Potholders with pockets can make great gift containers for an assortment of kitchen goodies you put together yourself.
Here’s the gift I picked out: I walked into Williams-Sonoma and picked up a cute Provence pot holder, Chef’n Salad Dressing Emulsifier and some gourmet extra-virgin olive oil in a cute bottle with wax seal and a bottle of Dijon mustard.

Since the Chef’n Salad Dressing Emulsifier contains dressing recipes right on the bottle, I was able to pick out a couple of the ingredients to include with the gift. Another ingredient choice might have been balsamic vinaigrette. You could also opt to include …read more

They say today will be THE busiest postal delivery day of the year…so hop to it.
I think you’ll still be ok with Amazon if you need to ship a last-minute gift.
Ariariana Huffington, founder of the the very influential — if not leftist snarkfest — Huffington Post is kind of an inspiration to me.
Her new book seems to be an uplifting resource that you may want to consider for the young entrepreneur, the young mom, the recently divorced or widowed woman on your list.
Heck, I’m getting it for myself.