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Showing posts with label last minute gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label last minute gifts. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2012

Click It. BEAT picks of the week: the last minute guy's gift guide.

An always-stylish (and delicious) bottle of Hendrick's Gin. BevMo! also carries 50 Ml mini bottles that would make cute stocking stuffers!

A sleek cocktail shaker.

Chocolatey treats from Dean & Deluca.

A masculine candle from Molton Brown.

A classic scent from Penhaligon's.

A subscription to GQ magazine.

Sperry boots.

Cool sunglassses.

-- Leslie Anne Wiggins

Photo credit: ginreviews.com

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Check It. MOCA Store.

How can I say a museum store has great gifts without sounding like a grandmother? Check out the MOCA Store and you'll see what I mean. This shop really gets it. An Elizabeth Peyton beach towel (pictured) featuring Sid Vicious? Check. Mini Robert Indiana "LOVE" statue? Check. A 10 oz. ceramic mug inspired by Pantone color charts, in Blue 286 C? Check.

From the reasonable (notebooks for $12) to the pricey (Comme des Garçons wallets for $200, and limited edition Murakami prints for $900), the MOCA Store has gifts for most occasions, especially if there's a contemporary art lover in your life.

MOCA Grand Avenue is located at 250 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Info: (213) 621-1710. The store is also online: http://mocastore.org.

If you make it downtown, be sure to stop by Lemonade at MOCA.

-- Leslie Anne Wiggins

Photo credit: Art Production Fund / MOCA

Monday, July 26, 2010

Do It. Wacko.

When thinking of where to find an excellent birthday for my dad his birthday tomorrow, I remembered this fantastic shop in Los Feliz with all sorts of quirky, unique gifts.

Soap Plant/Wacko is filled with interesting action figures, ceramic items, bags, fancy soaps, one-of-a-kind cards, bead curtains, weird books, crazy see-through pregnant belly keychains, and prints for you walls. La Luz de Jesus gallery is in the store if you want to peruse some art to take home.

Prices here range from the very cheap to the moderately expensive, and go from very small goofy gifts to a bit nicer things (but not much). Even if you're not looking for things to buy, this is a great place to peruse just to see the weird stuff.

Wacko or Soap Plant is located at 4633 Hollywood Blvd.

-- Lauren Williams

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Make It. Cookie mix [Gift Guide].


For those who have waited 'til the last minute, here's a quick, easy Christmas present to give friends and coworkers. This is actually perfect for the completely antidomestic person, because these people probably have all these ingredients sitting unopened, in their cupboard now, waiting for the day when they're actually in the mood to bake.

It's also nice for The Person Who Has Everything, because they probably love cookies or bread just as much as The Person Who Needs Everything.

Find a cookie or bread recipe and print as many copies as you have friends who you haven't yet bought gifts for. You'll probably need things like all-purpose flour, chocolate chips, baking soda, maybe yeast.

Take a clean Ball jar and measure out in water how much volume is in half a cup, a full cup and pour the water into the Ball jar. Draw the measurements onto the Ball jar with a colorful permanent marker. That way when your cookie/bread/scone/pastry-of-some-kind mix is all used up, your gift recipient has a brand new measuring device.

I used coins of various sizes to measure the circles where the measurements were.

Place all the dried ingredients from your recipe into the Ball jar, keeping them separate to create a cool layering effect. Obviously, don't add wet or perishable ingredients, because those will spoil and giving someone rotten food would be a horrible gift.

Tie the recipe to the ingredients with colorful ribbon and you're good to go!

-- Lauren Williams
Photo credit: Amazon.com