Ready for our weekly gift guide installment? Let’s go shopping together! This week, we’re talking fun jewelry, miniature adorableness, and more.
As usual: if you’ve got ideas or want to tell me about your nifty-keen gift plan, or about your personal Etsy Shop Of Wonderment, please email me! I love featuring all sorts of stores and researching different ideas for book lovers always yields some very fun holiday giving.
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Plum and Posey creates jewelry from wax seal imagery, and they’re stunning.
Follow Your Star pendant, $69 and up
Strength – Bend, Don’t Break pendant, $69 and up
Much like picking one word to best represent me, or picking one motivational idea for a year, finding the perfect seal in that collection would take hours, but it’s pleasant browsing, for certain.
Cheltenham Road has adorable literary, vintage, and pop culture-focused coasters, which I think are often a thing that folks may not want to buy for themselves, but might love as a gift – especially if it’s unique and personalized to their interests like these.
Library Circulation Card coasters, $20+
Vintage Book Covers Coaster Set, $20+
Coffee Lover’s Coaster Set, $20+
Chiko Craft features adorable miniatures, including some fashioned into jewelry, that are so cute, your internal organs might shimmy with glee.
Two words: Cat. Jewelry.
Moon Star Cat Pendant, $59+
New Life Seedling miniature pendant, $25
Miniature mermaid cat pendant (are there more charming words than “mermaid cat?” I don’t think so!) $59+
Birthday Cupcake Pendant, $35And heads up, knitters, crafters, and needle-minded folks: adorable miniature crafting jewelry ahoy!
Crochet Knit Jewelry is based in Croatia (so order soon for the holidays!). I purchased a knitting pendant for Elyse from this artist, and Elyse couldn’t stop talking about how incredibly detailed and cute it was. The pendants come in a selection of colors, and feature miniature projects, yarn, and needles.
Blue pendant for knitters with miniature yarn and needles, $28
Blue crochet pendant with miniature needles, choice of heart or square, $27
Elyse linked me to the Nerd Bird Makery, which has pins, tees, and bags for your crafting activist friends.
Bitchery member Kaelie sent me an email about her mom’s new Etsy store: IndNatureFiberStudio. Congrats!
Says Kaelie, “The haversacks and peek-a-boo bags are big enough for your knitting project and a book, so really it’s a win-win all around for knitter-readers.”
Nautical Blue INK peek a boo bag, $24.
And maybe you need latke earrings? I mean, who doesn’t need latke earrings? Neat Eats miniature food jewelry is here to help you out.
Latke earrings, $19. I’ll be back next week with more gift guide ideas. As always, please let me know what you’re looking for – or shopping for this year!
Um… The Plum and Posey stuff really bothered me because their French is wrong. “Mieux veut rompre que plier” literally means it’s better to break than to bend, so… Exactly the opposite of what they say it means. Ugh, I can’t stand that, can’t even really explain why. Just like out also makes me roll my eyes when authors include sentences in a foreign language that they obviously translated word by word instead of simply asking a native speaker. We live in the age of the internet, it’s not that hard!
Sorry, rant over. The kitten jewelry looks supremely cute!
@ Isi – man, my french isn’t great/hasn’t been used in ages but I must have read that 10 times thinking it can’t be right. Glad to have confirmation!
@Isi IMO mistakes and laziness like that should bother everyone! I’d be totally embarrassed to wander around with mistranslated phrases on my jewelry. (Of course, I’d never spend $70+ on something like that even if the translation was correct, so no disaster to be averted here, lol!)
Oh, and while they’re not very practical I do love giving these glowing bookmarks for the holidays: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BijouxMalou?ref=pr2018_faveshops§ion_id=23268234
And of course I have one for myself!
That New Life Seedling pendant is calling my name ….
Thanks for recommending my friend David at Cheltenham Road! He has wine charms and can customize a lot of things, too!
I can vouch for the quality of his work.
I would love to find the vintage books in car coasters. I just might have to make one.
I have such a love/hate relationship with the gift guide posts.
Not bookish, but stitchy! I really like kiriki press https://www.kirikipress.com
They have a range of screen printed patterns that you embroider and turn into dolls. They are a good way to learn and practice stitches and something very different.
They also have a sampler club- for those looking for subscriptions.
Not affiliated in any way, I have just had some very positive experiences with their kits and their Customer service
@Persnickety, oh my gosh! sloth… hedgehog… panda!
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Just thought I would pipe in (Plum & Posey here)
Yes I am aware the French is wrong, and I could fix it, but I don’t as there is a reason for this.
The meaning is taken right from the original wax seal engravers catalogues. These catalogues date from the 1790’s to the 1830’s, and the french is wrong in them as well.
I took the artistic licence to stay true to the original meaning that was intended approx 200+ years ago, even though the language is wrong.
Most French speakers will possibly notice that the French is also quite old fashioned on some of the meaning cards as well.
I prefer to leave it wrong, and strike up a conversation when customers point it out to me.