs can be fabricated that little bit added acceptable by application these new artlessly acquired anti-bacterial sprays by Method. Application biodegradable lactic acerbic instead of acrid constructed chemicals, they still annihilate 99.9% of bacteria, and appear in three beginning fragrances. For a charwoman product, they alike attending good, too.
BEAR NECESSITIES
Organic affection baby’s sweatshirt, £26, Mori (babymori.com)
Made from super-soft amoebic bamboo cotton, Mori’s babyish accouterment is as affectionate to the accustomed apple as it is to your little one’s skin. From every acquirement of their new Panda accumulating (which includes t-shirts, joggers and babygros as able-bodied as this beautiful jumper), £1 will be donated to advice accept endangered pandas in China.
CHARMED LIFE
Bag charms, £25 each, Fabricated By Wave (madebywave.com)
Update a simple summer backpack bound and calmly by looping one of these beautiful charms about the handle. Handmade with chaplet in Indonesia, it’s a different little accessory. There are additionally fun avocado and papaya shaped versions.
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MASKED BALL
Pack of eight affair masks, £7.50, Dazzle & Fizz (01483 849009, dazzleandfizz.co.uk)
For superheroes adolescent and old, accomplish these cardboard masks an capital affair accessory, table adornment or gift. With beautiful decorations for a accomplished host of added themes, Dazzle & Fizz should be your one-stop boutique any time you bandy a children’s party.
NORTHERN SPIRIT
Durham gin, £27.50, Durham Distillery (07809 238481, durhamdistillery.co.uk)
The architect abaft this gin, Jess Tomlinson, became the UK’s youngest changeable arch distiller at aloof 25 years old, and she’s acclimated her abilities to actualize some absorbed blends for Durham Distillery, like a birthmark and blush pepper liqueur. If you adopt a added archetypal G&T, though, this one is delicious, handmade with juniper, celery berry and blush peppercorns – additional you’ll be acknowledging absolute bounded brands.
BUDDING TREND
Wall army analysis tube vase, £48.90, Fabricated By Hand Online (07866 894201, madebyhandonline.com)
A different way to affectation flowers, this vase, advised to be army on the wall, is fabricated from a allotment of copse (choose from ash or yew) and bristles analysis tubes, acceptance a distinct axis to be placed in each. It has been handcrafted by Kent-based artist Hannah Dowding.
ROCK ON
Fordable agitation chair, £345, WAWA (0207 729 6768, foldingrockingchair.co.uk)
The apprehensive deckchair gets alike added adequate with the admittance of agitation feet, creating the absolute way to recline in or alfresco this summer. It comes in a ambit of colours and prints and, alike better, it folds up into a bunched admeasurement for travelling or storage.
BORN TO RUN
Mini Miss KG shoes, £80, Kurt Geiger (0845 257 2571, kurtgeiger.com)
These agleam unicorn trainers from Kurt Geiger’s girls’ ambit are the best fun cossack we’ve apparent in a continued time, and absolute for little princesses everywhere. Now if alone they did them in developed sizes…
