Categories / Food and Drink, Kids

Decade Sweet Boxes at A Quarter Of

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Fancy a pile of sweets themed to a particular era? That's what you get with these Decade Sweet Boxes at A Quarter Of.

The idea is simple, get a wooden box, stuff it with all the sweets from back in that particular day, stick on a label based around that decade and fire it off to your favoured sweet lover. Or eat them all yourself, you've paid after all.

Pictured above is the 1980s box, which includes the likes of Anglo Bubbly Bubble Gum, Cherry Lips, Fizzers, Fizzy Cherry Cola Bottles, Kola Kubes, Pear Drops, Rhubarb and Custard, Strawberry Foam Mushrooms, White Mice, the Cadburys Wispa, Candy Sticks, Caramac, Drumsticks, Love Hearts, Sherbet Fountains, Space Dust and Wham Bars in varying quantities. £37.76 is the price of it all.

Find out more at the A Quarter Of website

Categories / Bags, Women's Fashion

Mustard Box Bag from New Look

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Sometimes it's the most simplistic and versatile items that become wardrobe favourites, especially when it's a stylish accessory you can turn to almost any outfit. This cool, sixties inspired Box Bag from New Look is a piece that could become an everyday essential, and at a price which belies its good looks.

The rounded box bag structure has a great retro feel, toeing the line between sharp lines and a more youthful appeal like so many sixties designs. The use of a mustard shade of faux leather, along with the gold chain strap and hardware, keeps the vintage colour palette in place too.

It's now available from New Look for just £15.99.

Find out more from the website

Categories / Homeware

Froy & Dind Kitsch Tin Boxes

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If you suffer from an inability to part with hotel sewing kits, odd batteries, rubber bands and the like then you need something smart and stylish in which to house your collection.

Created by Belgian designers Froy & Dind, this range of tin boxes is inspired by vintage fabrics and kitsch children’s illustrations. Colourful and bright they’re the perfect way to conceal your miscellany of useful items.

The tins come in different sizes and range in price form £5.95 to £16.95.

They are available from Liberty – find out more on the website.

Categories / Art and Photography, Gadgets and Tech

Lomo LC-A+ White limited edition camera set

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We have featured the Lomo LC-A+, not least when it celebrated 25 years last year. Well, it’s 26 this year and the camera that started the whole Lomography thing off is back as the Lomo LC-A+ White.

It’s quite a package too. This Soviet-era 35mm camera still has that Russian Minitar 1 f/2.8 32mm lens, but this time comes with a white camera body with white leather detailing that’s ‘inspired by a Japanese garden’. There’s also a multiple exposure switch for easy, real-time double-exposure, expanded film ISO settings from 100 to 1600, a cable release thread for shake-free night-time and indoor shooting and a hot shoe for external flash.

Oh yes, there’s also a cool matching white case and the option to upgrade to allsorts of extras, some of which are pictured over the page. Only 1,000 worldwide, it’s priced at £379.

Find out more at the Lomography website

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Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Lunch Man – vintage Walkman-shaped lunch box

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I think, in this case, the image of the Lunch Man says it all.

Yes, it's a lunch box, shaped like a 1980s Walkman, so you get to keep your sandwiches in one piece whilst looking cool in an gadget geek kinda way.

It's made of plastic, it's sized at 18 x 14 x 5.5cm and the Lunch Man is available online for just £6.

Find out more at the Urban Outfitters website

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Retro lunch boxes by Birdyhome

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Create a splash in the office (or at school) with these very cool retro lunch boxes by Birdyhome.

Take your pick of three vintage illustrations – I Love London, Circus or Spaceboy, each with contrast bases and plenty of room for a sandwich or snack.

Cheap enough too, retailing online for just £7 each.

Find out more at the Not On The High Street website