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Buy unique island gifts

Got someone in your family who would be really thrilled to get something different for Christmas?

Then these special handmade, embroidered products offer ‘one of a kind’ pieces, which are all created by a women's sewing cooperative that is based in the island of Madagascar.

Handcrafted with recycled cotton, each individual item is guaranteed to be utterly unique and offers a stunning gift with a very genuine, heartfelt Christmas meaning.

Made by the women of the Stitch Sainte Luce cooperative, the items’ sales generate highly valuable income for families in Madagascar; who need our support now more than ever, as 1.15 million people on the island face starvation, due to a famine.

Stitch Sainte Luce, supported by the charity SEED Madagascar, has taught embroidery, as well as business skills in maths, sales and English language, to over 100 women. Alongside value incomes, the cooperative has also helped empower women, giving them a creative and social outlet and building self-confidence. 

For more information on Stitch Sainte Luce, or to buy products, please visit www.stitchsainteluce.org

For further details on the current food crisis in Madagascar please visit the SEED Madagascar website – www.madagascar.co.uk.

Sixpence Pud Liqueur Gin

 

Sixpence Pud Liqueur Gin. It's a golden, shimmering Christmas in a bottle!

Those wonderful souls who brought you Snow Globe Gin have worked hard and with dedication to bring you yet another festive treat, their Sixpence Pud Gin Liqueur.

 It is both thrilling to look at and shockingly tasty. With its traditional Christmas Pud good looks, the swirling, luminescent shimmering golden cast of the drink, it adds a whole new dimension to your Christmas table, where it will be a new traditional centre piece of your Christmas celebrations.

Years ago, silver sixpenny pieces were put into the traditional Christmas pudding and whoever found it would receive a year's good luck.

That's now replaced with the opportunity for everyone at the Christmas table to receive not only a shimmering golden sip (or two!)  bringing its own good luck, but the chance to indulge in a very Christmassy drink redolent of warming traditional Yuletide spices, candied fruits, a hint of caramel the taste of oranges and of cinnamon, all cunningly mingled with the finest available gin.

It can be taken neat in a suitable glass, on the rocks or why not use it as the basis for a nifty series of festive cocktails? Added to sparkling white wines like Prosecco, Champagne or British sparkling whites it creates a golden, shimmering treat for the taste buds and the eyes.

It will make a remarkable Christmas gift for the gin lover in your life. Or a marvellous self-gift for you!

It's available at Harvey Nichols. A 50ml bottle will cost £25.00. https://www.harveynichols.com/brand/sixpence-pud/3690862-christmas-pudding-gin-liqueur-500ml/p4157958/

Or you can buy it direct from the producers, Gravity Drinks, at https://gravitydrinks.co.uk/collections/shop-our-range.  

Do check out their other talked about and stunning drinks whilst you are there.