Christmas is without a dount simultanious the best and worst time of year. The stress is somethimes outweighed by the joy of all of the festivities, but it doesn’t mean it’s not still stressfull.

But don’t fear, Design Essentials is here. We’ve taken the stress away from you this year with our Christmas gifts blogs, and this one is about all of the lovely little bits and bobs to buy for your friends and family this year.

1. Open Jewellery Box

The Nkuku jewelry box is the perfect gift for any relative this Christmas. With a small square frame in the top of the Nalou Jewellery Box is perfect for keeping a small photo to remember a happy time with friends or family. It also keeps all your jewellery and keepsake safe with a simple latch mechanism. So worry about your special memories not more with the Nalou Jewellery Box!

2. Nkuku Glass Frames

This Nkuku glass frame portrait is perfect for displaying photos and mementos, so a great Christmas present this year.

Create a truly personalized gift with one of these stylish glass photo frames. The glass front and back make them not only great for photographs but also a fantastic way to display other precious keepsakes, like postcards, concert tickets, and drawings. They look great grouped together in an assortment of sizes and orientations. Each photo frame is strung with a recycled sari tie.

3. Pebble Print

This pebble print has been available in our shop for a little while now but is new to our website! We know you’ll love them as Christmas presents.

With beautiful and meaningful quotes that resonate with us. This pebble print is particularly heartwarming and the perfect present. They say I know and love you in a way that nothing else can!

The prints can even be personalized for just £10 to add that extra special touch to any Christmas, birthday, anniversary present (the list goes on and on…)

4. MI Square Pocket Speaker

Naturally handcrafted and beautifully designed with great performance, the brand new Gingko MI Square Pocket Speaker makes your travel music experience seriously matter.

Boomboxes have had their day and, as cool as they were, they weren’t very practical to cart about… These new and improved pocket speakers are perfect for presents this Christmas.

The Gingko Mi Square Pocket Bluetooth Speaker takes all the volume of and depth of a traditional music speaker and reformulates it for the modern, travel conscious, party planner.

The new MI SQUARE Pocket speaker is made with solid, sustainable wood and powered by a long-lasting integrated rechargeable battery. New from Gingko, the nifty Bluetooth speaker is a very handy object to travel with, no matter where you go and what you do. It delivers you seriously great sound from a small and neat cherry, walnut or bamboo wood square. Plus, the strong fibre leather strap makes it fully portable. You can put it on your backpack, hang on your bike or even put it on your wrist if you wish.

Jut connect up your Bluetooth phone or tablet and let the tunes flow!

5. Dead Posh Accessories

Dead Posh is brand-new to Design Essentials in Saffron Walden, offering a variety of fun, personalised accessories for you and your home including bags, coasters, and pillows. The bespoke items are perfect for gifts or as a little treat to yourself to make the shopping a bit more fun. The modern, chic brand will be sure to turn heads, as you flaunt your one of a kind accessories in the home or out and about. Whether you’re from Essex, Saffron Walden, Great Chesterford, or Linton, we’ve got a range of luxury items, personalised with your home location to add that little extra spark from your coasters to your handbag. We absolutely love these Dead Posh accessories as Christmas presents, and we hope you do too.

We hope to see you in the shop getting your Christmas shopping done early, with the help of our Christmas gifts blogs. Check out our tech blog We wish you a techy Christmas, No more plastic rubbish! our blog for kids presents this year and all of our other blogs for more Christmassy ideas.

We love to hear from you as well, so…

To have a look in person at these great gifts available at Design Essentials, be sure to pop into the shop to have a chat with us in Saffron Walden, Essex.

For any enquires, please feel free to contact us, we love to hear from you.

Don’t wait too late to get your kids Christmas gifts this year!

The advent calendars are out, nativity rehearsals have begun and recorder practice is constant for the school concert, it’s definitely that time of year again. The countdown to Christmas has officially begun and I’m sure you’re kids have reminded you of that more than once, the advent calendars don’t exactly take their minds off it. Whoever thought chocolate was a good idea for kids in the morning anyway!

Anyway, although christmas may be a little different this year, it doesn’t mean your kids can’t still have fun!

So to help you out with the festivities, we’ve put together a short list of our favourite quality christmas presents for kids that they won’t get boared of in five minuites. No more plastic rubbish!

1. The Tonie Box

We absolutley love the Tonie boxes, and we’re so pleased to have them at the top of our gift list this year.

Everybody is concerned about kid’s screen time and especially with lockdown, their Ipads are probably being used more than ever. You don’t need to worry about screen time with the Tonie boxes though, they let your children’s imagination run free with no bright screens and endless listening without complicated controls.

2. The Tonie characters

Perfectly accompanying the Tonie Boxes, are the Tonie characters!

They tell absolutley beutiful stories, from dinosaurs to snowmen, footballers to the lion king, theres something for any child. The stories grow with your child as well, with more simplistic shorter stories ideal for younger children up to inquisitive tweens who want to learn about dinosaurs and astronauts.

There’s also creative Tonies! The creative Tonies allow you to record yourself telling the story for the child. Gret for long distance grandparents or family members as a source of comfort when you can’t be with them. They are a truly heartwarming gift this christmas.

3. Smiley Lamps

Everyone loves emojis, right!

These emoji lamps are ideal for the coolest of kids, making them a perfect gift that matches your friend’s and family’s moods for this Christmas! With this lamp, your children, friends, or family can be super cool. Be happy, be cool, be Smiley! The kids just love these and being battery operated, you can pop them anywhere!

Cool Smiley Lamps are a great gift or accessory for any kid’s room which also looks great too. If the shade look is the emoji you are after, choose from some of our other smiley lamps – from love heart eyes, winking, and cheeky smiles – perfect for all emoji lovers of all ages!

4. Folky Dolls

There’s nothing better than a collectable character for kid this christmas, and we might have just hit the nail on the head with these folky dolls.

They are a range of funny and decorative lamps in the shape of characters such as Fashion Girl, Brittany, and Pirate Boy. They even have lights to suit their own individual stories and style. The truly perfect accessory for any room and easily collectible with 4 designs.

We hope to see you in the shop getting your Christmas shopping done early, with the help of our Christmas gifts blogs. Check out our tech blog We wish you a techy Christmas, Beautiful Bits and Bobs… and all of our other blogs for more Christmassy ideas.

We love to hear from you as well, so…

To have a look in person at these great gifts available at Design Essentials, be sure to pop into the shop to have a chat with us in Saffron Walden, Essex.

For any enquires, please feel free to contact us, we love to hear from you.