Personalised photo gifts from Bags of Love

December 15, 2011

Bags of Love produces hundreds of high-quality photo gifts daily, shipping them off to happy customers, from newlyweds to footballers’ wives, around the land. Thanks to a super-efficient online service it all happens faster than you can say ‘Smile, please!’ Fran Rodriguez and Chris Childs started the business from their Creighton Road family home, less [...]

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Christmas lust list #8: Artisan hampers from Minkies Deli

December 14, 2011

Doron and his team at Minkies Deli have come up with some unique and creative hampers for the discerning foodie this Christmas… CHOCOHOLIC’S FEAST What to get the friend who has everything except a year’s supply of chocolate? (Or a week’s supply if you’re anything like me.) Doron and the team have carefully sourced a [...]

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Supra men and women’s wear

December 11, 2011

Kelvin Lim, co-owner of Supra, 71 Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise NW10 (020 8968 6868) is loving… Canada Goose’s Chateau parka ‘Every customer who tries the parkas from the Arctic Down collection in the store all have the same reaction: “Ooooh, it’s so lovely and warm!” If it’s good enough for the research scientists in the South [...]

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Christmas present lust list #6: homewares from Nest in Feathers

December 8, 2011

After shopping until 8pm tonight in Kensal Rise, skip down to Late Night Notting Hill and keep going until 10pm. One new addition to Notting Hill but sadly not open late tonight is Nest in Feathers. Feathers, London boutique for innovative fashion for over 40 years has launched this new interiors and lifestyle wing. We [...]

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Avoid the crowds: late-night shopping in Kensal this Thursday

December 6, 2011

A collection of our favourite local boutiques and bars are joining forces for a special Christmas shopping event this Thursday evening, 8 December until 8pm… Sidestep the crowds of Oxford Street or – even worse – Westfield, and find Christmas gifts that are  extra special. And because we all love a Christmas do, the bubbly [...]

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Stylish must-haves from Love KR

December 4, 2011

Love KR is at 98a Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, London NW10 3JN (020 8962 5635) Owner Paula Fitzpatrick had us lusting over three pieces this season… Leather clutch bag from Bombarock ‘After showing at the Saatchi Gallery in the summer this couture furniture designer launched a range of contemporary handbags and wallets, I love the [...]

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Make a Gingerbread House at CC’s Café

December 3, 2011

Every Sunday at 4.30pm from now until Christmas, CC’s café in Lonsdale Road, NW6 is offering a Gingerbread House Class (adult plus child, £20 including snack and drink). What could be more festive than a Sunday evening with the nights drawing in, huddled into a warm, welcoming café on a cobbled street with your three-year-old [...]

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Christmas present lust list #4: Lou Rota’s china

November 30, 2011

Queen’s Park resident Lou Rota produces an eclectic range of English bone china tableware featuring her trademark motifs of insects, birds, reptiles and flowers in unexpected, witty combinations. This alongside a range of decorative upcycled vintage one-offs. Lou talks to Park Life about one of her favourite designs… “I’ve always admired Paul Smith for his [...]

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Christmas present lust list #3: a copy of the book ‘Image Makers, Image Takers’

November 27, 2011

Thanks to easy-to-use digital cameras and smartphones we’re all photographers. The question is: How to become better ones? Local author, Anne-Celine Jaeger, tells us what she picked up from the modern photography masters when interviewing them for her best-selling book, Image Makers, Image Takers: The Essential Guide to Photography by Those in the Know (Thames [...]

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Jivita Ayurveda organic wellbeing centre

November 23, 2011

All we want for Christmas this year is time to spend at Jivita Ayurveda, the newly opened organic wellbeing centre on Chamberlayne Road. Offering a range of treatments, relaxation therapies, diet and lifestyle advice, as well as stocking some of the most luxurious organic beauty products around, Jivita Ayurveda is one of the few places [...]

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