My daughter will be 8 at Christmas and she asked for a memo board, clock, lamp, mirror, CD storage box and a laptop.
She has so many toys already and this year wants things for her room as I have recently bought her a large writing desk.
So far I have got her 3 different boxes of friendship bracelets sets, Mystyle deluxe charm bracelet kit, French knitter, Card Caddy from Argos filled with crafty things she love crafty making things), ATM money box, 3 different Klutz Thumb books, Mystyle Girly Cards Kit, Just into Moshi at the moment so have got her an early membership present, also go her the Series 1 and 2 collectible toys (share with her sister who will be 10 at Xmas too), a Luvli talking cuddly (Moshi), the new electronic dictionary bookmark by IF, Lego building book, Set of winnie witches book and set of naughty sister books from Book People.
Her sister has a similar list. Also got them both the Harry Potter Castle and the Harry Potter Knightbus, Moshi Top trumps, and Moshling book to share. (quite into that at the moment).
Will also get them a laptop to share as they use that quite a lot and keeps nicking mine.
All this is not just for Xmas but for their birthdays too on the 19th and 24th.
If your daughter likes crafty things like mine, last year, I got them Paperoni Kits, Bendaroo kits, Aquabead kits, loads of Lego set - recommend the Creator houses sets as they are 3 in 1 kit so you can build 3 types of houses in each kit, also got the 4 sets of Kinex fairground kits. They were fun to do but once done is now just being displayed. Both their main presents were well used. She had the Mama and Papa Excel Pram with all the bits. Still loves it and plays with it a lot. The older one (was 9) asked for Zhu Zhu pets and went overboard getting over 12 sets, 17 Zhu Zhu etc but as we have the room, its always out and played with loads especially when their friends come round. Mostly got these deals from 3 for 2 deals etc.
Can recommend Klutz for crafty things. Their books are really good.