Quarrelsome Yeti Weird and wonderful, creepy and cute, Geordan Moore’s whack wrap can make the most boring of gifts (not that you would) extraordinary. Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market, 1209 Marginal Road; Halifax Crafters Winter Market, Dec 2-4 Dartmouth Clothing Company The witty Dartmouth lovers at Dartmouth Clothing Co. put an extra layer of nostalgia on […]
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Rappers unwrapped
CAM SMITH This is going to sound so corny but when I was in high school I documented every day of December in a notebook and gave it to my then-girlfriend. Here comes the icing on top of the cake—I left Christmas Day blank and included a pen so we could fill it in together. […]
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Present sense: local gift ideas
1 The BFF The rad, and radical, creations of Taylor Made come from the hands of Anna Taylor, who aims to “empower, encourage and softly redefine norms” with her work. She freehand embroiders great things like Not Sorry, Feel No Shame and Fuck This Shit onto hand-dyed fabrics, and you can find her work at […]
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Buy Nothing Season in Halifax
If all of the gift-giving at Christmastime gets to be too much, you might want to consider having a Buy Nothing Christmas. Buy Nothing is a movement started by a group of Mennonites in Western Canada in 2001 as a way of saying no “to the patterns of over-consumption of middle-class North Americans,” says its […]
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Tammachat returns to the south end for a textile show
Mahone Bay-based textile company Tammachat, a fair trade social enterprise organization that works with rural weavers in Thailand and Laos, is having another show of its products this weekend. Consider it a fair trade holiday gift show of eco-fashions for you and your home, taking place at the Universalist Unitarian Church (5500 Inglis Street) on Saturday, November 14, from 10am to 4pm, in the heart of the south end. As an added incentive to check out Tammachat’s wares, they are now partnered with literacy program Big Brother Mouse, which will provide books to children in Laos for every textile product
