Handmade Wooden Gift Ideas UK: Boards, Bowls & Vases

Choose a handmade wooden gift

A few pieces from the collection, with prices to help you choose. Check the individual Etsy listing for current availability, delivery cost and dispatch timing before ordering.

For the cook or host

Oak & Sapele Charcuterie Board

£35.00 · Made to order

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For the home

Hand‑Turned Cherry Wood Bowl

£30.00 · One of a kind

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For someone who loves cooking

Maple & Beech Pestle and Mortar

£30.00 · One of a kind

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A small gift with a story

Ash Twig Vase — Storm Agnes Wood

£15.00 · One of a kind

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Something made just for them

See a completed fruit-bowl commission and its personalised engraving. A similar piece is quoted individually, with size, timber and timing agreed together.

Explore wooden gifts made to order

For the cook

A serious cook wants tools, not ornaments. A hardwood chopping board they’ll use every day is the obvious one — an oak and sapele board is handsome enough for the table and tough enough for the bench. A wooden pestle and mortar is the less obvious one: quieter and kinder to the worktop than granite, and a pleasure to use for spices, garlic and pesto.

For the host

People who love having friends round always need one more board. A charcuterie or cheese board with a handle looks generous the moment it’s on the table, and if you tuck a card in with the 3‑3‑3 rule, you’ve given them the gift and the idea for using it. At Christmas, add the festive cheese board guide instead.

For the home

A hand‑turned bowl is a gift that doesn’t need explaining — fruit, keys, sweets, or nothing at all. For a new home, a twig vase with a few dried stems is small, personal and impossible to get wrong; the storm‑felled ash vases come with a story attached, which is half the pleasure of giving them.

For weddings and anniversaries

Wood is the traditional gift for a fifth wedding anniversary, and a personalised board — names and a date engraved on a handmade hardwood board — has become the classic way to mark it. The same idea works for a wedding gift, a housewarming for a couple, or a retirement. Commissions are welcome; a personalised board is exactly the sort of thing I make most often.

Small gifts and stocking fillers

Honey dippers, small twig vases and little turned bowls sit comfortably in the stocking‑filler bracket and still feel special because someone made them. Follow the workshop on Facebook for what’s coming off the bench and where I’ll be at market.

When to order

Ready‑made pieces on Etsy go out as soon as shipping is agreed. Made‑to‑order boards need making, so allow a few weeks before you need them — and for Christmas, order in the autumn rather than December. Personalised and commissioned pieces take longer again, because we’ll talk about size, timber and wording first; the earlier the conversation starts, the better.