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Day Four: Gift Guide for Your Bestie!

There are a lot of gift guides floating around the blog world this time of year.  Gift guides for your mom, husband, children, coworker….you name it and it’s out there.  But I haven’t seen one for your best friend just yet, and today that’s what I’m going to share with you!

My best friend and I don’t exchange gifts on Christmas because we still do birthday gifts for each other, but if we were exchanging gifts with each other, these would be some top contenders!


For those of you linking up with us today for gift guides, grab our graphic and link back to both Victoria and I!


 Don’t we all need a fancy cookbook?!  After I gift my bestie with this cookbook, I expect her to make me a meal from it haha!



I love all things personalized, and an initial necklace is perfect for your bestie!  You could get her first initial or last name initial and gold goes with everything.  Plus, this necklace is inexpensive 🙂



After eating from Cravings, both you and your bestie are going to need to work out.  I’m pretty obsessed with mid-length leggings right now.  I feel like they work on everyone regardless of height.  And everyone has a pair of black leggings and not everyone looks great (or loves) crazy print leggings, so grab her a pair of solids that would go with lots of different colors!



Can you tell I bond over food?  I love this gift.  It’s cheap.  And it comes with everything you would need to make beautiful Christmas cookies.  Once you make and decorate a batch, you can split them (and then wear those leggings to work out haha!).  But in all seriousness, I would love to know how to make those beautifully iced sugar cookies!


Be sure to link up with us for our next link up days!
  • December 9th What’s In My Bag: Christmas Edition
  • December 12th Favorite Holiday Recipes
  • December 13th Your Holiday Outfits
  • December 14th Christmas Card

December 15th  How do you make Christmas about more than gifts and the craziness associated with the season?

When Your Friends Live Far Away…

I am a firm believer in sending mail to those you love.  I know whenever I receive something in the mail unexpectedly from someone (like when my sister randomly sends me cards–and I love them…thank you Rach!), I feel so loved and cherished.  Since it’s the Christmas season, I wanted to love on those that I couldn’t be with during this time of the year.  We don’t need to forget the power of regular mail!

With that being said, this year I knew I wanted to bake something (because it’s my favorite) to send to long-distance friends.  I baked these S’mores bars (and doubled the recipe) last Wednesday night.  After letting them cool all night, I cut them up on Thursday and packaged them in these containers that I picked up at Walmart.  I enclosed a little handwritten note with each package when I mailed them Thursday afternoon.

I mailed them to my two BFFS in Alabama and to a blog friend in Texas.  My Alabama girls received theirs the next day and here’s what they sent me!

Mary Beth thought they were great!


….I didn’t really think about how they would mail.  Luckily, they tasted much better than they looked!


And Janie decided to send me a play by play of her getting, opening, eating, and judging my food!
Hopefully this encourages you to send something unexpected to a friend (or even neighbor)!  Never underestimate how a little mail can make someone feel so appreciated and valued!

Linking up with Jenn today!

Spring Box Exchange

This was my first ever time participating in a blogger gift box exchange.  I was really excited to participate and signed up with Rachel from Floral and Fudge.  The only guidelines she gave us were that our gift boxes had to be a spring theme and cost no more than $15 (and that didn’t include shipping costs).  We were emailed an address of another blogger and a different blogger received our address.  

Astleigh from Hill Collection mailed me the CUTEST spring box ever!

 This is how my package arrived.  She did WAY better than I did at packaging the box.  My poor girl received hers in an envelope because the postal worker told me it would be five dollars cheaper, and I was running late to take my centerpiece to the ladies luncheon.  (So sorry Keri!)  Once I opened this box, I could not wait to dig in!

Can I say how much I love that metal S?!?!  I’m already planning on putting it on a bookshelf in the office of our new home.  She put the cutest handwritten note card in my box and even gave me a set of them!  I’m a sucker for notecards.  I got cute pens to use to write in the notecards or the journal that she gave me.  My husband said it looked like it would come from Anthropologie–which I love 🙂  The candle was lit the day I received the box, and now stays in our guest bath!

I really enjoyed participating in this gift exchange and can’t wait to do another!  It’s so nice to receive mail these days (that isn’t a bill ha!) and getting a package full of goodies is like icing on the cake!!