When your holidays include cozy, beautiful gifts that brighten your life, whether others gift them to you or you gift them to yourself, the season is touched with even more magic and joy. Gifts can help shape your beautiful story and make days more meaningful, and many times they come with a meaningful story themselves. 

CELEBRATE JOYFOLIE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON

The brand Joyfolie, pronounced “joyfully,” has a beautiful soul, as it operates from a foundation of love for family (the founder’s first creation was a pair of handcrafted booties for her infant daughter), personal creativity, special details, and honoring dreams, much of what the holidays are made of, and celebrates femininity with a focus on textures, unique finishes, and careful details. Whether it’s the perfect chunky sweater, a stylish sweater coat with a touch of glam, special, fun, celebratory accessories, or an ideal lacy black dress that can be worn with boots, flats, or heels for a holiday dinner or a date night, or a sparkling standout dress that lights up any holiday event you attend, Joyfolie’s pieces for women and girls, outfit you in joy! Even though this successful brand has sold to fortune-500 companies and worked with well-known retailers like Gap Inc, Anthroplogie, SAKS, and hundreds of boutiques nationwide, it retains a small company ethos, as it works with an intimate team of wonderful women who care passionately about the customer and their dreams. Express your heart this holiday season and give Joyfolie to yourself and the world!

THANK GOD FOR WHAT’S MADE BY MARY

A reason to celebrate this season is what’s Made By Mary; beautiful, thoughtful, and heartfelt personalized jewelry birthed from a journey of pain to triumph. After suffering postpartum depression, fatigue, and confusion about her purpose, this brand’s founder discovered a renewed joy in connecting with other women through her handcrafted creations made from the finest materials that empowered them to share their stories. From a single-woman passion project, Made by Mary has grown to include a team of artisans, designers, and customer service specialists, yet each piece is still personalized and finished by hand by a team of women who honor how the brand began. Made by Mary’s touching jewelry compliments every outfit and is a perfect gift to honor your own beautiful story or a woman you love, this holiday season. 

SPILL THE HOLIDAY TEA OVER A COZY CUP OF TEASEA 

Enjoy telling holiday stories over a favorite cup of tea by Teasea, a brand founded on a love for tea and an obsession with storytelling. Teasea offers exceptional organic tea blends that are ethically sourced, with each represented by a fun, whimsical fairy depicted in original artwork on delightful packaging. Try Griselda green tea, a delicious blend of organic jasmine green tea and green tea, Ophelia oolong tea, a delightful blend of organic oolong tea, apple, orange, calendula, and vanilla, or Petra prism tea, a magical blend of organic green tea, peppermint, rose and butterfly pea flower. In the beautiful spirit of giving, part of Teasea's proceeds go to the National Forest Foundation (NFF) and its campaign to plant trees domestically. Grab a cozy cup of Teasea, and share your favorite holiday stories with loved ones this season. 

SOMETHING FOR EVERY WOMAN ON YOUR LIST: NAUGHTY & NICE BEAUTY

Whether one has been naughty or nice this year, Naughty & Nice Beauty doesn’t judge and offers something for every woman, such as lip gloss in shades from lighter/brighter for those who are “nice” to darker for those who are “naughty.” 

This brand’s beauty-filled story began when a wife and husband joined talents to survive during the pandemic. He had worked in cosmetic manufacturing since he was a teenager for such brands as Neutrogena, Revlon, Estee Lauder, L'Oréal, Hard Candy, Too Faced, Urban Decay, Maybelline, Stila, Giorgio Armani, Lancome, and Anastasia Beverly Hills, amongst others, and she was a makeup artist who gained a passion for all things beauty from watching Mexican telenovelas. Naughty & Nice Beauty’s inspiring story is a reminder that no matter what we face, we can all begin a new, beautiful chapter.