For Valentine’s Day, here is a selection of high-quality, locally crafted gifts for the sweetheart in your life.
Left: The XOXO Box from Recchiuti is the perfect Valentine’s Day treat, beautifully wrapped to add an extra touch of love and delight to these 16 handmade chocolate confections. Treat your senses to the perfect blend of romance and indulgence. Prepare to be captivated by the exquisite collection recognized as the New York Times’ Wirecutter Best Chocolate Box.
Right: Drop one of these nourishing Fizz Hearts from elizabethW into your bath. As the water softens, relax, and enjoy. Available in tuberose, magnolia, lavender, and lilac scents.
Left: The Ouroboros Collar from Anna Monet is named after Ouroboros serpent – a symbol that represents unity and the natural eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation. This powerful collar combines five snakes with ten Sapphires set in the eyes. Adjustable length can ensure a comfortable fit. Stack your favorite chains with the Ouroboros necklace for the ultimate power look.
Right: Delicate, gilded, silken strands of the Petite Gilded Stand Bracelet from Stella Fluorescent encircle the wrist as a bracelet or connect to create a necklace of multiple lengths. This style is modular, multiple bracelets can be connected (via magnets in bracelet’s closure) to create a necklace of infinite length. Shown in botanically dyed Salt, it’s also available in Ebony, Blush, Indigo, Coral, and Grey.
Left: The Bulb Vase from Heath Ceramics makes for a stunning still life piece with or without flowers. Display it as a family, mixed and matched, or on its own. At once versatile and understated, it makes a beautiful addition to any room. Shown in the new Mineral Spring glaze.
Right: Erode Soap Sets from UMÉ Studio. Luscious soap and unique shapes, form, and function work together to add a different kind of beauty to the daily ritual of bathing. Created with an abundance of unique botanicals, antioxidants, mineral rich clays, and skin-nurturing essential oils to cleanse, hydrate and nourish all skin types. Perfect for daily use. As the soaps use and form are unique, the Bouton plate was designed hand in hand to serve as the Erode Soap’s designated dish.
Left: Lips Keychains from Claflin, Thayer & Co. are handcrafted in their Temescal Alley retail shop/studio in Oakland of genuine leather with a solid brass key ring.
Right: Heart Drop Earrings in Sparkle + Matte Black from Clouds + Ladders have brass frames filled with artists’ grade polymer clay and surgical steel posts. The designer of Clouds + Ladders jewelry, Kate Joseph, is inspired by her love of nature and the history of art and design to create wearable art. Each piece is created by hand in her solar-powered studio in a redwood forest north of San Francisco. Her intention is to spark joy in those who view her work.
Left: From Laromatica, Animus is an animalistic fragrance made from a combination of deep essential oils, including precious oud from Assam, and an array of exotic musks (all vegan). Delicious alone or as a layering fragrance. Seriously erotic. Animus is a Jungian term describing the masculine aspects of a woman’s personality. (Just as anima describes the feminine aspect of a man’s personality.) This fragrance is about blurring gender roles and reaching inward towards our androgynous, raw sexual energy.
Right: Salt Scrub from Earth Tu Face is a therapeutic body scrub inspired by Ayurvedic health principles that engages the lymphatic system, leaving skin exfoliated and hydrated with the help of salt from the Dead Sea and organic plant oils.
Left: The Valentine’s Day Collection Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates has ganache hearts made with fresh cream and butter infused with raspberry, passion fruit or mojito flavor. When the chocolates are gone, you’ll still have the box to keep – or devour.
Right: The Gio Table Light from Gantri is designed by Ammunition and 3D printed with their one-of-a-kind, innovative digital manufacturing process that offers exceptional design at accessible prices. And by utilizing proprietary plant polymers derived from renewable sugarcane, every Gantri light reduces CO2 emissions by 75%.
Left: Desert Wilderness Cologne from Juniper Ridge transports you by the sweet resinous notes of the desert, with its ancient stones, golden light, and a little mystery. Subtle and buildable – Wilderness Cologne is crafted with 100% plant-based ingredients and celebrates the spirit of adventure and the fleeting nature of those precious moments. With Scent Notes of Warm Earth, Raw Beeswax, and Fresh Rain.
Right: The Vesper Vibrator Necklace from Crave is designed for beautiful experiences in public and in private, both as elegant jewelry and a strong, slim external vibrator. Available in Duotone Rose Gold and Silver.
Left: The textured ceramic taper Candle Holder from MMclay has a hand-formed shape that’s approximately 2” high. It’s perfect for creating a warm, inviting atmosphere on the dining table or mantel.
Right: Handmade in San Francisco, the Bethany Messenger Bag in Plum full grain-grain cowhide leather from Khelman Bag Studio is perfect for everyday essentials.
Left: 14 Karat Gold Heart Crystal Pendants from MONOLISA will add a touch of elegance to any personal style. Choose from a variety of faceted heart crystals in colors – iridescent, rainbow, aquamarine, and pink. Each pendant is delicately textured in high quality 14 karat gold metal. The pendant comes with an Argentium Silver 18″ chain along with a gold trim necklace box and white gift box.
Right: Soy Wax & Shea Butter Massage Candles from Heliotrope don’t just light up the night; they double as a moisturizing massage oil. Made with all-natural ingredients – botanical oils and wax from soybeans, nourishing coconut oil and creamy shea butter. Just light the candle, let it burn, blow it out, and massage the warm wax into the skin.
