Enjoy the 2013 Southeast Examiner Gift Guide
In this Gift Guide we are promoting conscious consumerism for this holiday and everyday. By shopping at local venues you can be assured that 64% of every dollar spent stays in your community. Local shop owners find eclectic sources for their customers so their merchandise is unique, authentic and one-of-a-kind.
Shop local and shop often.
Good tidings to you.
The Southeast Examiner staff
Anyone spending time in the kitchen will appreciate a gift of Ohio Stoneware. Quality US-made, lead-free bakeware pieces and fermenting crocks help one prepare food like a pro.
Mirador is stocked for the holidays with many more great gift items for the kitchen and home that will fit any budget and shopping list.
Mirador Community Store
2106 SE Division St.
503.231.5175
www.miradorcommunitystore.com
Salt Lamps are the PERFECT gift! Discover this soothing, decorative way to help reduce indoor air pollutants, allergens and electro smog in areas of your home. Prices from $20-$110.
Visit Kuhnhausen’s and explore beautiful furniture, lamps and accessories. Family-owned and operated for 94 years!
Kuhnhausen’s Furniture
2640 E. Burnside St.
503.234.6638
www.kuhnhausensfurniture.com
Leaders in Leather handbags are the perfect gift for the holidays. Made in Argentina, they blend function with original designs inspired by traditional tooling methods. From purses to wallets to small bags there’s a style for everyone.
Fyberworks is known for its love of color and texture and resides in the Hawthorne district at the corner of 43rd and Hawthorne. We ‘re having drawings every week until Christmas, so check out our blog to see what we’re giving away.
Holiday hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 am – 6 pm, Sunday Noon-5, Monday Jan. 2, 9, 16 and 23, Noon-5.
Fyberworks
4300 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.232.7659
www.fyberworks.com
Our staff has a lot of fun making these planters, and they make the perfect, easy-care plant gift. If you’d rather make your own, we have everything you need to get started. You will find plenty of other gift ideas too, along with a full selection of greens and wreaths and other festive holiday decorations.
Portland Nursery
5050 SE Stark St.
503.231.5050
9000 SE Division St.
503.788.9000
www.portlandnursery.com
Talk Dock is a retro-looking charging station for your iPhone or Android phone. Perfect angle for Skyping. The handset can detach and plug directly into your phone’s headphone jack! Comes in green, black, orange, and pink.
Asylum
3713 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.232.8482
www.pdxasylum.com
Sidestreet Gallery is your destination for classic and crazy Christmas decorations, ornaments, light-up plastic Santas, snowmen, elves, reindeer, and a whole lot more. Whether it’s a special gift of art, jewelry, handmade cards or timeless decoration, we have all the hard-to-find and unique items that make your holiday special. Open seven days a week till Christmas: 12 to 5 pm and until 6 pm on Friday.
Sidestreet Gallery
140 SE 28th Ave.
503.233.1204
www.sidestreetgalleryportland.com
The Sennelier Urban Sketch Book makes it easy to create art on the go. The double-sided accordion design provides a surface for panoramic scenes or multiple small sketches. The hard-covered 4”x 6” book has heavyweight paper that’s ideal for pencil, pen, markers, inks or watercolors. Perfect for creating an illustrated journal or one-of-a-kind art book.
Muse Art and Design provides Portland artists with the materials and information they need to take their creative ideas and techniques to the highest level. Open seven days 11 am – 6 pm.
Muse Art and Design
4220 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.231.8704
www.museartanddesign.com
Little Boot Peeps are as cute as their name. Slip them on and let them peek over your favorite boots. The Little Boot Peep is a thin sleeve that peeps up out of your boot adding layering and style without bulk and looks terrific with leggings, skinny jeans or bare skin.
Twill
3352 SE Belmont St.
503.922.2084
www.twillclothing.com
The Electric Houndstooth Cleverhood raincape has a grid of blazing reflectivity hidden in the plaid until illumined directly. This timelessly fashionable and lightweight design was made in Providence, Rhode Island from imported synthetic (PVC-free, very nice) fabrics.
Clever Cycles
900 Hawthorne Blvd.
503.334.1560
www.clevercycles.com
Bucky is wearing a Chilly Dog hand-knit sweater, made in South America with 100% wool and natural dyes under Fair Trade guidelines. Just one of the many unique gift ideas for the pets and pet lovers in your life. Find them at For Paws, your friendly neighborhood dog and cat supply shop specializing in healthy, natural food and treats.
For Paws
3029 SE Division St.
503.235.3204
www.forpawspdx.com
Let us be your little helpers this holiday season. Whether it’s fine custom framing of a treasured item for a special loved one or a unique art gift, we’ve got you covered with hundreds of pieces in our showroom ready to gift (special pricing throughout.). Lots of selection in our do-it-yourself corner and the expert advice you’ve come to trust from Art Heads.
Art Heads
1506 SE 50th Ave.
503.232.5299
www.art-heads.com
This Viking Pro Range for home use resides in a window display on the corner of 8th & Hawthorne at Eastbank Appliances. The color is “Wasabi” and it has created a sharp increase in door traffic over the last several months. Everyone wants a closer look. Did you know that Viking ranges are available, not only in Stainless Steel, but many exciting colors? Right now you can get a FREE dishwasher with the purchase of any Viking Pro Series Range, including Wasabi!
Eastbank Contractor Appliances
800 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.954.1192
www.eastbankappliance.com
Have a Flamingo Holiday! Who doesn’t want a little whimsy in their life? Portland Picture Frame is offering a very special print by local photographer and favored PPF designer Stephanie Wade. Lovely for any place where you want a smile in any season. Matted to 16×16 and ready to frame, it’s a perfect for that fun someone in your life.
Portland Picture Frame
2801 SE Holgate Blvd.
503.236.1400
www.portlandpictureframe.com
Choose a ready-made gift basket, or build one with us at Floare! Mix-and-match flowers, succulents, airplants, candles, soaps, jewelry and more to make the perfect, thoughtful, local gift. Prices vary depending on what’s selected, and there are many affordable options for you and yours.
Floare offers flowers, arrangements, tasteful gifts, fun workshops, and general holiday cheer.
Floare
3070 SE Division St.
503.233.4039
www.facebook.com/floarepdx
This holiday, treat your favorite pet to a cozy new woven fleece-lined bed from Carrie Belle – perfect for your cat or small dog. Maybe kitty has a Funhouse Mouse on her list! Add a Sprong squeaker bone for the pup and you’re done! Let us help find the perfect gift for your Personal Beast!
Personal Beast
8119 SE Stark St.
503.445.9449
www.facebook.com/PersonalBeast
With personally selected wines, beers and spirits at down-to-earth pricing, in-depth, knowledgeable service and a fun, friendly shopping atmosphere,
Portland Wine Merchants brings you the best-sourced wines from here and abroad. We’re aware of the Global Marketplace and famous for turning it upside down and squeezing it twice to find you the best deals. We offer the region’s most diverse selections of wines of Vini Europa (plus outstanding finds from South Africa, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Virginia, New York state and sometimes even the Northwest).
Portland Wine Merchants
1430 SE 35th Ave.
503.234.4399
www.portlandwinemerchants.com
This beautiful wide chair is also a twin-size bed! They come in many styles and finishes and are 39” wide between the arms. Perfect for the living room, den or family room. You’ll always have an extra bed in the house! Washable covers come in dozens of colors and textures. Futons handmade in Portland! Pillows, futon covers and hippie tapestries all in stock for the holidays!
Rock Soft Futon
3200 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.236.0921
www.rocksoftfuton.com
Need a gift for someone who loves to shop at the hardware store? Buy a Do It Best gift card for any amount, that the recipient can redeem at Division Hardware and Paint. THE place to go to find toys for grown-ups.
Division Hardware and Paint
3734 SE Division St.
503.235.8309
www.division.doitbest.com
Largest Selection of Indo -Tibetan Arts and Crafts in the Pacific NW (maybe largest in the Americas), great prices too on Tibetan prayer flags, Tibetan incenses and traditional scarves (Khatas). Special holiday savings with inventory clearance. Free sampler TPF incense while supplies last for purchases over $25. Come join in the celebration. Sale ends Dec 24.
Tibet A Gift
3848 SE Division St.
503.736.3287
www.TibetanPrayerFlag.com
Catty Stacks cat climbers offer environmentally friendly furniture that your cat will love. Made from incredibly strong corrugated ultraboard, which is recycled, recyclable and uses vegetable-based ink. Planet Dog toys will amuse, support, innovate, educate, celebrate and philanthropate your dog. Made from socially responsible materials.
Portland Pet supply has everything you will need for your dogs and cats plus food for other critters too.
Portland Pet Supply
4242 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.233.3866
www.facebook.com/PortlandPetSupply
Here to rescue you are Bruder trucks and construction vehicles, finely-detailed and made in Germany. Polliwog offers stylish clothing and toys for babies and children, plenty of them natural, organic and local.
Polliwog
234 NE 28th Ave.
503.236.3903
www.polliwogportland.com
Beautiful Batik Shawls (or, “Selendangs”,) hand-drawn and hand-dyed from the north coast of Java. An amazing and ancient method of color dyeing, the essence of batiking is to paint with melted wax, creating a pattern in the negative and producing a design through dye-resist. Though done in many countries, the batik of Indonesia is unique and unequalled.
Batiks, Ikat Weavings, Shipibo Tapestries and more handmade fabrics available at the Blue Butterfly.
Blue Butterfly
4035 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.238.6639
This Is Between Us, by Kevin Sampsell (Fiction Novel) and Torment Saint: The Life of Elliot Smith, by William Todd Schultz (Biography)
Writer Kevin Sampsell and musician Elliot Smith are contemporary cultural institutions in Portland, near and dear to many people’s hearts. In different ways they have helped us love and showed that a beautiful range of art can be made in the face of loss and hardship. Both of these books will make you proud to be a Portlander.
Powell’s Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.228.4651
www.powells.com
Not sure what to get Aunt Matilda or Uncle Maxwell, whose names you drew from the family gift exchange? We know! Haflinger slippers! Pair them with some Smartwool socks and everyone will wish you’d pulled their name! Warm feet, warm heart.
Happiest Holidays!
Clogs N More
3439 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.232.7007
www.clogsnmore.com
This season at Mamababy, find beautiful Asian – inspired styles from Tea Collection, like this Deco Lantern Sparkle Dress for $36. Perfect for any holiday occasion or photo! We have an array of toys to fill those stockings, and the perfect rattle or snuggly for the tiniest wee ones, like this Brown Owl Lovey Blanket for $15, from Angel Dear.
Mamababy Boutique
4029 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.233.8130
www.mamababyshop.com
The Beatles “On Air-Live at the BBC Volume 2”
37 previously unreleased performances
23 newly-available speech tracks
Available as a 2 CD set and 3 disc Vinyl set
48 page booklet with broadcast dates and information on each track
A must have for any Beatle fan!
$19.99 CD $55.99 Vinyl
Music Millennium
3158 E. Burnside
503.231.8926
www.musicmillennium.com
Need a gift for someone that likes spicy salsas, or even for you? We have a wonderful box with four different flavors. Come and get it at your local restaurant La Calaca Comelona.
La Calaca Comelona
2304 SE Belmont St.
503.239.9675
www.lacomelonafoods.com
Happy Holidays and warmest wishes to you and yours this season! Discover your world with this beautifully-designed magnetic wooden puzzle. Learn hands on about the continents, countries, people, nature and landmarks that make up the planet.
Kids at Heart Toys
3445 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.231.2954
www.kidsathearttoys.com
Make it a Portland Holiday gift-giving season with these handcrafted stone coasters and 15 oz. coffee mugs available in Portland images. Add this fun Oregon shotglass to your barware collection; also available in pint glasses and mugs.
Memento pdx has everything for your holiday needs, from cards and candles to jewelry and locally-made art, with lots in-between.
Memento pdx
3707 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.235.1257
www.mementopdx.com
We are in love with this collection of taxidermy magnets handmade by Portland designers 20 Leagues! Each one comes in it’s own “room” complete with bear skin rug. Taxidermy magnets are $8.
Presents of Mind is your Holiday one-stop shopping treasure trove with wonderful giftwrap, cards, boxed cards, ornaments, menorahs and gifts. Holiday hours through December 23: Mon-Sat 10 am – 9 pm, Sun 10 am – 7 pm. December 24: 10 am – 6 pm.
Presents of Mind
3633 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.230.7740
www.presentsofmind.tv
Our best selling layering sweater! An easy gift pleaser from Sweet Rain, this side-zip, heathered, cozy cardigan comes in SIX beautiful colors and is only $59! It looks great left open or zipped up and is so flattering! This style is versatile enough to fit most any age or wardrobe!
Sloan Boutique
3526 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.232 0002
www.sloanpdx.com
Ukuleles always make a great affordable musical gift for anyone and they’re easy to play! Starting at only $39.95. We’re on MLK and Stark St., open 7 days a week, and there’s FREE parking.
Portland Music Company
531 SE Martin Luther King Blvd.
503.226.3719
www.portlandmusiccompany.com
Santa makes an early stop in Norway in his round-the-world tour on Christmas Eve. This picture on a trivet from Norway shows Santa sharing a fireside meal with his friend the moose. This and a variety of other unusual gift ideas celebrate the season.
Taylor Court Grocery
1135 SE 80th Ave.
503.253.5113
All your favorite kid’s brands under one roof! Keen, Merrell, Livie and Luca, Bogs and Acorn slippers for Christmas! Chooze Local!
Clogs-n-More Kids
3435 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
6809 SE Milwaukie Ave.
503.232.7007
wwwclogsnmore.com
Give the gift of a delicious meal or catered event from locally-owned Madison’s Grill. Custom-made gift certificates with your company or family name are available. They can be redeemed for dining in the restaurant or for a catered event in our upstairs, in our banquet room or at your location. Cheers!
Madison’s Grill & Catering
1109 SE Madison
503.238.7716
www.madisonsgrill.com
Oregon home t-shirts because there’s no place like it. The perfect gift for friends and family who can’t imagine living anywhere else! Check out the rest of our Oregon-centric merchandise, from Oregon-shaped cutting boards and bottle openers made from locally-grown Myrtlewood, Portland socks and Sasquatch tee shirts!
ZimZim
2805 SE Ankeny St.
503.236.7178
www.zimzimllc.com
Explore the past, present and future at Moonshadow on Belmont St. Green Sleeves! Green Fairies! Green Men! Visit the mysteries of the King of the Forest.
Hobbits, wizards and witches are always here, 7 days a week, to help you find the perfect gift for that magickal person, especially the ‘hard to shop for’ ones, and to socialize. Enjoy the wonder of the Yule festival! Magickal supplies, tools and treasures! There’s always something wonderfully new and different!
Moonshadow
3819 SE Belmont St.
503.235.5774
www.moonshadowmagick.com
Pastaworks’ Pantry Boxes are perfect for holiday gifts! We fill our custom-made blue pine boxes with either Mediterranean or Local goods — in both large and small sizes — or create your own. Give us a ring or stop by to order.
Pastaworks
3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
503.232.1010
www.pastaworks.com
5 easy steps for handmade holiday gifts. Choose from over 500 pieces of pottery at Pottery Fun. Pick out your colors. Paint. We offer fused glass projects and have lots of ideas to use and a friendly staff to help you. Pick your painted piece up a few days later. Open 7 days a week.
Pottery Fun
7821 SE Stark St.
503.253.8070
www.potteryfunpdx.com
Shown is our lovely purple satin over-bust with black ribbon lacing made with real flat steel boning and cotton on the inside. It is a waist training garment and very comfortable to wear. With our corset we have our black lace petti-pants and to complete the ensemble we have included our black lace shrug.
The Foundation is a locally-owned, old school lingerie and ladies foundation establishment. If there is someone on your list that would enjoy a little sexy glamour and sophistication in their life (or yours), come see Tami. For all those gentlemen who are old fashioned, we have gift certificates you may purchase “ because every woman deserves a little glamour in her life!”
The Foundation
4831 SE Division St.
503.926.4510
The ‘Cnoc 16’ is an ideal starter bicycle for children aged 4+. Designed in the UK, it’s exceptionally light and easy for children to ride. Unique features include a small-scale brake lever so tiny hands can brake confidently and there’s a buy-back program too. Islabikes are the children’s bicycle specialists and offer a comprehensive range of models from 2-14 years.
Islabikes
2113 SE 7th Ave.
503.954.2410
www.islabikes.com