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- This holiday gift guide highlights five ideas for women from Louisville-area businesses and artists.
- Gift suggestions include a cocktail kit, locally made soaps, and stackable bracelets.
- The items range in price from $10 for soap to over $85 for jewelry.
Happy Holidays, Louisville! If you’re looking to pamper or treat the woman in your life, this is the list for you.
This holiday season, we’ve tracked down some gift ideas for “her” from some of the most iconic artists and businesses in Kentuckiana. Whether you’re piling gifts under the tree for your friends from college, mom, sister or favorite aunt ― we’ve got you covered.
Here are five Christmas gift ideas for women during the 2025 holiday shopping season:
Local cocktail expert and author Jennifer Brian has released a gift kit that features her new book “Classic Cocktail Revival.” The book is suitable for anyone who likes cocktails, whether they’ve dabbled in making drinks before or are looking for a good way to test their cocktail abilities.
The kit includes a copy of the book as well as a 16-ounce cocktail mixer from her company Make & Muddle. The kit is available locally at Scout and online at makeandmuddle.com.
COST: $59.98
LOCATION: 3626 Brownsboro Road, Suite 10, Louisville, scoutonmarket.com
My City Soap bars are made with olive oil, coconut oil, organic Shea butter, various essential/fragrance oils, and natural mica powder.
Each bar is named for a distinct part or trait of the Derby City, such as Butchertown Black Sea, NuLu Lemon, Highlands Mint Julep, Bardstown Old Fashioned and Luavul Lavender.
Revelry is a curated boutique and gallery that features more than 100 artists. In addition to My City Soaps, the shop offers several other bath and self-care items.
COST: $10
LOCATION: 742 E. Market St., Louisville, revelrygallery.com
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Clater Jewelers has helped families celebrate the holiday season for 75 years. This Louisville institution, which is run by the second and third generations of the family-owned business, offers a wide range of fine jewelry.
These delicate bracelets ― a gold-filled initial beaded bracelets, a pearl and gold vermeil bracelets, and silver and gold filled bead bracelet ― are stackable, and start at $85 each.
COST: $85+
LOCATION: 1201 Herr Lane, Suite 170, Louisville, claterjewelers.com
Louisville-based artist and illustrator Bri Bowers created this playing card deck as a love letter to Taylor Swift’s storytelling.
The deck includes 54 original illustrations, and the Swiftie in your life will find dozens of references to musical artist’s diverse collection of albums as well as plenty of Taylor Swift lore.
Bowers is widely known in Louisville for her watercolor series depicting Louisville landmarks and restaurants. The cards and Bower’s other works are available for purchase at her online store, at various boutiques around Louisville, or for pick-up by appointment at her studio on South Shelby Street.
COST: $28
LOCATION: 1259 S. Shelby St., Louisville, bribowers.com
This handmade “Mother’s Vase” was created by locally owned Zimmerman’s Art Glass in Corydon, Indiana, which is the second oldest family-run studio glass factory in the United States.
The vase is designed for small flowers, specifically, the tiny blooms children pick for their mothers from the yard in the spring.
The Mercantile New Albany is curated market that sells new, artisan, vintage and antique goods. The shop also offers a variety of other pieces from Zimmerman’s, starting at $12.
COST: $40-70
LOCATION: 128 W. Main St., New Albany, Indiana, themercantilenewalbany.com.
Reach Courier Journal features columnist Maggie Menderski at [email protected].
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