Boutique Provencale offers French gifts and Provencale style home accessories. I have to say that I'm delighted to discover this store, as the rich colours of Provence add highlights to any home, make superb gifts, and remind me of where I want to go back to.....soon.

Here you'll find handcrafted pottery, traditionally patterned table linens, beach and toiletry bags and one of my all time favourites, Savon de Marseilles. The site is not sophisticated but the products are wonderful.

This is a wonderful place to find unique gifts and treats for your home. Everything here is pretty, vintage, special and different, and handpicked for the collection by the owner. Obviously these are one offs, so if you do fall in love with something, you'll need to snap it up quickly. Collections include glass, china and interesting items from a Victorian heart shaped brass trivet to a gorgeous vintage emboidered peacock tea cosy. If you know someone who loves a particular period, then this is an excellent place to browse.

Tricia Guild always offers an eclectic range of beautiful things, and although the wonderful range of fabrics is always in evidence, now you’ll find bedlinens, colourful towels, unique home fragrance and pretty, girly gift ideas available here, all attractively and temptingly photographed. The range is growing all the time, and not just products, but whole new categories are being added as well.

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Bodie and Fou is a home accessories company named after its co-founders, French sisters Elodie and Karine who decided to fill a gap in the market for simple, contemporary and unique home interiors. You'll find handmade glass candlesticks, unusual table linens and accessories and a wide range of Cote Bastide home and bath products here. It's not a large range but everything is extremely beautiful and gorgeously photographed so it's well worth a browse. They only deliver to the UK and offer a standard and express service.

This is a beautifully neutral and calm website to visit, offering attractively photographed and unusual home accessories, mainly in neutral shades. Think animal print candles, faux fur throws, smokey glasses, almond coloured velvet quilts, black ceramic canisters and pale French Provencal cushions. For anyone who likes natural colours and five star chic in their home, this is the place to find it.

This is a long established retailer of attractive home and lifestyle products and gifts including candles, tableware, silk cushions, pretty etched glasses and duvet covers and quilts. They're quite hard to really categorise as the products are so widespread but if I tell you that some of their bestsellers are bevelled mirrors, A-Z bookends, lavender scented hearts and pantone mugs you’ll probably get the idea.

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Handpicked Collection is a beautifully designed gift shop offering a clever collection of present ideas selected by their 'expert panel' of stylists, journalists and presenters whose mission has been to find gifts that are just that little bit different. There's a wide selection of unique gifts for indoor and outdoor living, presents for children and very good suggestions for weddings.

This is a collection of hand embroidered fabric, cushions and lavender bags with themes such as Bees and Bugs, Seaside Collection, Botanical, Rose and Classic, described as 'designed for today and destined to be the heirlooms of the future'. These are unique textiles and accessories which you'll probably want to collect and you'll find extremely hard to give away, although their present giving potential is excellent. They'll deliver Worldwide and offer an express delivery service.

La Provence sells designer giftware on its online store. The range includes beautiful French tablecloths, L’occitane beauty products, exquisite glassware and Margaret Loxton’s limited edition prints of French scenes. They also have a really pretty assortment of gifts and accessories including Swarovski crystal adorned heart necklaces, chic hand painted porcelain, stunning fragrance lamps and gorgeous shower caps. The Baby & Child range includes items such as natural baby products, children’s furniture and baby bouquets.

This is another wonderful home accessories website where there's so much to see you almost don't know where to start. For the kitchen there's colourful enamelware, Cath Kidston china and bistro cutlery - the bathroom; Comptoire Grande towels and Branche d'Olive toiletries; Monsoon Home and Comptoir bedlinens and throws; candles, clocks and mirrors for your living room. Thankfully the website is extremely easy to navigate and very well photographed.

Mulberry Hall offers you the opportunity of buying online some of the ranges that they hold in their York shop, including brands such as Baccarat, Herend, Lladro, Royal Copenhagen and Waterford. This would be a great place to find gifts for all sorts of occasions and particularly for weddings as there’s a beautiful collection of traditional and modern items for the home and they offer a free of charge gift wrapping service. If you’re going to stray off the wedding list track take a look at the stunning black John Rocha for Waterford glass and fun Alessi gifts and kitchen accessories.

Here you'll find British designed and made gift and home accessory ideas, with everything either being made in small runs or specially for you. There's the Penguin (as in the book) collection of mugs, Emily Readett-Bayley bookends, wonderful Fergusons Irish Linen and Phil Atrill crystal stemware and that's just a small selection to give you an idea. You can search by product type or by Supplier and create a wish list as you go. You could spend a great deal of time here and you'll find gifts for everyone.

Having spent a great deal of time in the US due to the fact that my mother-in-law lives in Maryland; I’ve become really attached to the old style quilts, shaker boxes and cushions. For that reason I’m delighted to have found this website, established by an American who moved to the UK with her British husband and decided to bring a New England country store with her. For the quilts you’ll have to wait a while as they are hand made and for other items you can immediately see the stock availability. If you need something urgently give them a call and email them for international delivery prices

Pruden and Smith make beautiful contemporary silver tableware that is spun, hand-raised or forged using traditional silversmith techniques. Unnecessary decorative effects are used sparingly to enhance their famous hammered finish. This really is modern silver at its best and there’s a wide range to choose from. You can’t buy directly through the website at the moment but need to email or call them with your enquiry – a small price to pay for such a special range.

This is a family run business offering a lovely selection of fabrics, wallpapers, gifts and home accessories from brands such as Mulberry, GP and J Baker, Harlequin and Fired Earth. The selection of mouthwatering gift ideas includes Mulberry candles, pot pourrie, cushions and throws and James Brindley's range of faux fur (think leopard, llama, bear and cheetah) throws, cushions and hot water bottle covers. Resist if you can. You can request free samples of fabrics to help you finalise your choice and then order using their online system. They ship Worldwide

Ok, now for some quite unusual ideas for gifts for weddings and other celebrations. Artist Richard Bramble has created a range of unique tableware from wonderfully fishy plates and bowls to tablemats and clocks, plus his original paintings and prints, all of which you can buy online. As I personally would love to be given something by him (kids are you listening?) you should have a good look round.

Cushions must surely be one the easiest ways of updating the living areas of your home without having to spend a fortune. The London Cushion Company is a new online store with a gorgeous selection from richly coloured Kenzo florals to Union Jacks, children's prints and modern metallics. There's an excellent choice at a wide range of prices so have a browse now. Call for overseas delivery.