Christmas Book Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers!
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Hello and welcome to my first Christmas Book Gift Guide of the season! Today I'm sharing books and other gifts that would make brilliant stocking stuffers or secret santa presents. I hope you enjoy my suggestions! See below for all links.
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LINKS:
(affiliate links used for Blackwells)
Poems for Stillness: tinyurl.com/3r5wvau7
A Countryman's Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell (press copy): tinyurl.com/44b2na2p
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: tinyurl.com/5y46jte8
Christmas Stories - Everyman's Pocket Classics: tinyurl.com/bp73nyw3
The Almanac 2022: tinyurl.com/48jfbt2f
Slightly Foxed magazine: tinyurl.com/7f6bhcyr
The Scribbler magazine: tinyurl.com/3637zfcc
Pigeon folded letters: tinyurl.com/n5p344mf
Angela Harding Pigeon: tinyurl.com/fb8c8vbs
Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen: www.theonlinepencompany.com/k...
Emily Sutton's Allotment Calendar 2022: tinyurl.com/hmumvfpx
Elizabeth Harbour Ornaments: www.etsy.com/uk/market/elizab...
Burt's Bees Kit: tinyurl.com/279fcbc6
Rare Tea Company: rareteacompany.com/
Thornback and Peel Tea Towel:tinyurl.com/35dt87n6
Terry's Chocolate Orange:tinyurl.com/4sp8apr4
Emma Bridgewater 1/2 pint mugs: tinyurl.com/j6dmj8ta
Small shallow tin (to fill with your own fudge):tinyurl.com/sxhzjyy
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Really gorgeous and thoughtful selection. I'm especially fond of the fountain pen and Emily Sutton allotment calendar.
I love watching these videos. My wife and I are both huge bookworms, so these videos are really helpful.
Yes please to all of the stocking stuffers!!
So glad you liked the suggestions, Shanne!
Lots of wonderful ideas! I think that letter set may be a christmas present to myself, such a wonderful idea.
Would be a lovely gift for yourself! Enjoy!
I would gladly receive any of those sweet little gifts!😂💗 Seriously, those are wonderful ideas, a lot that I already used and that always are very appreciated. Merci Miranda for this lovely video.🙏🏻🤗😘
Thank you very much! 😘
Brilliant suggestions Miranda, thank you so much for taking the time to put this together.
Thank you, Karen! It was a pleasure!
I've been in the middle of moving house and haven't had time to watch your content :( just sat down tonight to watch this video and I realised how much I missed your videos, Miranda!! These are some wonderful stocking filler ideas (for myself) lol. Thank you for helping me to feel all festive :)
How exciting! Hope the move went well, and it’s great to see you back in the comments, Emma! 📚💕
@@MirandaMills thank you :) it's lovely to be watching you again, I feel less stressed already!
Terry's chocolate orange!!!! You saved the best till last Miranda xx
Hehe!😃
Thank you for sharing all your wonderful finds!
You’re very welcome, Betty!
Hi Miranda….what wonderful and thoughtful stocking stuffers. I would be so pleased to receive any one (or more) of those gifts. One thing I always place in the family’s stockings is a beautifully wrapped new toothbrush. So silly. It started as a joke many many years ago, but it’s now tradition. I also do not place names on my wrapped gifts, to avoid prying eyes. I number the gifts and keep a master list. I love to keep the family guessing! That is another tradition started by my mom when my siblings and I were small. Just do not lose the list!!! 🎄
Thanks so much! That list is a great idea!! 🎄💫📝
Loved the ideas. Some are good for family and some are good for myself. Thank you Miranda
I am with you on the Emma Bridgewater small mugs,I have a good collection too.
Wonderful gift ideas Miranda! Some of those stocking stuffers just may end up in my own Christmas stocking☺️
Thanks so much, Deb!
Miranda,
Pls ask yr Mum to adopt me! Then we could be sistuhs-cross-the-pond. Yes. Lovely.
Speaking of lovely, the Xmas stocking and the ornaments, well, I would use as bookmarks.
My Mother was a huge Anglophile and passed the infection, I mean, affection or addiction, lol, re: anything ENGLISH or rather UK related. So I luv yr channel & NEVER miss a posting. And enjoy rewatching as a matter of fact. My Mother always fixed/steamed a store bought (UK made) plum pudding for Xmas. Hate to say I am not a fan, but-- the HARD SAUCE? YUM-MO. Blessings and good cheer.🇺🇸🌏🇬🇧
😂 I love Christmas Pudding, but think a lot of people think the hard sauce and the brandy butter is the best part!😂
I forgot to mention in my earlier comment that I also adore the Elizabeth Harbour ornaments. I fell in love with them when you first showed us them (last Christmas?), I’d never come across them before. I now have a lovely collection, and am looking forward to putting the Christmas ones up soon!
You first introduced me to Elizabeth Harbour ornaments not so very long ago and I now have around 20! They are just lovely, reasonably priced, and make me smile! Thank you, Miranda!
I’m so happy you’re a fan too. Very special ornaments!
Thank you. Some really lovely ideas. X
So happy you enjoyed it! X
You have such great taste . Lots of great ideas for gifts. The Fountain 🖊 pen, of course for me. The chocolate orange, reminds me when I was a little girl, yummy .🎄🎄Thank you for all you’re beautiful videos. I just finished The Diary of the Provincial Lady. Delightfully, and funny.
Thank you very much! So glad you loved DOAPL 😊
Great suggestions, as always. Thank you, Miranda!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely! I used your link to order a fountain pen with accessories for my husband's Christmas gift. ✒️ Thank you so much! ❤️
That’s wonderful. You’re very welcome, Lu! ❤️
Hello! I liked all your recommendations! Thank you! Especially the books!I love to look at the background l, with the bookshelves and all the lovely book spines... Thanks a lot! Your channel is such a treat!
Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🎄📚
Thank you so much for these lovely recommendations Miranda, I bought several of them for my bookworm daughter including the pigeon post stationery and the book of poetry she loved them!
I’m so happy she liked them 😊
Yesss!!!! Miranda you really have great taste, every gift idea that you’ve recommended I’ve wanted at least once or all the time, I mean I’m not a subtle person, I make it very obvious that I like anything dealing with reading or just cozy comfortable things like, tea, Chocolate, any type of paper products, cups, pencils, pens etc… and I still end up with some type of shirt that’s too small and I’m too embarrassed to say um!!! I’m much bigger than this…so I keep it and eventually gain a new dust cloth, or a cabinet full of ramekins.. 🤣🤣🤣… I’m really not ungrateful but I have a lot of ramekins.. tell Donna I said hello… thank you for another great video 🥰💕
Haha oh no Kiki!!! I hope Father Christmas gets his act together this year!!!! 😂📚📝🍫🎄😘
Thank you for this Miranda. I would be happy to receive any or all of your lovely suggestions in my Christmas stocking! Some lovely ideas for other people too of course!
Such a great video Miranda, I love the way you had everything in an actual stocking, so fun! Really wonderful ideas, I’m making notes for myself as well as others, I would love to find all of these in my stocking! I especially love the tea towel and the Pigeon folded letters, and I am definitely checking out Kaweco pens, I love writing with a proper fountain pen. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into making your videos, they are a real joy to watch.
What a wonderfully Christmassy video! I love your stocking gift ideas, and i did laugh about the 'random' gifts we sometimes have to produce for people we don't know very well! Definitely going to.follow.some of your links for gifts, but just may have to purchase the beautiful folding desk calendar for myself.....! X
Thanks so much, Penny!
I love how you select all the items based on your own taste and experience. I want everything! Looking forward to the next episode. Take care ❤️
Thanks so much Nadine! So glad you enjoyed it! Xxx
Lovely ideas Miranda, thank you. X
You’re very welcome, Annie!
I have just ordered some Pigeon folded letters on your recommendation,thank you for introducing me to them. So many other delights I shall definitely be looking into. Just dis your wonderful channel 🤗📚
Terry’s chocolate orange! I had to laugh when you unexpectedly fished that out of the Christmas stocking 😁 I always have one and eat some of it for breakfast. They never last much beyond Boxing Day!
I’m wondering if letter writing is more popular, or could become more popular, now that a lot of people write in journals. I’ve seen CZcams channels by people who write in beautiful calligraphy, so writing seems to be quite popular (?)
One thing I’ve always done is to send handwritten thank you letters to people. When my children were young I had them do the same.
Haha my Terry’s Orange never lasts that long either! Maybe increased journaling will prompt more letter writing too! Xxx
Thank you for the ideas. I have this and next year's Almanacs and think the 2022 one looks better than this year's. I haven't heard of Kawecko pens so ill check them out👍Some of my friends give Terry's chocolate oranges but all families have their own traditions. it is such a tradition in my family to put a few nuts to crack, a tangerine and chocolate coins in the toe and I wouldn't change it. I might pluck up the courage to make some sweets to go with it this year though in a pretty tin.
Thank you for Christmas recommendations. You have a lovely eye for gifts. 👏🏽
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed them!
Thank you for your WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL ideas 🎄🎁🎄. You absolutely inspired me to make this Christmas season even more special....lovely video ❣🎄❣
so many great and helpful suggestions, Miranda! I always have trouble getting stocking stuffers so will try to keep these in mind this year 😀 and might just finally get the Scribbler for myself!
Thanks so much! I love The Scribbler and hope you do too if you decide to try it!
Burt Bees =“Random relations” 😂♥️ What a lovely blog, Miranda. Thank you!
my solution to most awkward present-giving situations 😂
Thank you. Such lovely ideas.
Lovely video. I have treated my family (and myself) to some Kaweko pens. X
Thank you so much, Donna! 🖊 ❤️
Yay! ❤️ Perfect timing ✨🎄 I love all of your videos Miranda, you and your Mum are absolutely lovely 🌟
Thank you so much ☺️ 🎁😘
Such wonderful and tasteful suggestions. I'm taking away at least two gift ideas, and I'm never this early with my gift planning. The origami letters are so pretty and clever. I may have to purchase as a gift for myself, so that's now three gift ideas...! 🎄 🎁
Haha so happy you enjoyed this video, Pamela & that it gave you some ideas! I’m by nature more of a last minute Christmas planner / shopper, but being on social media means I’ve had to become a lot more organised 😂🎄🎁
So many wonderful suggestions. I like the Burt's. Their lip balm is wonderful. The stationery that folds into an envelope is clever. I write to pen-pals, but our letters are always 6+ pages long. LOL
I love the lip balm too! And yes the Pigeon cards are really only for note-length!! Xx
Lovely ideas, thank you for sharing
So glad you liked them! 😊🎁🎄
Thank you for such good ideas of Christmas presents🤶"Ballet Shoes" is my love, it's so soothing, comfort reading for me)) It's a tradition in our family to go to the theatre on the 25th or the 31st of December to watch 'The Nutcracker' ballet, nowadays we watch the live streams of it. The one I love is by the Bolshoi, though the Mariinsky Theatre's version is great as well. Every December I always buy a new Christmas tree toy for my collection of majolica decorations. By the way, in our culture you will always see tangerines on the table at Christmas and New Year, people associate Christmas holidays with the smell of tangerines🍊🙃 we have a saying that books are always the best present, so I'm looking forward to watching your next video📚🎄
I adore the Bolshoi! It would be a dream to see the ballet in Russia one day ❤️🩰. Clove studded oranges are a Christmas feature here 😊🍊🎄
@@MirandaMills I would be glad to take you there, let's hope the situation will improve in the nearest future🤞yeah, I should make clove studded oranges for a change this year😉
Seeing your chocolate orange brought back sweet memories of my Mom (quite the Anglophile) giving me one every year after she read about the custom in a novel. I loved your gift ideas and now want all for myself!! This was a great start to the holiday season. Wishing an enjoyable weekend to both you and Donna. ( Like your Christmas pin.)
Aw, how lovely! Thank you Nancy! Hope some of these wind up in your stocking 😄🎁
Thank u Miranda. Really good ideas for Christmas. Everyman’s pocket classics will definitely go in the stockings this year, both poems and short stories collection. 💗
Wonderful, Ingert! They’re lovely anthologies.
What a lovely video! I went straight to a shop today to buy myself a KaWeCo fountain pen 🙈 I had‘nt realised it is a german Company… My new pen is in a dark red and it will allways make me think of your Gift Guide! Thank you so much! 😊
Oh wonderful! I'm so pleased! xxx
How cosy thank you🎄🌷🎄🌷 awe and I've just bought a copy of the Almanac x
Wonderful!
Terry's Chocolate Orange! 😍😂 Many Happy Christmas Memories from that one!
Some fantastic ideas Miranda. LOVE the Pigeon stationary! 😊😊
Haha thank you - glad you enjoyed these ideas! 😄🍊🍫
Every idea you’ve mentioned is wonderful and I’d be thrilled to find any of them in my stocking. I love how Christmasy you and your background look also. What a delightful start to the weekend❤️💚thank you
Thanks so much, Sandy! I’m very pleased you enjoyed it ❤️
I just discovered you. Lovely videos and wonderful suggestions!
So glad you found and are enjoying my channel! Welcome!
Such great ideas for Christmas. Need a bigger stocking. 😂 How would you and your mother like to adopt a 66 year old American woman.?. 🤣 Love your choices, can't pick out a favorite. Anyways, until next week, hope you have a great weekend. Sending you my best wishes. 📚💕
Hehe thanks Diane 😀🎁🎄
Lovely gifts❤️
Love all of these Miranda! I actually purchased two of the Countryman’s Winter Notebook when it released -one for myself and one to gift my mom for Christmas. I think she’ll love it and I’ve enjoyed it as well. The chocolate orange is a tradition here too and it’s so interesting to see yours wrapped like that. Here in the states it comes in a box and hard to get into the toe of stockings!
It’s in a box here too, Courtney, but if you take it out it looks like that in the UK, and then it’s made for the toe of a stocking! 😂
Such a wonderful video! It felt so cozy and definitely puts me in a Christmassy mood. You have such great ideas!
Thanks so much for these kind words, Kami!
Lots of great gift ideas Miranda, I love the Kaweco fountain pen but maybe that is wishful thinking for my own stocking as I am a fountain pen fan!! Thank you so much for sharing your choices with us. Looking forward to the Comfort Book Club and your big Christmas book video. Take care and have a fabulous weekend, Teresa 🌲
Thanks so much, Teresa! The Kaweco fountain pens really are fun - hope one finds its way into your stocking😄
That really was a treasure trove of lovely Christmas presents, Miranda! I admire your taste so much. I want to thank you for the links to Blackwell 's Books - I have ordered twice from them now, and am so impressed with their service. The deliveries to Australia went without a hitch, and their prices are generally better than Book Depository. Thanks for a very interesting video!
I'm so happy to hear that, Carol, and so glad you enjoyed the video! Hope you're having a lovely weekend xxx
Love your Christmas stocking ideas so much, Miranda! Thank you for sharing! Your video made me so happy and it was a joy watching it. It's been a rough week and it was nice to have a little taste of the warmth and coziness of Christmas. So many hugs! xoxo ;D
So happy it lifted you a little to watch it in a tough week, Gina ❤️
I’m guessing the red bush tea is named “Number 1 Ladies” after the book series, “The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency”? It’s one of my favorite comfort series. The main character drinks red bush tea ;)
Yes, it is! I love that series too 😊
Thank you Miranda! This is very helpful. You have given me some good ideas for what to get my eldest daughter 😊. Have a lovely weekend 💖!
I’m so pleased Emma! Have a lovely weekend too 😘