Archive for the ‘GIFTS’ Category
Monday, January 11th, 2010
help! bookmark, $19 for 5 clips. Available at designboom.com Photo courtesy of designboom.com
Click on the photo to get yourself the most desparately adorable bookmark out there. Photo courtesy of designboom.com
I remember in elementary school when the Scholastic Book Fair would come to town. The library would be abuzz with eager students, wadded up dollar bills in hand. Buying books is just so much more fun than borrowing them I guess.
I’d get ultra excited looking through the preview brochure until it was our class’s turn to visit the pop-up store. Sometimes I would buy a book because of the cover like No Flying in the House by Betty Brock or I’d buy a cute puppy poster because I was an 8 year old girl. But every time, without fail, I’d be sure to get a bookmark. Even though most of my reading was comprised of R.L. Stine Fear Street books where teenagers were murdered one by one mostly by friends, I purchased Garfield bookmarks with silly sayings and brightly colored tassels. Now, had this help! bookmark been available, I’m sure my sick childhood brain would have been all over it.
Each stainless steel paper clip measures 45×12mm and features little arms and hands on one end that make your book appear to have flat silvery people drowning in its pages.
Tags: book fair, book mark, bookmark, designboom, help!, help! bookmark, shannon sturgis
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
The Hundreds Delorean tshirt in gray, $32. Available at Rock City Kicks
Travel back in time to buy your Christmas present early. Run by Rock City Kicks to pick up this Delorean t-shirt which comes in gray or black. Anyone born before 1985 will freak when they open this thoughtful, well-planned out gift you found all on your own.
Tags: back to the future, christmas shopping, Delorean, gift, rock city kicks, shannon sturgis, t-shirt, tshirt
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Art as Christmas gift that could be in your hands within the hour
"Call Me Ms." Photograph by Amanda Linn, $45 unframed with matte. Available at Gallery 26.
Are you freaking out because it’s four days until Christmas and you’ve yet to find a spectacular gift/ you don’t want to waste 2 hours of your life driving to West Little Rock to search for one? You may remember this photograph from Sync’s gift guide a couple of weeks ago. It and others like it are still available at Gallery 26.
Amanda Linn photographs scenes she builds with figurines, dollhouse furniture, kitschy objects and anything she can get her hands on. The results are bright, bizarre and completely desirable. I vote yes.
Tags: Amanda Linn, Art, artist, Gallery 26, shannon sturgis
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Urbanears Plattan headphones in nine saturated colors, $59.99. Available at Rock City Kicks.
Rolled into Rock City Kicks yesterday and discovered a batch of fetching monotone-tastic headphones. Put a ribbon around the box and boom. Gift. Besides the packaging being genius, these headphones are actually good headphones. I tried them out myself. The sound quality was hefty yet crisp and I couldn’t make out what the person right in front of me was saying while I was wearing them. Headphones that allow you to hear what you want and block out all else, not to mention they’re cute as sh*t? Sold.
They’re compatible with about any device, have a microphone for cell phone conversations and have an extra jack in the headset so someone can plug into your headphones and listen to what you’re listening to. Per my discussion with four Rock City Kicksters, we decided the chain of listeners could go on forever.** Perhaps that idea will spark the next Little Rock monthly dance party. For more detailed specs visit Urbanears.com.
Jonathan Sheafe uses a pair of Urbanears Plattan headphones to listen to music on his iPhone at Rock City Kicks in Hillcrest.
* i.
** We’re not scientists. We don’t know.
Tags: gift, headphones, hillcrest, plattan, rock city kicks, shannon sturgis, Urbanears, urbanears plattan
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Locally crafted gifts galore = The Green Corner Store located on 15th and Main Street.
Until today I had never visited the Green Corner Store on 15th and Main since its opening in July. I was uncertain if it was an organic coffee shop, a small grocery or an art gallery. It wasn’t really any of those things to my pleasant surprise. Rather, it was something new altogether for Little Rock. Self-dubbed as Arkansas’s first eco lifestyle store, it’s more versatile and less granola than it sounds.
I don’t want to call it a gift shop, but there are certainly gifts for everyone here. Of course, I’m featuring the fun, funky products from the store but they carry a slew of other things including personal care products, candles and a few used books. If you’re in want of unique, locally made, environmentally conscious gifts for people on your Christmas list, be it your boyfriend, best friend or your mom, this is an excellent place to visit. Now let’s get down to checking out the goods.
It's by Callie mixed media necklaces, $35 each. Perfect for: Best Friend.
Melty record bowls, $8 each. Perfect for: Boyfriend.
Felt sushi roll rings, $12. Perfect for: Niece.
Laura Fanning jewelry dish, $40. Perfect for: Me! I can't get over how the doll arm is ideal for holding rings.
Erin Lorenzen Heart Little Rock sweatshirt tee, $48 and canvas tote, $32. Perfect for: Brother's girlfriend
Lisa James Upcycled Notebooks, Range $10-$20. This one is $15 (Left image is the front cover and right image is the back cover). Perfect for: Everyone. The pages are made from old mail, greeting cards and notebook paper. Some pages are good for writing on and some aren't. That's the fun of it.
Tags: Art, Erin Lorenzen, gift, GIFTS, Green Corner Store, green gift, Laura Fanning, Lisa James, recycled, shannon sturgis, sushi ring
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
In honor of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, I offer you gifts for seafaring folk.
Floatsam & Jetsam Pygmy Seahorse Ring, $120. Available at catbirdnyc.com
Royal Kane Great White Shark Pillowcase Cover, $10.68 for one. Available at artfire.com.
Gold Octopus Cigarette/Credit Card/Business Card Case, $48. Available at CosmicFirefly.etsy.com.
French Pet Lobster Tote, $12. Available at Xenotees.etsy.com.
Moby Cat Hoodie, $40. Available at squidfire.com
Sea Monster Pins, Set of 5, $5. Available at essentialmonsters.etsy.com.
Tags: great white shark, lobster, moby dick, ocean, octopus, sea horse, sea monster, seahorse, sense and sensibility and sea monsters, shannon sturgis, shark, squid, whale
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Original HEXBUG, Bravo and his HEXBUG crab buddy in black. Heights Toy Center, $10.99 & $14.99.
I don’t care if you’re 10 or 25, you want one of these. HEXBUGS are little robotic creatures that scurry around of their own accord (well, one has a remote control) reacting to light, sound and physical objects. The saleslady at Heights Toy Center gave me the heads up on the HEXBUGS craze and once she switched these two on, I turned wideyed and said, “eeeew,” repeatedly. I was grossed out in a good way of course, fascinated by the creepily awesome sideways crawl of the crab. To see the movement yourself go to hexbug.com and watch some boring-ish videos but please know these robot bugs are much cooler in person. Someone can buy me a crab in turquoise is all I’m saying.
On the top row are the original HEXBUGS. The ones with long arms are Inchworms and they have a remote control, as you can see. On the bottom row are the crabs--they walk sideways! Photo from www.hexbug.com.
Tags: crab, heights toy center, hexbug, hexbugs, miniature robot, robot, robot crab, shannon sturgis, toy
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Just think of your hot coffee as scalding lava or a tremendous meteorite and enjoy putting dinosaurs into extinction over and over again.
As of late, my Welcome to Las Vegas and I ♥ Arkansas mugs haven’t been all that fun to sip coffee or cocoa from. I try not to let my mug boredom get to me but morning after morning of rummaging through my cabinet looking for an unfindable perfect coffee vessel can mess with a person. I need a new coffee cup to spice things up a bit. Only something that represents extreme danger, mystery and awesomeness will do. Serendipitously I discover this dinosaur mug at CALS Cox Center while on assignment. Pouring hot coffee into this sucker destroys the meaty Tyrannosaurus Rex picture into a natural history museum bone rendering. I wonder if filling only half the mug with hot coffee could make the dino half vicious-alive-rex and half harmless-fossil-rex all at once! I must investigate.
- “Eons pass in seconds!” Disappearing Dinosaur Mug, $12. Available at CALS Cox Center in the River Market.
Tags: cals, central arkansas library system, coffee mug, cox center, dino, dinosaur, dinosaurs, disappearing dinosaur mug, library, shannon sturgis, t-rex
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
"The Ex" 5-piece Stainless Steel Knife Holder in Red. Available at Overstock.com for $69.99
True, some people skip straight to Christmas after Halloween, but call me a traditionalist. I like Thanksgiving. And what better product to feature than jazzy cutlery to carve the Thanksgiving turkey?
Raffaele Iannello designed this clever/sinister knife holder available in the most literal of colors, red (pictured) as well as silver, gold, black, white and green. Christened “The Ex,” this voodoo doll design goes beyond utility of functional storage. Now removing and replacing your kitchen knives becomes a healing, cathartic practice sure to cut that certain someone out of your heart for always and forever.
Set includes: 5 stainless steel knives: 8″ Chef Knife, 8″ Bread Knife, 8″ Carver, 5″ Utility Knife and a 3.5″ Paring Knife that each slide into their specific magnetic plastic casings.
Tags: cutlery, gift, halloween, knife holder, Raffaele Iannello, shannon sturgis, thanksgiving, the ex
Posted in Art, GIFTS, Holiday, Kitchen | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 6th, 2009
One of the greatest nights of the month was last night: Shop ‘N Sip. The first Thursday of every month, Hillcrest merchants stay open late so people who don’t leave work until 6 (me) can come peruse the stores while partaking in wine or beer.* Given that I had another engagement last night, I could apportion a limited time at Shop ‘N Sip which meant that I only had time to visit one store. So, duh, I went to Box Turtle. There were all sorts of new, fun things in there but one item in particular sticks with me today. The Lego® lookalike Building Block Speaker.
Building Block Speaker available at Box Turtle, $24.25.
Oh clever production companies… taking advantage, yet again, of us folk born in the 80s. We truly are hyper-nostalgic for our childhoods which means big bucks for companies manufacturing anything resembling a toy we possibly saw a commercial for at age 5. Whatever, I’m getting one of these.
Specs:
Compatible with iPod®mini, iPod®Touch (1st Generation), iPod®nano (1-3rd generation), iPod® (3-5th generation), iPod® Classic (Note: Does not work with iPhone®)
No battery required
Volume speakers are hidden in the design
Measures 2.5″ long x 1″ tall x .75″ deep
Not a registered product of Lego®
*That is unless you get there at the end of the night and the hoarders have drunk it all.
Tags: box turtle, first thursday, hillcrest, iphone, ipod, ipod speakers, lego, shannon sturgis, shop and sip, shop n sip, speaker, speakers
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