Gifts for loved ones

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If you are looking for a gift for a loved one look no further than this gift guide that is filled with a varied selection of gift ideas including beauty, fashion and jewellery.

Licensed to Charm jewellery

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Below are just a few gift ideas of jewellery from Licensed to Charm that are ideal for gifting to your valentine this Valentine’s Day. Get ready to fall in love with the charming jewellery.

Valentine’s Day with Cotton Traders - our date style

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Valentine’s Day can be a day that sparks a special effort to spend quality time with loved ones. 

Whilst we believe that love is more than just one day and that showing we care for each other is done by gestures and moments throughout our daily lives, Valentine’s Day is a day that we celebrate love.

As we celebrate love and express affection on Valentine’s Day, we try to spend some quality time together to treasure each other.

Forget relationships this Valentine’s Day: Self-love is set to be the order of the day

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BLOOM Gin is predicting this February 14th will be the nation’s most ‘self-loving’ Valentine’s Day yet, and is calling for women everywhere to embrace the trend, and take some quality time out for themselves.

Having analysed internet search data, BLOOM Gin discovered yearly interest in ‘self-love’ (defined as an appreciation of one's own worth or virtue), peaks every Valentine’s Day, increasing a staggering 360% since 2017.

That means the famous day of love in 2022 is on track to be the most popular day EVER for self-loving – and why not, after two years of lock-down Valentine’s Days? 

Valentine’s Day Self Date Night In

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Disclaimer: the most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one with yourself. Whether you’re looking to embrace your own inner connection, lean into more self-love or simply enjoy a Netflix and Chill evening alone, here’s the top ways to spend a Valentine’s Day Self Date Night…

Valentine's Day gift ideas

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Valentine's Day Gift Guide

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Valentine's Day Gift Guide

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Whether you are looking for a gift for your beloved for this Valentine’s day or a heartfelt gift to give to them any time of year just because you want to treat them to a lovely gift to show them you care here are a few wonderful gifts to give to the one you love.

Personalised Silver Plated Rose 

With the rose being a symbol of love this beautiful single rose stem (RRP £18.99) from The Gift Experience is a wonderful gift to give to loved ones.

Valentine’s Day - What do women really want?

With February swiftly approaching so is the annual holiday of Valentine’s Day. The day when it is traditional to send a card to current or prospective Valentines.

As with most traditional, seasonal holidays the idea of Valentine’s Day has become very retailer driven and materialistic. The expectation of it being simply about an anonymous love themed card being sent to a loved one or a desired Valentine is overlooked by many for more extravagant declarations of love.

Tech Wish List for My Valentine.

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching thoughts often turn to what to gift to loved ones. Even though we do not really go all in for gift giving on Valentine’s Day, mostly due to lack of money, the day can be a good excuse to treat loved ones and show them how much you care with a gift they will love. As it is a rare occasion that I get to treat Lee, especially since becoming parents, and he has gifted me thoughtful and memorable gifts over the years such as writing me poems, gifting me beautiful jewellery and treating me to once in a lifetime days out, if money was no issue I would love to get him an extra special gift.

Lee is a bit of a tech geek so I would love to treat him to some tech I know he has been lusting after – yes Lee I do listen to and remember your hints about a Panasonic 4K TV. If I was lucky enough to stumble upon that money tree or find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow before Valentine’s Day here is what I would love to buy my Valentine –

Panasonic 4K TV

As a gamer, sports enthusiast and film fanatic Lee has nearly as good of a relationship with the TV as he does with me. Whilst our old TV does the job, as technology progresses and improves the lure of a new TV with better picture quality and improved features is strong.

Last minute Valentine’s Day gift ideas.

Even though Valentine's Day is very nearly upon us there is still time left to organise a thoughtful gift for your loved one. If you want to get a gift instead of or as well as the usual flowers, chocolate or perfume why not think about getting a gift subscription or experience to give to your Valentine tomorrow.

Thanks to the internet there's still time to buy a subscription or experience day ready for a day of romance tomorrow.

Whilst there is not enough time for a subscription package to arrive in post or have an experience day planned for tomorrow, to showcase your thoughtful gift of an experience day or subscription you could print off a little certificate showing what present awaits them.

As there are so many experience days and gift subscriptions available on the market there is something for everyone so you are sure to find the perfect gift for your loved one.

To get you going here are a few ideas –

Magazine subscription 

If your loved one enjoys reading a particular magazine on a regular basis why not buy them a subscription of their favourite magazine so they can have it delivered straight to their door month after month. A magazine subscription is a Valentine's gift that can be enjoyed on a regular basis and one which will remind them of your love and thoughtfulness.

Experience day

Giving your loved one the gift of an experience day can be a very thoughtful and well-received gift. With a huge array of experiences to choose from including pampering, driving, food and drink, adventure, photo-shoots and makeovers, you will be able to select the perfect experience for your Valentine. Whilst the gift cannot be experienced on Valentine’s Day the upcoming experience will be something that they can look forward to.

Subscription Box

A subscription box is a gift that not only shows you love and care for your loved one on Valentine’s Day but that you do so all year round as they get treated to a fabulous box perfect for them month after month. With a huge choice of subscription boxes available including food, drink, beauty and fashion why not let My Voucher Codes and their Valentine’s Subscription Box Finder help you find the perfect subscription box for your Valentine.

So with the clocking ticking down to Valentine’s Day get looking for that perfect last minute yet thoughtful experience day or gift subscription for your loved one.

Have you bought your Valentine a gift subscription or experience day?

Gifts for the man I love this Valentine's Day - Debenhams Valentine's Day blogger competition.

Whilst we do not celebrate Valentine’s Day with gifts, trinkets of love or by going out for a special night out – mainly due to money and lack of a babysitter – I do love to treat the love of my life when I can.

So when I recently saw a Valentine’s Day blogger competition by Debenhams where entrants had to create a moodboard of gifts you would love to give the man in your life from Debenhams this Valentine’s Day it gave me the perfect excuse to dream about what I would love to get my man if money was no object.

Valentine's Day - what it means to me.

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching it can be hard to ignore the signs everywhere, from love inspired gifts and cards adorning shops to talk of Valentines on social media, hinting at the impending day of romance when love is in the air.

For some people the day can be one they dread, some people are passionately anti-valentines, others enjoy a Galentine night in with the girls, whilst many loved up couples enjoy the day to its fullest by sharing gifts with their loved ones and having romantic time together.

Having experienced the dread of valentines whilst single as well as having enjoyed the excitement of the love-filled day when in the first sparks of a relationship, I have experienced both sides to the day – the tear-filled, single and lonely side of dread and the romantic, loved-up side.

Now that I am in a relationship I thankfully no longer experience the feeling of being single and lonely on Valentine’s Day when it feels as if the whole world around you is loved-up. But whilst I have enjoyed special and romantic Valentine’s days with Lee after years together and a child the day for us has changed from a day of being in a romantic bubble together, going out to celebrate the day and giving each other trinkets of love and Valentine’s cards to a day where we simply appreciate each and are thankfully that we have each other.

Cupid cakes - Tate & Lyle recipe.

These adorable pop-in-the-mouth cupid cakes will undoubtedly set hearts aflutter.

*  Makes:  18

*  Prep time:  1½ hours

*  Cooking time:  10 minutes

Meringue Love Hearts - Tate & Lyle recipe.

Pretty as a picture, these pastel meringue hearts make a stunning finale to a Valentine’s dinner à deux.

  

*  Makes:  2 pairs

*  Prep time:  30 minutes

*  Cooking time: 1 hour

Asda's Valentine's Day gifts and treats.

As lee and I agree that we should show our love to each other every day of the year and not just on one day a year on Valentine’s Day we do not do anything particular special on Valentine’s Day.  We also both agree that showing love to someone does not mean exclusively giving gifts.  Lee shows his love for me in simple actions as well as being very romantic with heartfelt poems that he has lovingly written for me.

Even though we do not need to give each other gifts on Valentine’s Day, it is nice to give a small gift that does not break the bank.  This year Asda kindly helped us out celebrating Valentine’s Day with some little love inspired gifts.  Asda had an impressive range of gifts perfect for Valentine’s Day with lots of gifts that won’t cost the earth, allowing you to show your love with a lovely gift at a bargain price.

Cupid Dog DVD review.

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching it was the perfect time to be sent a romantic film to watch.  We were sent Cupid Dog, which is a newly released romantic comedy from Lionsgate.  Normally I would watch a romantic film with Lee to spark a romantic mood and get into the spirit of this time of year; unfortunately he is away visiting his family due to personal matters.  As Lee is unavailable for romantic snuggle time watching a film together I decided to snuggle up with little man instead and watch it together.  As little man has been poorly he was more than happy to snuggle with mummy and relax for a while.

Happy Valentine's Day