The holiday season is the perfect time to spread some cheer and show appreciation for your colleagues, teachers and friends. Whether you're participating in a Secret Santa exchange or simply want to surprise your coworkers, teachers or friends with a small token of your gratitude, journaling and stationery products make for thoughtful and practical gifts. In this blog, we'll explore some delightful Christmas gift ideas that will not only brighten your giftees day but also help them stay organised and creative in the coming year. 
We have so many perfect, personal and affordable gifts available at WashiGang. Pick a small token of your appreciation for your secret Santa, colleagues, teachers, friends, and relatives. Read on for lots of thoughtful small Christmas gift ideas for Secret Santa, colleagues, teachers and friends.
1. Vinyl stickers - Vinyl stickers are perfect for decorating water bottles, keep cups, laptops, i-pads, phone cases, suitcases, helmets etc. They make a great personal gift as you can gift a fave animal or hobby, a funny or relatable message, or something that makes a statement!
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2. Enamel Pins - Enamel pins make cute and personal gifts that are perfect for pinning to a jacket, cardigan, backpack or tote bag. Share relatable and cute messages and fave hobbies through enamel pins!
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3. Key Rings - Pick one of our fun key rings based on personality. Is your colleague/friend the over thinker, pessimist or optimist?
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4. Notebooks - Little notebooks are affordable and always handy. We have a range of cute cover designs available in the shop, perfect for jotting down ideas, meeting notes, important info, shopping lists and more!
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5. Memo Pads & Sticky Notes - We have so many fun memo pads and sticky notes that feature animals, cute characters and patterns, that would make a super cute gift paired with a fun pen. Gift to your friends, colleagues or teachers to help them keep track of cute notes and messages!
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6. Diaries/planners - A little diary or planner is the perfect way to help your friend, colleague or teacher stay organised for the new year. All of these gorgeous diaries from Japan are slim and portable!
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7. Pens - Do you steal your colleagues pens at work and maybe owe them a few? Or maybe your friend could use a fun new palette? Pens are always handy to have around and won't go to waste. Pick from our range of fun coloured gel pens, markers, highlighters and fountain pens. Students and teachers will love our range of mildliner and glitter highlighters!
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8. Letter writing sets - If you're missing your friend or relative in a different city or country, send them a cute letter writing set for Christmas as a more personal way to stay in touch. We have so many cute letter writing sets to choose from. We also have mini letter writing sets that are perfect for writing thank you notes at the end of the year!
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9. Cute page markers - A small but thoughtful gift that will bring a lot of joy to boring work! These adorable page markers are helpful for marking documents, saving textbooks and study pages, students work or adding notes to favourite books.
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10. To-Do lists - A to-do list and pen combo is always a handy gift for anyone. Choose from our range of clever and cute to-do lists!
Shop To-Do Lists here and Sticky Note To-Do Lists here!
These gifts are bound to impress and will definitely beat an impersonal gift of chocolate or wine for teachers, colleagues, secret Santa events, book club, friends and family.
Still looking for ideas? Check out our collection of stocking stuffers on the WashiGang shop!
Let us know in the comments: What kind of stationery gift would you like to receive at your end of year Christmas do or group secret Santa?
Do you celebrate Halloween? While Halloween isn't celebrated widely in Australia, it's the perfect time of year to enjoy your favourite spooky movies, books, treats and also a perfect excuse to decorate your journal with Halloween themed washi tapes, stickers and page spreads! Whether you love the spooky season or just want to explore your dark side, these Halloween-inspired bullet journal ideas and prompts will help you get into the spooky spirit while staying productive.
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