Gift Guide #7: Your Brilliant Friend Who Always Orders Potatoes-for-the-Table at Breakfast.

Pearl earrings, $36, to wear to dinners, museums, dates, parties, everywhere all winter (would look extra pretty with lipstick!); or a poppy red wallet for essentials.

A sardines kit, $26, to embroider while watching Murder, She Wrote reruns. It’s called BEING COOL, YOU GUYS.

Scalloped baskets, $26. I keep one in our kitchen for cloth napkins, and another in our living room for various chargers. Lovely and useful!

Nightgown that feels straight out of a Jane Austen film, $107, or crisp cotton pjs, $46.

Charm necklace with fun charms, $44, or a heart pendant because you love her.

A great book you read this year, like Isle McElroy’s People Collide, in which a husband and wife wake up to realize they’ve switched bodies; or Ilyon Woo’s widely acclaimed Master Slave Husband Wife, which tells the incredible true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery in disguise. From $24.

Stockholm pepper grinder (adorable at 4″) that does an excellent job, $49, because so many easily break! Plus, a few of your favorite peppery recipes. (Hat tip to Youngna.)

A toiletries pouch for traveling: flowers, striped, rose or scallops. From $38.

Foot reflexology at a local spot. (I give gift certificates here regularly.)

Or dinner and dessert, just the two of you, since that’s what she wants most anyway. xo

P.S. The 2022 gift guide for friends, the 2021 gift guide for friends, and the 2020 gift guide for friends. Plus, the 2023 gift guide so far.

(Massage photo by Lumina/Stocksy.)

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