Christmas Shopping!

I’m so looking forward to Christmas! Ben and I went Christmas shopping in Preston yesterday and it really put me in a festive mood. Preston is a great place to shop this time of year. There are lots of great shops, with lots of great pre-Christmas bargains and wonderful Christmassy window displays to enhance your shopping experience. And the council always does a great job of decorating the town centre with a fabulous array of lights and other Christmas paraphernalia; they’ve even gone so far as to transform The Flag Market into a winter wonderland, comprising an outdoor ice skating rink surrounded by log cabins serving food and drink. Nice!

Although we’d already bought most of our Christmas presents, there were still a few things left to get. For example, we’d already bought Crissy a couple of Mayoral girl’s skirt and ivory T-shirt outfits (one brown skirt and one purple skirt)  in the Cachet Kids sale and we were looking for some rabbit themed accessories to go with them. After lots of searching we managed to get hold of a cute white fluffy hat with rabbit ears and a few different kinds of socks with rabbit designs on them that I’m sure Crissy will love.

We’d already bought Simon a boy’s purple wizard outfit with hat and we were looking for some wizard themed accessories to go with it. Fortunately, we were able to find a grey false beard, a toy magic wand and a toy black cat that went perfectly with the outfit. I can’t wait to see him all dressed up as a wizard on Christmas day!

And we’d already bought my nephew Ashley a boy’s solider outfit with red beret hat and we were looking for some toy weapons to go with the outfit. In the end we bought him a toy machine gun and some plastic hand grenades, which I'm sure he'll love.

Anyway, I had a great time shopping and will no doubt return to Preston with the whole family before Christmas. We might even give the ice rink a go, who knows!