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Holiday Gift Guide from Prairie Oaks Artisans

Prairie Oak Artisans features the work of over three dozen artists and crafters of high quality art and giftware. From paintings to birdbaths, from bowls to jewelry, the shop carries a wide range of products, and they offer these suggestions for gift giving:

For women: A necklace with beads from around the world, a pottery bowl, a pottery vase, wooden vases, earrings, mittens, a soft wool shawl, pins, origami dove ornaments, note cards, scented soaps, a sterling silver cuff bracelet, fine artwork for a living room, bedroom, or office space, such as a small oil painting, a block print, or a photograph.

For men: Framed photographs of nature scenes for an office or bedroom or living room, note cards, a walking stick for hiking (add a map of a local forest preserve), a wild plant cookbook, a pottery jug, a pottery fish sculpture for the office or den, a stone plaque with Native American rock art, a stone paperweight, a CD of banjo music, or a gift package of a book mark or two, a couple packs of different style note cards, a rock art key chain, and a tiny terrarium.

Teen boys: Framed nature art, a walking stick for hiking, a stone plaque of Native American rock art, a rock art pendant, a rock art keychain, a knitted or crocheted hat, or a banjo music CD.

Teen girls: Sterling silver jewelry, beaded earrings, fingerless mittens, a purse shaped like a cat complete with feet and a tail, scented soaps, knitted or crocheted scarves or shawls, wooden pod vase, pottery cat sculpture, beeswax candles, note cards, or a gift package of a number of smaller things like earrings, bookmarks, soaps, candles, note cards, and silver rings.

Babies: Knitted sweaters, crocheted sweaters, fabric play balls, a stone plaque representing a trait that is wished for the baby as he or she grows, a pottery piggy bank, a knitted or crocheted hat, Christmas ornaments, soothing lavender soap for the evening bath.

For office workers: A photograph of a beautiful nature scene, framed or unframed, a small watercolor painting, a framed or unframed block print, bookmarks, scented soaps for office drawers, a stone plaque of Native American rock art, a stone paperweight, a tiny terrarium, a pottery or wooden vase, a stained glass window panel, photo note cards.

For the gardener: A pottery birdhouse bottle, a concrete birdbath with a leaf imprint, a wooden hiking stick, a wooden birdhouse, scented soaps, including a mint coffee soap with scrubbing granules of real coffee bean, wooden vases that hold water, copper garden sculpture, garden wind poetry, stone plaque for the garden, bookmarks for garden books, nature print or nature photographs, framed or unframed, a fabric wall panel of a garden scene, nature note cards.

For newly married or young couples: Pottery bowls, vases, stained glass window panels, an assortment of Christmas ornaments, his and hers hiking sticks, his and hers stone key chains, scented soaps, a nativity set, gift bags that you fill with beer or wine, a framed or unframed nature print or photograph in their color scheme or a neutral color if you are unsure, a stone rock art plaque.

New homeowners: Framed or unframed artwork, a concrete birdbath, a stained glass window panel, a flower vase, key chains for their house key, pottery bowls or vases, a wild plant cookbook, Warrenville pottery, a wooden or pottery birdhouse, or a concrete birdbath with a leaf imprint for their yard..

For a grandparent: An assortment of photo and nature art note cards, a hiking stick (add maps of local places to walk, such as Cerny park and Warrenville Grove Forest Preserve), bookmarks, scented soaps, stained glass window ornaments, a concrete birdbath, a bottle birdhouse (that you offer to install for them), a warm shawl, origami dove ornaments,

Teachers and others that you want to express appreciation to: Bookmarks, scented soaps, nature note card sets or sets you make up of individual note cards, candles, unframed nature photographs that fit a standard 8 x 10 frame, stone key chains, small wooden vases, earrings, Warrenville pottery, a wild plant cookbook,

You: Prairie Oak Artisans offers a gift registry file, where you can sign up for what YOU would like to receive, so you can come in, sign up, then tell others that you have done so, plus, there is really not a thing wrong with treating your own self this holiday season as a reward for all the hard work you are doing to make it a great time for others!

Hiking Sticks to Hang or Use

Pins, Earrings, and Pendants

are Wearable Art

Art for the Garden

and the Gardener

Prairie Oak Artisans
Gallery in Mineral Point, WI (608) 987-3757 Consulting in Warrenville, IL (630) 393-4598

email: karma@REMOVEBEFORESENDINGprairieoakartisans.com