This particular Wizzard Cards & Gifts shop in St. Helen's sells a terrific variety of bits and…read morepieces which are ideal for small presents and special celebratory occasions. In addition to offering a selection of ornaments, scary and cute looking toys as well as holographic artwork, they also have a small fancy dress section towards the rear of the shop and sell a range of cheeky adult toys. So, if you pop into Wizzard, you might be in for more than what you bargained for after a wonderous browse! Expect a contrasting variety of cards and gifts from the innocent and cute to the downwright naughty and scary! Overall, the shop has friendly staff as they kindly helped me look for the card I was searching for and at affordable prices, you can't really go wrong.

This has to be the ultimate gift shop! If you need a present…read morefor someone, special or otherwise, you are most likely to find something here. they have gifts from mugs to t-shirts to jewellery.the list seems to be endless, but probably isn't. They even have the cards, tags and wrapping paper to finish off your present.

I got a bit confused at the entrance because it was unnecessarily huge but other than that really…read morecool place! You could watch glass blowers and buy things from the gift shop.

TL;DR - Great museum, but fantastic demos of glass making are the real star…read more We came here whilst looking for a day out on a wet and cold day and were pleasantly surprised by what we found. Firstly, admission is free which is always welcome. The building is a mixture of new and old - you enter through an amazing old brick chimney, but inside you find a modern gallery (shared with the local library). There are exhibits on the history of glass making in the area as well as displays of art work. There's a well stocked shop, and a cafe too. A connecting bridge over the canal takes you to the museum part of the site, based in old glassworks which have been partially restored. The real highlight though was the glassblowing workshop. You do have to pay to watch these, but it was well worth it. When we went, we were the only two people present so effectively got a personal demonstration. Absolutely fabulous and highly recommended.

Cottage Crafts is a really cute little gift shop…read more They sell a really great variety of cute and unusual stock including greeting cards, jewellery, stationary (including a really quirky line with cartoon animals and funny quotes--I can't remember the name of the company, but they are really cute), and all manner of other gifty items. I love almost everything in this shop. It's colourful, cute, girly and all around fun. The only thing negative I have to say about this shop is that nothing for sale here is actually truly of a "craft" nature, and therefore Cottage Crafts is kind of an inappropriate name for the shop.

This is a little gold mine. In amongst an awful lot of glitzy tat and rubbish there are some really…read morenice gifts at ridiculously cheap prices. I'm sure there are alots of people in warrington who buy cheap little ornaments - there must be becuase this shop has been selling them for years, but its worth rooting through them to find personalised gifts, cute candles, cards and unusual gifts too. They're next door to the pet shop so it can get a bit distracting if you have a little on in the pushchair wanting to see the rabbits, but the ladies who run the shop are lovely & chatty. I really like looking in here & have bought from here in the past. Its well run, and despite me thinking that most of the stuff is tacky, I do think its worth visiting becuase it does surprise you that some of their stuff is actually really nice too. Amazingly cheap prices too which is why I've given it 5 stars. Worth a visit before mothers day!

Don't be put off by the beautiful exterior, thinking to yourself that you won't be able to afford…read moreanything in here. It's so pretty that it's tempting to think it'll all be overpriced but really it isn't. It's an absolutely gorgeous gifty type shop which sells everything from furniture to knives to fairy wings and you may be lucky enough to get a trendy benningtons bag with your purchase. They don't mind if you just mooch - believe me the shop is designed to encourage people to mooch around, and the upstairs is just as interesting as downstairs. Its really worth a visit. Lovely place.

Not changed much since I was little, but that's part of the fun. It's now a sort of museum of…read moremuseums, with 1930s style galleries of minerals, plants and (oddly enough) fish in the mix. My personal favourites include the mummy (shown complete with x-rays as well as a sarcophagus) and the new cabinet of curiosities room where the stuffed animals used to be. Oh, and the consoles in the room with the vending machines where I spent far too long playing Sonic. And the room that is full of Stuff - I honestly have no idea of the theme of the room, it just seemed to be full of everything that had no other place to be. I loved it - everything from mummified cats to Maori tiki. If you're after an interactive extravaganza, you're in the wrong place. If you want a museum that has a great selection of artefacts and local history, and is free, you'll spend a lovely few hours among the old-school cases.

I have been to Warrington museum many times over the years, there is a lot to see plus they have…read moredifferent things every month, It's got a good give shop, very good to take the kids when raining.

Inspirational gift ideas? Debateable, certainly gift fillers when you're stuck for ideas but then…read morethat's not nearly as catchy. Looking around at the array of gifts I assumed that this place sold only paperweights. That seems to be the main function of many of these brightly coloured ornaments and 'gadgets'. Voglio is definately a good place if your cash is burning a hole in your pocket as original Michael Graves' kettles and Phillipe Stark lemon juicers can be found here which are of course pieces of design genius but have also become ubiquitous design copies in much cheaper forms in almost every home store so spending nearly £200 on a kettle is a tad extravagant in my book.

Much like Utility in the city centre, Voglio is the home to all useless items the majority of which…read moreare expensive (which everyone wants). They're the kind of things that you buy the person who has everything: a statue of a lamb banana or a liver bird in loads of bright colours, a funky designer watch, a hand-decorated piggy bank (which would cost more to buy than would fit in it!) They have some gold guilded champagne flutes, baby gifts which are really cute and the usual extra special cards and giftwrap. My favourite? The bunny salad forks. Pointless but amazing!