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Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Handmade Gifts, Artisan Bakes & Mindful Living Treasures

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Soulful Holiday Gift Guide: Handmade & Mindful Treasures for the Season

The holidays are a time of connection, reflection, and giving from the heart. If you’re searching for thoughtful holiday gifts that carry meaning and intention, handmade treasures are always the answer. This year, I’m excited to share my Holiday Gift Guide filled with soulful offerings that nourish body, mind, and spirit. Every gift has been created with love, care, and mindfulness — because the best presents are the ones that carry a story.

Handmade Skincare & Wellness Gifts

  • Whipped Body Butter – Luxuriously rich and hydrating, perfect for soothing dry winter skin.
  • Bath Salts & Bath Bombs – Infused with essential oils for relaxation, stress relief, and a spa-like experience at home.
  • Essential Oil Blends – Custom-crafted aromas to inspire calm, focus, or joy throughout the season.

? Artisan & Homemade Food Gifts

*baked goods local people only

  • Christmas Jam – A seasonal favorite made with care, ideal for sharing around the holiday table.
  • Artisan Sourdough Bread – Hand-crafted, crusty, and perfect for gifting or enjoying with family gatherings.
  • Scones & Muffins – Tender and comforting baked goods, baked with love.
  • Homemade Cookies – Classic, heartwarming treats that bring a smile to every bite.

Mindful Living & Inspiration

This year has been a journey of resilience, gratitude, and joy. Out of that experience came my newest release:
52 Weeks of Wisdom & Wellness: A Year of Mindful Living 
This book is more than words on a page — it’s an invitation to weave rituals of mindfulness, presence, and gratitude into everyday life. A meaningful holiday gift for anyone seeking inspiration and healing in the year ahead.

Why Handmade Gifts Matter

Handmade gifts aren’t just things you buy — they are extensions of love, intention, and care. In a season that often feels rushed, they bring us back to what truly matters: thoughtfulness, connection, and joy. Whether it’s a jar of jam, a hand-blended oil, or a book filled with mindful practices, these gifts are created to be cherished.

 Order early to ensure your handmade treasures are ready for holiday giving! Every purchase supports my healing journey and allows me to keep sharing mindfulness, movement, and soulful creations with you.

See the entire holiday gift guide here!

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And, thank you so much for you continued support and well wishes. xo, Stacie

Raise Your Vibration Essential Oil Blend

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Raise Your Vibration: A Soulful Essential Oil Blend for Energy & Alignment

There are seasons in life when our energy feels heavy, scattered, or dimmed. It might come from stress, emotional overwhelm, or simply moving too fast for too long. In those moments, we need more than a surface-level fix—we need a shift. A clearing. A way back to our deeper self.

This is where Raise Your Vibration was born—a handcrafted essential oil blend to support your energy, clarity, emotional balance, and spiritual alignment. It’s not just a beautiful aroma. It’s a gentle nudge back to your inner light.

What’s Inside This Vibrational Blend

Each oil was selected not only for its physical benefits, but for the way it speaks to your energy field—clearing what weighs you down, and uplifting what helps you rise.

Lavender
Soothes the nervous system and clears mental chatter. It helps dissolve tension and creates space for peace to settle in.

Clary Sage
Supports clarity, intuition, and emotional processing. It clears stagnant thoughts and helps open the pathway to inner knowing.

Sweet Basil
Energizing and emotionally purifying. Basil revives tired energy and brings focus back to your breath, your body, your now.

Frankincense
Offers deep grounding and spiritual presence. It quiets the mind, deepens the breath, and connects you to something sacred.

Patchouli
Anchors the body while softening emotional overwhelm. Patchouli reminds you to stay present—to root down as you rise.

Ylang Ylang
Balances the heart and welcomes in joy, creativity, and softness. It helps release emotional tension and reconnects you with your own tenderness.

Together, these oils invite you to:

  • Clear emotional and energetic heaviness
  • Ground your body while elevating your spirit
  • Reconnect to your inner wisdom and joy
  • Embrace balance between clarity and calm

How to Use “Raise Your Vibration”

This blend is best used with intention. Treat it as part of your daily ritual or a sacred pause during transition.

  • Apply to pulse points (wrists, behind ears, over the heart) while taking three slow, conscious breaths
  • Roll onto the solar plexus and heart center to align with confidence and compassion
  • Use before meditation, yoga, journaling, or sleep to create a container of calm, clarity, and focus
  • Keep it nearby for emotional support on days when you feel unsteady, unclear, or overwhelmed

Let this blend be a reminder to return. Again and again. Not to perfection—but to presence.

Pairing Crystal: Lepidolite

To deepen the vibration of this blend, I recommend pairing it with Lepidolite—a gentle yet powerful stone of emotional balance, energetic clearing, and nervous system regulation. Lepidolite contains natural lithium, often associated with calming mood and soothing emotional tension.

Hold Lepidolite during your breath practice, place it on your heart during meditation, or simply carry it in your pocket while wearing the blend to help anchor peaceful clarity throughout your day.

Together, Raise Your Vibration and Lepidolite create a grounding yet uplifting energetic container—one that says:

You are safe to soften.
You are safe to expand.
You are safe to shine.

A Final Reflection

Raising your vibration doesn’t mean escaping the hard moments—it means meeting them with presence, compassion, and the tools that remind you of who you are. May this blend, and the ritual it inspires, become a steady companion as you walk your path.

You don’t need to be perfect to glow.
You just need to return—to breath, to earth, to the wisdom already within you.

To learn more about the basic uses of essential oils download this free ebook as my gift!

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If you would love to be part of my essential oil community and are ready to start using pure essential oils, shop here or email me for a free 1:1 consultation.

Gift Giving Guide

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Giving a gift from a small business is giving a gift twice. – Anonymous

It is such a special treat to receive a handmade gift and I am thrilled to have put together a variety of my favorites things to make and use. I cannot wait for your loved ones to get some of these unique items.

Gratitude Essential Oil Blend

$22

This perfectly crafted blend is my most popular mingling of aroma and gemstones. This wonderful scent will instantly shift your mood towards a place of abundance and gratitude. Apply to the wrists, behind the ears and on the heart.

  • Siberian fir helps in breaking negative emotional and spiritual patterns
  • Frankincense raises awareness and helps to shine your bright light
  • Grapefruit teaches us to appreciate who we are
  • Wild Orange brings abundance, a bright future and gladness to the heart
  • Geranium is heart opening and helps one to feel security in what you do have
  • Clove instills personal power and a sense of protection and integrity
  • Amber chips are a fossilized tree resin. Amber radiates laughter, vitality, and courage. This stone holds the protective energy of our beloved trees, the guardians of Earth. Amber helps to alleviate stress. Amber clears depression, stimulates the intellect and promotes self-confidence and creative self-expression. It encourages decision-making, spontaneity and brings wisdom, balance and patience.

Aromatherapy Bath Salts

$8

These gorgeous tubes make great stocking stuffers, teacher gifts or special offerings for loved ones. Each tube is filled with epsom salt, lavender petals and soothing essential oils to bring a spa like experience for the lucky recipient. One tube will fill one or two baths.

Woodsy Beard Oil

$20

Give the men in your life this wonderful, woodsy beard oil. It will be grounding and spicy and make their stubble feel soft and shiny.

Bath Fizzies

$20 for 10 Fizzies

There is nothing like sinking into a tub with a hot bubbly tub with fizzing bath bombs. If you know me well, it is my ultimate form of self-care. I have mastered the bath bomb and have found the perfect combination for a deep relaxation for the body. These smell amazing and are also so good for the skin and detoxing the body.

Custom Essential Oil Blend

$22

Do you have a special person in mind that would love a little remedy to help them sleep? Maybe manage some aches and pains? Boost immunity? Feel calm and centered? When you purchase this, you and I will chat and find the perfect blend for your loved one!

Body Butter

$25

This fan favorite is a popular gift for anyone! Handmade with natural shea butter and pure essential oils this creamy skin soothing butter is the perfect gift. Not only does this smell amazing but it is a completely natural and skin loving cream that makes the skin feel so soft.

How to Order

To simplify the process of ordering, simply email me below (or you can text me) and tell me which items you would like and if you will be picking them up, or if you’d like me to ship them. I will email you back a confirmation and a total. You can venmo, Zelle, PayPal or good old fashioned cash.

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Thank you!

So many of you have been so supportive of me during this unusual time in our lives. I am so blessed that I can continue to share my passion and touch your life. It means a lot to me that you know that you are very important to me, and I am incredibly grateful that our paths have crossed. I believe that now more than ever, we need to recognize the people and meaningful connections that we all have.

As always, it is my hope that you stay healthy and happy in your mind, body and spirit.

xo, Stacie