What I got Carl for his birthday

I know a lot of people think these “what I got my Mum/Dad/boyfriend/girlfriend” type posts are braggy because we’re just showing off all the wonderful, lovely gifts we can afford to buy but I can straight up tell you that this is not the case. With me and probably not for a lot of other people that do these sort of posts! I love other people’s birthdays (although I don’t really like my own!) and I love treating someone on their special day. Buying gifts for people I love is one of my favourite things to do because I love spend time and effort on getting them the perfect things and making them feel really special when they open them.

It was my boyfriend’s 30^th birthday on the 3^rd June and he was really, really, really dreading turning 30. He thinks he’s so very old and although I know he’s not, I wanted to get him some really nice gifts this year to make him feel a bit better about his birthday. So here’s what I got him!

Let’s start with possibly my favourite thing, I got him this Voldemort replica wand from Noble as we’re both big Harry Potter fans. We’re both Slytherin’s as well and we have a few other items of Slytherin merch at home. He’s always talking about how great the Harry Potter Noble Collection is so I’m glad I surprised him with this!

The card I got him this year was actually from my product haul with Old English Co. a couple of months ago. I used that brand collab to my advantage and picked out two of their wonderful cards; one for my boyfriend and one for my bestie. His is the ‘magic’ one because he’s a magician so I possibly couldn’t have found a more perfect card.

He’s the biggest Formula 1 fan I know. He got me into Formula 1 over the course of being with him and it’s now something I literally couldn’t imagine not watching and following. He’s also got about 50,000 pounds worth of Formula 1 merch (model cars and prints etc.) at his family home in Lincolnshire (it’s a seriously impressive collection) so I wanted to get another nice print to add to it. This one is from Stephen Doig who’s an incredibly talented artist!

Sticking with the Formula 1 theme, just a quick mention to Badger GP who hosted a giveaway last month to win these fun Formula 1 socks from Heel Trend which are all themed as the liveries as some old, classic F1 cars. Of course I was thrilled to have won these because I knew I was going to include them in my boyfriend’s birthday gifts but these really would make fab gifts or stocking fillers for any hardcore F1 fan.

One more Formula 1 related thing and that’s it! I found this signed helmet replica on eBay and wasn’t sure whether I 100% wanted to get it for him. As I mentioned, he has an extensive collection of F1 models already so I don’t like to buy them for him myself because it’s “his thing” (plus, he has so many I don’t know what ones he already has). But I saw this and thought I’d no way on Earth win the auction. But alas, I did. I like it now I actually have it! We’re both big Sebastian Vettel fans so I’m sure he’ll like it too! I also bought him some pants, which don’t really need to be pictured haha!

My Mum and Dad got him some Paco Rabanne aftershave; it’s my absolute favourite – both the male and the female scents. I honestly don’t think you can beat the originals, 1 Million and Lady Million. Onto the cakes…

I was very lucky to have won a cake from bakerdays (who I’ve worked with before here!) about a month before Carl’s birthday so again, I thought I would use that to my advantage as another little gift to him. We’ve both tried bakerdays letterbox cakes before and they really are scrummy so I chose him the chocolate chip cake with the Star Wars design! (Thank you to Suffering Wanderlust for running the giveaway!) We also bought him a “normal” cake from the shops as well, as the Letterbox Cake wouldn’t last 2 minutes! You can’t go wrong with a Caterpillar cake!

And of course, a birthday isn’t a birthday without some sort of balloon – however old you are! I went for a huge Vader helmet balloon this year (last year was BB-8 so sticking with the Star Wars theme) which will no doubt be floating around the house for months to come!

I hope you enjoyed this little post! I know it’s quite a personal one but I definitely want to start including a range of more personal posts on here, to go along with everything else, to make a nice change! And if nothing else, hopefully you can use this as a sort of gift guide for the next male birthday in your life! I’d love to hear what the best gift you’ve ever received is!

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