Great leaping lords, we have to come up with man-gifts again! Are you stuck on what gift to get a guy for Christmas? Here comes the Felt Christmas Gift Guide with its swashbuckling sidekick, the Gifts for Guys guide, to the rescue!
Bookworms, wordsmiths, drama enthusiasts, musicians and lovers of all things arty – they can be hard to buy for. If you usually end up resorting to book tokens or cold hard cash for the culture junkies in your life, why not go handmade and find them something a bit different this Christmas?
Every domestic goddess appreciates the value of beautiful handmade belongings and the Gifts for Domestic Goddesses section of the Felt Christmas Gift Guide is overflowing with divine offerings that are sure to receive her blessing.
Where do you turn when you need a Christmas present for the most on-trend of your friends? From unique accessories to handmade haute couture, Felt is a goldmine for style leaders and the fashion conscious. If you’ve got a fashionista to buy for this Christmas, you’re already sorted if you’ve found the Felt Christmas Gift Guide‘s Gifts for Fashionistas.
Christmas is all about family – and there’s nothing quite like handmade gifts for the youngest family members. So of course our Christmas Gift Guide wouldn’t be complete without a whole section devoted to gifts for kids and babies.
Issue number 10 of our favourite tiny tome is on its way! The summer issue of Extra Curricular is all about backyard honeybees and homebrew, sewing, soap-making and growing your own food… in other words, living the good life. As well as interviews with people who are doing just that, you’ll find recipes to make sourdough, herbal remedies and iceblocks – you can even create your own little self-sufficient world with a terrarium tutorial.
Got a green-thumbed gardener in your life? Want to get them something that will make them clap their little garden-gloved hands in delight? You won’t find a better place to hunt for garden-inspired goodies than the Gifts for Gardeners section of the Felt Christmas Gift Guide.
It’s not often we get to report on current affairs on the Felt blog, but today is just such a day! Christchurch ceramicist Gillian Weavers of Mudbird Ceramics has created a specially commissioned piece from her Emerge range which will be presented to the Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles at the Diamond Jubilee dinner at Government House in Wellington tonight.
The lovely Tracy at Stitchery is once again organising the Felt Christmas Swap!
If you’d like to take part, she’d love to hear from you. As a member of the Swap, you send out three gifts to three other participants, and, in turn, you will receive three gifts. In the spirit of all things Felty, each gift you send is to be handmade by you.
You know the deal. The office organiser (there’s always one) decrees that this year there shall be gift-giving – and now you need to come up with a present for that random workmate whose name is on the piece of paper you’ve drawn out of the hat. Don’t panic! We at Felt can help.