Daily Find
If the Super Bowl spirit gives you a giant headache, surrender the roost to the football fanatics and seek reprieve in a dose of fantastic shopping.
January 30, 2008
Daily Find
Anyone who has ever traveled abroad knows how difficult it is to limit foreign purchases to a single suitcase. When Brian McGuffy and Leif Holland, the owners of Capitol Hill home-décor store Square Room, traveled to Europe this past year, they decided to forgo restricting their finds and shipped back a shop's worth of tchotchkes, curios and bibelots.
December 21, 2007
Daily Find
Even if you buy every gift on your list, plan and shop for every big meal and attend every soiree on your calendar, it's possible to pass the holiday season without finding true holiday cheer. But take an hour to pamper yourself at Julep Nail Parlor, and you just might discover the joy in the season after all.
December 14, 2007
Daily Find
Though your brother claimed to love the pipe-cleaner key ring you made for him last Christmas, you couldn't help but notice a less crafty contraption dangling from his ignition. Perhaps this year it would be best to entrust your artsy gift-giving inclinations to real artists.
December 5, 2007
Holiday 2007
Failing to present your sister's cat with a gift last Christmas left you sitting in the doghouse while everyone else watched adorable Freckles with her new toy mouse. Then, suspiciously, you were bumped to the kids' table at dinner.
December 3, 2007
Daily Find
Steel Toe Studios' belts are entirely handmade by Erica Gordon. She cuts the leather, paints it with vegetable dye and fastens it with a snap so that buckles can be worn interchangeably. Gordon studied jewelry-making, then found she preferred to work with larger equipment, which permits her to move about her spacious studio instead of being tied to a workbench.
November 28, 2007
Holiday 2007
Generosity shouldn't mean giving amply, but giving aptly. Show how thoughtful (not how thrifty) you are by giving a truly distinctive gift, while still staying within your means. These fun goodies were all found in stores around town, and all cost less than $25.
November 21, 2007
Holiday 2007
The holiday season may be the one time of year when you can force your political agenda on others. Not by commandeering the dinner table with election-year talk or causing a tiff around the tree, but by what you give. This year, think globally, and give eco-friendly gifts that will influence the habits of your family members and friends.
November 21, 2007
Daily Find
Even if your feet aren't fleet, there's no excuse for wearing sneakers that are behind the times. The same people who brought comfy Campers (the only heels you'd wear on a pub-crawl) and stylish snow boots to Ballard have opened a shoe store for your inner track star.
November 16, 2007
Daily Find
Seattle's temperate autumns make sockless feet bearable. Yet to step out with bared peds ignores not only the precepts of cold prevention but the season's most inventive accessory. This fall, socks are speckled with flowers, polka dots and argyle prints. They sparkle in an array of metallic threads and circle the ankle or calf with ruffles and ribbons.
November 9, 2007
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