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Craft Workshop

O’Crafty Night in Pioneer Square

Get your Elf on—with expert assistance.

Posted by: Seattle Met staff on Dec 09, 2011 at 06:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Where: Grand Central Bakery and Arcade

What: A holiday prep night for people who want to be crafty, but maybe just kinda…aren’t. Local designer and blogger Tina Witherspoon will more or less take you by the hand and demonstrate fun giftables for the season.

Artisan bread, iced shortbread snowflakes, iced gingerpeople, and hot chocolate will be on hand. All this good cheer is part of a brand new Pioneer Square campaign.

When: Thursday, December 15 from 5 to 7; tickets are $10 via Brown Paper Tickets.

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Tags: Holiday Shopping 2011

Retail Workshop

Winter Crowns at Marigold and Mint

Get crafty with the season on Monday, December 19.

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Dec 08, 2011 at 03:10PM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Where: Marigold and Mint

What: Shop owner and flower coaxer Katherine Anderson and Britain-born, Seattle-based fashion illustrator Izzie Klingels (she created the cover of Seattle Met’s Fashion’s Night Out guide) team up for a winter crown-making workshop at Melrose Market’s sweetest little botanicals and gift shop.

The gals are on quite a roll over there; this DIY opportunity is quick on the heels of a Halloween mask class. We bet they’ll dream up something special around mid-February, too…

Participants can take 10 percent off anything in the store while they’re there at the workshop.

When: Monday, December 19; kids over 5 are welcome from 11:30 to 1, the adult session is 6 to 8. Cost of the workshop is $30 per person, all materials—evergreen boughs, winter berries, bright blossoms—are included.

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Tags: Seattle DIY, Holiday Shopping 2011, Marigold and Mint

Slideshow

Slideshow: Perfect Sweaters

Where to go to find cozy knit layers for low temperatures.

Posted by: Heather Fink on Dec 08, 2011 at 08:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Diane Bolme

SLIDESHOW: Five top sweater shops. Here, Ketch, where you might land one of these Wildfox Couture cardigans.

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Not to overstate the obvious, but it sure is cold out there.

Those who survive Seattle in style do so in layers, so we shopped the city’s boutiques in search of sweaters that’ll keep you warm enough to go out looking cool.

Stop shivering already and check out our slideshow for five shops full of cozy knits in all shapes and sizes.

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Tags: Downtown Seattle Shopping, Holiday Shopping 2011, Seattle Shopping Slideshow

Shopping Guide

77 Seattle Essentials

From bar implements to ankle boots, these style elements define and shape a stylish city life.

Posted by: Seattle Met Staff on Nov 08, 2011 at 06:30AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Justin Gollmer

Traditional textiles. For 76 more, see 77 Elements of a Practical and Stylish Seattle Life.

Feel like something’s missing?

Feel like you’re getting it exactly right?

Already thinking about what to give new Seattleites for the holidays? What to give old Seattleites for the holidays?

Our guide to the 77 Elements of a Practical and Stylish Seattle Life points you in the direction of wardrobe essentials, hot housewares, locally designed innovations, novel forms of entertainment, and the best Northwest classics and latest trends.

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Holiday Shopping

Neiman Marcus Features Rainier Yurts

The luxury department store teams up with a hundred-year-old Seattle company for its holiday catalog.

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Nov 01, 2011 at 09:30AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

It’s been two years since Neiman Marcus rolled into town, so by now you’re probably familiar with their yearly holiday catalog—complete with a handful of totally over-the-top gift ideas. We’re not talking about the high-ticket Chanel watches and cut-crystal glassware that appears in other mega-retailers catalogs, we’re talking about $250,000 custom-made speedboats. And yurts.

This year’s Christmas Book (if the Houston-based brand hasn’t yet folded under the PC “holiday” pressure, they probably never will) allows customers to order a $75,000, 12-foot-5-inch tall, 18-foot diameter tent from Seattle’s Rainier Yurts.

The South-End structure builders have been doing business since the Alaskan Gold Rush days, so they’re probably not strangers to big purses, but I’m not sure they’ve ever collaborated with luxury pillow maker Rebecca Vizard or New Orleans’s chandelier artisan, Julie Neill.

Yes, your yurt comes with antique embroidery, crystal-accented lighting, linen wall coverings, and a color scheme meant to evoke “the bubbles of a warm, soothing bath.” Installation is included, and for every backyard retreat (they call them “Dream Follys” …) that’s sold, NM will donate $5,000 to breast cancer research.