Dance into the holidays with L'Occitane........luxury gift set guide.

I love this time of year when the magic of Christmas starts to bubble away.

The hint of upcoming Christmas is brought to our attention thanks to the tempting Christmas gifts and decorations that adorn shelves in shops. Whilst the whisper of the ‘C’ word on people’s lips fills the air with excitement and anticipation. Christmas is also highlighted in the realms of the World Wide Web, with social media and blog posts featuring Christmas crafts, gifts and food ideas adding to the anticipation of the festive season. For me the excitement of Christmas starts to come alive when magical Christmas adverts are showcased.

One Christmas advert that has enchanted me in particular is the beautiful Dance into the holidays with L’Occitane advert.

The bewitching advert perfectly encapsulates the luxury of L’Occitane – who are one of my favourite natural beauty and skincare brands (take note Lee!). An air of mystery is created as we see fleeting glimpses of the dancer’s beautiful, floaty dress as she dances through cobbled French streets and a picturesque L’Occitane En Provence shop filled with beautiful L’Occitane gifts.

But don’t take my word for how enchanting and pretty the video is, delve into the opulent world of L’Occitane and dance into the holidays…….

My Christmas gift wishlist.

Taking inspiration from my well thought-out gift ideas for our loved ones and early Christmas shopping, Lee has also already been thinking about what Christmas gifts to get for his side of the family and what lovely gifts to get for his one true love….me!

As Lee always moans that I am very difficult to buy for he has asked me to provide him with several gifts that I would love to get for Christmas this year from him and Bug. Rather than end up with gifts that I don’t really want or like I was more than happy to oblige him with my Christmas gift wishlist.

Bath pampering products

Whilst bath products may be considered a tad unimaginative as I love a relaxing, pampering bath – which now thanks to Bug is a rare occurrence as I usually have company, have to content with bath toys everywhere or have to rush out to deal with my busy, boisterous boy – luxurious bath pampering products are always appreciated and give me a good reason to make sure I get some quiet time to have a long, uninterrupted soak in the bath.

Although any bath pampering products are more than welcome I do have a particular fondness and love for Lush luxurious bath products, in particular their heavenly bath bombs, beautiful bubble bars and decadent bath melts.

Win a #chocopampering ChocoMania Gift Set from The Body Shop.

Following my review of The Body Shop Strawberry Shower, Scrub and Soften gift set The Body shop have kindly offered my readers the chance to win a ChocoMania™ gift set filled with pampering treats.

The ChocoMania gift sets includes –

*  ChocoMania Shower Cream

*  ChocoMania Body Butter

*  ChocoMania Body Scrub

*  ChocoMania Lip Butter

Strawberry Shower, Scrub and Soften Set from The Body Shop - review.

When I was a child every year just before Mother’s Day my sister and I would head to the shops with our Mamgu to buy our mum a gift to go with the homemade card and gift we had made together to give her on Mother’s Day.  For a number of years in a row in-spite of looking elsewhere we always ended up buying her a gift from The Body Shop, creating a little family tradition of buying a gift from The Body Shop for Mother’s Day.

Now whenever I visit The Body Shop fond memories of browsing the store with my sister and Mamgu looking for a gift for my lovely mum to give her for Mother’s Day come flooding back.  When I think of The Body Shop I think of family, love and pampering.

Now that I am a mum even though I do not need a gift for Mother’s Day as the cuddles, love and joy I get from my son is gift even for me, remembering the excitement and happiness I felt as a child to be able to pick a gift to give my mum on Mother’s Day to help show her my love and make her feel special I realise how important it can be for children to experience gift giving.

With the fond memories I have of The Body Shop and love for their products I was delighted when they sent us a gift set.

Floating bath melt rose (Project 365 - 45/365).

Lush bath treat (Project 365 - 20/365)