babyurbeautiful: christmas 2015

FESTIVE MUMMAS I On the fourth day of Christmas

On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me

A Christmas jumper in aid of charity!

With the festive season well and truly here, if you haven't already got yourself a Christmas jumper now is the time. Friday 18th December is Christmas Jumper Day in aid of Save The Children. This year Christmas Jumper Day is teaming up with itv's Text Santa appeal. Many retailers are donating a percentage of profits to this brilliant appeal which will help give children the Christmas they deserve.

Here's our top picks for Mummas and Bubbas....

Merry Kissmas from New Look £14.99

Rather than a great big emblazoned knit, how about this plainer sweater with sequined lettering from New Look?

Lipsy Fairisle long jumper £38

Nothing says winter like a fairisle knit, that you can get away with wearing post Christmas. This lovely fluffy jumper is available from Lipsy.

And for younger ones...

Red Penguin Sweat £11-£12 from Next

I love this cute Christmas sweater from Next available from 3 months- 6 years.

Striped Santa T Shirt £6-£7

This t shirt is a bargain from Next and being a t shirt is much lighter than a chunky knit, which lets face it kids get hot and bothered in!

If you already have a Christmas jumper or bah-humbug don't want to wear one, why not find out more and donate via http://www.itv.com/textsanta/

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12 days of Christmas

FESTIVE MUMMAS I On the third day of Christmas

On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love gave to me....

Some products to make my hair very shiny!

Gone are the days of a cheapo pot of wet look hair gel. Over the last few years, men's hair has become as important as our own luscious locks. With trendy old school barbers setting up in most towns (Dapper Chaps in Northampton even has beer pumps and a pint included in the price) and beards becoming the must have facial accessory.

Men are always hard to buy for at Christmas, and so a perfect gift for Christmas is this Dapper Gent gift set from the hair expert Paul Mitchell.

Paul Mitchell have a range of gift sets for him and her and not badly priced either. A lot of gift sets come with teeny tiny sized sample bottles, but not this set.

The Dapper Gent set includes

Heavy Hitter- a 250ml shampoo

Clean Cut- 85g of pliable styling cream

Construction Paste- 25ml of styling paste for relaxed styles

There is a range of gift sets availale and these retail for £27 and available from Paul Mitchell and all good salons!

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accessorize

FESTIVE MUMMAS I Advent Calendars For Us

So we did a round up of the best kids advent calendars a couple of weeks ago -
have a read of it here, if you've not yet bought one.

But what about us?!

For me, Christmas is about the build up, counting the days down, getting the tree up and making the house all Christmassy. By Boxing Day I'm over it, and ready to pack it away in the loft for another year.

So what better way to count down to the big day than with one of these fab grown up advent calendars?

Nail varnish advent calendar now £15

Hotel Chocolat Truffles for Two £26

First up, how about this cute nail polish advent calendar from Accessorize It's now half price at £15. It looks like it's sold out online, so check your local store. Accessorize also have 30% off selected items as part of their Black Friday weekend.

This is a perfect couples advent calendar (although you don't have to share!). This scrummy grown ups advent calendar has flavours like mulled wine and cinnamon praline.

This is available from Hotel Chocolat. They also have 20% off for Black Friday...with some yummy selection boxes that'd make great Christmas gifts...and let's face it, they're better than a box of Milk Tray.

Or to get the house smelling lovely and festive, Yankee Candle are doing an advent calendar with a different scented tealight everyday. This is £20 and available from Boots. Yankee Candle themselves have a selection of other gorgeous calendars to choose from.

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aladdin

COOL BUBBAS I Panto Season

The Christmas season is almost upon us, yes really, and Christmas time isn't complete without a family trip to a pantomime.... Oh no it isn't, oh yes it is....

Pretty much every town up and down the country will pay homage to this British tradition,

and no panto is complete without the obligatory soap star and ahem, celebrity.

So what's on this year? Check out our round up of the top celebrity infused pantos

to hit the stage this year.

Birmingham

Aladdin is this year's panto at Birmingham Hippodrome.

This is our panto of choice after seeing a fab performance of Jack & The Beanstalk last year.

It's the perfect panto for all the family with jokes for kids and grown ups too.

This years' panto features Marti Pellow, Julian Clary, Lee Mead and the very funny Matt Slack.

Manchester

At the Manchester Opera House there's Cinderella featuring Torvil and Dean, so that's set to be a skating spectacular.

Liverpool

This year's panto is Dick Whittington featuring Sally Lindsay (previously in Corrie and

Mount Pleasant) as well as some local radio celebs.

Dick Whittington is on at the Liverpool Empire.

Glasgow

If you're north of the border, how about Snow White featuring no other than Rab C Nesbitt?

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs is on at the Kings Theatre.

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes has a great line up this year with Gary Wilmott panto legend,

Ben Adams (of A1 and the Big Reunion) and Priscilla Presley.

Aladdin is on the Milton Keynes Theatre.

York

The Grand Opera House York plays host to Jack & The Beanstalk this year featuring

TOWIE's Lewis Bloor, Stuart Wade from Emmerdale and X Factor's Jade Ellis.

Sunderland

How about Aladdin at the Sunderland Theatre featuring Corrie baddie Tony,

This Morning's Alison Hammond and Derek Moran from Channel 5's Milkshake.

Surrey

One of the biggest pantos is Sleeping Beauty in Woking which for selected dates features Katie Price. Anita Dobson also stars as does CBeebies Mr Bloom.