Handmade Christmas Gift Ideas for Everyone on your List
It’s the season of giving and we are here to help with Handmade Christmas gift ideas. Nothing beats finding the perfect Handmade gift for family, friends or even yourself (you’ve been good all year so why not treat yourself). We’ve made shopping easy by gathering together a list of new designers that are attending to our Canberra Christmas Market on the 28, 29 and 30 November 2025, alongside designers and producers that regularly attend our markets that you know and love. You’re bound to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list!
Gift Ideas for Her
Founded in 2011 by Marina, a passionate scent enthusiast and interiors lover, Green Candle Co. creates small-batch home fragrance and body products that blend natural ingredients with elevated, earthy design. Inspired by nature and nostalgic memories, each scent is thoughtfully crafted to uplift mood and enhance daily rituals.
The Gracie Collection create jewellery that is made to last and go on every adventure with you. Taking inspiration from her surroundings including the stunning Mornington Peninsula, Gracie uses stones collected from other small businesses around the world and all recycled metal to make as little environmental footprint as possible.
Sitting Pretty Designs offers a unique range of women’s leather accessories, homewares & wellness products. They source exquisite leather hides and fabric, create their own designs, and bring them together to create truly unique pieces including heat packs, eye pillows, bags, clutches and glass cases.
Gift Ideas for Him
Alpine Beards Australia crafts premium, all-natural beard care products inspired by the rugged beauty of the Australian wilderness. Their range, including beard oils, balms, butters, and washes, is formulated with high-quality ingredients to nourish, condition, and protect beards of all lengths.
Small batch, Aussie made preserves are what Drunken Sailor Canning Co. stirs up. They reckon made good, tastes good. You won’t find anything in their jars besides the premium ingredients and peculiar flavours they pour into every jam, relish & mustard they create.
Little Bread Winner‘s handmade bread saws were created out of a love of sourdough and the frustration of slicing it. Their range has since grown to include sustainable bread boards and recycled bread bags, all created with one purpose: to help you slice, store, and enjoy your bread with ease and joy.
Gift Ideas for Teachers
Little Miss M Designs is a small company with massive ambitions to help people save not only money but also the environment. They hand make over 10 reusable products from snack bags, cutlery pouches, book covers to makeup wipes, unpaper towels, cleaning wipes, laundry bags and more.
Lucian Candles’scents are fresh, fun and familiar. Lucian are a Canberra-based fragrance company, developing each of their fragrances with their customers in mind, crafting fresh, vibrant scents, inspired by natural spaces, nostalgia and their customers. These are scents you’ll want to come home to.
Fudge by Rich is a Yarra Valley based small business producing handmade quality fudge. They pride themselves on their freshly sourced ingredients and focus on handmade and hand wrapped products with the highest quality in both product and presentation that their customers have grown to love and enjoy.
Gift Ideas for Grandparents
Weathered Garden Art is a family run business, located in Mangoplah NSW, designing and creating a range of plasma cut metal garden art and recycled sculptures. Something a little bit unusual for the garden with a rusty patina that just gets better with age!
Foolhouse is a whimsical brand created by graphic designer and paper artist, Sarah Lamond. Sarah is well-known for her nostalgic Secret Vintage Booksafes – rescued books re-imagined to hide treasures and bring beautiful old books back into circulation. Foolhouse strives to be unique and do things that no other maker is doing.
Ash & Wattle makes Australian and Australiana Handmade wooden homewares and gifts. All made from Australian Native timber and salvaged wherever possible, much of the timber is from Ash & Wattle’s own property, recovered from trees that fell during storms.
Gift Ideas for Kids
Sweet Sista is created by two sisters with a penchant for beautiful handmade nursery decor, baby clothing and accessories. Sweet Sista’s aspiration is to ensure that when people purchase one of their lovingly handmade items that they are purchasing something beautiful, unique and well crafted.
Nourish by Nature is dedicated to reimagining the way kids express creativity. Their products allow for safe and stimulating adventures to add a sparkle to every day activities. Their range includes bath crayons and bath colour rocks. Made with non-staining, skin-safe ingredients, they’re perfect for mess-free fun.
Retrobub children’s clothing is made by Bronwyn in her Melbourne studio. Bronwyn appliques cute details such as koala faces and kookaburras onto her pieces, and these items are then complemented with digitally printed co-ordinating pieces such as leggings.
If you’re looking for more Handmade gift ideas that are Australian Made, check out our Australian Made Directory.
