2022 Gift Guide: Gifts To Love From Small Businesses You Will Love
Lucky Dog Design Co.
For those that love to send cards or add cards to gifts for the holiday season
Send creative and unique holiday cards that will be displayed for months. Lucky Dog’s handmade holiday cards are printed on thick, felt-textured stock and paired with a colorful envelope.
About: Kayla and her pup Odin are the faces and creatives behind Lucky Dog Design Co., a stationery shop filled with relatable greeting cards, fun stickers, notepads, and gifts. Kayla started hand making greeting cards at the age of 2 and hasn’t stopped since.
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MCreativeJ
For The Modern Maker
About: MCreativeJ offers nature inspired embroidery kits for the modern maker. They make embroidery easy and enjoyable. Their Blooming Wildflowers embroidery kit comes with everything you need to get crafting a floral design that pops off the fabric using 3D stitches.
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Madly Wish
For Those With Children
One of those cherished memories for both parents and children is a visit from the Tooth Fairy. You will always remember the excitement you felt when your child lost their first tooth... and their last. This pillow is a keepsake, for boys and girls, that you'll treasure long after the Tooth Fairy has made her last visit.
About: Madly Wish is an ode to the fading tradition of tactile memories, of having something to hold, smell, & feel when you want to remember something that's been there from the beginning, woven not only with threads of fabric, but memory.
Made For Mama Shop
Moms and women who love coffee in a cute mug every morning
Made For Mama Shop is a woman-owned small business with the mission to make moms feel cozy and special as soon as they wake up, even amidst the chaos that motherhood can bring. We do this through handlettering inspirational and fun sayings on cute and colorful coffee mugs!
Wild Clementine Co.
For foodies, bakers, or anyone wanting to be more eco-friendly
About: Ali is the Owner and Maker behind Wild Clementine Co., a colorful shop full of reusable dish covers that make the kitchen more fun and eco-friendly! Her dish covers are machine washable, waterproof, and are great for proofing bread dough, covering leftovers, or wrapping a plate of baked goods to give as a gift for the holidays.
Fbombs & Booze
For the coffee lovers that cuss
About: Fbombs & Booze is a snarky and sweary handmade drinkware brand. We have something for everyone as long as they like a little sass or colorful language.
Sumiware Ceramics
For folks who want to liven up their home and work space with beautiful ceramic decor.
About: Bri Santo is the founder and designer of Sumiware Ceramics. She is a full-time ceramic hand builder based in San Francisco, Ca, and creates bright and fun home decor to help you bring life and creativity into your home. Sumiware began out of a desire to make joyful and bright ceramics for people who want to live more creatively. The motto at Sumiware is to live creatively and live with inspiration.
The Traveling Teapot
For anyone who is a lover of tea or is interested in self care and pampering
About: Tea lover Kristi Brooks uses her training as a pastry chef and her years as the owner of a successful afternoon tea room to bring you unique loose leaf tea blends as well as tea brewing accessories and tea themed gifts.
Hot Lollies
For Anyone who loves interesting sweets and spicy foods
Hot Lollies is a spicy lollipops and sweets shop inspired by owner Marias’ Caribbean roots and her obsession with spicy foods. She makes spicy lollipops and hard candies with tropical fruit purees and real chile peppers for a unique, all natural fiery treat that’s free of artificial ingredients. Maria initially created Hot Lollies as a spicy food blog and now offers spicy sweets, spicy candy boxes, spicy food subscription boxes and fiery themed goods.
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Maddi and Joan
For Plant lovers, Home decor with a modern style
Get some Decorative plant covers to help you cover up those not so cute nursery pots and create a space with a natural boho vibe.
About: Maddi and Joan makes boho inspired plant decor and accessories made primarily with natural textiles like jute. Marquia, the slightly plant obsessed owner, loves creating eco- friendly accessories to help you support and show off your plants with plant hangers, trellises, plant covers and more. Maddi and Joan was created as a way for Marquia to reinvent her newly single space with her daughter all while combining her long love of plants and embracing the beauty and self care they can bring.
My Metier
For gifts for the people who love to use beautiful things in their everyday life
About: Angela is the Maker at My Metier. A ‘metier’ is ‘a calling, what you are meant to do’, and Angela’s calling is to Create and Make. Totebags, zipper pouches, wallets, and other fun accessories - all handcrafted with cork, organic waxed canvas, and modern woven cotton prints. Created with the discipline of a mechanical engineer.
Ivy & Ash
For Anyone who wants easy nail art
About: Ivy & Ash is a woman-owned nail art company whose core value is to embolden & celebrate ambitious women. Our nail wraps are inspired by and created for the on-the-go modern woman who wants trendy nails for a great price, without the fuss of dry-time, chipping, and smudging.
Mrs. Meshugga
For Anyone looking for unique and inclusive Hanukkah and holiday gifts
Celebrate the holiday season with our unique Hanukkah toile items, and our brand new Jewish Food Collection. Whether you are Jewish, Jew(ish) or just like our food, we’ve got you covered. Celebrate you or your favorite Jewish foodie with our collection of apparel and kitchen accessories.
About: Mrs. Meshugga was born on a cold December night in 2012 when not one Hanukkah shirt could be found among a sea of Christmas shirts in a big box store. Frustrated with the lack of options available Lisa Buber created her first design, our “You Spin Me Right Round” Hanukkah shirt. From there Mrs. Meshugga grew to offer custom shirts for almost every holiday, birthdays, family occasions, and vacations.
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Complete Luxury
For Professionals who love jewelry.
Don’t leave home without your earrings! Do you want an accessory wardrobe filled with all different types of earrings?
About: After styling over 10,000 individuals with jewelry and accessories, Linda opened Complete Luxury to give professionals the convenience of receiving high quality jewelry and accessories delivered to their doorstep each month.
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Pollinators and Blooms
For Great gift for the gardener or nature lover in your life!
About: Jessica Worley of Pollinators and Blooms, is a mixed media artist, educator, and flower gardner. She and her children hand make wildflower seed balls to help you grow your own pollinator garden to support pollinators all year long.
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Handmade Natural Beauty
For For the women in your life who could use some self-care and pampering
These handmade soaps and natural beauty products make unique gifts to pamper your loved ones.
About: Handmade Natural Beauty started over 20 years ago by Angie (Cavaiuolo) Neyens out of her midwest home. She started selling her natural bath and body products at local craft shows and now also sells online and wholesale to select boutiques and establishments.
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Broccoli Boxes: Sensory Kits for Kids
For Anyone that has little ones age 3-8 in their life will love shopping our creative sensory play set ups.
Subscribe to give the gift of screen-free, creative play all year long! Or grab a sensory kit or sensory mini for under the tree and a sensory jar for the stockings.
About: Broccoli Boxes: Sensory Kits for Kids is a family-owned business with the mission to encourage families and strengthen communities. We do this by providing moms a quick win when they need it most through no-prep sensory play that helps kids learn through play and donating to children in foster care.