Local Love: Austin Holiday Gift Guide 2025

Local Love: Austin Holiday Gift Guide 2025

Some of the best gifts you can give are not sitting on a big box shelf. They are being built day by day by your friends, clients, and neighbors who are pouring their hearts into local businesses.

This year, instead of another random candle, think about gifting an experience, a service, or a little luxury that supports someone’s dream and gives your people something they will actually cherish.

Below is a gift guide featuring businesses my clients own and love. Use it as a menu, mix and match, and absolutely send this to a friend who keeps saying, “I never know what to get people.”

For the Wellness Lover

The friend who has a favorite mat, a stack of athletic sets, and is always talking about “supporting their nervous system.”

Kore Kollective Modern Pilates
Gift a class pack or intro offer to Kore Kollective, a modern Pilates studio in East Austin known for small group classes, thoughtful instruction, and a welcoming vibe for all levels.

Black Swan Yoga
Perfect for the friend who loves community and a good sweat. Think class packs or a punch card so they can flow their way through the new year.

Viva Day Spa + Med Spa
For the friend who needs permission to rest, a gift certificate to Viva Day Spa is a yes. Their massages, facials, and spa packages are an easy way to build in real self care, and their gift cards can be used at any location and never expire.

For the Style Obsessed

The person whose closet is curated, whose outfits are intentional, and who secretly loves a glow up moment.

designAUST
A small-batch Austin jewelry line with leather, crystals, and bold statement pieces that feel modern and a little mystical. A gift card or hand-picked piece lets your style-obsessed or rebel friend choose jewelry that feels like both armor and adornment.

Haanta
Haanta is a curated African fashion marketplace that connects shoppers with ethically sourced clothing, jewelry, accessories, and home décor from African designers and brands. Gift your style obsessed friend something that speaks to them, from bold printed dresses to sculptural earrings or artful home pieces. It is perfect for the one who loves color, pattern, and wearing their values.

Cherryline
Cherryline is a bold trucker hat brand making playful, flirty caps with unapologetically personal messages. Gift one to the friend whose accessories always steal the spotlight, or grab a few and make them your crew’s unofficial uniform for the next night out.

For the Home Design Lover

For the friend who rearranges furniture for fun, has a saved folder of interiors on Instagram, and treats their home like an evolving art project.

Atelier AC
Gift a home design consultation with Austin interior designer Angelica Centeno of Atelier AC. She helps people reimagine their spaces with elevated, intentional design, from “something feels off in this room” tweaks to big picture remodel planning. This is the styling session for their home, a chance to get a designer’s eye on the spaces they live in every day.

Salmat’s Table
Handcrafted ceramics from Salmat’s Table turn everyday rituals into small moments of beauty. Think ripple mugs for morning coffee, bowls and plates for weeknight dinners, or an incense holder for their favorite corner. Choose a few pieces that feel like them and you have a gift that will be used and appreciated constantly, not stored in a cabinet.

Laurel & Vine Studio
Laurel & Vine Studio creates original paintings and fine art prints with a moody, modern feel, and now also offers wallpaper installation and design consultations. A print, a small original, or a session with the artist is ideal for the friend who wants their home to feel like a curated gallery.

For the Moon Child

The intuitive, ritual loving friend who tracks moon phases, books sound baths, and sends you your birth chart out of nowhere.

Umma Juice
Create a little “fridge reset” with bottles from Umma Juice, a better for you kids and family juice line inspired by Korean flavors and modern nourishment. It is Austin based, woman owned, and crafted as a modern act of care in a bottle.

Artisan Herbals
A set of small batch botanical shrub concentrates, think Tulsi Spiced Pear or Blueberry Lavender, that can turn sparkling water, cocktails, and salads into something special. This is a gorgeous host gift or “for the home mixologist” present. 

Sound Sight Tarot
Buy a one hour tarot, astrology, or intuitive reading they can book in January or on the next new moon. Call it “a guided check in with their intuition to kick off the year.”It is personal, thoughtful, and gives them space for reflection instead of more stuff.

For the Art Lover

For the friend who always wants to pop into the gallery “just for a minute” and somehow ends up curating the best walls.

Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery
For the friend with more wall than art, a piece or gift credit from Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery is a yes. Housed in a character filled East Austin space, Cloud Tree showcases work from local artists across mediums. Whether they choose a small print or a statement piece, you are giving them something that can move with them from home to home and collect stories along the way.

Roni Zulu Fine Artworks
A limited-edition art print or a small original painting from Roni Zulu, a working artist whose pieces combine symbolism, story, and soul. Art from a living artist is a meaningful way to support their craft and give your friend something unique that can transform a room and spark conversation every time someone walks by.

Darboodlz
Darboodlz creates playful, slightly offbeat illustrations that show up on prints, stickers, phone cases, and more. It is the perfect gift for the friend who loves quirky art with attitude, whether they are decorating a laptop, water bottle, or a gallery wall of tiny strange treasures.

For the Creative Soul

The friend who always has a new project, a new playlist, or a new medium they are exploring.

Sunshine Vinyl
Take them on a vinyl date at Sunshine Vinyl, a record shop in East Austin that focuses on contemporary music and amplifies queer artists and artists of color. They also feature local art and a very Austin mix of events. Gift idea: a store credit paired with a “record shopping date” and a promise to listen together after.

Felicia Reed Photography
Upgrade their confidence with a luxury portrait or branding session. Felicia Reed is a contemporary, fashion inspired portrait photographer based in the Austin area who specializes in elevated, magazine style experiences, complete with pampering, wardrobe guidance, and images that look like they belong in a spread.

Ashleigh Amoroso Studio
Ashleigh Amoroso is an Austin-based commercial photographer and director known for luminous, editorial-style food, lifestyle, and product imagery. A workshop or session in her historic downtown studio is a beautiful gift for the friend who loves artful visuals and thoughtfully styled scenes.

For the Practical Homeowner

This is for the person who is always talking about projects, inspections, upgrades, and “getting ready for the next chapter.”

Texas Roofing & Remodeling
Instead of another gadget, consider a credit toward roof repairs or home updates with Texas Roofing & Remodeling. They focus on combining durability with style so the home stays safe and looks good at the same time.

Limestone Moving Co
Know someone who has been “meaning to move” or is planning a big change in the new year? Help them outsource the heavy lifting with a credit to Limestone Moving Co, an Austin based moving company known for its pink trucks, local roots, and down to earth service.

Jolie’s Home Cleaning
A deep clean is one of the most underrated gifts you can give a homeowner. Book a whole home clean so they can start the year fresh without sacrificing a weekend to scrub everything themselves.

For the Experience Lover

For the person who prefers memories over more stuff and whose calendar is always full of something fun.

Cap City Band
Cap City Band brings live music that gets people dancing, singing, and talking about the night for years. It is the perfect gift for couples, companies, or anyone planning a big celebration, and a way to give live entertainment they will actually remember.

Moyo Smiles, Image & Style Consulting
Gift a style consultation or closet edit with Moyo Smiles, an image and style consultant who helps clients define their style profile and make getting dressed feel easier and more intentional.

TRIBEZA Interiors Tour
For the friend who screenshots every pretty room on Instagram, gift tickets to the TRIBEZA Interiors Tour, a self-guided tour that opens the doors to some of Austin’s most stunning, designer-led homes so they can walk through real spaces, gather ideas, and see how top local designers actually live and work.

How To Use This Guide

A few ways to play with this list:

• Build a “bundle” around a personality. For example, for the Wellness Lover, pair a Kore Kollective class pack with Umma Juice and an herbal sleep blend.

• Gift experiences instead of objects. A branding shoot, tarot reading, or home design consult will be remembered long after a sweater ends up in the back of the closet.

• Tell them the story. When you give the gift, share that you chose it because you wanted to support local businesses that your friends and clients have built. It makes the gift feel even more meaningful.

If you are one of my clients and see your business here, know that I am cheering for you. If you are reading this and thinking, “Wait, I own a local business too,” reach out so I can keep adding to the list!

Supporting your people is one of the best gifts you can give, to them and to Austin.

With Love from ATX,
Khani Zulu Group