Christmas Gift Giving 2020
For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 12: Stocking Fillers
Officially, as I write we are heading into the final week before Christmas. The last seven days of planning and while we may not be partying this year, hopefully, you’ll be feeling festive and full of cheer, (as much as we can just now). These last few days can also be a huge rush for last-minute gift items, stocking fillers, fun and unexpected add-on items. Little gifts for local neighbours and members of the community around us. Perhaps you want to say thanks to someone who did you a good turn this year. Especially during these times, when we are […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 11: Socks!
We are powering through our 12 Weeks of our For The Love of Christmas Gift-Giving Series, and we are almost at 12 days to go to the wonderful day itself. This week we wanted to offer a “smorgasbord” of socks. Socks are an essential part of our love of Christmas gift-giving, and at Solo Living, we believe that no Christmas Day would be complete with some lovely new socks in everyone’s stocking. The choice is fantastic! No longer will simple navy will do. In an ode to cities, we have included these great London Map Socks as I am sure […]
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We Talk To Rachel Who Runs Her Jewellery Company, McTavish Collection From Home
While researching the For The Love of Christmas Gift-Giving Series and exploring opportunities to make gifts and connect with our inner creatives; we began discovering some inspiring start-ups. Where past-times and hobbies have evolved to become broader in scope – creating life-changing career moments and where founders have launched new or additional careers. Here, we interview Rachel McTavish, founder and owner of McTavish Collection. She started her flourishing home business in 2008, and her story is an inspiration to anyone looking to build a portfolio career. With an already successful and high-profile career as a broadcast journalist, Rachel has managed to launch […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 10: Foodie Gifts
December has arrived! With some good news we hope, and cheer towards the end of the year. Our twelve weeks of sharing the love of Christmas giving is passing really quickly! Although the year has been so momentous with all of the challenges, it seems to have accelerated towards 2021 too. Here at Solo Living, we hope, if you have started your journey of making and creating gifts for your loved ones, all is progressing well. For this Week 10 in our series of For the Love of Christmas Gift Giving, our attention turns to food gifts and gifts for […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 9: Cards and Stationery
Week 9 of our 12-week countdown, For the Love of Christmas Gift Giving Series we turn out attention to Christmas Cards and Stationery. Curated, mainly because we may not see all of our friends and loved ones in person at the normal round of dinners, drinks parties or events this year. Cards and messages will be the happy medium making the season much more unique and as a way of looking forward, sharing our love and thoughts and making plans for 2021. Think of writing cards and letters to show how much we care and are thinking of our loved […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 8: Gifts for Gen Z
The weeks are racing by, and many of us are living under different kinds of COVID restrictions! Our 12 weeks of For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving series is designed with purpose – to help you select gifts reflecting the times we are living in – while at the same time resonating with Solo Living’s values of living sustainably and managing our self-care to live well. Feeling socially connected is really important to us and taking the time to choose gifts we think will be sent from the heart and lovingly received is what we hope our lists inspire amongst […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 7: Christmas Decorations
This week we thought we would shift our focus from Christmas Gift-Giving and think a little bit about creating a warm Christmas home atmosphere as a little self-gifting moment. Everyone is planning to stay home more over the festive season and we believe these decorations can enhance that time, and set the scene for the coming weeks, giving us something to look forward to. We think these beautiful sustainable Christmas decorations will add warmth and a fantastic look and feel, with your existing decoration collections or as a whole new look for those of you who are looking for something […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 6: Art Books For All
As an add-on to Week 6 of our of 12-week Christmas Gift-Giving Guide, we’ve selected a small but carefully curated collection of Art Books which may prompt your interest as you consider what gifts will be delightfully received. When looking for books about art in its various forms for inspiration, the choice is wonderful and wide! Compiling a list of only 12 titles is no easy task when you look at the plethora of great art books available. However, the books below are all potential starting points on a life-long journey of art appreciation across a number of areas in […]
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For the Love of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 6: Art From The Heart
Heading into week 6 in the For The Love of Christmas Gift-Giving season, at Solo Living, we have been considering the gift of Art. For us, art is one of those gifts that can be truly timeless and forever. To that end, we have seen sales of Art have been continuing throughout this challenging year with virtual auctions growing and as social distancing guidelines continue. I think everyone agrees; we miss our beautiful galleries, museums and art events. And so, this is the back-drop to Week 6 of our Christmas Gift-Giving countdown. You can catch up with our gift-giving inspiration […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift Giving Wk 5: Gifts For Dogs
Christmas gifts for our doggie companions and their mums and dads. Following on from Week 4 of our For The Love of Christmas Gift Giving series when we focused on our feline friends and their families; this week we are thinking all about our doggie friends. We are imagining a joyful day for all with gifts for your dog or your loved ones’ best friend. The festivities can kick off on Christmas Eve, with these cosy doggy pjs and then continue with the excitement of the morning with some healthy snacks which we know will be really appreciated as everyone […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 4: Gifts For Cats
Gifts for our furry friends and their mums and dads. This year of 2020 has held huge challenges globally and left no one without some impact. With all the stresses the energy in general, for both us and our pets, will have adjusted. Indeed our furry friends might be a little stressed too, which is completely understandable. Week 4 of our Christmas Gift-Giving series is firmly focused around gifts for our cats and mementoes to remind us of our loveable furry companions. On top, in many cases, they do not have the house to themselves during the day. Some of […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 3: Earrings Design & Making Kits
Following on from the Love of Christmas Gift Giving: Jewellery Making; as promised, we want to share a moment focusing on Earring making kits. There is such a variety of vibrant styles in different materials out there. Can you ever have enough earrings? Here are five of the best for a fun and fresh Christmas Gift. These crystal Christmas tree earrings had to be number one for this list- sparkly and statement to cheer everyone who wears and sees them! 2. With the Christmas Candles being another pretty option! 3. This clay earrings kit contributes to a good cause and […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 3: Making Jewellery
Last week’s Personalised Jewellery gift ideas, got us thinking here at Solo Living, about taking things a little bit further down the bespoke road. Perhaps you would like creating and making jewellery gifts for friends, family and loved ones? Especially if you have been inspired to become part of the creative maker culture during this time as we consider what to do while spending more time at home. It can be a really productive and positive way to focus and, a little like knitting. Almost meditative, while learning some new skills and hopefully having a large chunk of fun at […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving Wk 2: Jewellery With A Personal Touch
For The Love of Christmas Gift-Giving, Week Two is all about understanding that you may well be very busy with our Week One suggestions on creating beautiful items of knitwear as part of your 2020 gift-giving plans. Saying that you’re likely to have other gifts on your list and would like to invest the same care and warmth into choosing the perfect present. This is where custom and bespoke jewellery with a personal touch for friends and family can be a wonderful way of choosing gifts. Personalised jewellery holds one of those perfect combinations in a gift. Bespoke for the […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving: Wk 1: Knitwear – One Row At A Time
This is the first of Solo Living‘s twelve-week series in the For The Love of Christmas Gift-Giving leading up to the Christmas season. With days becoming shorter and colder, and considering the time it takes to create some of these fabulous gifts, we’re kicking off week one of twelve with a lens on KNITWEAR. The time invested to create and make some of these handknits means starting now. Handknits are truly a luxury item to gift and to receive. The texture and craftsmanship are evident in every item, and every beautiful piece will be completely one-of-a-kind, with both tiny nuances in […]
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For The Love Of Christmas Gift-Giving 2020
With a little social distance (for now) but a lot of hearty connection with a difference. Twelve Weeks of Christmas Gifting and Making How many weeks before the Christmas season do you normally start planning your gift-giving? Some of us start when we see something special that we think someone close to us might like. Some of us start the day before, rushing around with the excitement, stress and adrenalin rush it can bring. However, this year is not normal for all of us. With all the challenges, there are silver linings out there offering new moments to reset and […]
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