Four Forgottens: Little Things
They’re the little people in our lives but they acquire a lot of stuff, and fast. Shops like these four local favorites that stock their shelves with necessities for kiddos like myriad sock monkeys, colorful tutus and embroidered cardigans aren’t helping the situation. Whether you’re shopping for your niece’s birthday or your bestie’s first baby, here are the stops we recommend looking in to. It’s likely you’ll find a little treasure for you, too. (Never have we used the word “cute” so much as we did in these four stories. Sometimes, there just isn’t a better word for the job.)
Kinder Winkel: Despite the wide array of cute products, Kinder Winkel is easy to shop and fun to browse. You’ll enjoy children’s artwork, banners swinging overhead, bookshelves stocked with parenting guides and children’s reads … and the blessed sale rack. We see good stuff marked down every time we go. We daresay Sandy has never looked quite so cute. Read the entire post here.
The Children’s Hour: Three parts boutique (women’s, children’s and gift) and another part children’s bookstore, the Children’s Hour is the kind of place that, if threatened, we’d gladly put on our fight faces for. It’s one of Salt Lake’s gems, offering locals some hand-holding in terms of style forecasting, but warm enough to make you feel at home. Read the entire post here.
All Tucked In: You can browse a handful of European shoes for ladies, scan jewelry from local designers, spy gorgeous satin ruffled dresses for little gals, shop for popular children’s games, find a cute frock for you, and thumb through lots and lots of books for the kiddos in your life—you’ll even get recommendations from resident experts. Read the entire post here.
Four and Twenty Sailors: It’s fun when the place where your Grandma used to take you to pick out a special “Easter dress” as a kid turns out to be the same place where you wouldn’t mind treating yourself to an “Easter” dress, top, pant or shoe in your adult life. There’s nothing quite like a personal attachment to a local boutique. Read the entire post here.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:08 am
Have you been to Jolleys Pharmacy on 13th south and 17th east in SLC? That place like these, is ADORABLE!!! I can’t get enough of their inventory! You should see the cute Valentine displays! Cute jars full of candy displayed behind the counter sold by the pound. I can’t get enough of that place!
January 21st, 2009 at 11:07 am
Ali, I don’t know if you’ve heard but many stores like these are in jeopardy of losing all of their handmade and unique items due to a federal law that passed last August and will take effect Feb10th. The law saws that all items made for children under the age of 12 has to be tested for lead. This will put most small businesses and crafters out of business because of the massive expense to test each different product. The Consumer Product Safety Cimmission is taking comments from the pulic until Jan 30th and there is a chance that they could exclude small businesses of make some exceptions for us. I will be going out of business if they don’t. This would make a great story for you. I would love to see more Utahns get involved and write their senators. We have so many small businesses and crafters and boutiques and non of us will be around if we don’t speak up. Find more info on my blog.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 am
Have you been to Babinski’s lately. I can’t get enough right now. They don’t have much for my older grandchildren but their baby stuff is totally cute. I always make a stop when I’m in Salt Lake.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:54 am
Carlie is absolutely right, please encourage your readers to speak out against the ridiculous CPSIA here’s an easy link where people can make their voices heard http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia . It’s so important. This law is passed and it basically means that all the adorable baby stuff in these stores, etsy and many other cool original places will either have to close or risk huge fines (and break the law) to keep operating. The law really makes sure that only huge companies with lots of money and that sell in huge amounts are the only ones that can stay in business.
I love visiting in person and seeing these adorable stores on your heart out, but knowing that this law is about to become live makes me so frustrated. I’m really hoping that if enough of us remind them of the true consequences of the law that they will amend it to protect independent artisans. (They’ve already amended it to protect thrift stores)
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Thanks for your kind words Your Heart Out! We at Kinder Winkel appreciate the shout out! A big thank you to our customers too. We appreciate all of the support you have given us during our first year in business.