Easter Hotel Chocolat Review & Giveaway

I'm so pleased to announce a giveaway of a Your Eggsellency™ Extra Thick Easter Egg from Hotel Chocolat, worth £24!

I was sent one of these gorgeous eggs to try! I chose Your Eggsellency™ Extra Thick Easter Egg from their range of Easter goodies because I liked the pretty looking egg truffles inside.

The egg comes in a stylish blue box wrapped in black ribbon. On opening the box you are greeted with a silver foil wrapped egg. With one thick shell in mellow 40% milk and the other thick shell in 70% dark, brimming with 10 fine truffle eggs. The yummy vanilla and orange liqueur truffle egg is encased in dark chocolate with a pretty splatter of orange coloured chocolate. The milk chocolate strawberry and Marc de Champagne truffle egg is adorned with a splatter of bright pink chocolate. You also get a rum and caramel milk chocolate egg and an Amaretto truffle filled milk chocolate egg. My favourite was the apricot Brandy truffle egg encased in white chocolate with a splatter of orange chocolate.

A stylish, indulgent, super thick chocolate egg full of the yummiest truffles, this is a perfect gift for Easter! They also have lots of other great ideas for Easter gifts like the cute chocolate eggs and soldiers and the cool looking strawberry melt handmade Easter egg sandwich.

To enter, please visit Hotel Chocolat and then leave a comment below this post letting me know what delicious chocolates you would like to give or receive this Easter. The giveaway ends on Tuesday, April 19th 2010 at 10pm (GMT) and I will randomly select and announce a winner on Wednesday, April 20th.

To increase your chances of winning this fabulous prize, you can gain one additional entry for doing each of the following:

• tweeting about this giveaway
• blogging about it
• following the Torie Jayne blog
• following Torie Jayne on Twitter

For the first two, please leave a comment below with the link to your tweet or blog post.

This giveaway is open to UK readers.

Hotel Chocolat is also running a Name our bouncing EASTER baby Competition! on Facebook

Good luck and have a sweet day!

Fresh Floral Easter

1. Egg cosy woolly chicken
2. Easter tree yellow birds
3. Green birdhouse decoration
4. Bird decoration green polkadot
5. Gisela Graham knitted chick egg cosy with pink hat
6. Mini painted garden decoration
7. Peach knitted hen
8. Yellow petal baking cups
9. Cupcake/muffin case - blue gingham
10. Gisela Graham Gisela Graham speckled mini egg decorations, set of 6
11. Gisela Graham tin buckets, set of 3
12. Wooden Easter egg house decoration

This week in my series of posts, "Friday Finds", I bring you a selection of pretty Easter decorations inspired by Monday's post, Fresh Floral Easter.

Have a sweet day!

Ideal Home Show Tickets Winner!

Congratulations!

The Winner of the couple of Ideal Home Tickets is Victoria of the cute blog Florence & Mary!

Have a sweet day!

Tweety Bird

This week on "Wonderful World of Etsy" I bring you a selection of bird treasures. Nothing says Spring like some tweeting birds. I am thinking of including lots of birds in my Easter decorations.

1. New tenants
2. Pair of 16 inch cushion covers in bird trail seafoam cotton fabric by Clarke and Clarke UK
3. Wonderland 1 inch circles, digital collage sheet, download and print JPEG images
4. Free as a bird necklace
   

Have a sweet day!

Susie Watson Designs

This week for my 'shops i love' page, I bring you Susie Watson Designs. Susie Watson founded the company in 2004 based in Notting Hill, London. Championing traditional craftsmanship, the company creates handmade products for the home without making any compromises. Every piece ends up looking exactly as Susie envisaged – regardless of how difficult or time-consuming that may be.

There is a beautiful collection of pottery from pastel-toned cake stands to mixing bowls with a sugary stripe around the rim. Spring-fresh mugs and dinnerware with strawberries, daisies and blackberries. For outdoors there are Summer faded stripe box cushions, delightful duck egg blue check blankets and sweet embroidered scatter cushions. Bird atop candlesticks and pom pom trimmed toy bags fit for a prince or princess! Dreamy striped bedlinen in 100% cotton and an array of fabrics and trims for creative divas!

They currently have five shops: two in London, one in Alresford, one in Marlborough and a fabric showroom also in Marborough.

Underpinning the brand is a simple philosophy – that the things we use every day should bring us pleasure.

Have a sweet day!

Ideal Home Show 2011

Oriental-style dining room

Simple bird house and bunting

Country garden arbour

Decorative pot covers

Decorative tableware

I am so excited to tell you that I have been asked to be one of the official bloggers for the Ideal Home Show on their dedicated ‘interiors’ day on March 25th.

They are doing something a bit special and hosting a dedicated ‘bloggers lounge’ in which they are inviting their favourite bloggers down to the event to blog live and experience the show in a way that hasn’t be available in the past to bloggers. The lounge will be set up just for bloggers, with computers available for use, in the Show Village and totally kitted out by Harvey’s Furniture.

The Ideal Home Show, proudly sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, is Britain’s best loved home event and returns to London’s Earls Court for its 103rd year. The multi-award winning show brings together more than 600 quality exhibitors from all over the UK to offer a unique shopping experience for all areas of the home, including ideal Interiors sponsored by Dulux, ideal Home Improvements, ideal Gardens sponsored by Hydropool Hot Tubs, ideal Gadgets, ideal Food & Housewares, ideal Shopping and ideal Woman.

And if that’s not enough, the show is jam packed with celebrity guests, more features than ever before including the latest home gadgets, demonstration theatres, a live kitchen theatre, a beauty bar and catwalk, and of course take in the iconic show homes

I am looking forward to being inspired by the Ideal Home Magazine Room Sets; from creating the perfect space for entertaining and cooking to wandering around fresh, serene sanctuary-style bathrooms to relaxing boutique hotel style bedrooms.

DULUX have invited me to join them for a 1-2-1 consultation in their new "Let’s Colour It" Studio which they are launching at the event. They can match any colour and mix it into a paint for you. I will be sitting down with one of their experts to match up colours to paint my Easter crafts.

DULUX have also given me a pair of tickets to the Ideal Home Show give away to one of you, my sweet readers. To enter please leave a comment below this post letting me know what colour you would like mixed up for you by DULUX. The giveaway ends on Wednesday, March 16th 2010 at 10pm (GMT) and I will randomly select and announce a winner on Thursday, March 17th.

To increase your chances of winning this fabulous prize, you can gain one additional entry for doing each of the following:

• tweeting about this giveaway
• blogging about it

For the above, please leave a comment below with the link to your tweet or blog post.

Have a sweet day!

Inspirational Pins - A Fresh Floral Easter

Today in my series of posts, "Inspirational Pins", I bring you the first of many Easter Inspirational boards. I am still deciding which theme and colour palette to go for this Easter, but it definitely needs to involve bunnies!

• Egg cup place setting
• Egg-centric
• Peep show
• Easter still life

Have a sweet day!