We’re helping you count down the days to Christmas by gifting you fabulous offers every day for the next 12 days. Each day there will be a different offer giving you an extra treat to help with your Christmas shopping.  In true festive style our offers are tailored to fit the classic Christmas Carol (a favourite of ours!) the 12 Days of Christmas – well this is our take on it anyway!   Day one kicks off on 1 December with a free Antique Stone Pear if you spend over £40 shopping the Very Merry Christmas Collection. Entre the code PEARTREE at the checkout. So get a Christmas present for a loved one as well as some gorgeous decorations for your house.  For day two (2 Dec) instead of two turtle doves, we’re giving you 2 for 1 on our magical Christmas angels...these gorgeous light up fairy angels are included as well! Use the code 241ANGELS.  Can you guess what’s coming next? Keep reading to see the full 12 days of offers. Or if you don’t want to ruin the surprise sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter where...

Growing up gonks were a bit of a thing in our house….I remember my mum handing me my first one…all googly eyes and fur everywhere….. I’m not going to lie, he wasn’t the most attractive fellow, but endearing all the same. I loved him and have had a love of gonks ever since.  Fast forward a few hundred years (well actually 30 or so) and gonks have exploded on the Christmas Scene. They are a now a firm favourite in our homes for the festive season. However, they’ve changed somewhat from the 80’s, with their hats pulled over their eyes and long bushy beards, very much taking inspiration from the Scandinavian gnomes and goblins in Nordic mythology. The story goes that these short tubby guys would make their home in houses or barns. If the family they chose to live with were good and kind people, the gonks would bring...

I love advent calendars. They’ve come so far since the paper ones with just a picture behind them! For me it’s the first real signal that Christmas has arrived at home. Every morning as I watch Lillia open a door, her face lights up and I get a little flash of what it’s like on Christmas morning! With so many options, when I was looking at what advent calendars we should stock, I took inspiration from the traditional Christmas trend I’m seeing, combined with the flexibility that fully-customisable advent calendars can bring. You can fill them with chocolates, little toys, stationery or even dog treats (if you have a furry friend that needs to join in with the festivities!). And the best thing about them is that you can store them away for next year and reuse them! So, here’s a selection of the advent calendars we have at Collecting...

Welcome to Collecting Seashells I’m Tilly, Founder and CEO of Collecting Seashells. I wanted to introduce you all to our new Collecting Seashells Blog Page and let you know a little more about us.I have always had a passion for home décor, home accessories and home interiors and this led me on a journey to launch Collecting Seashells.When choosing the company name I had lots of ideas but nothing was quite working until my daughter, who was 8 at the time, said “Mummy, you should call it Collecting Seashells.” Sometimes, children just see things more clearly than we do don’t they!! It was so beautiful and simple and had the meaning behind it I was searching for. You see, seashells are our thing!! Whenever we go away on holiday, she and I spend hours collecting seashells together and bring them home with us and put them in jars around the...