Keep Calm And Shop Online With This Last-Minute Gift Guide

For all the last-minute shoppers out there, these online stores have you covered - but you need to place your orders, stat.

1) Mmerci Encore

Trust us, there's no one in your life who will not appreciate Mmerci Encore's handcrafted artisanal aromatherapy goods. Crafted with 100% pure, therapeutic grade orange sweet, lavender mailette, marjoram, bergamot and neroli essential oils, the Gently, Gently Blend is a firm favourite of the BAZAAR team. For Christmas, limited edition gift sets include the Feelgood Travel Kit, with Gently, Gently, the Glow Elixir and the Invigorating Facial Mist; and the Awakening Body Care Duo, with the bestselling Awakening Organic Sugar Scrub and Awakening Hand and Body Lotion.

Visit http://store.mmerciencore.com/. Place your orders by 20 December to receive your items by Christmas.

2) Gallery & Co.

With its extensive range of thoughtfully-designed goods, we could spend hours browsing National Gallery Singapore's gift shop. Naturally, its Christmas curate does not disappoint. Choose from 1 of 3 X'mas Bundles, ranging from $25 to $50, for fail-safe items for your colleagues; or any of the products from The Artist Project 1.0 collaboration, featuring everything from postcards to pouches to hats with prints dreamed up by local artists and photographers including Ripple Root and Jovian Lim.

Visit https://galleryand.co/. Place your orders by 21st December, 12 noon, to receive your items by Christmas.

Orders will be processed and dispatched within 2-3 working days. Gallery & Co. is offering express shipping specially for the festive season:

Express shipping - $15 (Next day delivery)

Standard shipping - $6 (3 - 5 working days after dispatched)

In-store pickup option is available as well. You will be notified when the order is ready for collection.

3. Books Actually

Whether your friends are more into words or ahem, visuals, you can count on Books Actually for tomes they will be happy to add to their literary stash. Issue 5 of Rubbish Famzine, the magazine by Singaporean family art collective Holycrap, is a beautiful (and, as always, super-creative) homage to a father, husband and grandfather; told through the eyes and voice of his youngest son, Pann Lim, and his wife and children. And if anyone you know has yet to read Amanda Lee Koe's Ministry of Moral Panic, winner of Best Fiction Title for the Singapore Book Awards 2016, there is no better time to gift this to them.

Visit http://www.booksactuallyshop.com/. 

Orders ship within 1-3 working days from Singapore via Singpost. Packages usually arrive in 2-5 working days. If you need it by a specific date, please email shop@booksactually.com before ordering.

By Annabelle Fernandez

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