Hoi! This is my first Christmas gift guide for the year.
Depending on which order I put this up in.
Now usually for me you probably expect a bookish gift guide.
But I have lots of other little items that I really wanted
to share with you that are my favorites that you sometimes see pop up in videos.
I don't usually do, like, monthly favorite videos for items
like I mostly talk about films, and music, and podcasts, and stuff like that.
So I figured I'd should show you some stuff that I love that I think would make excellent gifts.
Ranging from, like, the cheap end to slightly more expensive but not that expensive.
A lot of these will be smaller and easy to, you know, send to
a different country or just across the country.
I'm a big fan of not spending, like, crazy amounts on presents
It might just be my stingy Dutch nature
but, you know, I feel like sometimes a small gift can just be the exact right thing for a person.
I've basically made this little box and filled it up with stuff
so I'm going to talk you through it.
First of all: magazines.
They're not that expensive, you can send them in the mail, and lots of them look really nice.
This is a copy of "Oh Comely".
I've talked about it before I just want to show you some of the inside bits.
It's got lovely illustrations.
This edition was about gardeners, bad decisions, and coco pops.
I think, also, if you're buying a gift for someone who loves to read
but you're not quite sure which books they already have
sometimes the latest edition of a magazine is really good.
I can also recommend "The Gentlewoman"
and I really want to try out, I think it's "Geldem"?
I'll put links to all of them in the description.
This one for example is £4.50 and might be really nice if you're doing like a Secret Santa type thing.
Next up: there's candles!
I discovered this brand recently when I was at Stylist Live
and I have seen them at other, like, craft fairs since then.
The brand is called Hopscotch
these are soy candles, they're hand poured in London
they go from one size below this to one size up
They're a little bit pricier, I guess, but I love supporting small brands.
And the scent I got for this one was cedar and pine which is amazing.
They also have a more spice, a Christmas spice one I think
When you see them at fairs, and I don't know if they do it on their website as well,
there's discounts if you buy, like, three in one go.
The next thing is a plate.
I got this for my birthday and I've given stuff from this brand to other people for their birthdays before.
I did not wash this plate very well.
They have I think maybe their only shop on Brick Lane, I'm not entirely sure.
But they do such lovely plates, and mugs, and lots of stuff
that you can sort of pick based on what someone's favorite thing is.
There was one that had, like, cats and cookies
which I bought for Marion. And I absolutely love this one.
Next up, I have one of my faves.
A Christmas gift guide would not be complete without some necklaces from E.E. Jewelry
As you guys know I wear a full selection of all of their
necklaces all the time
The space rocket that I wear sometimes,
the moon with the space man, lots of different options.
But they were kind enough to send me two free necklaces to show off to you guys
which I picked out myself.
First of all there is this one which is all the planets.
This is absolutely glorious!
This would make for such a lovely gift for any space enthusiast.
I've had my eye on that necklace for years.
And the other one is great for all you cactus lovers out there. I know you're watching.
It looks like this, I'll insert a little close up.
It's a tiny little cactus with a rose on it.
I think I'm going to just wear it for the rest of the video
I love this company and they do amazing stuff like
dinosaur related jewelry, space related jewelry, can't go wrong.
Lots of the necklaces are about like £18 to £20
and I'll also be running a little giveaway on my Twitter so go check that out!
Alright, now let's move on to everyone's favorite: pins!
So I have a lot of pins.
I love them, I put them on jackets I put them on dungarees I'm wearing, like, my book one right now.
I recently bought two pins from, I think it's a Dutch shop but they're on Etsy.
It's called We Are Out of Office.
One of them is a little ticket, ticket number 982.
The other one is this lovely leaf.
I like that pins very often will come on a little card so they make for nice presents when you wrap them.
I also have the famous "feminist with a to-do list" pin that I wear all the time and
gets a lot of positive and sometimes weird negative responses.
This can be bought on Etsy, Rosianna bought it for our whole friendship group at some point.
And it's such a great gift.
Then there's also this lovely patch from Wildflower
which I haven't put on anything yet but it's a little cactus, to stay within the cactus theme.
Patches and pins: totally in right now, not that expensive, don't weigh a lot so they're easy to send
Can definitely recommend.
Ok, so moving on to stationary these next two items were kindly sent to me by Paulie from Sighh Designs
There's two little things this is a sticker pad
A lot of her stuff is totally about, like, productivity and getting stuff done
which I obviously love.
So these stickers say stuff like "important work", "done", and "don't panic."
And then there's also this sort of productivity notepad which I love
which says "today's activities" and then at the bottom when you're all done you can put a little tick for success.
She's also got like, tote bags and phone cases, and it's all lovely.
Also, related to that: I might be scheming a little something.
More stationary gifts: pencils!
Pencils are cheap and they do really nice personalized ones or, like, themed ones.
This one says, "Read, write repeat."
Which I got, like, in a blogger package I think?
And these ones are from The School of Life
And they have, like, different genres of stories on them.
This one says like "elegy", "tragedy"!
They've got these for like basically everything.
A lot of them you can find on Etsy or just if you Google a specific thing.
They have them for a lot of fandoms as well.
The next is a gift that is probably the cheapest, a little bit more difficult to send but!
Individual sheets of wrapping paper.
I don't know if this is a thing in the US but it's everywhere in the UK.
You can buy an individual sheet of wrapping paper.
And very often they're so lovely to put up as posters.
Or if you know that your friend or family member loves to take pictures of stuff
or maybe do like Instagram things
this is a really nice gift. I asked for loads of them for my birthday.
So I found this space one which is gorgeous
and very appropriately a cactus one.
Usually these are like £2? £2.50?
But yeah, I thought they'd make for a nice little surprise!
And then finally: plants
There's this cactus shop I haven't been to yet it's called Geo Fleur
and they do really nice vases to put your cactus in.
They also do vouchers. But obviously you can find any local plant shop
and maybe get a little voucher and get a little vase or just buy someone a nice cactus or succulent.
I did this one myself, this is an old candle
and then I put a little succulent in it
It's something you can put together yourself and good, like, upcycling-wise
Ok, my very final one is tea.
Tea Pigs tea, really nice for a treat. I love this licorice and peppermint flavor.
I have this all the time
Then I recently went to Whittards, which is like a tea shop in the UK
and I was just picking out some loose leaf tea,
and you get to smell all of them and stuff.
And then, I realized for like a couple of pounds extra
it actually came with this little jar.
And they put the tag on for what tea it is and they also
put a lovely sticker inside to seal it up.
Pretty fancy!
So I think give tea to someone in this shape is nice and personal.
And it will last for a long time.
Alright, that was a lot of stuff.
Those are some of my gift recommendations
All stuff that I would love to receive and I'm sure lots of other people would like to receive as well.
If you have any other ideas do leave them below in a comment.
I'll put links to any of the items I talked about and the E.E. Jewelry give-away in the description.
If you'd like to see some cruelty free beauty related
gift guide videos then head over to youtube.com/derpinamode
the channel that I run together with Marion.
And a link to my bookish gift guide, when it is up, will be in the description as well.
Alright, I'll talk to you guys later. Doei!