North STL News Christmas Gift Guide: Top Handcrafted Gifts

North STL News Christmas Gift Guide: Top Handcrafted Gifts
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Christmas shopping for your adult friends and family can be difficult.

To take the guesswork out of buying gifts this year, we at North STL News asked our friends at The Grommet for their latest and greatest practical gift suggestions for 2021.

These guides are geared towards specific interests. You’ll be able to find something for even the toughest person on your Christmas shopping list.

Top 5 Handcrafted Gifts

1) Spinal Alignment Board
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Designed by chiropractors, this wooden posture corrector can help realign your spine—and help you reap the benefits of improved posture like core strength, better breathing, and reduced stress. It stretches the muscles surrounding your spine, using just gravity and your own body weight. Choose risers in the height that matches your body type and fitness level.

2) Featherweight Arc Earring
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April Soderstrom: Featherweight Arc Earring – Small – Silver

3) Gourmet Cookies Sampler 6-Pack
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The Fantastic Fortunes gourmet cookie sampler contains six of their most popular gourmet fortune cookies. The cookies are about the size of a softball (approximately 4″ in diameter) and come with general fortunes inside.

4) Etched Leather Map Journal
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Tactile Craftworks: Etched Leather Map Journal – Pittsburgh, PA

5) DIY Chocolate Truffle Kit
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This DIY Baking Kit for Chocolate Truffles provides all the pre-measured ingredients and a detailed recipe card so you can make gourmet truffles at home. The kit is hand-packed from start to finish by the Red Velvet team in Brooklyn, NY. The ingredients—including cocoa and sugar—are gluten free. This is the easiest way to bake at home, and a memorable activity for the whole family.



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