Gifts That Inspire Creativity
Whether they're a fine artist, designer, crafter, or they love gardening or knitting, the creative people in your life present a really great opportunity for gift giving. Give them something to help them along their unique creative journey; a tool to encourage their creative skills or something beautiful to get them inspired!
For the Artist or Designer:
1-Art Supply Box: This wood box looks so much more chic than the typical plastic ones, and it has lots of compartments for organizing paint tubes, palette knives, and anything else needed for making art.
2-Letterpress Grid Paper from Case for Making - This truly unique watercolor paper is embossed into a grid that can be used in many different ways - testing color palettes, mini composition studies, or story-boarding. They’re assembled by hand in San Francisco, California. Case for Making also have their own line of beautiful watercolor paints!
3-Creative Tablet - This tablet can be connected to a computer to do practically anything creative. Perfect for graphic designers, illustrators who want to draw and paint digitally, and photographers who need more precision when editing their images.
Bonus Gift: A subscription to Skillshare or Creative Live.
For the Cook:
1-High Quality Knife: Every aspiring chef needs a good quality chefs knife, and every seasoned cook can always use another!
2-Oven-to-Table Serving Bowl Set: This nifty set makes serving straight from the oven a breeze. The acacia wood stand makes any dish look more elegant and protects your table from heat.
3-Rustic Linen Apron: I love the leather straps and conveniently large pockets on this apron.
For the Maker:
1-Blanket Knitting Kit: This kit has everything needed to make a gorgeous chunky throw, and it’s even perfect for beginners. The yarn is composed of natural wool and comes in so many great colors. I particularly love the “bronzed olive” color.
2-Well Made Scissors: Any maker can use a nice, reliable, and long-lasting pair of scissors. These are made of carbon steel.
3-Poketo Project Planner: This unique planner offers different page layouts to not only organize daily, weekly, and monthly tasks, but also provides a blueprint for breaking down large projects into smaller, achievable steps.
For the Gardener:
1-Terrarium: Putting together a terrarium is a fun creative activity - gather stones, moss, small succulents or indoor plants and create a mini garden for your gardener, or gift them all the components so they can assemble it on their own.
2-Specimen Kit: For gardeners and nautre-lovers alike, this specimen collecting kit will inspire their inner naturalist.
3-Copper Bird Feeder: Bird watching can be a calming and inspiring activity, made even more enjoyable with a pretty bird feeder.
Inspiring Books:
1-Making a Life: In today’s modern world, why do we still make things with our hands, and why do we strive to make things beautiful? Author Melanie Falick set out to answer this question by taking a trip around the world, meeting various makers, crafters, and artisans along the way to ask what drives them.
2-Great Women Artists: This coffee table book features successful women artists from throughout history until today, names that were previously left out of all the major Art History textbooks.
3-Creative Calling: This book for anyone who feels the creative pull but isn’t sure how to put it into practice. It’s also great for someone who is creative on a regular basis, but is feeling a little stuck or wants to go deeper.
PS. Between posts you can find me on Instagram sharing highlights of daily life.
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Photo: Victoria Pearson
