If your holiday plans include an invitation to a holiday dinner or as a house guest at a relative's home, than a gift specific to the home and the host is perfect.
Cutting Board Gifts
Since almost all invitations to a holiday gathering involves food, a special cutting board makes a thoughtful and useful gift.
There is a wide range of cutting board sizes and styles, many even in animal shapes, or personalized, to choose from. My favorites are the handmade boards I found on Etsy.
Handmade in Walnut, Cherry or Maple wood, in a variety of sizes, the personalized cutting boards at WallThingsCo on Etsy have just the one you want to match the person you are gifting.
If you are going to 'grandma's house' for the holidays, this Nana's Kitchen board is a popular choice. But this Etsy Shop offers a wide variety of choices, or you can choose your own name, saying or design. A lovely choice for your favorite cook.
Coffee Mugs
In town for an overnight or several days visit over the holidays? Then you will be having coffee in the morning with your hostess. Therefore a coffee (or Tea) mug makes the perfect hostess gift. With so many designs and 'sayings' available, it is easy to match one to the person it is for.
To get into, or stay, in the Christmas spirit, consider a coffee mug from this group of vintage Waechtersbach cups made in West Germany.
Six such pretty designs to choose from ~ a Christmas tree, white terrier dogs, a white cat, a 2000 Christmas tree, white snowman, and a shorter Christmas tree mug. They can be found in the Etsy Shop of TheRustyJewels.
Or choose the cutest hostess mug I have ever seen. The ever-popular Yoda on an adorable coffee mug.
Found in the Etsy Shop of Expression Prints, a shop filled with a large variety of mugs with sayings which help you express your thoughts to those you love.
Special Glassware
Glassware makes a lovely gift for your host or hostess. With so many choices, such as a beer steins for HIM or pretty glassware for HER, the choices are endless.
These hand-painted vintage songbird glasses would be a lovely hostess gift to someone who enjoys birdwatching or who enjoys the bird feeders in their back yard.
Available in the Etsy Shop of 'Shop the Leo Collective'.
And as a dandy gift for HIM, choose this handmade frosted glass Christmas beer mug from the North Pole Brewing Company.
It's available in the Etsy Shop of Hippie Radio Boutique.
Summary
Hopefully, this gift guide will allow you to be prepared for that host/hostess gift for those holiday invitations.
Happy Holidays!
