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hostess gifts

homemade vanilla extract

<$10 | Homemade

Every holiday season Ina Garten makes her own vanilla extract and gives it to friends. It's such a simple recipe and useful gift.

$11 | Container Store

ravioli spoon rest

This silicon spoon rest gives your kitchen some character and is a helping hand at the stove top. It's big enough for most all cooking utensils.

thank you daisies

$13 | Modern Sprout

These daisies are such a cute and unique "thank you" gift to brighten someones home. 

fancy hot chocolate

$18 | Kerber Farms

I've tried many hot chocolate mixes -- from L.A. Burdick to Swiss Miss -- and can confidently say that Kerber Farms is the best. It's salty and chocolatey and dissolves well into any kind of milk.

spiced wine

$18 | Williamsburg Winery

The Williamsburg Winery's Jamestown Settlers' Spiced Wine is my favorite mulled-wine dupe. It's my most gifted item.

mulling spices

$19 | Williams-Sonoma

Williams-Sonoma's mulling spices make it smell like Christmas. You can boil it in water for the scent, or you can mix it into cider or red wine to make a hot, spiced drink. The store sells them in sachets for $15 -- which is much less fuss since you don't have to strain the mixture.

$20 | Rifle Paper Co.

adirondack candle

This candle is usually burning in my apartment in the winter. It makes me feel like I have a real tree and like I'm in the mountains. 

orange honey

$20 | Brightland

I actually went to the launch party for Brightland's honey and sampled several different flavors. Without a doubt, this is the top one and is so good in tea and on baked goods.

lil' carl hot cocoa

$28 | Kate Weiser

My mom likes to give a lil' carl wrapped with a small peppermint schnapps to friends each holiday season. It's such a festive gift. There's also a peppermint hot chocolate flavored one, named Carla, that comes in a 12 pack (if you're willing to spend more or have lots of people to thank).

peppermint bark

$35 | Williams-Sonoma

In my home, this peppermint bark means the holidays are here. There are lots of versions at Williams-Sonoma -- from cookies to flavored bark. 

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