It's nearly that time of year again (no, not Christmas) - Valentines Day. The minute that we flip that calendar page over to February, you know it's time to start planning that special day for your loved one. And what better way to celebrate than with something that has been lovingly handmade right here in Britain. In honour of this special day, we thought we would put together a special edition of our blog series "Best of British", giving you a few ideas for some great gifts for that special someone.

We don't know about you but here at Sofas & Stuff HQ, we've been loving the January Sales this year - there's so many great bargains out there to be had, where you can get some of your favourite products at a fraction of the usual price. But all that shopping with all the crowds can make the whole ordeal a little less than relaxing - if you've ever been down Oxford Street in January, you'll know what we mean. So we thought we'd take some of the legwork out of the January Sales by bringing you our top tips for surviving the stress that sales shopping can sometimes induce!

Hello again to all our lovely blog readers - hope you are all having a fantastic start to 2012. You may remember we have our winter sale on at the moment - our showroom staff put together some fab moodboards, with their top picks from the Sofas and Stuff collection. You really should check them out, they are a wonderfully talented bunch.

We thought we would celebrate reaching the mid point in our winter sale with a little Twitter competition - our little way of saying thank you to all of our blog readers and Twitter followers.

It seems only moments ago that we wrote the last edition of Friday Finds for December - how time flies when you're having fun! We just hope that your Christmas was as fun filled as ours was. So to mark the beginning of what we hope will be a wonderful year, we bring you the first edition of Friday Finds for 2012 - stuffed full of our favourite finds from the last month, which we have hunted out from the furthest corners of the web.

We're not usually big fans of blowing our own trumpet - we like to think our sofas and can-do attitude speaks for itself. But it is that time of year again, no not Christmas - our big winter sale! Yes, that's right, you can get super comfortable for fewer pennies without compromising quality or comfort.

So if you sat down on your sofa this Christmas and felt anything less than blissed out, now is the time to pay a visit to one of our showrooms. Grab a cup of our very fine coffee or a glass of wine (if that's more your thing), take your time and look around. We're confident you'll find something that feels just right - it's all about the bum factor after all.