Coley's Favorite Things: 2025 Gift Guide
Holiday shopping can be brutal, but I'm here to help make it a little bit easier! This gift guide has been updated for the 2025 holiday season.
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I'm confident you'll find something here for just about everyone on your list.
Pour yourself some Coquito, cozy up on the couch and get ready to click "add to cart."
Gifts for the home chef
Here are my top picks for cooking tools and utensils that are ideal for anyone that's just getting started with cooking or stocking a new kitchen. Nothing wrong with a practical gift!
- A great knife and knife sharpener is essential. I love the knives from Misen and Global. I love this knife sharpener, but this sharpener is similar and cheaper.
These are some of the most used tools in my kitchen. If there's a budding new cook in your life, consider getting them some of these staples!
- microplane grater
- immersion blender
- probe thermometer
- bench scraper
- fine-mesh strainer
- kitchen shears
- rubber spatulas
- tongs.
For more established cooks, stay away from cooking tools so you don't give them something they already have. Here are my picks for what to get instead!
- Nice serveware, like a handmade platter, serving bowl or serving utensils. I love these wooden serving spoons and this Himalayan salt block.
- A cute apron or table linens are always well received! I love these Japanese style aprons and these linen napkins.
My book, The Art of the Smoothie Bowl is perfect for anyone embarking on a January health kick!
Games
One of my favorite gifts to both give and receive is a game. We're avid game players in this family and can never have too many!
- Telestrations will make you will laugh until your face hurts.
- Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is compact, easy to learn and so much fun to play.
- Hues and Cues is easy to learn and great for a large group of all ages.
- Ransom Notes is based on magnetic poetry and will have you in stitches!
- Piles is a fast-paced card swapping game for both kids and adults.
- Blank Slate is great social game for a group.
- Code Names this one is a thinker but really fun to play.
Gifts that are just plain great
- For the avid travelers in your life:
- A set of packing cubes is a great gift!
- I never travel without my Trtl travel pillow - it's the best thing I've used to sleep on a flight!
- My Hypervolt massage gun is one of the best gifts I've ever received, but I love this trigger point self massager just as much (and it's a fraction of the price).
- A candle warming lamp is the perfect gift for candle lovers. No soot, candles last longer and you won't accidentally burn your house down. Pair it with your favorite bougie candle!
- A sweater shaver has been one of my favorite little gadgets over the last few years. It removes the pills from fabric and can breathe new life into your clothes!
- These DIY ceramic clay kits from Sculpt are awesome. I love giving gifts that can be used for activities, not just "stuff." This is a fun and unique gift that makes a fun art project for a winter weekend!
Stocking Stuffers
- Elevated hand sanitizer
- Touchland
- Dr. Bronner's
- Noshinku, which are also refillable!
- Chapstick!
- Try these minty tea tree chewing sticks instead of gum or candy!
Homemade Gifts
- One of the best and least expensive gifts you can give is anything you make yourself.
- Homemade salted caramels - Easy and so loved
- Homemade vanilla extract are both great ideas!
- Personalized playlists are just like the mix tapes and CD's we used to make back in the day. They cost nothing and are so thoughtful and personal!
I hope this gift guide gave you plenty of inspiration. Happy gifting!
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Love your recipes and all your thoughtful notes- Don’t ever Stop !!
Thank you so much!!! <3
These ideas are great! Thank you!