Rachelle's Holiday Gift Guide 2015

For the adventurous (and hard to shop for). 1. Milk Bar Bake the Book Class, $95 If you learn to bake one thing in life, may it be this Milk Bar cake. 2. Putnam & Putnam Holiday Centerpiece Workshop, $350 The Putnam team is the hottest thing to happen to flowers since Christian Slater in "Bed of Roses." Watch the masters up close at one of their holiday workshops. 3. MNDFL Meditation Starter Kit Package, $250 Encourage your friend to put down his/her computer and get on the Meditation train....OHMMMM 4. World View Exploration at the edge of space, Neiman Marcus, $90k Start off your new year with an invitation to the World View Test Flight. What does this even mean?! It's pretty insane, and you have to read the details to really get it, but for the super adventurous who has done something super extraordinary for you, this experience takes the cake. 5. WaterRower GX Studio with quickstart monitor, $1,195 I started rowing indoors after the birth of my first child, when running was wearing on my body. What started as a "I'll try it this one time" activity, quickly became a "I have to have a machine in my own house!" staple to my fitness routine. Who knows, maybe it will stick with yours too. 6. Grass is Greener Picnic Blanket, Kate Spade, $45 Wrap this up for your adventurous BFF and then dare them to take their next Tinder date to the park for a romantic picnic lunch - complete with packed cheese, crackers, wine and figs - and sans the hook up, which might truly be a first for them? 7. Hip Hop Dance Class - 10 pack, The Hip Hop Dance Conservancy, I took a hip hop class years ago and STILL remember the moves. It was so much fun and now I feel like I can seriously dance to Rihanna in the club without getting weird stares. (Note: I don't go to clubs anymore and people would def stare at me dancing in one if I did.) 8. The Side-Winding Circular Skates, Hammacher Schlemmer, $100 For the dad that thinks his hover board is the hottest thing ever, have him try a pair of these on: "These are the annular skates that are propelled by leaning side to side, allowing you to glide along as if riding a skateboard without pushing off the ground. Riders simply place their feet on the two platforms and lean side-to-side to rotate the rubber wheels around the feet, propelling riders forward in a serpentine motion similar to longboard skateboarding. Since the wheels are not connected, riders can easily perform 720° spins and turn on a dime, while stopping is achieved by placing toes on the ground."