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The holidays are upon us and pressure to find the right presents for family and friends is starting to become more and more nerve-racking. Specific children’s toys like the Playstation 3 and those craved by adults like the I-Pad or Pandora bracelets are repeatedly being found on peoples’ lists this year, and can be purchased at wellknown chain stores everywhere. However, everybody loves to unwrap something that is surprisingly different. Not every child wants what all the other kids at school are wishing for, and not every woman has to wear the same jewelry brand that her friends are wearing. North Main Street in Southington has a row of shops that offer unusual gifts, so after parking in the free public lot shoppers can walk to each within seconds. The Auracle Gift Shop & Pottery Studio at 1 North Main St. has “gifts for the mind, body & spirit,” according to the store’s

website. Besides the silver & gemstone jewelry, books, relaxing music, fairies, wind chimes, home décor, and spa products, they have gifts for the spiritually aware or magically inclined person in your life. These include smudge sticks, crystals, pendulums, Tarot cards, Willowtree Angels, soy candles, incense, oils, aroma diffusers, divination tools and herbs. The store also has a section of holiday gifts featuring decorated baskets with spa products, tea lights and candles, a wide variety of ornaments, and stockings stuffed with cat treats. Their pottery studio holds free instructional classes for children and adults as well. Owner Eryen LaLonde makes pottery herself. “Anyone can come in anytime the store is open to use the studio,” she said. The use of the studio costs $8 per person, plus the cost of pottery, and that fee covers all studio materials including their stencil and stamp collection, and regular paints. The studio is holding holiday events in addition to their regular classes. On Friday

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there will be an Ornament Painting Party from 6 to 8 p.m., allowing kids to paint at least six ornaments and enjoy a pizza party. The cost of the event is $35 per person. On Dec. 17 from 6 to 8 p.m., a Holiday Hand Print Plates event, which also includes a pizza party, will feature the guided creation of two holiday hand print plates to give as gifts to family. The cost is $36 per person. The Auracle is open on Sunday the

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A skip, hop and step down the sidewalk is Gifts In a Basket, a shop that specializes in the creation of gift baskets filled with your choice of gourmet food products, baby toys and bears, or spa items. Owner Renee Belenger loves to make up baskets for customers based on their preferred price range and designated occasion. “We also sell our products individually, and when someone gets a certain item in a basket that they love, they come back and buy lots more,” explained Belenger. Their wide selection of gourmet food products includes pastas, popcorn, chips, dipping mustards and many other snack choices, baking mixes, jellies, sauces, soups and sweet delights like their popular ‘Cheesecake-in-a-jar’, cookies, and raspberry jalapeno dessert sauce. Because Branford Hall Institute is located upstairs, they also have a coffee and tea counter with coffee from The Coffee Trade Roasting House of Avon, snacks, soups and pizza delivered every day at noon-

time for the students. Baskets usually start around $35. Gifts in a Basket is located at 51 North Main St. They are open Monday and Friday 8 to 4, Tuesday to Thursday 8 to 9, and Saturday 10 to 2. You can order online at www. bratsbaskets.com. Just across the street and around the corner is Pamela Bristol’s gift shop known as Move over Martha. Bristol’s focus is interior-decorating furnishings and furniture, but also has an eclectic collection of gifts perfect for the woman in your life. Her custom wreaths and garlands adorn the store and are for sale, along with ornaments, quirky jewelry, entertainment-ware, and clothing, specialty soaps and lotions, and much more to embellish both homes and people. Bristol also offers an interior-decorating service, helping customers redesign a room or even set up entire homes before owners move in. They have access to many furniture and home accessory suppliers and can guide you through the design process. Bristol’s dog Mabel has her own

red and white bed and matching holiday collar and she can be found prancing around the store or resting like a queen in her bed near the entrance. Move over Martha opened at 35 Center St. 12 years ago and is open Monday through Friday 11 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5, and Sunday 10 to 2. More information can be found at www.moveovermartha.com. None of these shops are competitors since they each offer uniquely diverse gifts for just about anyone on your holiday shopping list. Because they are all local, neighborhood gift shops, they fit in to the mission of the ‘3/50 Project,’ which is all about supporting independent retailers and shopping locally, and advocated for on the Auracle’s website. “For every $100 spent in independently owned stores,” reads the site, “$68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. If you spend that at a national Erica Schmitt chain, only $43 stays here. Spend it online and nothing comes home.” Renee Belenger, top, owner of Gifts in a Basket. At right, owner Stephen To learn more, visit www.the350p- Lazorick at Fables Comics & Collectibles. At left, Move Over Martha owner Pamela Bristol and her dog, Mabel roject.net.

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For the Angel in your life ... Regifting the right way The practice of regifting has been the butt of many jokes throughout the years. Some people are known to be serial regifters, and family and friends dread exchanging gifts with these people. However, is it tacky or trendy to give away the items received that can’t be returned or put to good use? Regifting in a sense is recycling of merchandise that may otherwise end up in the garbage. Individuals who are serious about making strides to protect the environment say that regifting is being “green.” Done with finesse, regifting can be a handy and happy holiday experience. Done the wrong way, however, it is a recipe for family feuds or awkward situations with friends. Here are some ways to handle regifting in a tactful manner. ■ Only regift items that will have utility for someone else — even if they do not fit into your lifestyle. For example, duplicates of personal appliances or too many baby outfits in one size can be passed on to another. ■ If you’re interested in recycling, regift for the right reasons. Let the recipient know that you’re concerned about saving the planet and are passing on this “new” item to him or her to be environmentally responsible.

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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

New Britain Herald | The Bristol Press

Books for travelers: Gift ideas for the holidays lists of top things to do and see, plus recommendations for ways to experience the place through books, film, food and music. ■ “Where to Go When: Italy,” from DK Eyewitness Travel, $40. Italy remains the fifth most popular international destination for American travelers but when is the best time to go? “January through December,” according to Frances Mayes, author of “Under the Tuscan Sun,” who wrote the foreword for this book, which offers recommendations for every month of the year.

■ National Geographic’s “Drives of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Most Spectacular Trips,” $40. For the wordly road-tripper, this book offers itineraries from U.S. 1 on the coast of Maine or Big Sur in California, to the Silk Road in Central Asia and the outback in Australia. The book is divided into eight chapters by type of trip (such as mountains, coasts, cities, history), each offering a detailed selection of itineraries and top 10 lists. ■ Travel + Leisure’s “Unexpected USA,” $25 (paperback, $15). This book offers great inspiration for

those of us who’d just as soon ferret out unexplored corners and surprising places in the U.S. than fill up the pages of our passport book. A road trip through the Midwest is recommended as a way to see great architecture and design by Zaha Hadid, Santiago Calatrava and Mies van der Rohe on a route that includes Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Other chapters look at an into-the-wild trip in Alaska, a barbecue quest from Kansas to North Carolina, and why Walla Walla, Wash., is the “next The cover of Travel + Leisure’s ‘Unexpected USA.’ great wine destination.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Whether your loved ones are armchair travelers or real-world travelers, consider one of several of the new travel books out this fall as a gift. ■ Lonely Planet’s “The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World,” $50. The folks at Lonely Planet started with a list of the United Nation’s 192 member countries, then added nearly 40 places that don’t get their own seats at the U.N., like Caribbean islands, Antarctica, Tibet and Taiwan. Each destination gets photos, description, map,

holiday gift guide

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New Britain Herald | The Bristol Press

What to give the people you love who love to eat By J.M. HIRSCH associated press

This holiday season, show your love by showering those you care about with calories. That’s right. This year I went in search of the most calorifically delicious treats suitable for gift giving. Because face it, when it comes to diets, December isn’t a particularly virtuous time of year. And if we’re going to indulge, it might as well be on the really, really good stuff. So here is my roundup of some truly wonderful gift-worthy treats.

Norman Love Confections This guy is the Bono of the chocolate world. And his treats — mostly filled chocolates and truffles — are beyond delicious in a toe curling sort of way. They also are stunningly gorgeous. Artwork sort of gorgeous. So much so you might pause on the way to devouring them. Love releases new flavors each year. These generally are sold mixed into the general population of his chocolates, but you can order a special 10-piece box that highlights the 2011 flavors — California honey, hazelnut praline truffle, hot dark chocolate, mango,

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chips, coffee grounds, oats, butterscotch, chocolate chips and graham crumbs. Strange, of course. And that’s the point. But so addictively deli. cious. Then there is crack pie, which fills a toasted oat crust with a gooey butter filling made from sugar, brown sugar, cream, egg yolks and vanilla. Until recently, you needed to be in New York to get these treats. But Chang has launched an online shop — http://momofukustore.com — from which they can AP be ordered. Cookies, including the compost variety, sell for $10 Top; Norman Love Confections’ new for 2011. Above: A David for a tin of six. Pies sell for $44. flavors Chang compost cookie .

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New Britain Herald | The Bristol Press

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