We’re heading into the holiday home stretch here, friends. Tonight is the midway point of Hanukkah, the winter solstice is a week from Friday and, as they say, there are just 12 shopping/cooking/crafting/making days before Christmas. The gifting season is upon us. If you’re still stumped for ideas, here are a few more things I like (I’ll have a fresh good gifting recipe up tomorrow as well).
Since first discovering them, I’ve been entirely charmed by these mugs. The one with the knit print is double walled, so that you can hold it even when its filled with steaming liquid. The one on the right is from a line called Mugtails and is available in rabbit, cat, and fawn styles in addition to the squirrel one pictured above. They’re sold by Korin.
For morning caffeination efforts, I regular turn towards two tools. A hand-cranked coffee grinder that fits onto a wide mouth mason jar (I like having to work a little for coffee) and a Teastick (fill with loose leaf tea and swish through a mug of hot water. It’s perfect for a quick cup). My particular model is currently sold out, but I hear good things about this one
I’ve long been obsessed with wooden tools and since last year, Earlywood Design has been my favorite purveyor of all things useful, handmade, and satisfyingly tactile. I particularly like their slant-edged scraper, but I’m slowly amassing a well-rounded collection of their utensils (next on my personal list of wants from Earlywood is their short server). They also have awesome customer service. One of the scrapers I bought started to split along the grain and they were happy to replace it. Many thanks to Nici of Dig This Chick for turning me on to them.
You’re all familiar with my inability to resist any mason jar accessory. Well, from the moment I saw the Mason Shaker, I knew I had to have it. I’m not a huge cocktail drinker (simply because I have a lousy tolerance for booze), but I love this shaker lid for batches of homemade lemonade. Must like the Teastick above, it appears to be sold out. However, I spotted a bunch at my local West Elm about a week ago, so check your bricks and mortar stores if you want to get one before the holidays.
Last February I visited Korin, a store in New York that specializes in fine knives and tableware and they gave me a Petty knife to use and review. I rapidly shot up my list of favorite kitchen tools. Having a knife that exists in the space between a small paring knife and a larger chef’s knife is a boon for tasks like quartering apples, cutting carrots into sticks, and opening avocados (things I do a whole heck of a lot). It would make a really great gift for a cutlery lover.
All good gift guides come with a giveaway and this one is no different. Thanks for Korin, I have the mugs pictured at the top of this post and the petty knife pictured just above to give away to one lucky winner.
Here’s how to get in on the giveaway:
- Leave a comment on this post and tell me one thing you’re hoping to get done before the new year
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- Comments will close at 11:59 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012. Winners will be chosen at random and will be posted to the blog on Sunday.
- Giveaway open US residents only.
- One comment per person, please. Entries must be left via the comment form on the blog at the bottom of this post. I cannot accept submissions via email.
Disclosure: Korin has provided the mugs and knife for this giveaway. They did not pay for placement. All opinions remain mine.
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I hope to get a wedding album done from our wedding in June! and spend some time cooking not at my job
Make cookies and gifts wrapped
I am hoping to make a garland out of rusty canning rings made.
I am planning on doing Christmas dinner for my two younger daughters on christmas Eve and spending a fun filled Christmas Day with my DW’s family.
One thing I definitely want to have done before the new year isn’t a cooking thing. I have a cross stitch project that is almost complete — just have to sew beads on it. I just have gather up the courage and find the time to do it.
I really want to get/keep my blood glucose levels under control so that my doctor will NOT be putting me on insulin injections beginning in the new year. It shouldn’t be so hard, but if I can get through the holidays and the wonderful food I know that the 2013 will be a good year!
Before the New Year I hope to sort through my vast knitting stash, finish a few things in progress and donate yarn I just don’t care to knit with anymore.
My “thing” was to finish making the Apple-Cranberry Jam for everyone on the planet by Christmas. I worked hard all day. I finished the jam (yum!) and have pear butter going until 10pm tonight. I couldn’t be happier!
I am hoping to get my beeswax from the summer melted down and made into lotion bars…
Love the squirrel tail mug!!!
Christmas means heading back to your territory! Always good to visit Arkansas and makes us look even more forward to retirement. Any must see suggestions for the trip this year?
I’m just hoping to get some more Christmas knitting done!
Well, I’m just hoping to get all my Christmas shopping done before Christmas.
Before the new year, I hope to get all my jars organized. I’ve got overflow stacked around the basement. It’s been on my to-do list for weeks!
I really want to get a couple of my kitchen cabinets cleaned out to make room for some new additions to the kitchen, like a Le Creuset 15 qt goose pot and a pasta roller. I know I have stuff buried deep that hasn’t seen the light of day in years. These are things that would probably be useful to someone else, so I resolve to clean out those cabinets and donate the unused items.
Before the new year I hope to go home and bake a huge batch of my great grandmother’s biscotti with my mom!
I hope to straighten up my craft room in order to make a couple of gifts.
I managed to hang up pictures and curtains that I have seen since we moved almost five years ago, so I am set for getting things done before the new year. I would love to spend all of Christmas week with my babies and get a hair cut!
Just my Christmas presents!
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