Welcome to the Pixie Christmas Gift Guide 2015: secret santa & teachers gifts

We would love to help take some of the stress away for you this Christmas & help with the Christmas gift shopping. We have been working hard to source a fabulous selection of gifts and have showcased a few of our favourites in this guide

All these items are available from our retail store at 555 Manukau Road, Greenwods Corner, Epsom, Auckland and most can be purchased online: www.pixiepartysupplies.co.nz

Here are our top picks for 'secret santa' & teachers gifts

These fabulous Lalaland colouring books make lovely gifts. They're a great size for popping in your bag to take with you when you're travelling, sitting in a waiting room or going out for the day.

We've got six different designs to choose from, you can view them all here

One of our favourite gifts for secret santa, teacher gifts and those really hard to buy for people are filled jars. Add a few embellishments such as ribbon or bakers twine & a tag & it’s ready to go.

We have a variety of bottles & jars to choose from & here’s some inspiration for filling:

• fill with someone’s favourite lollies or make it festive with candy canes
• get a couple of small jars - fill one with hot chocolate & the other with mini marshmallows - tie a big ribbon or washi tape around them both and gift together
• create a pamper package - pop in some nice hand cream, body lotion & a little scented candle or how about a foot scrub, pumice stone, toe separators & nail polish

Also check out our 'Mad about mason jars' board on Pinterest for heaps more ideas

You can view our full Christmas range including all our gift ideas here: Christmas

Welcome to the Pixie Christmas Gift Guide 2015: for the baker

We would love to help take some of the stress away for you this Christmas & help with the Christmas gift shopping. We have been working hard to source a fabulous selection of gifts and have showcased a few of our favourites in this guide

All these items are available from our retail store at 555 Manukau Road, Greenwods Corner, Epsom, Auckland and most can be purchased online: www.pixiepartysupplies.co.nz

Here are our top picks for the baker

Cookie cutters

Santa lollypop mould

Cooking books

A great range of cupcake kits 

This is just a small selection of our full range. We have heaps of Christmas gifts in store & online

Stay tuned as we will be launching the full gift guide as a series of posts over the next few weeks

Cute ideas for Valentines Day

I've seen lots of cute inexpensive Valentines ideas with clever plays on words so I thought I would share my favourites. There are links included to the printables too, hope they provide some inspiration.

I love these free printables from Hostess with the Mostess: peanut butter and jelly, donuts and coffee, milk and cookies and pie with whipped cream. Here's the link to download: "Perfect Pairings" Valentine Cards

I dig you! These labels are available to purchase as a download file from Abigail Christine Design's Etsy shop, here's the link direct to them: Hey Valentine...I Dig You by Abigail Christine Design

Need a Valentines idea for someone who loves fishing? How about this great idea from www.shakentogetherlife.com, a Candy Tackle Box

I love this idea also shared on www.shakentogetherlife.com - we go together like peas & carrots :0) If you like the baking cases they've used we have the same ones available in several colours (including the green ones): Sundays baking cases / portion-cups

These whale cookies are so clever - check out www.bakerella.com and see how to create them using a Santa cookie cutter!

If you're looking for pretty lolly bag toppers there are some fun ideas over at www.thebusybudgetingmama.com and there's a cute 'be mine' cake topper too

And here are some fun sugar free alternatives ...

These would be fun to pop in the kids lunchboxes (make sure you use edible markers for the apples & pears if you try these!). Here's the link to all the info: cakewhiz.com

Or you can do similar with these printables from alphamom.com

I found lots of other fun ideas over at Alpha Mom as well, these Hersheys kiss lighthouses were my favourites

This is a nice idea from www.dandee-designs.com for the kids to make for their class mates

Found over at WifeMomGeek.com - mini sports balls. You can download the printables here: sports valentines printables

These Tiny Animal Valentines shared by Sweet C's Designs are a great idea for the boys, here's the link to the printables: tiny animal valentines

Here's a cute idea for someone crafty - printables can be downloaded from lilluna.com and if you need some bakers twine we've got pink, green, blue, orange & black in stock at the moment

There are some more great candy free ideas over at www.growingajeweledrose.com

And if you just need a fun little tag to add to your gift check out these pun-tastic ideas from www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com

I hope you've found some ideas here and if you have any other please post a link in the comments as we would love to check them out

Cute Christmas packaging ideas

Here's a few simple but effective packaging & gift ideas for Christmas

Soap tied with bakers twine and a thank you stickers are nice little thank you gifts. 

My daughter will be giving these as teacher gifts this year.

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And how's this for super easy - a chocolate bar dressed as a snowman. These would be cute for the kids to give their friends.

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I love this idea using block bottom kraft paper bags and turning them into reindeer. 

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Or how about snowmen using white bags or Christmas trees from green bags

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There are heaps of ideas around for 'gifts in a jar' but I think this is one of my favourites ... the pamper jar. These ones contain fluffy socks, bubble bath, lip balm, hand cream and chocolate. 

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If you're giving cookies as gifts we've got some lovely boxes

or how about recycling some Pringle containers

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And these are sure to bring a smile ... Oreo Elf feet! 

Here's the tutorial & template: www.thediaryofdaveswife.com

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And here's some lovely sets which contain everything you need to package homemade sweet treats, jams & pickles to give as gifts.

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These Christmas house themed cupcake boxes are super cute! You could also fill them with homemade truffles or fudge. Or how about little soaps or bath bombs.

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Little favour boxes are a sweet way to package small items such as jewellery. They are also nice filled with a few chocolates as gifts for clients - thanks to a local beauty therapist for this idea who just purchased lots of these to make up as little thank you gifts for her customers :0)

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This looks like a really simple & effective way to wrap presents

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And here's a fun way to decorate bottles of beer or any any other bottles you're giving as a gift

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*** Want to get in the draw to win a pack of the small cupcake boxes featured here? To get in the draw just leave a comment telling us which idea was your favourite - make sure you include your email address in your comment so we can contact you if you're the winner! We will do a random draw at 7.30pm on Friday 6th December 2013 and will email the winner :0)
Note: competition open to New Zealand residents only ***


If you have any other ideas I would love to see some photos so feel free to post pics or links here or over on our facebook page