Inspiration

The exchange of Christmas gifts can be fraught with difficulties. How do you behave when someone gives you a present you don’t want? Should you buy a little something for your boss or your child’s teacher? How much should you spend? To help you to avoid the common pitfalls, we’ve come up with a selection of Christmas gift etiquette top tips.

We’re all too familiar with news articles bemoaning the fact that children in the UK are getting more unhealthy. Horror stories about school meals that contain too much fat, processed food and sugar. But it needn't be that way. Here we have scoured the globe to see what's inside kids lunch boxes in other countries and what's been done to battle childhood obesity.

The summer is well and truly upon us and whether you're staying in the sunny UK or jetting off to warmer climates, Dotcomgiftshop have a collection of fun summer holiday gifts to make your days a little brighter.

It's that time of year again. The nights are drawing in, the X-Factor's back on TV and it's seemingly getting colder by the day. Time to dust-off the old winter coat, find those thick gloves out from the back of your wardrobe and snuggle up to one of these stylish hot water bottles from the dotcomgiftshop collection.

I was lucky enough to attend the inaugural CyberMummy conference in London over the weekend, which is a conference set up for Mummy (and Daddy Bloggers) in the UK. There were 200 attendees, so this isn’t an exhaustive list, but will give you an introduction to some wonderful Mummy blogs out there.

We seem to be constantly discovering new, colourful and rather brilliant craft blogs. So here are the latest 101 to catch our eye in recent times.

We love crafting at dotcomgiftshop because, well, we love pretty things. And we had so much fun looking at the work of some really talented crafters in our Craft Blogs We Love and 50 Excellent Craft Blogs posts, we've decided to do it again.