Cog bottle opener from Steel Toe Studios, $25

Upcycled bike tube belt, $38; typography buckle $45; 10% off when purchased together. Both made locally… those bike tubes may have cruised down your street!

The Smallest Wallet by Malcolm Fontier easily carries four cards and cash, for those to like to pack light.  $29

Bottle opener by FluffyCo – a longtime Click! favorite.  Pick your favorite design, and pop a cold one!  $38

Lovely cheese plates from JK Adams.  $14 each, or three for $38

The prettiest wine carafe ever!  Pair it with a bottle of wine from Bin 41, and you won’t even have to leave the Junction.  Done!  $34

Also vino-related, these Wine Tagz from Modern Twist are a classy way to keep track of your glass.  Write your name with a ball point pen or dry erase marker, and then rub them clean for use at the next soiree.  A set of 6 is $15

Linen tea towels from local artist Dinah Coops — silk screened with love in Seattle.  Each $24

Santa Lucia ornaments from Roost.  These are just as lovely on the tree as they are on the table — use them for gift or name tags!   Small box of 12 $18, large box of 27 $42.

100% soy candles from Lotta Jansdotter.  Long lasting, clean burning, and modern designs.  $24

A few more ideas:

• Kenneth Wingard picture frames, 4×6″ is $21, 5×7″ is $26
• Greentree beeswax tapers, with six different sizes and patterns to choose from!  A set of two tapers is $15-23.
• Felt table runners , $21

The tray measures 8″ x 19.5″, and is only $34. Astute observers will notice in the background a product we haven’t had in the store for a while: the wine butler, which is a Swiss-Army-Knife-like multi-tool perfect for the wine lover.

Another new arrival is this sweet furniture from InModern. Check out the end tables, paired with some sweet ceramics (and a Woolyhoodwink):

and the coffee table (could be a great kids table), stacked with an InModern stool and a several QueenBee bags and wallets:

Again with the background: check out the Bike Parking sign, $36, new from FluffyCo.

Above are “Spash” bowls by Tampopo $36. These come in a really nice gift box. The salts $12, and spoons $19, are each packaged in sets of 4.

Let’s start at the table. There is no easier way to dress up the dinner table than by adding a table runner, and at $21, there may not be a less expensive way either. Top it off with brushed nickel tea light holders by Kenneth Wingard, and you’ll be feeling festive in no time.

If you want to receive good stocking stuffers, you’d better have a good stocking. Read Frances’s post from last week on these sweet, modern stockings from Simplemente Blanco. Handmade in Boston by Argentina-born Fernanda Bourlot, these have a simple beauty. And for hanging by the fire with care, try using our purse hangers as stocking hangers. We have new designs for the season that would work perfectly to hang from the mantle.

Sometimes stockings are small, and hang from the tree. Sometimes they have sweet little mittens to hang with them. I’m just saying.

Speaking of ornaments, we had a great idea from a customer recently who bought several of these wooden ornaments, with the idea of using them as gift tags. You could even do that with our ever-popular wood snowflake ornaments, if we haven’t sold out of them yet.

You’ll undoubtedly be wrapping some gifts, and will appreciate the top quality wrapping paper we’re carrying, by Denise Lynn Studios. Don’t be surprised when the recipient ignores the gift and frames the paper. No really, we know a lamp maker who has made gorgeous shades from this line of paper… but more on that in the new year.

]]> http://clickdesignthatfits.com/blog/2009/11/27/the-definitive-holiday-decorating-guide/feed/ 0 http://clickdesignthatfits.com/blog/2009/06/16/fathers-day-gift-guide/ http://clickdesignthatfits.com/blog/2009/06/16/fathers-day-gift-guide/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:00:02 +0000 John http://clickdesignthatfits.com/blog/?p=305 Continue reading →]]> This Sunday is Father’s Day, and you’re probably scrambling to find a decent gift for your dad, or the father of your children. Either way, he is, of course, notoriously difficult to shop for. 

Bottle openers: nothing says “you deserve to kick back and pop a cold one” quite like these hand screened bottle openers from FluffyCo. With authentic Starr X hardware, he’ll stay refreshed for years.

But what if he’s more of a wine guy? Two words: Cork Cufflinks. Or is that three? Depends on how you spell cuff link.

Or perhaps he’s more into martinis?

OK, that’s all fine and good… what if he doesn’t drink alchohol? We’re going to stay on a liquid theme and suggest a solid ceramic coffee press.

But if you really loved him, you’d buy him this chair made of reclaimed plywood scraps from Austin, TX based ref-use:

All items are in-stock at Click!. The pictures link to details.

The kids at Savannah College of Art and Design came up with these fantastic melamine plates, perfect for eating outside this summer (“I believe that is called al fresco“). This is a great program where students get real world experience by not just designing in a classroom, but by taking a product all the way to market. The veggies on these salad plates remind us that the farmer’s markets will be ramping up soon.

We also received a new order from San Francisco hipsters FluffyCo, who make the awesome bottle openers and key hooks that we love. There are new designs of both in our brick and mortar, and we will be expanding the choices in our web store soon.

And then there are the new spring bags from Highway. These have consistently been our most popular handbags, probably because they are at once sweetly stylish and super practical. They have lots of pockets and zippers and are beautifully designed in nylon and leather, some with designer Jem Filippi’s super-cute embroidery.

And, if you want to special order a different color than what we have in-stock, go ahead and take 25% off, just because we like you. 

“four square” cuff links $98 $49

“kate” bracelet $430 $215