Christmas Holiday Gift Ideas

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Custom Silhouette

Southerners revel in family heirlooms. Give a gift that will hang prominently on the wall for generations to come.

Buy It: Custom Silhouette by Clay Rice, $40; paperbuzz.com

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Dogwood Tree

A live dogwood tree will let happiness bloom long before Christmas Day.

Buy It: Just Because Dogwood Tree, $44; seedsoflife.com

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State Cutting Boards

Cook in style with state-shaped cutting boards.

Buy It: $40; aheirloom.com

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Casserole Carrier

The casserole carrier is the perfect way to tote your favorite dish to family parties, tailgate gatherings, friends' houses, or holiday parties. Made with a laminated printed canvas exterior and a bright colored interior, the casserole carrier is made to fit a 13- x 9-inch dish or smaller. It also features an exterior pocket large enough to hold your serving utensils.

Buy It: $48; vonny.com

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Letterpress Recipe Cards

These cards are the perfect gift for a house-warming, a food lover, or a new bride. If you are hosting a bridal shower, you can distribute them to guests before the party and have them copy their favorite recipes for the bride-to-be.

Buy It: $40/set of 45 assorted; moontreeletterpress.com

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Personalized Plates

These darling melamine plates will get your little ones started on the South's obsession with table settings.

Buy It: $26; littleuni.com

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Needlepoint Coasters

Spread the love this Christmas with this Peace and Love Coaster Set.

Buy It: $48; jonathanadler.com

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Wallpaper Round Decoupaged Plate

This cheerful plate to brightens a kitchen or dining room. 5 3⁄4-inch size is pictured.

Buy It: $48; johnderian.com; 212/677-3917*

*Orders must be placed by phone. Allow 4 weeks for delivery; these products are handmade.

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Coffee Table Books

Stealing Magnolias: Tales from a New Orleans Courtyard, by Debra Shriver
Buy It: $37.80; amazon.com

The Home Within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms, by Bobby McAlpine
Buy It: $48.83; amazon.com

At Home: A Style for Today with Things from the Past, by Suzanne Rheinstein,
Buy It: $34.65; amazon.com

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MOR Soap Trio

Each collectible tin contains a trio of elegantly hand-wrapped soaps that produce a rich, silky lather with award-winning fragrances.

Buy It: $40 for 3; morcosmetics.com

Christmas Holiday Gift Ideas: Nest and Egg Bubble Bath No. 2

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Nest and Egg Large Bubble Bath No. 2

Luxurious chattering bubbles boast extract of Japanese green tea, hydrating avocado, and olive oils and vitamin E.

Buy It: $36 each; tokyo-milk.com

1,001 Ways To Cook Southern Cookbook

Our most comprehensive cookbook ever published, 1,001 Ways To Cook Southern features 928 pages packed with the distinctly Southern recipes you love. Learn how to bake flawless fluffy biscuits and the perfect praline, straight from our Test Kitchen, plus so much more.

Buy It: $23.07; amazon.com

Monogrammed Plates

Dallas-based Kelly Wilson embellishes antique plates with hand-painted initials.

Buy It: $48 each; kellywilsonantiques.com

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Cherry Butter Dish and Knife

Husband-and-wife woodworkers Sue and Stan Jennings hand-shape and sand their wood kitchen utensils on their 40-acre farm in Preston County, West Virginia.

Buy It: $48 (butter dish) and $4.50 (knife); spooners.com

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Coffee Cups

Sip your morning joe from one of Soup Studios’ generous 18-ounce ceramic cups—handcrafted, glazed, and fired by potter Jamie Voivedich in Athens, Georgia.

Buy It: $27 each; soupstudios.com

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Beeswax Candles

These earthy, unscented Seda Naturals 100% beeswax candles are hand-poured into German glass jars in Austin, Texas.

Buy It: $15 (small), $35 (large); sedafrance.com