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I’ve always had a thing about nice stationery and notebooks, so I’m a fairly frequent visitor to Paperchase. In the last couple of years I’d noticed that they’d started doing a lot of toiletries and candles, and now they’re expanding out into all kinds of things that you might consider giving to someone with a keen interest in food, and good looking things. These are the things I’ve picked out as being possibles to tuck away as ideas for gifts:

* Cloud 9 Noodle Bowl - there are some really cute melamine kids tableware, quite Japanese inspired with things like this noodle bowl and some very cute Bento boxes. There’s no reason to keep them just for kids, although they may be too cutesy for some. For real kids, then there are also beakers and cutlery sets, practical but cute.

* Keen bakers can never really have enough cake tins for storing the results in, even if they don’t normally hang around for long. This cupcake pattern tin is a good size and the pattern is pretty and appropriate. You can even add in a bundle of matching teatowels.

* If you’re going to be carrying round tea and cakes, you’ll need a tray or two. I like these melamine trays, as they’re not too huge, and also the parasol pattern is beautiful, great colours.

* Forget buying bottles of water, pack off everyone with their own refillable aluminium bottle. Great designs available from the previously mentioned cute through to something slightly more “grown up” for when they turn 11 or so!

At the moment, their products are available online through Amazon, but their own e-commerce site apparently goes live next month, will check back in then for new ranges. Always good for emergency birthday cake candles too!