December 16
...serving up your daily dish.
The problem with shopping for gifts at Semplice (Sem-plee-chay): We get distracted and want to shop only for ourselves. At every turn, father/daughter owners Jim and Kelly Del Rosso stock beautiful items we covet, but they also make it simple (semplice) to find stylish gifts for every occasion.
* There's CHOCOLATE, almost too pretty to eat. Amazing hand packed (in the store) novelty fine balls of chocolate mint, creamy peppermint, gilded dark chocolate almonds, or Kelly’s fave, mini white chocolate peppermint twist balls. Festively wrapped in bags, yule logs, or the Eiffel Tower box (left). A Baristaville bargain, starting at just $6.
* Looking for a little something both sexy and sake? No liquor license required for this new perfume and bath oil from Soho boutique, Fresh. Dubbed Memoirs of a Geisha, it's made with real sake and just might make all your Geisha fantasies come true. See the movie, read the book, then have the BATH! Geisha Gift set includes bath oil, eau de parfum, and, of course, a face mask for $46. Items also sold separately.
Good-bye incense, pot pourri, and long burning candles! Fragrance diffusers are the smart way to scent. Zen looking sticks poking out of flasks of highly scented oil soak up fragrances like pomegranate, pear, cassis and lemon drop to diffuse calming aromatherapy. The bamboo/wooden reeds stay moist on average for about six months. Customers' favorite scents this season? Fig , and believe it or not, Fresh Cut Grass. From $32 - $40.
The finishing touch for any gift is the way it's presented. Semplice's stunning gift packaging turns present giving into a grand occasion. (Always included, always free.) For more info, visit our friends at Semplice.
December 16, 2005 in Shopping With Barista | Permalink
yeah so the store is nice and all, but i can totally make all those things in there. maybe not actual 19th century chinese wardobes, but i guess i don't care so much about where it's from but how it looks, and i can make anything look like anything in that store. hire me for cheap to make you stuff. anything.
Posted by: katie | Dec 17, 2005 3:38:53 AM
Went in there, and 4 or 5 other stores today, and couldn't find even one thing I wanted to buy. The only thing I bought--in Montclair Feed and Pet Store-- was a couple of catnip toys for kitty Christmas presents.
God I hate shopping!!!
And Christmas is a massive pain in the ass.
Posted by: latebloomer | Dec 17, 2005 7:44:56 PM
I spent the afternoon at Union Square in NYC, wandering around the crafts market & buying a # of shiny glittering things. I do 90% of my Xmas shopping there & have done so for several years now. It has changed my attitude toward the whole experience, I actually enjoy it again. I recommend it highly.
And there's always the Greenmarket's marvelous selection of apples if gift shopping gets to be too much.
Today there was a kickass jazz band called Hypnotic playing on 14th Street at the bottom of the square. I don't normally go for that sort of music but the drummer & tuba player held down a mean beat & gave their music a lot of drive. I wound up buying one of their CDs.
Posted by: crank | Dec 17, 2005 8:30:22 PM
