To kick off the festive season, LMNOP and Monkey Puzzle co-hosted an exclusive shopping event at Monkey Puzzle’s Summer Hill store in Sydney last Wednesday evening. Monkey Puzzle kept their doors open after-hours for 25 lucky LMNOP subscribers. Our guests tucked the kids in bed and joined us for holiday cocktails and delicious nibbles while they shopped from a unique collection of toys and games.

Toys that featured in LMNOP’s 2008 Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide were on display for subscribers.

Colourful Bilibo shells housed favors and lucky dip prizes.

Nadine Ingram of Cookie Couture custom-made the monkey gingerbread cookies shown above. She also baked L, M, N, O, P cookies for each of our guests to take home. They were adorable and very delicious.

Our guests selected prizes from the Monkey Puzzle lucky dip.

The White Pixels crew find they have similar taste in toys!

Our subscribers got to meet some of Monkey Puzzle’s toy experts on the night. Left to right: May, and Jane. And Monkey Puzzle owner, Andrew. Everyone’s packages were gift wrapped free!

Top left: LMNOP stylist, Pearl Fay and some of our subscribers who joined us for an evening of Christmas shopping.

From left: Jenny and Pamela. Monkey Puzzle owners, Andrew and Pamela. Andrew demonstrates how to play some of the board games.

Everyone received an alphabet flash card when they arrived. We drew lucky door prizes through-out the evening. Vanessa won our first prize with the letter T.

Even the suburb of Summer Hill joined in the festivities by displaying their Christmas tree in the forecourt.

A huge thank you to Andrew and Pamela for having us and for hosting such a lovely evening at their store for our readers. If you haven’t already done your toy shopping yet, skip the crowds at the shopping mall and make the trip to Summer Hill. You’ll be glad you did. Visit Monkey Puzzle’s website for their address details. And make sure you subscribe to LMNOP to receive exclusive invitations to future ‘subscribers only’ events like these.