We tried to write a little gift guide yesterday and gave up halfway through. We love Christmas. We love shopping. We just, honestly, don’t go mad for the two together. They sully each other! Sully!
Anyway: While we don’t have the heart for a gift guide, we seem to have no problem recommending super awesome gift shops. (It’s a small difference, but apparently it counts.) Task is one—especially for jewelry.
We are slightly ashamed to admit this,
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We had planned to talk about our favorite puffy coats—you know, warm ones! for cold weather! We don’t know what the weather’s like where you are, but if you’re anywhere near New York City—we might never need a winter coat again, the way things are going. So we decided, instead, to talk about one of our favorite gift shops. We’ve been told it’s the season of giving. This is the shop we find best able to deal with our wish that our presents (to give, not to receive, obvs) should cost less than $35.
As a paper-cutter, we are also fans of Rob Ryan, and would support the purchase of this bag of his. We went to his studio once and saw his giant jars of used Xacto blades and were like … wow. That’s it—just wow. There were a lot of them. Rob Ryan shopper bag, $30
For the right person, this could be exactly the right necklace. It’s very Pendleton-y without being $800, we think. Wigwam cross-stiched pendant, $30
We love a necklace we haven’t seen before, and this one has hand-cut leather on a bronze chain. Super position pendant, $34
Obviously, we are obsessed with maps. If you know someone else who is, they may very well enjoy this book. Maps by Lena Corwin, $35
We’d love to grown our own Christmas tree. Total self-sustainability! It’s on the way. Grow Me “Merry Christmas” tree, $7
Really. You know, when you’ve already bought them the new Modern Warfare book, and can’t bear to get them another (another!) book. This is our nice edition—around $100, for boyfriends and best friends and brothers and other relations that begin with a “B” that we’ve momentarily forgotten. We will do a version of less expensive (possibly less loved!) dudes tomorrow.
First stop.
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We love a good gift store. This one is in San Francisco, and it’s actually two shops in one: Magpie & Rye, and Studio Choo. Studio Choo is officially a flower shop (our favorite in SF!) but both shops have sort of a splendor-of-the-natural-world thing going on. Arrows, stars, trivets: We love basically all of it.
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We can hardly believe it, but it’s time to start thinking about gift buying again. We like to think of it as our little bit to support the retail industry. We always think things like: But we’d rather spend that money on ourselves! But we’ll say this: Every time we’ve given the right gift, we were extremely happy. It really is better, unfortunately, to give than receive. Well, at least as good.
We like to have certain go-to shops to get our holiday shopping done, and Austin’s Spartan is definitely one of them. We especially like it for necklaces, though our favorite thing here is, officially, an arts and crafts supply (and under $30).
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