Wish List: 23 Gift Ideas for the Holiday Season

• Jingle Shell: Chill bubbly or arrange festive florals in Jayson Home’s nautilus vessel ($295; jaysonhome.com). (Pictured top.)

• Cocktail Napkins: It’s almost a shame to obscure marble-motif cotton napkins from Texan Courtney Barton with a cocktail ($64 for six; shopcourtneybarton.com).

• Flask:  The quail-adorned sterling-silver flask by Grainger McKoy slips as easily into a stocking as it does a back pocket ($1,200; graingermckoy.com).

• Pitcher: Stir up Christmas morning Bloody Marys in a Blue Pheasant handblown glass pitcher with a fittingly yule-green tortoiseshell print ($174; shopbluepheasant.com).

• Coupes: Consider these La DoubleJ coupes, shaped from hand-blown Murano glass, instant jewelry for the bar ($550 for two; us.ladoublej.com).

• Cocktail Picks: Skewer olives, lemons, limes, pickled okra, an annoying neighbor, you name it, with a sparkling antler cocktail pick from Joanna Buchanan ($128 for six; joannabuchanan.com).

• Beer Glass: Wouldn’t a warming bourbon-barrel-aged milk stout taste even better in one of MATCH’s Italian-made pewter-based pint glasses ($92; match1995.com)?

• Serving Tray: Bringing out a second round of martinis for your party guests gets a lot easier with a glass-bottomed Hunt & Bloom rattan tray—it’s practically wobble-proof ($105; huntandbloom.com).

• Bottle Stopper: Don’t get all shook up if you’re bored with glass or metal stoppers. Plug your pinot noir with a ceramic Elvis made for Nickey Kehoe instead ($70; nickeykehoe.com).

• Wine Key: A fine wine deserves a fine tool, like this corkscrew-knife combo from Kevin’s Fine Outdoor Gear and Apparel ($48; kevinscatalog.com).

• Jigger: Double guns? How about double duty. That’s what a pewter Lab jigger from Croghan’s Jewel Box pulls with aplomb ($110; croghansjewelbox.com).

• Case: Après-hunt, in a nutshell: Rather, make that a walnut and felt bottle and shot-glass case from Kevin’s Fine Outdoor Gear and Apparel ($1,500; kevinscatalog.com).

• Decanter: Perhaps no Southern maker crafts more beautiful handblown decanters than Terrane Glass Co. ($200; ggfieldshop.com).

• Footed Bowl: Boost your vitamin C (and your mood) by boosting fruit up on a splatterware bowl, made in Grottaglie, Italy, especially for Reed Smythe ($220; reedsmythe.com).

• Napkin Rings: East Fork’s set of charming little curlicued rings, mouth-blown from recycled glass, will have you rapt and your napkins wrapped ($38 for four; eastfork.com).

• Table Linens: Set a jubilant scene with napkins and a tablecloth made in Portugal for Goldie Home, created by turning the likes of watercolor paintings into patterns to manifest a dramatic motif ($20 per napkin, $275 for tablecloth; goldie-home.com).

• Oyster Knife: A bottle opener and an oyster knife? Three finishes, achieved by tumbling each with Apalachicola bivalves and Tennessee river stones? With a portion of all purchases supporting the Apalachicola Riverkeeper? Heartwood Forge does it again ($150; heartwoodforge.com).

• Serving Spoon: Please, please pass the leafy greens and homey casseroles, especially if we can scoop them out using this gorgeous brass-cast shell spoon by East Fork ($38; eastfork.com).

• Flatware: What happens when it’s been thirty years since you made a wedding registry? You spruce up your dinner parties by putting these pearlescent five-piece flatware sets by Blue Pheasant on your holiday wish list ($148 for set; shopbluepheasant.com).

• Dinnerware: One look at the Italian-made green marbled charger, dinner, and salad plates commissioned by Blake Sams and his Wentworth taste-makers may convince you they aren’t a want—they’re a need ($48–$68 each; shopwentworth.com).

• Panettone: Union Special, a Raleigh bakery, will turn out two panettone flavors for mail order this season, triple chocolate and this sweet Southern spin: pecan and sweet potato sorghum ($30–$58; unionspecialbread.com).

• Jacket: Dress Relwen’s relaxed, soft-shouldered blazer in gun-check wool up for a swinging holiday shindig or down for a neighborhood oyster roast ($358; huckberry.com).

• Dress: Texas fashion designer Christy Lynn Lee draws on ethereal silhouettes for looks like this silk chiffon frock ($750; christylynn.com).

• Bracelet and Ring: The double South Sea pearl bangle ($9,300) and Kasumiga and Akoya pearl cocktail ring ($2,700) from Pearls by Shari bring the Southern tradition of wearing pearls thoroughly up to date (pearlsbyshari.com).

• Lighter Case: You’ll be the light of the party with this bejeweled confection of a lighter cover by Edie Parker (in collaboration with Wes Anderson, no less) on hand ($85; edie-parker.com).

• Earrings: The Texas jewelry designer Susana Vega uses hundreds of tiny glass beads to create rich color and dimension in her groovy drop earrings ($665; susanavegajewelry.com).

• Necklace: The definition of a statement necklace: Individual scarabs sculpted from rose gold and silver and then ornamented with brown and white diamonds, sapphires, amethysts, and tsavorites—and even a few real scarab wings—make for an otherworldly Bibi van der Velden necklace ($63,350; tinygods.com).

• Charm Bracelet: Try your luck with this new Monica Rich Kosann design, a yellow-gold chain festooned with fortune-friendly charms studded with diamonds, a sapphire, and even a blue moonstone ($2,800; monicarichkosann.com).

• Bag: Ditch the handbag that looks identical to so many others and opt instead for an inventive piece by Argentinean Mecha Mendez, popping with the brand’s signature gaucho-braided straps ($445; mechamendez.com).

• Ornaments: Swag out the boughs of your fir with scads of Vietri’s new striped glass ornaments for dramatic effect ($69 each; vietri.com).

• Lamp: Ward + Gray partnered with Venetian artists on a lighting collection that includes this table lamp ($1,850–$2,200; wardandgray.com).

• Book: Marvel at Savannah event designer Rebecca Gardner’s überparties in her entertaining book, A Screaming Blast ($45; bookshop.org).

• Party Crowns: Dare your dour uncle not to smile by placing a paper House of Cardoon crown on him at the family feast ($22 for six; houseofcardoon.com).

• Candle: Courtney Barton helms a candle-of-the-month club that sends surprises, too, like this gator match striker ($205 for three months; shopcourtneybarton.com).

• Holiday Cards: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Minted partnered on holiday cards with motifs designed by indie artists and inspired by the museum’s collections ($240 for a hundred; minted.com).

• Soaps: Friends, Romans, and countrymen will all dig Hunt & Bloom’s intaglio soaps ($34 for a set; huntandbloom.com).