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2012 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
dspringer says creating things out of wood every day brings him happiness because it is both artistic and laborious.
Sean Springer, Springer Design Studio
Gift idea: wooden toys and accessories
Price range: $30-$95
Where to find it: Oil & Cotton, We Are 1976, Neighborhood
When a nasty Windstorm finally toppled a 100-year-old pecan tree in Oak Cliff this past summer, artist Sean Springer dismantled it with a chainsaw. He’s curing the wood in long sheets about 2 inches thick, separated by blocks and covered with tarps in the backyard of his home and studio just south of Interstate 30.
When the wood is cured, two or three years from now, he will use part of that tree to make signage and other amenities for the King’s Highway Neighborhood Association.
Springer is a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and New York native who moved to Dallas in 2009 after working for furniture makers in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. He likes the climate here, and he doesn’t have allergies, he says, like he does at home in New York. So he thinks he’ll stay awhile.
Springer’s minimalist handmade furniture, cabinetry and other designs are in some of our city’s chicest homes and businesses.
For a fee, Springer will take away a dead or felled tree from your yard. In return, he gives you credit toward a piece of furniture plus a token from the tree, called a molar. That’s a geometrical carved piece that could be used as a pedestal or footstool.
He also makes chopsticks, cutting boards, bowls and spoons, plus wooden jewelry and toys. Those all can be had for under $100 and make lovely gifts. His tetrahedron toy, designed especially for Oil & Cotton, teaches people of all ages about angles and design.
Springer works out of a huge prefab garage on his quarter-acre property, and he rents space to other woodworkers, including artist Erik Glissman.
Springer says creating things out of wood every day brings him happiness because it is both artistic and laborious.
“I need that physical activity,” he says. “It’s cathartic, and it gives me a lot of satisfaction.”
LiLy Smith-KirKLey SitS at a computer all day in her job as a graphic designer. But on nights and weekends, she is in her letterpress shop, making hand-carved linoleum prints and turning analog designs out of her letterpress machine.
She produces posters, stationery, post cards, gift tags and more as Lilco, a “little letterpress co.,” as her tagline goes.
Lily Smith-Kirkley, Lilco
Gift idea: notebooks, gift tags, prints
Price range: $4-$60 Where to find it: lilcoletterpress.com, Bishop Arts District Saturday market
Smith-Kirkley shares a studio inside a former West Dallas machine shop with her partner, artist Kim Cadmus Owens. Smith-Kirkley hand letters designs such as the 3-by-5 postcard, “Hola,” inside a carved papel picado banner. She usually draws her designs on transfer paper first and then carves them into linoleum.
It can be a mind-bender to carve everything backward into the blocks, she says.
Sometimes she and Cadmus Owens collaborate on projects. During a recent studio visit, they were working on a cactus print. Cadmus Owens, who teaches painting at the University of Dallas, had worked out the shadowing on paper, and SmithKirkley was making the carvings.
Lilco’s sets of five gift tags cost $4. A set of four notebooks featuring letterpress prints of office supplies and phones costs $18. The large prints cost $60.
The Live LocaL cornucopia
All of these products are the work of neighborhood-based entrepreneurs. Give them as hostess gifts, stocking stuffers or prezzies for the office. Better yet, buy one of each and make a Live Local gift basket for your favorite neighbor.
Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters
Oak Cliff Coffee is roasted and packaged right here in the ’hood. Plus, the company has a commitment to fair trade and a quality cup of coffee. One-pound bags of single-origin or direct-trade coffee cost $16-$17. Custom blends cost about $15. Monthly subscriptions also are available starting at $16 a month. oakcliffcoffee.com, 214.929.6752
Oak Cliff Cellars oakcliffcellars.com, 877.821.5304
OK, so Oak Cliff Cellars wines are not made in Oak Cliff. They’re produced in Napa Valley, but owner J.R. Richardson lives in Oak Cliff, and he named his label after our neighborhood. Oak Cliff Cellars offers several varietals and is available at Bolsa Mercado, where bottles sell for $20-$44.
Cocoandré Cocolatier
Chocolatier Andrea Pedraza makes hand-rolled truffles in flavors including strawberry passion fruit, raspberry lavender, café con leche and spicy chile. They cost $14 for a box of eight and $27 for a half-pound box. Cocoandré’s molded chocolates and chocolate-covered marshmallows on a stick make excellent stocking stuffers for under $5. cocoandre.com, 831 W. Davis, 214.941.3030 kesslercookies.com, 214.948.7412
Kessler Cookie Co.
This neighborhood-based bakery offers made-to-order cookies and brownies. Cookies include chocolate chip, oatmeal cranberry walnut, honey roasted peanut butter and vanilla sugar. Eighteen cookies cost $27, and 36 cookies cost $50. The Kessler Club cookie-of-the-month club offers four months of cookies and an apron for $100.
Lakehill Preparatory School
Norma’s Café hosts its annual toy drive through Dec. 20. Bring a new, unwrapped toy by the restaurant, located at 1123 W. Davis, during business hours. For more information, call 214.946.4711 or visit normascafe.com.
The inauguralLatino Arts Festival took place in the Bishop Arts District in November. Oak Cliffbased attorney and former City Councilman Domingo Garcia and his wife, County Commissioner Elba Garcia, sponsored the festival. The event featured music from Denton-based Mariachi Quetzaland Dallas-basedFelix Flores Band. There were also salsa dancers, poets, art projects for kids and a visual art competition. The Garcias wanted to put on the festival to showcase our city’s Latino art and culture, says event spokeswoman Esmeralda Orozco “I don’t think in Dallas we have a lot of cultural events that bring people together,” Orozco says. “We want to celebrate the Latino art and culture that makes Dallas a vibrant community.”
The 47th annual Westapher Golf Tournament took place in October at Oak Cliff’s renovatedStevens Park Golf Coursewhere sports reporter Gina Miller emceed. The event benefited theNexus Recovery Center, which provides substance abuse support for women, teens 13-17 years old and their children. It is the only treatment center in Texas that works with women in the final stages of their pregnancy and “newly parenting adolescents.” An auction in Preston Hollow resident Faye Briggs’s home was held in conjunction with the tournament.
Neighborhood nonprofit AIDS Arms selected John Carlo as its new CEO. Former executive director Raeline Nobles leaves the post after 15 years. Carlo’s experience includes the University of Minnesota’s BioWatch Program and Dallas County Health and Human Services, where he helped create a temporary clinic to treat more than 10,000 evacuees of Hurricane Katrina.
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