Christmas shopping in Stokey

Whether you like it or not, the festive shopping phenomenon is upon us once again. Whether you are buying stocking filler for the family or a secret Santa gift for a work colleague, you need to know where you can pick up some great presents without spending all your December salary.

Here at Stoke Newington People we have scoured the streets in Stokey to make your life that little bit easier in the run up to Christmas.

A little favourite of ours isRouge at 158 Stoke Newington High Street offers a delightful brows around the relaxing style of this shop. Specialising in Chinese birc-a-brac and furniture, Rouge has a varied selection of oriental inspired products and is an ideal place if you are searching for an unusual present or homeware. There is a selection of decorated Chinese tea pots and tea cups, silk money purses, Chinese paper parasols, kites, paper lanterns. Also larger pieces of hand carved and hand painted furniture are available. With a great range of postcards of old Chinese photographs and lots more knick knack style gifts.

Now, if you are looking for a jewellery gift this festive holiday you have to head down to Metal Crumble on 13 Stoke Newington Church Street. It has become standard with this shop that its display window shows a great range of enticing jewelled silver jewellery. With original designs and variety of unusual shapes and designs, this shop is a must if you are after anything from a ring to a bracelet. With talented staff and very skilled as well, they can make modifications to items at the rear of the store and are happy to do so, this shows the love for the skill of jewellery making and when you look at the designs you can really see the passion that is put into their products.

There is definitely something charming about a small privately owned bookshop and Stoke Newington Bookshop at 159 Stoke Newington High Street is no exception. The staff are really friendly and knowledgeable and are more than happy to help with suggestions of new book or authors to keep you desperate to finish your current novel and start on a new one. With a large stock of books and a usual festive sale of 3 for 2 deals this is a perfect place to pick up a few Christmas presents.

Well we hope you have fun searching for presents over the next few weeks. If you are looking for more shops in Stokey check out our business directory.

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