Welcome to Day 4 of our DS Advent Calendar! A gift a day for the special home(s) in your life. Today, an easy little stocking stuffer: cast iron leaf hooks – simple and sweet, cheap and cheerful, oak or maple, city or country, $10 each. Missed what we’ve included in our calendar so far? Click [...]
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Yesterday we introduced the Door Store Advent Calendar – one gift for your home every day until Christmas. We’ve noticed a lot of people shopping for the house instead of for each other this year, so we thought we’d feature some things that we thought your house might like! Today we have a gift sure [...]
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Yesterday we looked at our sweet vintage-inspired ornaments, and I thought let’s keep it up! A lot of people have been buying their Christmas gifts ‘for the house’ instead of for each other this year, and I think it’s marvelous. After all, what better way to say ‘I love you‘ to the bricks and mortar [...]
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When is it time to break out the Christmas? I know that retailers are supposed be in full holiday swing at the beginning of November, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. I’ve always been part of the December 1st camp, so today we pulled some branches in from outside, plunked them in [...]
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It’s no secret that we enjoy having Tommy Smythe at our store. He has a great eye and notices things that a lot of people don’t. On his last visit, he actually said ‘I’ve been here for 15 minutes talking to people but haven’t actually made eye contact with anyone because I’m just trying to [...]
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