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The Christmas List – The Young Hipster

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Top Mummy Blog new Zealand Top Tween Gift Guide

Top Mummy Blog new Zealand Top Tween Gift Guide

Top Mummy Blog new Zealand Top Tween Gift GuideI don’t have a teen (yet), but Ethan celebrated his birthday in the weekend and at 11, his wish list was incredibly short, expensive and totally lacking in inspiration.  Something along the lines of;

  1. Xbox One
  2. Money

Sound familiar?  

I’m not one for buying-for-the-sake-of-buying so in order to come up with something to go under the tree (that wasn’t a bucket of cash!) I decided to create a sort-of package gift that addressed a current need.

With E off to intermediate next year (read more about that here), I’ve been meaning to tackle his desk for some time and create a functional space that he would feel motivated to sit and do his homework at – I realise this is a massive stretch but one must try!  Ethan’s desk is very little, which is fine as his room is also very little.  It’s an old school desk I purchased for $25 from Junk ‘n’ Disorderly and repainted a fresh white.  

I needed to maximise storage on E’s desk so started my wee gift project with the banter.morph wooden crate from Warehouse Stationery and added some bits and pieces as I went.

The crate comes in a cute flat-pack and is super sturdy with plenty of room to hide all of that boy-junk that accumulates between tidying.

To finish the gift I selected a couple of different sized spiral bound notebooks, some pens and I couldn’t go past that soda bottle!  Perfect for sipping on while smashing out homework!  I hope lol.

TIP: Shopping one range only (rather than wandering aimlessly around the store) gave my distracted-shopping-self some focus and I had this desk-pack picked out in less then 10 minutes!  The new banter.morph range at Warehouse Stationery plays on combining functional pieces with on-trend decor items in fun colour-pops, perfect for the hard to please hard to buy for tween/teen!Top Mummy Blog new Zealand Top Tween Gift Guide

Top Mummy Blog new Zealand Top Tween Gift Guide

Shop the banter.morph look: Wooden Crate, Soda Bottle, A4 Notebook, A5 Notebook, Pens

I love how this wee project turned out!  I only scratched the surface of what’s on offer from the new banter.morph range which is available exclusively at Warehouse Stationery.  Prices start from just $3.99 so consider your stocking stuffers sorted!

Get your Christmas gifting off to an awesome start with a $50 voucher from Warehouse Stationery! Enter via the widget below:Top Mummy Blog new Zealand Top Tween Gift Guide

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  1. Dec 7, 2015 2:11 am

    wow love the look of these and oh so practical too! 🙂

  2. Dec 7, 2015 7:53 am

    Looks like lots of stuff here for grandchildren Thanks for the opportunity to enter

  3. Dec 7, 2015 11:20 am

    thanks for the chance to win merry xmas lots of fun here

  4. Dec 7, 2015 12:07 pm

    That looks awesome thank you 🙂 It gives me some ore ideas for mr turning 10 on the 4th of January 🙂

  5. Dec 7, 2015 6:23 pm

    What an awesome prize

  6. Dec 8, 2015 7:42 pm

    Such great ideas!!

  7. Dec 11, 2015 6:18 pm

    very nice prize thanx for the chance

  8. Dec 11, 2015 7:12 pm

    Such a great prize!

  9. Dec 12, 2015 10:06 am

    Very cool prize. Would love to win 🙂

  10. Dec 15, 2015 8:18 pm

    Yes please would love to win ?

  11. Dec 16, 2015 3:43 pm

    Wow … Good reading and thanks for the ideas.. The older my son gets the harder he is to buy for .. Basically I feel like I just become a machine gun and fire out $50 bills to them all . ?