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Showing posts with label gift guide 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gift guide 2009. Show all posts

Friday, December 11, 2009

Gift Guide Part #7: Your Best Friend Who Always Insists on Ordering Dessert and Whose Laugh Makes You Laugh.

Fabulously false eyelashes, 'cause every girl needs a pair, $25.

Hugs scarf, since she lives 3,000 miles too far from you, $95.

A feel-good print to make her smile, $29.99.

The Barefoot Contessa's mix for chocolate-peanut-butter cupcakes, $12.50. (My mom swears by it!)

Silhouette coffee mugs, $65.

French Milk, a graphic novel about a girl's trip to Paris. $10.80.

Chocolate French bulldogs, $28.

A tea towel that's funny 'cause it's true. 7 British pounds.

Heart tights or polka-dot tights, like this Copenhagen cutie. $14.

(Twiggy photo via Ms. Lilien; cupcake photo by Jennifer)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Gift Guide Part #6: Your British Dad Who Makes Peppery Soups and Isn't Scared of Anything (Even Really Scary Things).

Cycling's Golden Agewith nostalgia-inspiring biking photos from the forties, fifties and sixties, $32.97.

Danish spice mill for family dinners, $79.

A French map cheese board, which cleverly pinpoints where each stinky cheese comes from, $60.

Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection, since he taught you to love these films (and to watch out for Hitchcock's secret cameos!), $54.99.

A rad Icelandic tie, made from wool from the country's finest sheep, $54.

A propeller bottle stopper, $28, wrapped up with his favorite red wine.

Camping gloves, with a handy slit in the thumb so he can type on his blackberry, $78.

A biplane ride in upstate New York, where he'll get to wear those awesome aviator goggles, $65.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Gift Guide Part #5: Your Lovely Friend Who Just Had an Adorable Rosy-Cheeked Baby.

Heart jumper, $80.

A friendly organic goose, $32.

A stuffed Eiffel Tower for mini Francophiles, $64.

Small disco ball, since babies love all things sparkly, $73.

And for mama herself: Organic peanut-butter bon bons, for obvious reasons, $27.

Moop bag, to carry diapers and the like, $131.

Rose room and linen spray, to instantly calm and center her, $24.

A great book on tape, since she'll have her hands full of baby. $14.44.

(This gift guide is dedicated to my six newest friends.)

Monday, December 7, 2009

Gift Guide Part #3: Your Country-Mouse Sister Whose Favorite Vacation This Year Involved Staying in a Yurt.

Pinecone wreath, $118.

Taxi mittens for when she visits you in New York, $65.

Paperwhites, made by you.

Honeycomb necklace, $34.

A sleep mask for traveling, $20.

Return-address labels, $35.

Mown grass candle, $22.

Botanical mosses hoop to hang in her house, $12.

A flower-arranging class in Brooklyn or San Francisco, $165 to $250.

Emerson Made flower pin, $68.

A fortune teller, since you made a million of these as little girls! $8.

Gift Guide Part #2: Your Husband Who Smells Like Musk and Tells You Bedtime Stories Every Night.

A cookbookwith simple, yummy recipes (including cauliflower mac n' cheese and the perfect English cottage pie), $26.

Whiskey stones, which ingeniously keep cocktails cold without melting, $20.

A cashmere cap for winter walks, $98.

Great Gatsby boat tour, $25/person.

Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, an alternate-history graphic novel, $24.50.

Custom notecards and calling cards, complete with his beard and glasses.

Massage candle, where the warm wax (awesomely) doubles as massage oil, $28 to $100.

A good old-fashioned love letter.

A rhodesian ridgeback puppy, since he recently spent an hour googling them and cooing, "Oh, you're just a dog. You're just a sweet dog, aren't you?"

Friday, December 4, 2009

Cup-of-Jo Gift Guide Part #1: Your Mom Who Makes the Best Roast Chicken and Always Sounds Excited When You Call.

Wild mushroom apron, $36.

Baaah, a sheep's milk soap, $12.

Lavender sachets to make even socks smell sweet, $39.

Paris decoupage plate for her desk, $48.

Chunk honey, made in Maryland by cutting a piece of raw honeycomb off the hive, $24.

Victorian cameo ring from the 1800's, $190. (Can you imagine all the lovely ladies who have worn this ring? It's probably played the piano, ridden in horse-drawn carriages and held lots of babies.)

Perfume that smells like snow! $12 to $60.

Born Round, the hilarious memoir of a former New York Times food critic, $12.97.

Veggie candles, $50. Made in England, but they feel so French!

Foot massage gift certificate, $75. 'Cause it's good to feel kneaded.