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No tricks: all a 'shop indie' Halloween treat!
David Knight • 13 October 2023
Let Friday13th be your reminder to ‘shopindie’ for Halloween giftideas from UK indies & creatives. There’s no trick: everything’s a treat!
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- Skull and coffin earrings by West Yorkshire’s TwiggyPeasticks
- Haunted forest pumpkin scene print by Staffordshire’s HeatherWDesigns
- Witches hat ornament by Glasgow’s EarthAndSandByAnna
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- Spell tags for Halloween party bags by Lancashire’s SusanzCards
- Glow in the dark ghost keyring by East Yorkshire’s EllaDexterCrafts
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- Celebrity Friday 13th Jason Voorhees gingerbread cookie tree decoration by Edinburgh’s ElbriCrafts
- Pumpkin dangle earrings by Suffolk’s BellesCharmsOnEtsy
- Pin brooch with flying witch and embroidered orange pumpkins by Lincolnshire’s Ellie’s Treasures
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Colourful character who was ‘the father of mixing cocktails’, the man who decided the world needed a cheese slicer and a sense of tea with Jane Austen. Just some of food & drink delights that 30 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
Sparkling confectionery from Britain’s top chocolatier, an artist sets the table for a bubbly get-together and the Champagne’s on ice in a cool movie gesture. Just some of food & drink delights that 29 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
Revolutionary ways of ‘one of the most influential Western chefs in history’, meaty art from a bold British artist and for relaxing times. . . make it Suntory time. . . Just some of food & drink delights that 28 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
A troubled poet’s extraordinary go-to recipe, a pop artist’s mouthwatering dessert and a downtrodden movie wife’s shocking calamari revelations. Just some of food & drink delights that 27 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
The dish that gives a country its identity, pioneering women chefs who championed a classic cuisine and a week-long banquet that came to a melodramatic conclusion. Just some of food & drink delights that 26 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
Favourite dish of an art colossus and the Champagne regrets of a national treasure on the day that the world celebrates it. Just some of food & drink delights that 25 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
Twenty minutes for chefs to create a dish with ingredients costing less than £5, 40 years cooking for the leaders of the world and the artist whose work is ‘liking drinking a good glass of red wine’ Just some of food & drink delights that 24 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
The epitome of cheesecakes from a pastry chef extraordinaire, lychees and peaches with a sensual touch and the festival ‘for women who wouldn’t have thought beer was for them’. Just some of food & drink delights that 23 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.
An lavishly sweet tribute to an extravagant theatre star, the man who coined the term ‘alcoholism’ and a literary ‘what should come first’ picnic conversation about chicken and eggs. Just some of food & drink delights that 22 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.