Support Small Businesses – Christmas Gift Guide. Part 1
What a year 2020 turned out to be! A year of the Coronavirus. Working from home, lockdowns, job losses, weddings cancelled, not seeing families, and, cancelled everything. In all of the uncertainty and heartache, there are some positives. Christmas is on its way and I wanted to dedicate a part of my blog to share amazing small brands. This Christmas, it’s more important than ever before to support small businesses! So, here is a gift guide from small businesses I’ve come across this year!
Serenely Sorted
If you’re feeling overwhelmed with life, working from home, juggling a global pandemic, Serenely Sorted can help you. They will help you change your mindset and outlook on life. With a few simple videos and some reading you’ll be Serenely Sorted.
Serenely Sorted is owned and ran by Diana, someone who has first hand experience with feeling overwhelmed and panicked by life and messes. She is passionate about her ethos and goal of helping others achieve inner peace. She wants to help people feel calm and tackle everyday situations by aiding you every step of the way.
I’ve chosen to add this gift into my gift guide because I have struggled with these kind of feelings at many different points this year. Even writing this post, I’ve felt overwhelmed with news about Christmas and a potential January lockdown. My goal is to stop myself feeling like this with the help of Serenely Sorted, I know I will feel so much more able to cope with the future uncertainties!
Treat yourself to the gift of a calm Christmas here!
Say It With Champers
After a year of little celebrations, why not celebrate Christmas with personalised Champagne from Say It With Champers?
Say It With Champers have two main Christmas ranges on offer which include personalised Champagne:
As well as full size Champagne bottles, you can purchase mini personalised prosecco bottles – perfect for adult stocking fillers.
I love the idea of receiving a beautiful Champagne bottle that is personalised to me – it would be a battle whether to open and savour it or keep it until COVID is a distant memory!
Either way, Say It With Champers have got personalised Christmas down and they’ve made it easy for you to give the gift of optimism. Order now and you can get your gift within 48 hours!
Coffee & Kin
While we’re on the subject of much-needed beverages over the festive period, we must mention that nectar of the God’s. The drink that’s got us through 8am Zoom meetings and 4pm briefings. Coffee!
Coffee & Kin are an amazing coffee subscription! Their boxes are full of biodegradable and plastic free speciality brews, beans, pods and more. Coffee& Kin is perfect for the coffee connnesoir in your life. They also work with some of the best chocolatiers across the country for post-box hot chocolate deliveries!
Coffee & Kin are an amazing small business that have passion in their product. You can feel it in every piece of content, photo and every interaction they have. For coffee drinkers, this is a must have.
In January when we’re in a 25 day lockdown, you’ll be chuffed you’ve received your weekly speciality coffee in the post – no need to go to the shop, no need to put on your face mask, simply open your subscription box and boil the kettle!
What a dreamy gift for Christmas. Why not get yourself one and sign up one of your pals for Christmas?
Coffee & Kin donate £1 per box to the Blurt Foundation – a great cause to help with!
TeaPro
Maybe you aren’t a coffee lover, so what about a plastic free loose tea subscription box? TeaPro is an amazing small business to support if you know someone who loves nothing more than a hot cuppa.
The majority of us are working from home, have been since March/April and there is nothing better than having a tea break! Each day, I have my tea break at the same time to give myself a bit of normality and it’s a time I cherish everyday.
For £18 a month you will receive 4 plastic free tea pouches focused on dedicated tea types as well as information on them all.
Your first box comes with a free infuser glass worth £12!
PostBoxed
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that gifts in the post are amazing. Postboxed are a company that specialises in sending beautifully wrapped gifts through your letterbox. It’s made gifting easy with their ability to add as many items as you’d like, add a card and select a delivery date. You can order a gift today and have it delivered whenever works for you.
It’s easy to choose all kinds of gifts to send to someone special – they even have ready made boxes for you to pick from. You can send a Mystery Box, a Congratulations Box and so many more.
Postboxed’s Christmas gift boxes are some of my favourites and you can shop by all kinds of categories:
– Christmas gifts for new parents
– Christmas gifts for her
– Cracker & Advent Calendar fillers
– And many more…
Another wonderful small business to support. Take gifting seriously and let Postboxed help you, they know their stuff. You can shop all all kinds of fun ways to show someone how much you love them and they are on budget!
DIY Yogi Mats
Yoga is something that has helped me a lot this year. Taking an hour when I can to reconnect with my mind and body has stopped me going completely berserk. So I really wanted to help spread the word about some great yoga brands in this post.
These mats are truly professional and high quality and the fact that they can be personalised at home gives them a creative spin and ties them nicely with the mindfulness colouring trend. They are 100% eco friendly and recyclable, made using natural materials (sustainably sourced natural rubber) and eco conscious processes.
Yogi Mats are cool and easy to personalise – I can really see small children enjoying colouring them in while being introduced to yoga and meditation. It could be a great way to get kids to stretch, breathe and be calm without it being over the top!
This small brand are incredible and one I am super proud to support with this post. You need some calm in your life, you need to buy a DIY Yogi Mat!
Part 1 of this gift guide is over – I have absolutely LOVED putting this together and there is SO MUCH MORE to come! Let’s support small and local businesses – please drop a comment below if you go on to purchase any of these items!
Stay tuned, in the next gift guide you’ll see cooking items for kids, clothing for teens, beauty, botanicals and so much more!
LoveRosiee
xxx
