Gift Guide Part 2: Siblings, Kids, Colleagues, Friends, and Everyone Else

We’re wrapping up (heh) this year’s gift guides with ideas for siblings, kids, aunts and uncles, colleagues, and the randos in your life you wanna treat extra nice. Have holiday-shopping thoughts of your own you *need* to share? Join our shiny new Geneva and spread that intel! 

 

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Sisters!

 

For my sister and me because we both had/are having babies this year, and we are culturally christian literally only for the christmas cheer. Baby's first christmas holiday ornaments that aren't absolutely dreadful. So much cheesy stuff, doesn't have to be baby themed but looking for a cool way to commemorate.

• Custom porcelain charms from OKS
• FoxBlossomCo custom bent-wire ornament 
• Lizzie Fortunato Alphabet Soup charms 
• Celina Mancurti monogrammed Christmas stockings or one-of-a-kind ones from Pyschic Outlaw

 

Step-sister; 18 and just got engaged. Likes to hunt. We are quite different.

• Ranger Station perfumes
• Yeti something! Various of the tumblers are customizable.
• Camber sweatshirt
• Vuori
• Beis weekender
• Flannery Beef

 

My sister who is a palliative care nurse with a broadway and true crime obsession

• Antipast compression socks
• Bonnie and Neil wave bath mat
• TodayTix gift card
• Broadway Dance Center classes
• Salty Seattle Crocchi croissant-shaped gnocchi
• Tickets to True Crime: The Musical at The Players Theatre in NYC

Brothers!

 

25-year-old brother, aspirational and practicing writer/actor/director, v into self-improvement (Tim Ferriss vibes), not into receiving gifts, would rather just buy what he wants when he wants, the curveball is he did say I could make him some art or buy him some art as apartment decor.

• Artwise signed posters and lithographs
• Art from Kneeland Co.
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art posters and prints
• Get Your Shit Together by David Shrigley
• Martin Scorsese MasterClass

 

Early 20s brothers who still live at home.

• A24 99 Movie Crosswords
• Rap Capital by Joe Coscarelli
• Solid Wiggles, which now ships on Gold Belly
• Athletic Greens
• Dohm white noise machine
• Anyday microwave cookware

 

Sons!

25 year old son who buys the nicer things because they last, but who is also a minimalist.

• Something from Labour & Wait or Puebco
• Ettitude sheets. 
• Toyo toolbox
• Bottega Veneta moneyclip

 

Kids and Teens!

 

5-year-old who bounces off the walls and loves telling stories and recapping movies.

• Hugimal weighted stuffed animal
• Haba doorway puppet theater or Wonder & Wise by Asweets playhouse
• Cosmic Kids Yoga subscription 
• P.S.- We Made This: Super Fun Crafts That Grow Smarter + Happier Kids! by Erica Domesek
• Little Passports
• Kidamento camera
• Lego MiniFigs 

 

4-year-old who loves twirly dresses but mom's aesthetic is minimalist Brooklyn hipster.

• Unwind Studio needlepoint kit for kids
• Kazoo magazine subscription
• OLODesigns costumes
• All Small Co dress section (see: kiwi puff tutu dress and Lisa Says Gah x All Small Co puff sleeve dress) 
• La Réunion custom azure patchwork dress 
• Primary cozy plaid dress or tutu dress
• Follies playhouses: Casa Azul set, The Bauhaus set, and Canvas set

 

13year old girl who claims she discovered preppy fashion and also loves hair product

• Vintage Ralph Lauren shirts—use search terms Y2K, cropped
• Used copy of The Official Preppy Handbook
• Monogrammable mini backpack from Paravel
• Rose and Co candle makers 
• Pattern mist spray bottle + microfiber hair towel
• Shop Milk Teeth barrettes
• Chunks hair accessories
• Some TikTok-adjacent cooking things: DIY fortune cookie kit, The Dough Club mochi pancake and waffle mix, Takashi Murakami flower pancake pan
• Lumber Club Marfa stool

 

Aunts and Uncles!

 

A generous aunt whose language is giving other people gifts, but hard to buy for herself. She's a real estate agent, into some woo-y self-help stuff, and buys anything she needs right away. Have tried gift certificates for experiential things, but she's a busy lady and these often don't get redeemed.

• An easy-to-redeem gift card for food that’s good for entertaining that comes to her. In NYC: Stocked by 3 Owls gift card. In LA: Lady & Larder. Nationwide: Beauty & the Board.
• Cultish by Amanda Montell 
• A flower subscription from Flowerbx or BloomsyBox
• Moon Lists workbook / guided journal
• Amiacalva tote or monogrammed Clare V Tropezienne. 
• Fancy, pretty makeup like Dries Van Noten lipstick or perfume discovery set or Hermès lipstick or blush brush. 

 

Colleagues!

 

Beloved senior colleague retiring: works in a museum, fun dog, rocks a funky necklace. 

• Lux Eros personalized pet bowl
• Kikkerland wooden ball launcher
• Ameico candle stacks
• Roxanne Assoulin necklace
• Susan Alexandra dog collar or leash
• Saint Olio aromatic dog refresher

 

Coworkers/direct reports - ideally one idea for all. We are remote so a digital gift is ideal. 

• A Thing or Two Secret Menu subscription
• Substack subscription: To give a gift subscription, go to the homepage of the publication you’d like to give, then add “/gift” to the end of the URL.
• Libro.fm subscription
• Gjusta Goods herbed salt and Burlap & Barrel Zanzibar black peppercorns and Graza olive oil
• Allie’s banana bread 
• Good-looking games like Wingspan, Azul, Lacorsa Grand Prix, and Casa Lopez Playing Cards. 

 

My boss - owns a company that runs farmer markets. I’ve been with the company since may. He is currently starting a farm (he has been a farmer before). I am honestly not sure if he is a Christmas guy. He doesn't seem jazzed about it, idk. I know he cares enormously about sustainability, our food system, etc. but is also a business man. I have literally zero ideas for him. The additional piece is that we should get him a gift as a group (we are a pretty small team) but should I also get him a sep gift? No, right? Agh. I assume he's in his mid to late 40s. White. He has small kids that I haven't met.

• Chocolate! ℅ Fossa, andSons Chocolatiers, and JST Chocolate 
• Alec’s Ice Cream
• Séka Hills olive oil
• An Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits and Nuts
• Flamingo Estate 9-pound bag of manure 
• Donation to Black Farmer Fund paired with We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy by Natalie Baszile
• Donation to Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at University of Arkansas

 

Friends!

 

Best friend (36 female) loves wine and who my 5 yo thinks has chosen being an aunt as her career. 

• Josephinen glasses
• Special bottle from Walker Wines or Winebid
• Cote wine club (also has a gift box option)
• 99 Bottles: A Black Sheep’s Guide to Life-Changing Wines by André Hueston Mack
• An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography by Jamie Beck

 

Female friend. Preppy/classic style. Likes fancy crafts (i.e., embroidery). Vegan. ~$40

• The LL Bean tote with an in joke, catchphrase, embroidered
• Loop Canvas needlepionts
• StirCrazyCrafterUK embroidery journal kit
• Blockshop original block-printing kit
• Vintage napkins with her initial or monogram on Etsy/eBay
• Typology tinted lip oil
• Donation to animal sanctuary, like Farm Sactuary: “adopt” a goat named Jennifer or a donkey named Albert!
• Brutus Bakeshop goodies

 

One of my best friends who has two boys under 4, is writing a thesis on how policing was formed out of military-imperialist activities, and is a great chef and baker (vegetarian and gluten-free). She did all our friends' wedding hair and makeup (me included) and took us to the Usher residency in Vegas for her 36th birthday. Lastly, and most importantly, her family is very wealthy (and generous - they have taken me on MANY incredible once-in-a-lifetime trips). Lastly, she is a BIG SHOPPER but still hunts for a deal. If you're wondering, I have already given her a custom Katie Kimmel pet vase.

• Vintage Usher tee
• Tani Greenspan custom matchbook print 
• The Last Course by Claudia Flemming (and Melissa Clark) + her new book Delectable (with Catherine Young)
• Chava studio shirt or a gift cert 
• Alepel custom shoes or cardholder 
• Memor phone case or vase. They also sell jibbitz…er, shoe charms.
• Arcana Books gift certificate
• Hermès passport holder

 

Recovering cool girl that doesn't want any more vinyl, just something useless + gorge. 

• Somthings2021 vase or candlestick
• Escentric Molecules gift set
• Casa Veronica wall hook or candle holder
• Isabel Halley wine cups
• Siafu Home beaded water carafe
• Molly J. CBD gummies advent calendar
• Kiosk48th advent calendar

 

Everyone Else!

Brother's girlfriend who loves to read, has 2 cats, hates clutter, and many food allergies.

• Coway air purifier
• Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes 
• Craighill perch bookmark
• Cat ruff collar
• Meyou Paris cat scratching post or bed
• A donation to a local cat rescue organization

 

Gymnastics moms who plan trips, organize fundraisers and figure out carpool.

• A bottle of something fun and a little surprising: Pipeno red ( with Papaya Reusables paper towels?),Forthave Spirits Red Aperitivo, non-alcoholic De Soi or Non or Proxies
• Stationery / office-supply grab bags with finds from Yoseka Stationery, St. Louis Art Supply, or your local art store
• Cheerie Lane kitchen gift set

 

Millennial who loves gardening and just started a high powered public job in the city.

• Leath at-home growing system
• Soltech Solutions hanging grow light or bulb
• Sneeboer garden tools
• Garden clogs from Gardenheir
• Natureking flower press
• Donation to GrowNYC
• Ichendorf Milano waterlife ball

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