2018 Heights Observer Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts from $50.00 to $150.00
Find something for everyone on your list at the many independent merchants in the Heights. Most will gift wrap or ship your items, too. Here are some of our favorites:
Three-Month Pass. Give friends and family the gift of play at Family Connections. ($80.00, Family Connections, www.familyconnections1.org)
Leather Wrap Belts. ($78.00, Blush Boutique)
Plaid Shawls. ($42.00 to $55.00, Blush Boutique)
Sing and Swing Gift Certificate. Good towards a Musical birthday party for children up to 5 or Music Together classes. ($50.00 and up, Sing and Swing, www.singandswing.org)
Para Rubber Yoga Mat. ($86.95, Atma Center)
Vegan Leather Messenger Bags. These bags have tons of pockets and storage space – and are beautiful to boot! ($84.00, S’Wonderful Gifts)
Rain Capers. Reversible, lightweight, hooded Raincapers are packable, rainproof, and windproof women's rain ponchos with a luxurious, soft supple feel. ($64.95 to 69.95, S’Wonderful Gifts)
Silver Spoon Necklaces. Unique and clever silver-plated necklaces inspired by silverware from the 1880’s. Handcrafted in the U.S. ($75.00, S’Wonderful Gifts)
“Floating” Glass Bead Necklaces. Necklaces of Czech and German glass beads strung on memory wire. ($58.00 to $110.00, S’Wonderful Gifts)
Children's Rocking Horse with Padded Seat. Shown in oak. ($150.00, Eastwood Furniture)
The Lichtenberg Effect Original Wood Art. Shown in cherry. ($100.00, Eastwood Furniture)
Custom Wreaths and Arrangements. (Custom pricing, Bremec on the Heights Garden Center)
Lampe Berger Home Fragrance. ($33.99 to $88.99, Bremec on the Heights Garden Center)
Corinthian Bells Wind Chimes. ($68.99 and up, Bremec on the Heights Garden Center)
Customizable Wine Gift Baskets. ($50.00 to $150.00, CLE Urban Winery)
Gift Certificates. ($25.00 to $100.00, Cain Park)
Cycling and Yoga Class Packages. ($50.00 for one month of unlimited classes, new clients only; $75.00 per five-class pack; $140 per 10-class pack, Confluence Cycle Yoga)
Opalescence Go Teeth Whitening Kit. Get your teeth whiter for the holidays with this professional strength, easy to use, self contained kit. ($125.00, Fairmount Circle Dentistry)
Color Swatch Bowls by Shayna Roth Pentacost. ($58.00 and up, Heights Arts)
Ten-Class Jazzercise Pass. ($99.00, Jazzercise Cleveland Heights South Euclid)
Lee Clutch in Leather. High-Grade Belting Leather Purse. ($135.00, Still Point Gallery)
Gift Pouch. Hand-dyed and hand-sewn super Soft linen pouch, big heart tea and tea bags, healing salve for rough skin, bath salts and porcelain heart ornament gift bag. ($69.00, Gleena Ceramics)
Fifty-minute or 80-minute Warm Stone Massage. ($80.00 and $120.00, Quintana’s Barber & Dream Spa)
Custom Maker Kits. For the creative in your life, including embroidery, quilting, garment sewing, leather work, and knitting. ($50.00 to $150.00, Studio How-To)
Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World, by Paul Smith. Next time you pick up an acorn you will know which tree it came from. ($55.00, Mac’s Backs - Books on Coventry)
Jessica Schantz
Jessica Schantz is the e-News Manager at the Heights Observer and a long-time resident of Cleveland Heights.