New Online Gift Business for New Moms

Wouldn’t you just love to take the hassel out of buying a lovely and useful gift for a new mom you know?

Well Maeve Barry has done just that when she started her online gift business www.babyelephant.ie after being inundated with bunches of flowers on the birth of her baby. Maeve’s idea was for an online gift business to offer presents that could be pampering and practical. Now in business for six months, she has started to deliver worldwide, and has added two new organic skincare brands – Cowshed and Mambino Organics – to her range. The new online gift business next-day courier delivery in Ireland is €5. Baby gifts such as organic cotton rompers start from €33 and mama gifts start at €44.

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Value Fabrics

Congratulations to Helen Turkington (pictured above) who has just opened a second shop in Ranelagh (Dublin, Ireland), this one devoted to a selection of 200 value fabrics selling for 40 per cent less than similar quality, designer branded products.

The range starts at €10 per metre, and the rolls of fabric are displayed beside paint samples to help you concoct a pleasing colour scheme. “A relatively small amount of money can revitalise any home,” she says, “by recovering old pieces of furniture or changing the curtains.” Upholstery and curtain-making services are available through her interior design consultancy, or you can simply buy the fabric and do-it-yourself. The selection includes linens, silks, brushed lambswool paisleys and floral damasks. You’ll find Helen Turkington Fabrics at Terminus Mills, Clonskeagh Road, Dublin 14. Open Monday-Saturday. See www.helenturkington.com