With locations in Bellevue Square, University Village and Tukwila, Impress is helping to spread holiday cheer throughout the Puget Sound region with its lineup of seasonal DIY classes. Impress offers several classes per week, per location, that help students learn the fine art of rubber stamping, die-cutting, paper folding and more.
By Natalie Bow | November 19, 2007
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.
By Britt Olson | November 16, 2007
Happy Green Bee, the Raleigh-based brainchild of Burt's Bees cofounder Roxanne Quimby, produces organic cotton clothes for infants and toddlers in vibrant colors that outshine the pastel palette popular with most baby clothiers. What's more, their environmental pedigree trumps that of most mass-produced baby clothes.
By Marika McElroy Cain | November 15, 2007
Women's boutique Tweed, Greenwood's best source for fashion-forward shopping, has upgraded to a larger store on 85th Street, just a few blocks away from the shop's original location on Greenwood Avenue North. Along with more space to stretch out in, the new shop boasts a coffee bar, cleverly named The Ground Up.
By Natalie Bow | November 14, 2007
There are so many ways these days to show off your love for friends and family members: photo coffee mugs, engraved jewelry, license plate frames, MySpace comments. But Vancouver, Wash., company Simply Silhouettes offers a more classic approach.
By Marika McElroy Cain | November 13, 2007
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.
By Britt Olson | November 9, 2007
If your kids turn up their noses at their boring brown-bag lunches, you might try wrapping their noontime fare in a more compelling package. A PB&J takes on a whole new luster when it rides inside a flashy tiger tote or another of Built NY's Munchler lunch boxes.
By Marika McElroy Cain | November 8, 2007
On Nov. 10 from 5 to 9 p.m., Laura Bee Designs will celebrate half a decade of churning out crafty purses, wallets, wristlets and whatnots from their studio and shop in Ballard.
By Natalie Bow | November 7, 2007
It's pretty easy to be vegetarian in Seattle, but some of us who avoid meat on our plates are total space cadets about what's on our feet. Even dedicated vegetarians can conveniently "forget" that their shoes are made of leather; I'm living proof.
By Neal Schindler | November 7, 2007
Tom Bihn, local maker of laptop and messenger bags, called on the readers and editors of Knitty magazine to help design the ultimate functional knitting bag. The result is the $70 "Swift," a sturdy, feature-filled ballistic nylon tote, a bag so popular that five of the seven available colors sold out within days of the bag's Oct. 12 debut.
By Marika McElroy Cain | November 6, 2007
