We Like

Here’s a selection of links that we like. Have a look!

Jewellery for Weddings:

Present Time Bathgate is a wonderful new online boutique, offering the chance to buy from a great range of branded gifts.  Amongst this hoard of treasures you’ll find some perfect presents for weddings, including fashionable jewellery, thoughtful photo frames and tasteful ornaments and home accessories amongst other items.

Wine Fit for a Wedding:

What kind of celebration would be complete without wine?  The Fine Wine Company are based in Edinburgh and have access to thousands of bottles of wonderful wine from all over the world.  There’s wine for all budgets, and you can buy in various quantities too.  Perhaps most notably you can shop online for whole cases of wine with The Fine Wine Company, so it doesn’t matter if you’re looking for a single bottle of Greywacke wine, or a whole case from the Margaret River wine region.

Designer Accessories For The Marital Home:

Pomegranate-living.com is a beautiful interiors e-commerce retailer that offers premium items for the home including such products as Zenza pendant lights and Porta Romana lamps.  Pomegranate’s items are handmade by various designers and skilled craftspeople and often take on a middle eastern style.  A gift from Pomegranate would be an extremely generous and distinctive gift for a new marital home.

Wedding and Anniversary Gifts:

Bridge Farm Toys and Gifts has a new e-commerce website, but as a retailer they have been specialising in beautiful gifts for Weddings and Anniversaries at their offline shop for a long time now.  You will find a fantastic selection of gifts for the new marital home by visiting their online gift store today at bridgefarmtoysandgifts.com.

Jeans:

Jeanstore have been trading since 1969 in high quality jeans from major brands such as Wrangler, Lee and Levis. Through their ecommerce website Jeanstore offer a wide range of jeans and accessories such as denim jackets, boots and polo shirts, all at the cheapest prices on the web. At the moment they even have an 80% off sale, so some great bargains to be had!

V&A China:

A fabulous collection of V&A China from this online gift store based in the UK. This collection of china objects are faithful reproductions of the actual designs to be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Timelessly beautiful design touches are brought out with deep glaze and the use of the best dyes and inks, meaning these pieces of china will look good in any room.

Lighting Workshop:

If you’re in the business of displaying bridal costume jewellery then you’ll know that lighting is the all important factor in determining whether you can show off that ‘sparkle’ or not.

Lighting Workshop sell a large range of traditional, modern and designer lighting to the trade and public, with great prices on a variety of lighting styles and designs. Mainly aimed at the trade and interior design lighting market, neverthless Lighting Workshop offers a great retail trading experience for the home shopper, with clear and easy navigation through the different lighting styles and designs of fitting. There’s a good offering of Franklite Lighting on offer, including a great range of designer wall lighting.

EPoS Software:

Intelligent Retail provide a fantastic range of EPoS (Electronic Point of Sale) systems which run on bespoke EPoS Software created by Intelligent Retail especially for independant retail businesses.

If you’re a retailer then you will probably appreciate the time saving, security and ease of use that a good EPoS System can give you.  Modern EPoS systems tie in stock control, multichannel online selling and accounting software so that stock control, selling and accounting become a seamless process.  This drastically cuts down on the amount of time needed to run a retail business especially when selling online.  Take a look at the Intelligent Retail website to see some of the best EPoS Software on the market.

Kaloo Toys:

Kaloo Toys have been a favourite for years with young children as they are soft, warm and cuddly.  Based in France, Kaloo offer a great range of soft baby toys, each in it’s own box and with a variety of ranges which have different features.  The Lilirose range of Kaloo Toys are very girlified in that they’re all shades of Pink… these are great for your baby girl’s cot and make great play room or even travel toys.

Pack Lane Wool:

As the name suggests, www.packlanewool.co.uk is a website of a traditional retailer based in Pack Lane in Basingstoke.  This shop sells a wide range of knitting yarns in a staggering array of colours and designs which are offered alongside haberdashery, needlecrafts and beading products, knitting accessories and quilting supplies.

Rocky Horrors:

A great and well known alternative clothing shop based in Sheffield, Rocky Horrors offer a large selection of Goth, Punk, Biker and Emo clothing… infact if it’s to do with an alternative lifestyle look, Rocky Horrors probably stock it!

There is a great range of alternative clothing, footwear and accessories on offer including a great range of dresses from Hell Bunny and Poizen Industries which have styles from a wide range of influences – everything from 50’s fashion to bondage.

Take a look at the Rocky Horrors website at www.rockyhorrors.co.uk for a great deal on alternative clothes!

EPoS Ecommerce

If you’re a retailer in the modern age then you probably know that your EPoS system (Electronic Point of Sale) can be used for more than running your shop till!  Modern EPos systems are your window into the wonderful world of Ecommerce!  EPoS Ecommerce systems allow you to not only control online sales channels such as an ecommerce enabled website from the shop till, they also (if designed intelligently) allow all sales to come back from these channels to the shop till for ‘pick pack and dispatch’.  Take a look at www.eposecommerce.co.uk which explains the principles well.

Online Gift Shop:

www.theparsleypot.com offer a great range of giftware, homewares and cosmetics as well as toys and games online from suppliers such as Emma Bridgewater, Jellycat Toys and Willow Tree.  There’s a fantastic range of soft toys on offer as well as cushions, glassware and pottery… infact this shop sells just about everything for the home and family!

Trot2.com:

Trot2.com is the online shop of Houghton Equestrian, an equestrian centre based in the hills north of Newcastle Upon Tyne.  This great online shop sells a wide range of equestrian clothing, footwear and equipment for horse and rider including mountain horse riding boots and a great range of Joules clothing.  Take a look at the Trot2.com online store if you’re into the equestrian lifestyle!

Vision Boutique:

VisionBoutique.co.uk supply a large range of stylish reading glasses for men and women at affordable prices.  With a variety of strengths to choose from, you’ll find your perfect pair of reading glasses at Vision Boutique.

WillowTree.uk.com

An informational site set up to teach the world about the magic of Willow Tree figurines.  These collectible figurines are loved for the way that they can convey such deep power and emotion through their simplicity and grace, making the perfect thought provoking gift.

Schoose!

Schoose is the online shop of Factory Footwear, a UK based shoe retailer with premises near Redruth in Cornwall.  Schoose offer a large range of designer shoes in a variety of styles to suit both men and women, with everything from arch support shoes to walking shoes on offer.  Ranges offered include those from Alegria, Rieker, Padders and Hotter, with options including gladiator sandals, high heels and clogs available from a number of designers.  Take a look at www.schoose.co.uk and browse their collections.

Kraxi:

Kraxi, a homewares and giftware shop based in Aberystwyth, Wales offer a wide variety of homewares, gifts and toys including the great range of soft toys from Charlie Bears, Peter Rabbit books and toys plus the great range of 18 month diaries from Paperblanks.  Kraxi offer free delivery on all product orders to the UK over £50 and will deliver anywhere in the world.  Take a look at the website by going to www.kraxi.co.uk and see the great range of items on offer.

Peterborough Music Ltd

Peterborough music have been providing instruments, equipment and sheet music for over 30 years.  They have a great website, where you can find a wide range of musical instruments, such as alto saxophones from top brands like Earlham, Trevor James and Artemis.  Peterborough music also stocks a great selection of bass guitars. They provide bass guitars from Fender, Rickenbacker, Ibanez and ESP Ltd and many more, all available at great prices.

Parriss Jewellers

Parriss jewellers offer a great range of costume and gemstone jewellery including some fantastic designs of flower jewellery which have been designed to mimic the best that nature has to offer.  You’ll find a great selection here using silver, gold and a whole host of semi precious and precious stones.

Cartridges Direct:

This website offers a great range of original and re-manufactured printer cartridges which are made in the UK so high quality and actually work!  You’ll find cartridges for Samsung, Canon and Epson printers as well as many others – infact there are printer cartridges which will suit virtually every printer on the market!  Popular printers are supported such as the Epson Stylus Photo models, with printer cartridges such as the Epson T0711 being offered at roughly half the price of the original. Check out the website for more models and printer cartridges.

I Dream Elephants:

What a great name for a store!  I Dream Elephants offer a wide range of European and Scandinavian clothing for boys and girls, with the emphasis on style and quality.  You’ll find a whole host of clothing and accessories from companies like Rockefella Clothing , who offer 50’s rocker styled clothes for boys and girls – just what you need to differentiate from all those ordinary clothes you find on the high street!

Trekitt

If you’re looking for a really good extreme sports shop the Trekitt should be on your radar.  Trekitt bill themselves as a mountain sports shop and offer a large range of clothing, equipment and accessories from stock including sought after items such as the range of Rab Neutrino jackets.  You’ll find everything you need here for climbing , hiking and ski and they even have a great range of specialist military boots which are considerably cheaper than you’ll find elsewhere.