Need a little inspiration for gifts for her? Then take a look at our selection of Top 10 gift ideas for Women

1.Kris Ana Totes

A lady can never have enough bags! These fabulous Kris-Ana faux leather Totes are perfect for work or leisure. Included is a small clutch bag with detachable long straps, and have a zipped pocket plus two further pockets. Find them here

Kris Ana Tote Bags

           

2. 100% Silk Stoles 

 Purvaai's gorgeous silk stoles in tie-dye are a fantastic way to add a splash of colour to your Autumn Winter wardrobe. They are a versatile accessory and are available in a variety of jewel tones. Find them here

100% Silk Stoles

3. Polka Button Jewellery

Cute and quirky with a dinky polka dot button focal, these earrings bring some grown up fun.

With a Polka dot button, accented with Swarovski crystal and freshwater pearl, wire-wrapped by hand with sterling silver, these earrings are striking and playful, with an elegant feel. Your necklace will come gift wrapped in an organza bag with hand punched heart confetti and wrapped in tissue paper. Find them here

Polka Dot Button Jewellery

4. Personalised Prints

Give a gift with a difference. Choose from our Personalised Gift Ideas for friends and family. Perfect Gift Ideas for Birthdays and Anniversaries and Christmas. Find them here

Personalised Prints

5. Heart Slate Cheese Board

 These award winning slate cheese boards with its heart shape will decorate any dinning or entertaining evening table. Find them here

Heart Slate Cheese Board

6. Fair Trade Bowls

For the environment conscious lady, you can choose one of our Fair Trade recycled aluminium bowl. These beautiful vibrant bowls are certified food safe and can be used as a fruit bowl or salad bowl. Find them here

Vibrant Fair Trade Bowls

7.  Porcelain Mugs

These beautiful Porcelain Mugs come in a wooden cream presentation box with a porcelain square tile with matching heart motif. Find them here 

Porcelain Mugs

8. Porcelain Hearts

A Beautiful white porcelain heart from East Of India with the words 'Love You' printed on it in black. With string hanger. Find it here

Porcelain Hearts

9. Limited Addition Photographic Prints

For Photography and Art Lovers, why not choose one of our limited addition Photographic Prints. Find them here

Limited Addition Photographic Prints

10. Chocolate Bouquets

Chocolate Bouquets

What better way to wish someone the best of the festive season than to send this sumptuous chocolate bouquet  in red and gold. This hand-tied bouquet contains one dozen long stemmed chocolate buds contain only the finest Lindor Lindt chocolate truffles. Yum! Find them here

Top 10 Stocking Fillers and Secret Santa Gifts for Under £10.00

Over the next week we will be putting together our favourite and best selling gift ideas for Christmas for all the family. 

Today we start with our Top 10 Stocking Fillers and Secret Santa gifts for under £10.00!

Friendship Bracelets

Whether you choose to gift this to a friend or keep for yourself, these gorgeous  cotton bracelets are perfect for adding a splash of colour and laid back accessory fun. £10.00 Find them here

Vintage Style 'DREAM' Photo Frame

Cream Vintage Style Wooden Photo Frame with the words DREAM. This beautiful frame will make a lovely gift. Only £9.95

You can find it here

Standing Cream Heart T Light Holder

This gorgeous standing Cream Filigree Standing t-light holder is a beautiful addition in any room and would look lovely at Christmas time, with the light glistening through. £8.50 Find it here

Mums Wine Cork Stopper

Hands off - It's Mum's wine! These quirky cork bottle toppers from Metal Planet are a great and fun gift for any mum.
At only £7.50 they make a great and inexpensive gift, for birthdays and stocking fillers and come in a clear gift box.Find them here

Old Bag Tea Bag Dish

A lovely hand decorated  ceramic "Old bag" teabag dish with bunting design. £9.99 Find it here

Hand Painted Bowls

Charming hand painted bowls. Fill them with bits and bobs, use them for snacks and nibbles. These bowls look beautiful on display.

£5.95 Find them here 

Ceramic Mugs

Fifties range collection "Isn't Tea Wonderful" mug.
Isn't tea wonderful is a great retro fifties style stoneware mug. It has appeal for the traditional and funky. £6.50 Find it here

Fridge Magnets

 Fun and funky magnets bringing style to your fridge or filling cabinet or any metal surface! £3.99 pk 2 Find them here

Candles in Porcelain Bowls

Gorgeous scented Geranium and Rose Petal Candle in a Porcelain bowls. Lovely gifs for friends. From £8.50 Find them here

Bespoke Wooden Signs

Add a little fun in your home with our bespoke handmade signs for the home and  all the family. From £5.99 Find them here

  

 

Sincerity Gifts make Top 100 Business Mums in UK

Wow, what a week its been. A few days ago Maria and I found out that we were voted one of the Top 100 Mums in Business in the UK by MumsClub! Its such an honour to be along side so many other wonderful mums in business. We have also been invited to become one of their Ambassadors for the Hertfordshire Region, which is another big honour for us, and of course we would love to support other mums in business.

Thank you so much to everyone that took the time to vote for us and for all your on going support. The award ceremony will be in the new year and we then find out who the winners are for each category. Our category was for Best Online Business so we are keeping everything crossed! 

The Mumsclub organisers have given the awards a little twist this year, and are looking to find out who amongst the 100 are the most media savvy in their region. So we are teaming up with other fabulous Top 100 winners who have been chosen for their outstanding expertise-  Hertfordshire winners Donna Obstfeld from DOHRand next door county neighbours Essex winners Lorna Gilbey fromwww.lovelilyrose.co.uk and Joanna Lucas from www.hampersheaven.com .

So if you would to like to give us a little mention do go ahead!  If you would like to tweet about us then  use the hashtag #mctop100 in your tweet.

Congratulations to all the other Top 100 Winners and thank you to Jane Hopkins and Ally Pinney for all your hard work organising this.

If you want to find out more about MumsClub go to www.mumsclub.co.uk 

Mumsclub was created  by founder Jane Hopkins MBE . Since its creation back in 2007, the Mumsclub network has helped thousands of women set up and build successful businesses.

MumsClub Top 100 Mumpreneur Awards 2012

We were really excited to open up our mail this week and find out that we've been nominated for a MumsClub Award for the Top 100 Mumpreneurs in the UK! Our nomination is under the category for Online Businesses!

The Online Businesses- Who, in your eyes, has the Best Online Business? Whose website has you green with envy with their inspiration, web savvy know how?  The Top 10 will simply be the best of the best websites.

Congratulations you've been nominated for a  Business Mum Award!

MumsClub was created by business mum Jane Hopkins MBE and is now the number one community site providing the tools business mums need to make setting up a business a reality.

Created in 2007, the Mums Club network has grown and helped thousands of women build up successful businesses, resulting in the founder Jane Hopkins to receive an MBE from her majesty the Queen in 2012.

National Business Mums Week was then created in 2009, an idea by the founder of MumsClub Jane Hopkins, who  developed this as an initiative to create local media interest in mums in business and reach further into local communities to create more mum owned businesses.

THE AWARDS

The 5th Annual Business Mum awards have now entered the public voting stage and the finalists will make the top 100 Business Mums in the UK.

The top 100 Business Mums  are divided into 10 categories and we feel honoured to be even nominated amongst such an incredible group of Mumpreneurs. We highly recommend you pop over and take a look and cast a vote....and if you feel inclined to give us a vote too, we would be very happy and grateful! (you can find us under Online Business)

The voting ends on Saturday 6th October 2012 at 12 noon, so dont delay, voting only takes a few secs. VOTE HERE

All the businesses nominated deserve your votes, and we would like to give a big shout out to Ces Loftus who put our name forward and who is also up for nomination for Mums of Notable Recognition - Ces works tirelessly and is dedicated in supporting small business whilst facing many challanges herself and is the founder of theSupportive Business Mums  

Its Jubilee Party Time!

To help you celebrate the  Queen's Diamond Jubilee, we have put together a selection to create your own Patriotic Jubilee Celebrations.

 Start your day with our Quintessential British Tea Set

     

Quintessential British Tea Set

 

 

Having a Patriotic Party? Then these pack of 6 Mini Union Jack flags  by East of India will make fabulous decorations.

 

Mini Union Jack Flags

 

 

These wooden hand painted Union Jack Bunting  by East of India are just perfect for decorating houses, gardens and parties!

 

Wooden Union Jack Bunting

 

 

This striking Vintage Style Canvas is Contemporary and on trend

 

Home Sweet Home Canvas

 

 

Bring out your Patriotic side with these retro style Union Jack  cushions

 

   

Vintage Style Union Jack Cushions

 

Choose your favourite Patriot or collect all four! Our Stylish and Contemporary Jubilee Patriots will add a quirky and fun accent to any room, and also a perfect gifts for relatives abroad unable to take part in the celebrations themselves!

 

Love London Jubilee Patriot Fine Art Prints

 

 

Celebrate being the 'Best of British' with our gorgeous made with love gift.

100% cotton footless babygro and shoe with Union Jack detail.

Made With Love Baby Giftset

 

 

 

A pair of cufflinks made with wooden scrabble tiles with genuine recylced  British Stamps, mounted on silver plated back. 

 

British Stamp Tile Cufflinks

 

 

Home textile design competition announced for UK design students and recent graduates

Purvaai, which means ‘Winds from the East’ in the ancient language Sanskrit, is a new venture based in the UK whose goal is to explore and reflect the diversity of ancient art and craft and its varied influences on modern home décor.

Its unique products largely use locally sourced natural fabrics, handcrafted textiles and traditional embroidery techniques. The exquisite art-like designs resonate with its philosophy of contemporary tradition.

Having recently exhibited in a prestigious trade show in London and received accolades for their ideology, Purvaai has launched a textile design competition for the current students and recent graduates of UK design schools themed 'Reminiscing the Raj'. 

 Priya Raghavan, Co-founder and Director of Purvaai says “With this competition we hope to offer young, talented designers a platform to reinterpret this nostalgia in their very own special way.” Applicants may choose to design prints or embroidery and suggest base fabrics, colour-ways and finishing techniques.

Applicants must register by completing the competition form, which may be downloaded from the website www.purvaai.co.uk. They must also submit a concept note of about 150 words. Competitors can send in detailed inspirational pictures and notes along with fabric choices with each design, if they so desire, however this is not mandatory.

This competition is being judged by a panel representing academia, buyers from the industry, design bloggers and manufacturers - thus making it comprehensive. Along with cash prizes and due credit, the winning designs also have the potential to be featured in Purvaai's future collections.

Learn more about Purvaai’s Textile Design Competition 2012 here.
Announcing- Judges’ panel for the textile design competition

The judges’ panel now includes-

Diane Claridge- an independent interiors designer, whose clients are among the who’s who of London;

Ellie Tennant

Ellie Tennant- Celebrated freelance interiors journalist, blogger and stylist, who specialises in trends, interviews, shopping, columns, news, lifestyle features, design and social media;

Toolika Gupta

Toolika Gupta- Academic and fashion and textiles researcher, whose particular areas of interest include the history of textiles and fashion, especially Indian textiles, surface design techniques, sustainable and ethical fashion and fashion studies;

Tracy Kitching

Tracy Kitching- Charming proprietor of the popular London curated home décor store,Opium;

Vaishali Sinha

Vaishali Sinha- Accomplished textile designer and manufacturer with her own design studio and manufacturing unit based near Delhi, India.

A selection of Purvaai's exquisite decorative cushions and throws can be found at www.sinceritygifts.co.uk

Sincerity Gifts Meets Theo Paphitis for the #SBS Winners Event

On Friday 30th March 2012 - Sincerity Gifts was invited by Theo Paphitis to his inaugural #SBS Winners Event at the Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham.

Theo Paphitis is best known for his role in Dragons Den and is Chairman of Rymans and Boux Avenue Lingerie 

#SBS stands for Small Business Sunday and every Sunday on Twitter Theo chooses 6 of his favourite businesses to retweet to over 234,000 followers, and thus giving your business huge exposure .

We were chosen as one of his winners a year ago and have always been proud to be part of such a fabulous group of winners and have gained many 'twitter' friends along the way.

So we were really excited to be invited to meet not only the Man himself but also finally get to meet all the other lovely winners.

On the Friday morning Maria came to pick me up and we went on to collect the very lovely @AllyAtkins from The Ultimate Baby Shower, also a winner and very local to us. The three of us set off with a mixture of butterflies and excitement for our two hour journey to Birmingham.

On arrival at the Conference Centre we were greeted by a very shiny car on the forecourt. This could only belong to one person...and he was here!

We made our way into the reception were there were lots of people were mingling and enjoying the flow of drinks. We spotted a few of our twitter friends we recognised and caught up with as many as we could.

 

The time came to meet Theo Paphitis. We went into the Conference room were Kypros Kyprianou CEO of Rymans and Sponsors of the event gave us a brief introduction before Theo came on to talk to us. 

Theo talked about how #SBS started and his visions for the future, he then told us about a new website that Chris Wheeler from  Metal Frog  @MetalFrogst and a previous winner had designed especially for #SBS winners.

After Chris and Theo talked us through it,Theo held a Q & A session for everyone, which ran overtime, but Theo wanted everyone to have a chance to speak. He then wanted to know from us what we would like to feature on the website and what we would like to see develop for #SBS 

Chris Wheeler, Kypros Kyprianou and Theo Paphitis


Theo then told us we would all be receiving a certificate and will be having an official photo with him!

This would be done in alphabetical order and Theo would have to stand for at least an hour and a half with a big smile to get through everyone! But he was such a gentleman and gave everyone his time. He even took time out to personally sign Maria's name (with a kiss) on the Certificate as only one was given out.

Photograph courtesy of Tas Anastasi 

A joint one taken with Ally Aktins 

Photograph courtesy of Tas Anastasi

Small Business Sunday #sbs runs on twitter every sunday between 5 -7.30pm with @TheoPaphitis If you want to know more about #SBS and how to participate go to the new website www.theopaphitissbs.com   -