Holiday Gift Guide 2016

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olida Gift-Giving Guide For Those Who Have Everything For the family and friends who have everything, consider purchasing small decorative items for them to use around their homes. Blankets, candles, picture frames and even holiday decorations are great last-minute items recipients will enjoy. Food baskets with delicious snacks and holiday candy placed in a decorative canning jar are simple, affordable and useful items that are sure to make loved ones smile this season.

Great Go-To Gift Items For those who are hard to shop for, gift cards and technology items are great go-to gifts. Consider headphones or fitness trackers. Gift cards to favorite restaurants, retail stores and coffee shops are always a great choice, giving them freedom to choose exactly what they want.

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Ti During this holiday season, shop at locally owned stores in your own community and you’ll find many of the same popular gift items you’d find at big chain retailers. Yet, local merchants also stock a smorgasbord of off-the-beaten-path ideas. Want to find unique jewelry and home dÊcor items created by local crafters and artisans? Looking for a one-of-akind piece of art? You can’t find those at big-box retailers.

Buying locally also helps your community stay vibrant.

Spending your money at local retailers keeps your dollars here at home, which helps our local economy stay robust. It also helps to create and sustain jobs in our own neighborhoods.

Plus, it’s just plain fun to think outside the big box and enjoy all the unique treats our own area offers – while helping to preserve the places and products that make our area special and distinct.

The lists on the following pages showcase gift ideas for women, men and children. Each item can be found on the shelves of local retail shops owned by our neighbors, the people who know best the kinds of gifts we all want to give and receive.

Shoppers here are lucky to be able to buy from mom-and-pop retailers specializing in everything from kids toys and comic books to home dÊcor and the great outdoors. But that’s just the start of it. You’ll find boutiques devoted to jewelry and clothing, beer and barbecue, soaps and other skin care items, pet treats, music and more.

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Kids can get creative with super-soft animal puppets by the Puppet Company ($29.99) at Silly Dillys, 3217 S MacDill Ave., Tampa (sillydillytotspot.com).

Choose from a dapper fox, mouse, frog and owl, or grab them all and let the whole family put on a show with the Puppet Company Doorway Hanging Theater ($65). Owner Kate Kyres keeps this magical shop stuffed from floor to ceiling with toys, games, clothes and more.

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Best Local Gifts for Kids You don’t have to go to the big chains to find fun things kids enjoy. Local merchants carry arts and crafts, toys, comics, games and everything else kids love, including the unique and the unusual.

Kids still love remote-controlled toys, says the staff at Phil’s Hobby Shop, 6050 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park (philshobbyshop.com). Best sellers include the Autel Robotics X-Star Premium flying drone ($719) and sporty cars and trucks by Traxxas ($185-$500) and ECX ($125-$300). Want to start smaller? The mini Voyager Micro Quad ($35) makes a fab stocking stuffer.

Dress the kids in festive holiday jammies from Posh Tot, 7232 Central Ave., St. Petersburg (theposhtotboutique.com). The precious Peaches ‘n Cream newborn sleeping gown with pretty crochet flourishes comes with its own adorable hat! ($55). For tiny tots sized 3 to 24 months, the Wes & Willy striped Santa onesie is extra cute and cozy ($39.75). Girls sized 2T to 5T would flip for Mud Pie’s cheerful Jolly Merry Bright set with red top and polka dot pants ($38).

Got a comic book enthusiast on your list?

Emerald City Comics, 4902 113th Ave., Clearwater (emeraldcitycomics.com), has a huge array of comic books, games, toys and action figures. What’s hot for the holidays?

“Anything related to Rogue One,” says store manager Jay Roberts. The new Star Wars flick hits theaters in mid-December, so the store is stocking up on goodies like Pop! Vinyl Figures featuring rebel fighters Jyn Erso and Capt. Cassian Andor, and droid K-2SO, ($11.99 and up).

Shop for artsy youngsters at the gift shop at the Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg (mfastpete.org). Colorful Boboo stuffed animals are handcrafted from recycled fabrics by local artist Felicity Jenkins ($45). Each mama doll comes with her own little one. Our favorite? The kangaroo, whose adorable baby is tucked away inside her pouch. Creative kids can make their own art with a Keith Haring watercolor set ($30) or Finger Max brushes, which transform fingertips into paintbrushes ($3).

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Women love it all all, from jewelry and wine to beauty products and home decor. Locally owned shops have all of that and more.

Speaking of wine, why not leave something from Jug & Bottle Dept., 6203 N Florida Ave., Tampa (jugandbottledept.com) for her under the tree? Staff picks include a 2015 Walnut Block Sauvignon Blanc ($14.99).

The New Zealand white wine is floral and tropical on the nose and packs a “juicy mouthfeel.” Or try the 2014 Poggio Anima Belial Sangiovese, an Italian red wine with hints of cherry and raspberry ($16.99). While you’re there, grab a gift pack of artisanal jams from the local Urban Canning Co. Flavors include Caramel Apple + Sea Salt, Pear Dark Chocolate + Cinnamon, and Cranberry Whiskey and Clove ($30).

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Any woman would love the stylish necklaces and earrings handcrafted from sterling silver, copper, enamel and gemstones by Tampa artist Sarah Phillips of Armillata Designs ($30 and up). Green thumbs will adore the gorgeous concrete planters by Southern Reclaim Co. ($36 for set of 3). Find both items at Strands of Sunshine, 633 Central Ave., St. Petersburg (strandsofsunshine.com).

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The St. Pete-based Bodhi Basics (facebook.com/BodhiBasics) makes handcrafted, plant-based organic soaps and skin care products that smell as good as they feel. The Green Wunderbalm skin healer made of shea butter, jojoba, lavender and other essential oils ($22) makes a terrific gift, as does the wonderfully aromatic seasonal cedar wood eucalyptus bath soap. Find Bodhi Basics products on Etsy, at the St. Pete Indie Market and at select St. Pete locations, including Strands of Sunshine and Old Southeast Market.

You’ll find a fun mix of new, reclaimed and vintage furniture and home décor items at Starboard Home, 31003 U.S. 19 N, Palm Harbor (mystarboardhome.com). Wine-loving ladies will find the distressed wood and metal wine rack ($319) as useful as it is beautiful.

Is she an ocean lover? Consider one of the colorful sea turtle sculptures made of Mexican recycled metal ($49.99-$79.99). Something smallter? Ihi brand picture frames made of recyclable materials like pencils and rulers make terrific gifts. ($17.99 and up).

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Don’t forget your furry ones this holiday. The family-owned Health Mutt, 6116 N Central Ave., Tampa (tampahealthmutt. com) stocks great local products pets love, like super fancy Black Cat dog and cat bow ties ($9.95) and long-lasting Al CaBones, crafted from locally sourced beef bones and chicken breasts ($5.99 - $14.99).

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For more information, call (727) 582-2008.

Download an application at www.pinellascounty.org/firstcare.

Pinellas County Healthcare Navigators are available to help you Sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Free enrollment events are taking place throughout Pinellas County to help you choose a plan that meets your needs. Make an appointment today to come in and meet with a Navigator.

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Make an appointment at www.pinellascounty.org/navigators.

Pinellas County Wishes You a Healthy Holiday Season Pinellas County complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. To obtain accessible formats of this document, please call (727) 464-4062 (V/TDD).

The project described was supported by Funding Opportunity Number CA-NAV-15-001 from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The contents provided are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any of its agencies.

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es oca i t for MEN The men on your list appreciate outdoor fun, music, craft beer and coffee.

Local merchants have you covered.

Shopping for a java lover? Grab a bag of the excellent Costa Rica Grand Reserve ($13) at Mountaineer Coffee, 26 S Broad St., Brooksville (mountaineercoffee.com). The hip shop buys the beans raw and green from a Costa Rican farm and roasts them right onsite. While you’re there, pick up a bag of Mountaineer Coffee Barbecue Rub, a blend of chili powder, paprika, cumin, brown sugar, black pepper and a big dash of coffee – the perfect stocking stuffer for men who like to grill ($6.99).

What man doesn’t love music? Head to Daddy Kool Records, 666 Central Ave., St. Petersburg (daddykool.com) to buy your guy Legacy, the new 2-disc set of hits by the late, great David Bowie ($14), and Cre/ation: The Early Years 1967-1972, a 2-disc set commemorating the early days of classic rockers Pink Floyd ($16).

Beer lovers will jump at the chance to brew right at home. Get him set up at HiFi Homebrew and BBQ Supply, 1650 N Hercules Ave. Unit 1, Clearwater (hifihomebrewandbbq.com). Start with a BSG brand HomeBrew Equipment Kit ($89.95), and then choose one (or two or three) of HiFi’s custom beer recipe kits. Customer favorites include Forever Summer Honey Cream Ale, Summer Nights IPA and Sweet Emotion Chocolate Stout ($40 and up).

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Ready for adventure with your favorite guy? The ultra-durable Osprey hydrating backpacks at Tampa Bay Outfitters, 701 S Howard Ave., Tampa (tampabayoutfitters.com) provide all-weather protection and plenty of room for hydrating fluids. The Manta backpack is tailor-made for men, while the Mira features special contouring to comfortably fit a women’s body. (Prices vary depending on size.)

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wrack their brains for something new or meaningful to give loved ones. Gift cards are popular, but impersonal; and many other things that might come to mind just add up to more “stuff.” Have you considered giving a membership to a museum, aquarium or zoo?

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Every time the holder shows that card, something good happens.

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Give someone the gift of wonder and knowledge this holiday.

Museum of Fine Arts

in St. Pete, mfastpete.org – Individual, $60; Student or Educator (Scholar), $35; Family, $115; as well as other levels. 727-896-2667, ext. 248, or purchase online.

The Dalí Museum

in St. Pete, thedali.org – Student/Educator (Scholar), $40; Individual, $60; Dual, $80; Family, $100; as well as other levels. 727-623-4708 or membership@thedali.org.

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Largo, armedforcesmuseum.com – Student, $25; Individual, $35; Dual, $50; Family, $75; as well as other levels. 727-539-8371.

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Skip the slow, miserable prowl for parking at the big box stores and give your Amazon account a rest this shopping season. Instead, head to these indie holiday craft fairs and make loved ones feel special with one-of-a-kind gifts handmade by local artists and craftspeople. Most of these annual events also offer varied and delicious food options and entertainment, so it’s easy to make a day (or a night, in some cases) out of your visit.

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Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Keystone Preparatory High School, Gunn Highway, Odessa More than 350 vendors turn out for this popular local festival to sell quaint handmade ornaments and holiday decorations, Christmas stockings, linens, folk art, unique garden artwork, metal and wood crafts and jewelry at this event that benefits the GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club.

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Dec. 10 and Dec. 11 Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sarasota Municipal Auditorium Recreation Room, Sarasota This beloved indie craft fair, now in its 11th year, takes place in the historic Bay Front Room and offers an incredibly wide range of gifts sure to please everyone on your list. Find leatherwork, jewelry, decorative bowls, woodcrafts, sterling silver and copper metal work, hand-painted wine glasses, photography, sculpture painting and ceramics. Bonus: The first 100 “adultish” attendees score a free tote bag designed by a local artist.

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White Rabbit Farm, Brooksville Peruse gift options including clothing, home and garden accessories and jewelry, and enjoy all-day dancing and music at this unique event. Take classes to learn how to create masquerade masks and top hats for the Mad Hatters Ball happening at 7 p.m. Mouthwatering BBQ is available at 6 p.m., and there’s also a raffle benefiting Florida Urban Agriculture, an organization supporting children and veterans.

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Nov. 26 and Nov. 27 Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

State Fairgrounds (Entertainment Hall), Tampa This venerable festival draws visitors from far and wide who come for the variety of crafts and artwork, including woodwork and furniture, household items, clothing, toys, collectibles (such as bears), handcrafted holiday decorations, jewelry and homemade fudge.

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Dec. 11 Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

St. Pete Beach Kids can participate in arts and crafts while you browse local vendors’ booths. After shopping but before you drop, stick around for the parade, which starts at 4 p.m.

Holiday Hoopla

Dec. 10 Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Gulfport Now in its eighth year, this lively festival encourages festive costumes, hula-hooping and dancing in addition to shopping in its vendor marketplace, which offers items either completely handmade or “75 percent embellished” by the artists. Find clothing, accessories, soap and other bath items, jewelry and baked goods made by local craftspeople. Stroll under twinkling lights on the idyllic waterfront at Beach Boulevard and enjoy local musicians, including choral groups from local schools.

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Studio@620, 620 First Ave. S, St. Petersburg The presenters of this annual holiday bazaar are dedicated to ensuring everything offered to visitors is handmade by local artists. The carefully chosen vendors sell a broad range of small-batch pickles and jam and often one-ofa-kind items, including natural soaps and toiletries such as salves made with Florida herbs, leather crafts, kids’ clothes, jewelry and other artwork.

John’s Pass Village and Boardwalk Christmas & Jingle Bell Tournament Dec. 3 Saturday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Madeira Beach Stroll the quaint and beautiful waterfront area of John’s Pass for unique gifts lining the walk at this event benefiting the Kind Mouse and Santa’s Angels, Pinellas County nonprofits serving children and families in need.

Enjoy music by Johns Hopkins Middle School students and take the kids to visit Santa. Kids who love to fish can compete in the kids’ fishing tournament, as well.

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December 10 Saturday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Downtown New Port Richey Kids have a full day’s worth of activities to enjoy while you browse the wares of local artisans and craftspeople.

In addition to face painting and bounce houses, the Main Street Holiday celebration includes brunch and photos with Santa and a celebrity Read to Me session before the New Port Richey Holiday Parade at 6 p.m.

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Star Gazers Chart the wonders of the cosmos with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and new imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope, ground-based observatories and more, this guide features fascinating objects like glittering star-birth nebulae and supermassive black holes.

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Explaining science through photographs, facts and real-world examples, each activity is appropriate for kids ages 8-12. Requiring only household materials, young makers can build an exploding volcano, make bath fizzies, construct a solar system and more.

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Automotive Enthusiasts

Classic car collectors and enthusiasts will enjoy Classic Car, a visual guide created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.

Featuring the most iconic classics of every decade from the 1940s to the 1980s from the Aston Martin DB5 to the Chevrolet Corvette, the book offers detailed profiles of trademark models, as well as the famous designers and manufacturers behind them, featuring more than 1,300 photographs and two prints suitable for framing.

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Budding Builders

Encourage builders to look at their LEGO bricks in new, creative ways with 365 Things to Do with LEGO Bricks, an interactive book featuring imaginative play and building ideas, from projects that take just a few minutes to those that keep one occupied for hours.

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Cabbage Patch Kids

These dolls were the first toys not tied to a popular TV show, movie or comic strip that “everybody had to have and nobody could find,” says Jim Silver, editor of TimetoPlayMag. com. A December 1983 Time magazine article described parents knocking over display tables and grabbing and shoving each other just to get one for their kid. By billing each doll as unique (each one came with adoption papers and a birth certificate), the makers of Cabbage Patch Kids were able to create an urgent sense of demand – a strategy mimicked by Beanie Babies, ZhuZhu pets and others.

Leap Pad

Introduced in 1999 to help kids master reading, this talking book was the first toy that aimed to make learning fun. “Kids thought they were playing,” says Silver. “And they could do it on their own without their parents.” It also paved the way for VTech’s orange and purple V.Smile, which debuted in 2004 to help preschoolers hone motor skills through a Winnie the Pooh game, as well as countless other educational gaming consoles (including a new launch of its own). But still, “If you go down the learning aisle, LeapFrog and VTech dominate it,” says Silver.

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Rubik’s Cube

More than 350 million have been sold worldwide since it was invented 40 years ago in Budapest by architecture professor Erno Rubik, making the cube one of the best-selling puzzles of all time. (There are a maddening 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different ways to twist and turn it.) Today, there are annual tournaments held to reward the fastest solvers, and the Transformers toys have adopted a similar mechanism.

“People love play that involves mastery,” says Richard Gottlieb, CEO of Global Toy Experts. “The harder you work at it, the better you get at it.”

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View-Master

Invented by Harold Graves, president of Sawyer’s Photographic Services, the stereoscope was unveiled at the 1939 New York World’s Fair as a way to view photos of tourist attractions in 3-D and got its big break when it landed a licensing agreement with Disney. Think of it as a precursor to the Internet, says Tim Walsh: “People who couldn’t get to New York City to see the Statue of Liberty could feel like they were standing in front of it.” The old-school device still exists in some form – Mattel’s Fisher-Price makes a version – but its lasting impact is more visible in gadgets like the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

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“The fact that dolls talk started with Chatty Cathy,” says Silver. She was the first portable, interactive doll that said things like “Let’s play house” or “I love you” when

Easy Bake Oven

Cooked up in 1963 by Kenner Products (now part of Hasbro), it was the first toy that allowed kids to make edible food, a brand new category of play. Now stores feature devices that make s’mores, sno cones, cotton candy, cupcakes and, most recently, cake pops.

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Nerf Bow and Arrow

The Nerf Bow ‘n’ Arrow launched the toy blaster market when it was introduced in 1991. “Up until the 1980s, Nerf had always been the hoop and basketball, so the bow and arrow changed Nerf’s entire brand to where it is today, which is more of a blaster with foam darts,” says Silver. Today, the brand (owned by Kenner Products and now Hasbro) counts on the popularity of The Hunger Games’ bow-hunting heroine Katniss Everdeen to sell blasters, especially to girls, while its influence marketwide can be seen in the emergence of Zing Toys, a line of foam darts and slingshots, and the “secret” line of blasters Mattel revealed in April that are designed to fire more accurately than Nerf ones.

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This pump-action water gun literally blew its competition out of the water, so to speak. Before NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented and licensed it to the Larami Corp. (later acquired

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No one thought boys would play with a doll–until Hasbro introduced G.I. Joe in the middle of the Cold War as an “action figure” named after Government-Issued Joe, the World War II nickname for regular soldiers. “He’s an everyman, but he’s a hero – a singular individual who gets things done,” says Patricia Hogan, curator at the Strong Museum of Play. Joe paved the way for other action figures, specifically spies like the female private detective Honey West and the Man from U.N.C.L.E., as people were fixated on espionage during the Cold War. But his most enduring impact may be his bendable frame. “You couldn’t bend Barbie’s knees or her elbows–she just sort of stood there while you explained what she was doing,” Hogan says. “But a kid could pose G.I. Joe doing almost anything. There were a lot of action figures that came out after Joe that didn’t have that kind of articulation, and they did not sell nearly as well.”

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Sales may have dropped recently, but Mattel still claims a Barbie doll is sold every three seconds, which would make the billion-dollar brand the world’s most popular doll for girls.

And she’s a pretty good role model, having held more than 150 careers – including doctor, scientist and lawyer – since her debut in 1959, and always keeping an active lifestyle. “Barbie was the first incarnation of the adult version of a doll that would allow girls to envision, ‘What do I want to be when I grow up?’ besides a mom,” says Walsh. She also embraced cultural diversity before many Americans did.

Barbie’s first black friend debuted in 1968, and the first black version of herself debuted in 1980.

“She has staying power because she’s changed and grown with the times,” says Hogan. And she has even surged ahead of them: Barbie has, after all, become president of the United States.

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