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Looking for Christmas stocking inspiration or fillers for Christmas Eve Boxes? Check out our bestselling gifts for 2019.

These limited edition Christmas hot chocolate baubles are filled to the brim with marshmallows and are the perfect stocking filler, addition to your Christmas Eve box, Secret Santa gift or edible treat to hang on your tree. They are finished with a golden shimmer.

Christmas is an incredibly difficult time for some. Images of the ‘perfect Christmas’ are everywhere – adverts, magazines and all over social media – and can be a painful reminder of the restrictions either physically or emotionally that this time of year brings for some. This is something Anikka, founder of Not Another Bunch Of Flowers knows only too well, having been treated for cancer over the Christmas period.

Today we had a very kind mention in The Daily Telegraph in an article about a lady who tragically lost her husband to cancer and how difficult it was dealing with other people’s reactions and desires and having to juggle her husband’s wishes as well as manage the emotions of well-wishers.  

It’s really scary when you hear that a friend or a family member has been diagnosed with cancer. Of course you’re immediately concerned for your loved one… How are they feeling? What is the prognosis? How will this affect them? And, very close to the top of your list of concerns will be… what can you do to help them, support them and show that you’re thinking of them? 

6 years ago I had a launch party in South London with my friends and family and set the website live! With the inspiration behind my business being my cancer diagnosis, we started off offering cancer care packages, hospital hampers and general get well gifts. Within months we had grown to become more of a lifestyle gift-giving brand with gifts for mums-to-be, new mums, birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions. 

When I set up Not Another Bunch Of Flowers and launched the Facebook page I cried when I got to 100 likes. They were obviously mainly family and friends, but it still seemed like a big achievement and very exciting that 100 people knew about my little website. And now we have 100,000!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a particularly important month for us at Not Another Bunch Of Flowers as it marks another year of celebrating our brilliant founder Anikka whose personal experience as a breast cancer survivor led to the launch of a business created to help others through treatment and recovery.