Tag: gift guide

  • Zelda’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

    Zelda’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

    According to the author Gary Chapman, there are five love languages. Some people offer words of affirmation or acts of service to show they care; others prefer quality time or physical touch. And then, there are the gifters. I’ve never taken Chapman’s quiz, but I have a feeling I fall into category five. I love…

  • Zelda’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017

    Zelda’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017

    Some call it the most wonderful time of the year. Others call it a commercialized, expensive anxiety dream masquerading as fun. I most definitely fall into the former, but I can understand the concerns of my friends in column number two. Gifting can be stressful! There’s a lot of pressure to find the perfect something…

  • Scout’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017

    Scout’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017

    Happy December, y’all! Every year here on Z&S in the days leading up to Christmukkah, we like to provide a little holiday inspiration by bringing you our favorite gift ideas. From the couch potato to the feminist grandma, we’ve scoured the internet to find something for everyone on your list. So without further ado, here are…

  • Zelda’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

    Zelda’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

    It’s that time of year again, y’all! The gifting season is upon us, a time of secret santas and white elephants and wrapping paper galore. I love to gift: Nothing gives me quite the same thrill as finding the perfect present for a particular person, the perfect blend of thoughtful and fun and unique all…

  • The Very Official Z&S Holiday Gift Guide 2015

    The Very Official Z&S Holiday Gift Guide 2015

    ‘Tis the season of gifting. And gift giving can be hard, especially when over half your income is already set aside for the upcoming January rent payment. You’ve got a list a mile long and a budget that won’t give an inch. Lucky for you, Zelda loves to gift, and she’s put her talents to…

  • This is It! The Year That Christmukkah Sweeps the Nation.

    This is It! The Year That Christmukkah Sweeps the Nation.

    Two facts before we start: 1. I love Christmas. Unabashedly. 2. I’m Jewish. So how does a little Jewish girl fall in love with a holiday that she isn’t actually supposed to celebrate? Zelda and I both have a somewhat unique point of view on the winter holidays, having been raised (mostly) Jewish, in the…

  • Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: Totally Awesome

    Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: Totally Awesome

    For the third and final installment of our holiday guide, we have a smorgasbord of items, from the cute to the clever, the nerdy to the holiday appropriate. Some of our favorites, from our web browsers to yours. Happy shopping, and a very happy holiday season to all of y’all! For the Angsty Millenial who…

  • Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: New York

    Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: New York

    Our week of gifts continues! Today we bring you goodies inspired by the city we currently call home, from the brownstones of Brooklyn to the swanky cocktail bars of Manhattan. For the Bookworm: Lost in the Stacks Tote A bag worthy of great works of literature (or the latest Confessions of a Shopaholic novel, up…

  • Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: The South

    Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: The South

    It’s December, and while holiday decorations exploded all over every retail establishment somewhere around Halloween, now is when the pressure really sets in. ‘Tis the season of gifting, of wish lists and dwindling bank accounts. Everyone takes to this process differently. Zelda is a compulsive gifter: Nothing makes her happier than browsing the boutiques (or,…

  • November Round Up, and an Announcement!

    November Round Up, and an Announcement!

    Hey Folks! Welcome to this month’s round-up. We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving and are, like us, already entrenched in full-on holiday mode as December rolls around the bend. We both enjoyed very brief but lovely jaunts to our Old Kentucky Home for the holiday, and even if Zelda only spent 6 hours of…