Gifts of Heart: Sugared Cranberries, hot chocolate on a stick, granola jars, and fresh soap!

It's the season of creating new exciting cute things giving.  I have a small collection of adorable
  {made with love} gifts ideas for all the good people in your life.

Made-with-love gift list:

  1) sugared cranberries

2) hot chocolate on a stick

3) fresh soap

4) Granola in a jar

1) Cranberry sugars

These sugared cranberries are easy, cute, 

and the perfect mix of sweet and tart.

Soak in sugar bath, roll in super fine sugar, and ta da!

For gifting, I rolled them into jars and tied with lots of yarn to imitate a little warm scarf.

2) Hot Chocolate on a Stick

I discovered Ticket Kitchen's Hot Chocolate on a Stick a couple months ago 

and did the whole "fall head over heels in love" thing!  

Umm, wow.  Too adorable, creative, and still simple. 

I knew I had to have them!  

Ticket Kitchen sells a variety of unique and different flavors. 

(more on these in a future post!)

Hot Chocolate on a Stick is ideal for:

party favors at your Christmas and winter parties,

for gift giving, 

and for hot chocolate bars. 

This tray assortment includes 

Belgium Chocolate, French Dark Truffle, and Salted Caramel.

I tied them up with little strips of washi tape. 

3) Home Made Fresh Soap baskets

My friend from childhood, Sarah, makes the most incredible soap! 

I mean it. 

I actually love it so much that it is the only soap we use now.  

(I will be doing a future blog post on this too!) ;)

I knew it would make the PERFECT lil gift for my loved ones.

I used strawberry crates as baskets and stuffed them with this fresh-smelling goodness. 

The two scents I'm sharing are

Christmas Tree 

and Peppermint.

And this adorable round soap is gingerbread! 

...perfect for the littles.

Another fun gift I love to give is Philosophy products! 

They label their products with the most adorably creative names.  I just eat it up.

Cinnamon buns soap?! Really? 

awww :) 

The last {adorable and unique} idea I want to share

is an idea I found in Country Living Magazine.  

Putting good ol granola in jars for gifts!

4) Jars of Granola

I tied the jars with twine and added sweet tags from Vintage Paper Parade.

Cute, cute, cute.

You can take your favorite granola recipe 

and add in cranberries for a Christmas flavor or ginger and cinnamon for gingerbread granola.

There are MANY recipes online for homemade granola.  Pick your favorite recipe and get after it.  

If you don't like spending time in the kitchen, 

a lot of gourmet shops sell tasty granola flavors for the holidays.   

And, I am for sure my mother's daughter because 

I bake a lot of holiday cookies to eat give in December!  

More on cookies coming soon. 

Happy Gift Giving!

The government makes me say that I was compensated for this post.  However, all thoughts and opinions are my own, and always will be!

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