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
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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
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
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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
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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
Daily Find
Here in the Northwest, flannel has a particularly potent association. During the early '90s, the uniform of the rugged outdoorsman somehow became the signature shirt of brooding 20-somethings, then a remnant of a bygone musical era. A Seattleite who wore flannel even a year ago risked looking like a walking grunge memorial.
November 2, 2007
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Barbara Stanwyck wore a scarf as a sling, Mary Tyler Moore used one as a necktie and Jackie Kennedy had one to protect her famous face. But during Seattle's brisk months, you'll find that most scarves are employed simply to warm shoulders or shelter heads from the rain. When battling the elements, a scarf is more than an accessory -- it's an ally.
October 19, 2007
