The message is clear: if you can stay home, you must stay home. What happens when a loved one’s birthday falls in the middle of a pandemic? It makes perfect sense to pair a birthday gift with making home a place they want to be.
While not deemed an essential service, the MBA studio has not been laying idle these past five months. While we can’t make site visits, we are taking advantage of the opportunities that technology provides to continue to provide support to our clients. Interestingly, a big component of our newer projects have been people discovering that staying at home is revealing the imperfections and unfinished projects that are easy to ignore in the usual times of being busy rushing from place. Many of these clients are using our gifting service to make their house a home- yes, we went there!
We’ve had our gift vouchers available for a number of years now. They came about simply because we kept being asked for them as an alternative to what’s out there for people from the health and wellness-type options. We get it, a gift of nurturing and self care are truly appreciated and show love and care, but this year we need to be a little more creative with how we show this.
This year we are hearing from partners that want to show their love for the jugglers of Mum/remote learning/working from home/baby showers/staying at home high jinx that is 2020. We have a range of gift vouchers from an hour workshop through to full design service that can be the solution to your gifting woes. We can talk about how we work together with a range of options from phone calls and emails, zoom consultations to good old-fashioned face to face meetings, restrictions permitting.
At the moment a trip to hot springs, wineries or a girl’s weekends are off the cards (sob) so what to do? We can help you create an experience at home. Imagine a bathroom sanctuary, an in-home styling workshop showing you how to elevate from what you have and how it could be. We can help you feather that nest, reworking the spare room into your dream yoga space/library/chillout space. Don’t have a spare room? We can help you carve out your own nook. Wouldn’t that be the ultimate gift? Much more lasting that a day spa, even if they were open.
In our research to see what the old standard gifts have been, we’ve heard of gift vouchers lovingly purchased online for a massage or beauty treatment only for the recipients to find themselves in slightly dodgy massage therapy experiences (oh the stories!) and facials that end up in burned eyebrows and worse. It would be funny if it weren’t dangerous. Gifts by My Beautiful Abode are a much a better option, minus the dodgy and the seared eyebrows.