The 5 star luxury hotel in London, The Wyndham Grand, is the great prize for nappy rash cream Sudocrem’s children’s art competition.
The Wyndham Grand is London’s only all suite 5 star hotel. Located in Chelsea Harbour, the hotel is ideally placed for enjoying the very best of high end London.
The prize includes a 2 night stay at the Wyndham Grand hotel, with breakfast, a spa day pass to the Blue Harbour Spa and a half hour spa treatment for each person.
Entry is very simple. Sudocrem want to see your child’s best artwork. Just visit facebook.com/sudocrem, ‘like’ the page and share your child’s hand made painting or drawing with a brief description.
Also included in this fantastic luxury hotel competition is £100 Early Learning Centre vouchers.
You should be quick though, as this competition closes on 3rd June. Good Luck!
Some brief rules - The entrant should submit a hand crafted painting or drawing created by their son or daughter (aged between 3 – 5 years of age at the closing date of the competition).
Please note, submissions must not relate or refer in any way to the use of Sudocrem Antiseptic Healing Cream or any other licensed medicine. A clear scan or photo of the picture and a brief description are acceptable.
A new Luxury shopping website was launched last week in the UK, Instant Luxe.
The goods are all pre owned, but we are talking so much more than an ‘upmarket ebay’. InstantLuxe is the first and only dedicated secure online buyer-seller platform for authentic pre-owned designer luxury goods.
The range is simply staggering and the beauty is it’s rather ‘Forest Gump’, you never know what is going to be up for sale.
Instant Luxe gives access to over thousands of products, including bags, handbags, wallets, watches, jewelleryand accessories from international luxury brands such as Cartier, Chanel, Dior, Hermes and Louis Vuitton.
This is a fantastic way of making the world of luxury that little bit more accessible.
What makes it unique is that it is the first and only e-commerce buyer-seller platform that works with a team of certified independent professional valuers, to give a guarantee of authenticity to every product sold online.
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How much do you love reading? This much?!
This 24ct. hardened gold Amazon Kindle is the world’s first.
British luxury brand Alexander Amosu have recently launched the Amosu Gold Kindle.
The eBook reader has always been a little bit plain. That didn’t matter so much as functionality made the Kindle Amazon’s bestselling product for two years running.
Now, you can have that functionality and more than a touch of bling too. Certainly no complaints of looking plain here!
The Amosu 24ct Gold Kindle cost £1199 and comes in 24ct yellow, white or rose gold with the option of having Swarovski diamonds.
Each unit can also be personalised and engraved, as a special request with a customised carry case.
Amosu are the market leaders in pimping mobile phones and accessories, with iPhone’s and Blackberries all receiving the Amosu treatment.
As for this beautiful gold Kindle, it would make the best Father’s day present! (that’s a hint!)
The12th Annual Folk Art Exhibition featuring a collection of engagingly individual and curious pieces takes place from Thursday 12th until Saturday 21st May.
Folk Art is a generic term coined to describe both two and three dimensional pieces created by ‘untrained’ artists.
Generally these pieces were made to serve a function, with examples such as hand carved and painted decoy birds, figurative weathervanes and trade and tavern signs.
Unlike ‘traditional’ antiques, these pieces are not generally restored or renovated, but are cherished and sought after for their raw, weathered, richly patinated, well handled and ‘used’ qualities.
Handsome Full bodied Butcher’s Trade sign in the form of a Herefordshire Bull,
Hand Carved and Painted Wood and Gesso with Metal Details, English, c.1880,
Fine examples in the exhibition include a life size Wool Merchant’s Trade Sign in the form of a Ram, with stylised carved fleece, a full bodied Butcher’s Trade Sign in the form of a Herefordshire Bull (image above), and a delightfully naive Sailor’s Work Panel depicting Two Ships at Sea, made from driftwood carved and applied to a recycled packing case panel.
Robert Young explains: “Most examples of Folk Art were made to pass the test of time in order to dutifully serve their function, and whilst their creators rarely had artistic pretentions or aspirations, they were frequently competent artisans or craftsmen.”
For me, these are more important than anything that has been restored and perhaps lost its charm. The weathered antiques on show at the Folk art exhibition are all for sale. You can find out more at the Robert Young website.
The Royal Mint has created a unique piece of Royal Wedding history like no other.
Only 40 of the 22 carat gold kg coins, featuring a traditional portrait of Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton, have been struck.
Made from a kilogram of solid gold and selling for £40,000, it is the first time in the Royal Mint’s 1,000 year history that kilo coins have been made to celebrate a Royal Wedding day.
Each kilo coin is 10 centimetres in diameter, nearly four and a half times the size of a standard £1 coin, as you can see in the image above.
With such limited numbers of each being produced, they are destined to be added to the collections of royal enthusiasts around the world, by those looking to commemorate the special day with a genuinely remarkable souvenir.
Kevin Clancy, Director of the Royal Mint Museum said: “A kilo coin is extremely rare and unlike any other coin created by the Royal Mint due to its size and weight, which are governed by law. Only very special events are therefore commemorated with a coin of this size.”
The kilos will be available on a first come, first served basis, from the Royal Mint website.
