>> It's been about three weeks since my inbox has been bombarded with "Are you putting together GIFTING recommendations on your blog? Please consider including our scratchy jumpers//new age hippie jewellery//hair vitamins//travel manicure kits in your guide...". Of course what they don't know is there's nothing more pet peeving to me than a generic gift guide that every weekly, magazine and newspaper tries to put together, typecasting people into categories and assigning 'appropriate gifts to them e.g. for the teenage boy - a Hollyoaks calendar...
Still, I'm not going to be ignorant of the fact that Crimbo is just around the corner and yes, gifts will be on people's minds and so perhaps there may be a few more posts leading to possible 'gifting options' that is available on the interweb and since there's still well over a month, shipping contingencies can be put in place.
Stolen Thunder seems an obvious choice and has gotten a bit of British press of late. However, it was only until I physically smelt their laser cut wooden jewellery that I knew it needed a thumbs up. As soon as it fell out of the envelope a combination of burning bonfires and hickory wood chips came wafting out from the birdcage necklace which actually made me immediatley put it on so that I could smell it on the tube everytime I felt like it (I used to do this with Stella's Amber solid compact perfume to stop me from being sick on the tube...).
Their small but well-rounded selection attempts to do for wood what Tatty Devine did for coloured acrylic and at the moment it's all suitably Christmas-y... bambi, owls, Russian dolls etc... I'm quite taken by the rings too which include yet another take on the ever-ubiquitous double ring...
