It’s the last payday weekend before Christmas, so it’s time to get serious about your festive shopping. You’ll find loads of gorgeous designer gift ideas and party-chic in the BrandAlley sales and in Outlet to wow everyone this Christmas – and to treat yourself, of course!
Enamoured: 80 Years of Revlon exhibition
If you love beauty products, head over to the London Film Museum in Covent Garden to catch the final day of Enamoured: 80 Years of Revlon – a fabulous celebration of this pioneering cosmetic giant. This free retrospective guides you through the brand’s most iconic moments over the last eight decades and teases you with their vision of the exciting future of beauty innovation. See you there!
Christmas Past at the Geffrye Museum
Fancy decorating your home vintage style this Christmas? You’ll find all the inspiration you need at the magical Christmas Past Exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in East London. The Museum’s eleven period rooms have been transformed by authentic festive decorations, evoking some of the rich and colourful traditions of Christmases past from 1600 to the present day. Plus it’s the chance to stock up on brilliant Christmas cards in the Museum shop.
London Christmas Fairs in garden settings
Two fabulous Christmas events are taking place in London today, which mix gardening with shopping. At the Chelsea Physic Garden Christmas Fair, you can wander through the Capital’s oldest botanic garden and then potter around a heated marquee packed with stalls sellng wonderful garden bits and bobs, jewellery, pottery and more. Over in Lambeth, the Garden Museum is hosting its first ever Diggin’ Design Winter Fair, curated by Eco Design Fair. There you’ll discover all sorts of desirable, affordable and sustainable gifts ideas created by some of the best craftspeople and artists in the UK.
Country Living Christmas Fair in Harrogate
The Country Living Christmas Fair is in full swing in Harrogate today with hundreds of exhibitors from all over the UK offering you a dazzling array of original pressie ideas. You can also pick up inspired home decorating ideas for the festive season as well as tasty, traditional treats to take home with you.
DIY-chic decorations
Make Christmas a bit greener with this savvy idea for recyclable, stick star decorations from Fun in the Making. Simply raid the garden for a few twigs and your cupboards for twine and last year’s festive ribbon – then it’s time to get crafty. Before you know it, you’ll have stylish, on-trend stars to hang on your tree or at the window.
Happy Sunday.
Jo x
Picture credits: © Image of trees on Berlin’s Unter der Linden Boulevard via lifeisreallybeautiful.com; © Enamoured: 80 Years of Revlon exhibition; © Jayne Lloyd’s photo of a hall in 1630 at the Christmas Past exhibition from the Geffrye Museum website; © Image of the Christmas Fair at the Chelsea Physic Garden website © Image of wrapped present from the Country Living Christmas Fair website; © Stick Star decoration from Fun in the Making.
