Shop Local Gift Guide, Part 5: 23 More Gift Ideas

To wrap up this year’s Shop Local Gift Guide: a cornucopia highly giftable stuff. Thanks to everyone who said they found this series enjoyable and/or useful!

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Montecito Style ($65), with photographs by Firooz Zahedi and text by Lorie Dewhirst Porter. It’s available at many local stores, but you can pick up a signed copy at Lost Horizon on December 17.

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Tiger-in-a-frog-costume pitcher ($34) at Lewis & Clark.

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A gift certificate to the State Street Axe Club.

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Dishes for tinned fish ($20)—for you or your cat—at Oat Bakery.

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Hendry’s Beach print by Emilie Lee (from $30).

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Private beach volleyball lesson with the East Beach Volleyball Academy ($100 per hour for one person, $120 for two people, and $200 for three or four).

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I could do—and probably should have done—an entire post on delectable food gifts: not just the irresistible Biddy Sticks pictured above (at the Cheese Shop, Bristol Farms, and other shops), but Pacific Pickle Works, Mizuba Tea, Jessica Foster Confections, Ysidro canned spritz, T.W. Hollister & Co. vermouth, Twenty-Four Blackbirds chocolate, Coastal Coffee Collective, Sideyard Shrubs, Cutler’s Artisan Spirits….

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Membership in the Santa Barbara Sailing Center’s Paddle Club, with unlimited three-hour SUP and kayak rentals ($50 initiation and $60 per month).

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Bandits bandanas ($34)—designed by artists for various charities—at Ace Rivington. One standout: Sirens by Muti, to benefit Save the Rhino.

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There are a few of Jeff Shelton’s “Sheepdog” lamps still available; this one is called Long-Beaked Bird Thinking About Dinner ($4,200).

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Lotusland ($60), the definitive book about Montecito’s famous garden, with photographs by Lisa Romerein. It’s available at many local shops, including the one at Lotusland.

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Dinosaur party hats (eight for $20) at Ready Set Confetti, the delightful new party store on Coast Village Road: because every family gathering can use silly hats.

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Gift card for a massage, perhaps at Float Luxury Spa on E. Canon Perdido ($140 for the 50- minute Float Signature massage).

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Fun snacks like these roasted chestnuts ($4) at Nikka Japanese Market.

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Large rattan ice bucket with tongs ($325) at William Laman.

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A pretty watercolor of Saddle Rock ($200 unframed) by JJ Avrutin.

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Day pass to a local hotel pool, such as the Ritz-Carlton Bacara (from $95, above), the Rosewood Miramar Beach (from $65), or the Mar Monte Hotel (from $45), via ResortPass.

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Restaurant merch, like these shirts from the new We Want the Funk.

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14-karat gold-fill heart necklaces ($100-$120) at Jules by the Sea.

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Cannabis edibles, such as these from Coastal. Have yourself a munchie little Christmas….

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Roller skates ($256 for these beauties) from Xanadu Skate Boutique at Paseo Nuevo.

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Horseback riding on the beach in Summerland—including wading in the water—with Los Padres Outfitters (from $230).

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Robotic tumbling hedgehog ($55), as seen in the window at Chicken Little.

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The 2022 Shop Local Gift Guide
••• Part 1: Westward General and Folly
••• Part 2: Domecíl and Field + Fort
••• Part 3: Field Trip and Mācher
••• Part 4: Montecito Mercantile and Diani Living (below)

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