For anyone tired of arriving with a panic-bought bottle. Inside: Vada Ellery's standing housewarming and hostess rotation — the candles, linens, boards, and small luxuries that make you the guest who gets invited back. Sophisticated hostess gift idea...
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Arrive With These
For the New Home
Stock Your Own Gift Shelf
Arrive With These
Arrive with these — the candles, boards, and linens that make you the guest who gets invited back.
The universal hostess answer. Keep three at home, wrapped, for the dinners you forgot.
Mini Capri Blue Volcano Jar Candle
Under a wedge of cheese, it's a gift and a centerpiece at once. For new homeowners especially.
Olive Wood Cutting Boards / Serving Boards
The detail hosts photograph. For the friend who entertains beautifully.
Embroidered Cocktail Napkins with Martini Glass and Personalized Minimalist Script Name
For the non-drinkers and the morning-after. Packaging is half the gift.
Paris
For the New Home
For the new home — the pieces that make four walls feel like hers from week one.
Blankets, toys, or magazines — every new home needs three and owns none. The most-used housewarming gift on this list.
Threshold Woven Decorative Basket
With grocery flowers in it when you arrive. For first apartments and forever homes alike.
Pure White Matte Ceramic Vases
A new house that smells intentional from week one. For the friend mid-unpacking.
Jardin De Verveine | Reed Diffuser
For the first photo taken in the new home. Thoughtful beyond its price.
Wall Frame Antique Brass
Stock Your Own Gift Shelf
Stock your own gift shelf — the emergency elegant gifts, kept wrapped and ready.
Everything you wrap looks expensive. The hostess-gift multiplier.
1" Velvet Ribbon (5yd & 25yd Spool Lengths)
The emergency elegant gift, kept in a cool drawer. For the invitation that arrives Friday for Saturday.
Assorted Chocolate Gold Gift Box, 8pc.
Crackles like a fireplace; suits every house style. For hosts whose taste you don't know yet.
WoodWick scented candle - Mini Hourglass - Fireside
For their powder room, instantly. The gift that gets used the same night.
Linen Waffle Hand Towels Natural
The hostess gift for the powder room — scent at the sink.
Capri Blue Volcano Hand Wash
A plant in a pot worth keeping — the two-part housewarming gift.
Mid-Century Turned Wood Leg Planters
Linen for their table — the gift that hosts a hundred dinners.
