You need a hobby...
One good way of putting together a stocking for someone is to really think about their hobbies and interests. For example, I love to travel - which you might know. Here's some ideas of items that you could pop in a travel lover's stocking...
✈️Playing cards
✈️Zap-It! mosquito bite relief*
✈️Travel minis of their favourite products
✈️Luggage tag
✈️Passport cover
✈️Guidebook to their next destination
✈️Prints of their favourite travel snaps
Whatever your pal/mum/boyfriend's hobby or favourite thing is, whether it's an instrument or baking or arts and crafts, you can easily make them the perfect stocking for Christmas this year!
Good things come in small packages
Small gifts are great for stocking fillers - we all joke about receiving socks for Christmas, but I don't think there's anything better than putting on a fresh pair of socks ready to face the day. These Joules socks are from Eland Lodge and they're so soft, plus they offer a little bit of luxury too!
Jewellery, vouchers/gift cards, stationery and snacks all make for fantastic stocking fillers because they're small but can be really, really meaningful. Especially if you personalise the items, which is generally really easy to do.
Don't read too much into it
Books in general are a great stocking filler; new releases, classics, Christmas themed books and even just older books that you've read yourself and know are brilliant. Here's some ideas...
📚The Christmas Holiday* by Sophie Claire
📚The Christmas Invitation* by Trisha Ashley
📚The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
📚Mine* by Emily Merrill
📚Just Before I Died by S. K. Tremayne
📚Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
📚The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
📚We Met Here in December by Rosie Curtis
📚The Furies* by Katie Lowe
You're beautiful
Of course, beauty products are great in a stocking. I'm not talking flimsy nail files and cheap cherry lip balms, but the good stuff! Reusable cotton pads are a big hit at the moment, and you can pick them up on Etsy - while they're not the most glamorous present, I think they make a good stocking filler! As does a new toothbrush; I recently got a bamboo one from Blue Rock* and I'm loving it so far.
Small gift sets like these Beauty Kitchen bath bombs in a tin*, or this By Claudia eye make up set*, are ideal too - they're small and compact but really nice and useful, and you can pick them up in Boots. Other great places to get gift sets are fairly small and won't break the bank are The Body Shop, Superdrug, and your local supermarkets.
Face masks make excellent stocking filler gifts, of course - and I LOVE these ones*
from Too Cool For School. Korean beauty is brilliant anyway, and these guys have nailed it.
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I love a good face mask AND those travel ideas are fab!
ReplyDeleteI love getting socks at Christmas, It's a gift I adore! x
ReplyDeleteBeauty products are my absolute favourite to gift and receive - I love trying out new products and brands, so you can never go wrong! I would love to try reusable cotton pads, they're honestly such a great invention!
ReplyDeleteDominika | Into the Bloom
Great suggestions! You really can't go wrong with books at Christmas. I'm ALWAYS happy with books as a gift! x
ReplyDeleteJenny
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I really love your travel-lovers ideas. I wouldn't have thought of it like that but you've included little things that could make a real difference to someone's trip. As a huge bookworm I also always appreciate a good book!
ReplyDeleteBeth x Adventure & Anxiety
Love all of these ideas! The book ones especially! x
ReplyDeleteI need to order those books - I have nothing Christmassy to read AT ALL!! xx
ReplyDeleteI LOVE getting socks in my stocking!
ReplyDeleteErin || MakeErinOver
Lovely gift ideas, I’d love the sheet masks.
ReplyDeletehttps://littlemissmelanie.com/
Socks and books are the perfect Christmas gifts and these are some great picks!
ReplyDeleteSoph - https://sophhearts.com x
Stocking fillers are my fave to buy, I love finding all the little bits and bobs!
ReplyDeleteGemma Louise
I never even thought about proper thinking about their interests. I always get socks and bath stuff haha but I love that you've included books too!x
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Ahh I saw the Full Panda range in Boots today, I was rather intrigued but haven't read any reviews on the line as of yet.
ReplyDeleteAmy x
The July Rose
These are some really great suggestions, beauty gift are always a good one for stockings. Books look so cute too x
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