Christmas shopping for your adult friends and family can be difficult.
To take the guesswork out of buying gifts this year, we at EC Virginia News asked our friends at The Grommet for their latest and greatest practical gift suggestions for 2021.
These guides are geared towards specific interests. You’ll be able to find something for even the toughest person on your Christmas shopping list.
Top 5 Crafts & DIY Gifts
1) Cordage Making Card
The credit card sized, stainless steel cordage making tool creates rope from plastic bottles. The multifunctional cordage created from this tool can be used for hundreds of tasks including gardening and camping. One 2-liter bottle can create over 50 feet of line. Made in the USA.
2) Stitch-Your-Travels Leather Notebook
Over the river and through the woods, you’ll sew your way with this leather travel journal. As you fill the interior with jottings, drawings, and memories, customize the specially perforated leather cover with colorful stitches—creating a keepsake as personal as your path across the planet.
3) DIY Cookie Baking Kit
Red Velvet NYC: Red Velvet NYC Cookies: Mint Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
4) Retractable Ratchet Tie Down Strap
Quickloader: Retractable Ratchet Tie Down Strap – 4500 lbs Breakstrength
5) Make-Your-Own BBQ Sauce Kit
A tasty DIY moment from a make-your-own BBQ sauce kit. It packs everything you need, from gloves to ingredients to bottles, into one kit that can make three bottles-worth of sweet, tangy, or spicy sauce. Stick to the step-by-step instructions or you can flex those creative muscles and try your own recipe. Pick up a few fresh ingredients and you’re ready to get cooking. Made in the USA.
