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More Holiday Shopping Opportunities This Weekend

Christmas is just 22 short days away! But fortunatly for you there are lots of fun places to shop this weekend – pick up some great gifts and support Pittsburgh Businesses.

Last Unblurred of 2010 – Stroll along Penn avenue for the monthly Unblurred – held the first Friday of every month – businesses and galleries stay open late for fun times.

  • The Cotton Factory is hosting another Tee-Rex Event from 6-10pm, they will have t-shirts for sale, local crafts and local beer for drinking (Click here for Facebook event).
  • Pittsburgh Glass Center kicks off their Holiday Glass sale this eve – the glass sale will be open Saturday and Sunday as well.
  • C Space Collective has their annual holiday show this evening as well – lots of local artists will be selling gifts
  • Need a gift for a coffee lover? Stop into Voluto Coffee – they are serious about coffee and can help you select the perfect beans.  The also have some other gift items available for the holidays.  (Note they close at 6pm on Friday)

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Make-It-Now Ornaments at the Pittsburgh Glass Center

A Glass Artist
Image by Sgt. Pepperedjane via Flickr

I know that these Make-It-Now work shops are one of the most popular date events that we have posted around Valentine’s Day.  Great to see that the Pittsburgh Glass center is offering a Make-It-Now Ornament for the holidays.

Suitable for ages 10 and above – you can stop by the glass center and make a colorful glass ornament to display in a window or on a tree.

Make-It-Now Ornaments
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Penn Ave
Facebook Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174650799219243

Cost is $25 per ornament.  Pre-registration is not required but it is suggested that you call ahead because the event does fill up. Continue reading →

I Made It and Handmade Arcade Gifts Ideas

Handmade Arcade (Pittsburgh)
Image by madflowr via Flickr

A few weeks ago I had the great fortune to meet some of the folks who work at ModCloth, an online retailer of fabulous fashions that is based here in Pittsburgh.  One of the cool tools I learned about is Polyvore – which is a website that lets you “clip” your favorite items and group them into sets to share on your blog, Facebook and Twitter.   I have been having some fun creating sets of items for Spreadshirt so I thought I would do the same for IheartPGH too. (I have even set up an IheartPGH group on Polyvore here).

My first Polyvore set for IheartPGH is a round up of some items from vendors who were at the I Made It Market or Handmade Arcade.  (I wanted to add even more but for some reason – you can’t clip images from Etsy to Polyvore 🙁 ).

Here are just a few of the goodies that were available – click on each item to learn more about it and visit the website of the vendor. Most of the vendors are from Pittsburgh too!

Did you buy any handmade gifts? Who were your favorite vendors? Please share more links to Etsy shops in the comments.

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Joy of Cookies Tour

The shops and galleries of Lawrenceville are hosting their annual cookie tour. This is a great place to start your Christmas shopping and to support local businesses. Each business will offer a sampling of different cookies and give away the recipe.

A new bakery, Artisan Harvest, will be celebrating their grand opening in Lawrenceville during the cookie tour.

Lawrenceville Joy of Cookies Tour
Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m
On Saturday there will be a trolley running along the tour route.
More information and map available here.