Us Holiday Gift Guide: Express Yourself

Celebrity Style December 14, 2009 AT 9:12AM By UsWeekly Staff

Ellen Tien was a columnist in the New York Times Styles section for 12 years and has written for O Magazine, Vogue and Rolling Stone. From now until December 24, she will be providing a daily tip on stylish presents to make your holiday shopping even easier.

If diamonds are touted as being the way to say, I love you, mini-pendant necklaces might be the way to say, I know you. Chic celebs wear little little message pendants as a way to express their personalities, from Jessica Biel’s peace sign to Lauren Conrad’s engraved circle tag.

Give a tiny fortune cookie to your lucky charm, a silver ravioli to your amore or a Love stamp to your best friend.

Left to right:

18 karat gold Peace emblem in monogram-script by Gara Danielle, $196 at www.garadanielle.com

Sterling silver fortune cookie and sterling silver ravioli by Waxing Poetic, $38 at www.waxingpoetic.com

Brass and silver LOVED rubber stamp w/typeset pendant initial charm, $126, also at www.waxingpoetic.com

Keep visiting our Holiday Gift Guide over the next couple of weeks for fabulous giveaways of some of our favorite gifts

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June 30, 2010 - 7:53pm Kim
Can you help me find a necklace featured in your magazine? It is featured in your holiday gift guide. In the picture it as on the far left. It is an initial monogram made by someone named Jennifer? Thanks!!