This Sunday is Father’s Day, and you’re probably scrambling to find a decent gift for your dad, or the father of your children. Either way, he is, of course, notoriously difficult to shop for. 

Bottle openers: nothing says “you deserve to kick back and pop a cold one” quite like these hand screened bottle openers from FluffyCo. With authentic Starr X hardware, he’ll stay refreshed for years.

But what if he’s more of a wine guy? Two words: Cork Cufflinks. Or is that three? Depends on how you spell cuff link.

Or perhaps he’s more into martinis?

OK, that’s all fine and good… what if he doesn’t drink alchohol? We’re going to stay on a liquid theme and suggest a solid ceramic coffee press.

But if you really loved him, you’d buy him this chair made of reclaimed plywood scraps from Austin, TX based ref-use:

All items are in-stock at Click!. The pictures link to details.

If you haven’t already, check out www.mixedgreensblog.com and then come to Click! to meet authors/photographers Sally Shintaffer and Poppy Barach.

Sample some of their recipes and locally made Beecher’s cheese, sip a tasty seasonal cocktail, and consider taking home one of their unique images to inspire you in your own kitchen. Both Sally and Poppy have a gentle photographic style that unveils the beauty of summer harvest.

We will also have several in store giveaways! including copies of PURE FLAVOR by local cheesemaker Kurt Beecher Dammeier.

finally, there are our Fresh & Local June bargains.

-  share the beauty - all mixed greens fresh photo cards - 20% off
-  shlep your fresh veggies with out a motor - market trolleys - 20% off
-  ideas for your newly fresh kitchen - “fresh from the farmers’ market” Chronicle book - 20% off
-  designed in South Park and poured in Georgetown -  urbancase “transistor” and “polaroid” beeswax
candles to illuminate your local meal - 20% off
-  and just because - sustainably harvested cork jewelry designed and made at Click! - 20% off
-  no more bulky grocery bags - envirosax - $9.50 each, 4 for $32
-  posh plates to showcase your new found freshness - working class studio veggie plates - $9 each, 4 for $32

We’ve had these in the store (and on the blog) before, but we just received a new shipment after being sold out for several months. Best of all, we have finally added them to our web store!

It seems the artist, Hennig Dyes, is getting on in his years, so we’re not sure how long these will be available for — he is threatening to retire. Hennig is German-born but lives in Costa Rica; he says these lamps are inspired by Norwegian design. They are made from sustainably harvested plantation pine grown in Costa Rica.

You’ll probably need one of these little (or not so little) flasks to get you through the holiday weekend.

4oz. $28, 6oz. $34

Stop on in. We’ll be open our usual hours, 11 to 5pm Saturday and Sunday, closed Monday. Enjoy the weekend and the sunshine. Don’t forget sunscreen!…really, don’t.

We stayed late tonight getting things ready for the big sale tomorrow. The big highlight is definitely the “seconds” jewelry. We spent the last couple of days going through the drawer of misfit jewelry and remade some sad lonely bits into new pieces, ready to be loved for a bargain. Read the rest of this entry »

This Saturday, May 9th is West Seattle Community Garage Sale day. There are hundreds of sales including individuals, groups of neighbors, and many businesses. We’ll be participating by taking our sale and clearance items out to the sidewalk, marked at half price or even less. And we’re not just talking about Christmas ornaments here. There will be previous season’s handbags from Orla Kiely and others, the Angela Adams wool rugs that we’re not able to carry any more, handmade pottery, picture frames, and much much more.

The highlight for many is the sale jewelry. Each year, we dig through our drawers and find the sad and lonely pieces looking for a home: the prototypes that never made it into production, the “seconds” that have a minor blemish, the discontinued designs, and the single earrings that have lost their mate. We price these to be very affordable, and they usually go fast. 

We will open at 9am on Saturday for all you early birds, as that is when Garage Sale Day officially kicks off. See you then!

Our friend Stephanie Hargrave recently introduced us to Roger Shurtleff and we are so grateful! He is a really stand up guy, a solid artist and as a result of our introduction he is our featured artist for May.

Roger tends to paint a series of pieces around a theme before changing out his brushes and paints to approach another idea or story. We checked out pieces from several of his series. I was struck by the way he is able to reference previous imagery but make it completely relevant in its new context. There is a graceful evolution about his paintings.

We will have work from Ghostland.

Flyover   16 x 16″

We will also have his latest series, Tools of the Trade.

Finisher   12 x 12″

Join us for the West Seattle Artwalk, Thursday May 14 from 6 to 9pm. We’ll open some bubbly, have some bites and chat with Roger. Oh…you can also do some shopping and perhaps even aquire one of Roger’s paintings.

Remember that beautiful credenza by urbancase that we had upstairs at Click?

Before they head to NY and the ICFF show, the urbancase designers will unveil their new line of contemporary furniture, lighting, and home accessories tonight at Cairo Gallery. The preview is from 7 to 9pm and the gallery is located at 507 East Mercer at the corner of Summit and Mercer on Capitol Hill. John and I will boogie out of Click! promptly at 7 this evening. Hope to see you there!

Spring is here in Seattle, and we’ve just received a handful of shipments. It’s always nice to freshen up the store with new product, and somehow when the sun is coming through the window everything looks and feels all shiny new.

The kids at Savannah College of Art and Design came up with these fantastic melamine plates, perfect for eating outside this summer (“I believe that is called al fresco“). This is a great program where students get real world experience by not just designing in a classroom, but by taking a product all the way to market. The veggies on these salad plates remind us that the farmer’s markets will be ramping up soon.

We also received a new order from San Francisco hipsters FluffyCo, who make the awesome bottle openers and key hooks that we love. There are new designs of both in our brick and mortar, and we will be expanding the choices in our web store soon.

And then there are the new spring bags from Highway. These have consistently been our most popular handbags, probably because they are at once sweetly stylish and super practical. They have lots of pockets and zippers and are beautifully designed in nylon and leather, some with designer Jem Filippi’s super-cute embroidery.

The Pratt Fine Art Auction takes place May 16th. It’s a grand event - amazing artwork and 700 or so art lovers celebrating and supporting the arts in Seattle by raising their bidder numbers. If you want to buy artwork, be inspired by artistic talent and the generosity of a crowd, get your tickets now and tell them you want to sit with Frances and John at the Click! table.

If you’re not certain that you can make it to the auction you still have the opportunity to get excited about the art and support Pratt at the same time.

Click! and Mission Latin Restaurant are hosting a sneak peek of artwork donated by talented West Seattle artists. Come out to the Admiral District on Tuesday April 21st from 6 to 9pm. Both businesses will have auction artwork displayed and will be donating 10% of product, food and drink sales to Pratt during the event.

Morula 7, Stephanie Hargrave

Many of you know that I have been on the Board of Trustees at Pratt Fine Arts for several years. Both John and I have taken classes in the studios at Pratt. Much of my jewelry education and inspiration happens at Pratt. Truly, if you’ve ever thought about taking a painting class, trying your hand at welding or even checking out little bit of everything, Pratt is the place to start exploring. We’ve always got catalogs in the store. Come by and we’ll tell you how great Pratt is.

We’ve carried Alena Hennessy’s designs before, and they flew out the door. We just received her spring line, and it includes some delightful cotton scarves and t-shirts.

I know, I know, we’re not exactly a clothing store. But it was hard to resist these for their super-soft cottony goodness, and the fantastic designs. Besides, Frances looks great in hers.

Sorry for the late notice, but the store will be closed Easter Sunday. We’ll be back Tuesday, noon to 7pm, for all of your modern design needs.

So…a while ago, Gini Johnson, a West Seattle real estate force, came into Click!, bought a few lovely things and suggested that some of her real estate associates would love to gather at Click! for some wine and socializing. Well it’s happening.

The group is 360 Modern www.360modern.com. They are real estate agents who specialize in representing, selling and geeking out on modern homes in the Seattle area. We are pretty excited to host a room full of folks with modern tendencies. So come out during the West Seattle Artwalk www.westseattleartwalk.blogspot.com this Thursday the 9th, from 6 to 9pm. Save 15% on all your purchases, snack on tasty things, sip a glass of wine, adore Kate Fluckinger’s www.katefluckinger.com amazing artwork and chat about that modern dream home you know is in your future - You may even find someone to help you find it!

Today the King County Water Taxi begins its 2009 season, shuttling people between West Seattle and Downtown by boat. We are a sponsor again this year, and have a beautiful ad on board, designed by the fabulous Megan Bailey. The West Seattle Blog has coverage of opening day.

We’ve added images that can be linked to from the descriptions of the concrete cuff link and bracelet pages showing all of the colors that we currently have in stock for our half price sale. We’ll update as frequently as possible to show what’s currently available.

Apologies to anyone who tried to make any online April sale purchases, only to find that when the items were put in your cart they were full price. That has been fixed. But hey, you’re a day early anyway, right?

This is a really good month to be shopping for accessories at Click!. Not only is there the jewelry sale — now all previous season handbags are 25% off. That’s a great deal for Orla Kiely (Spring bags just arrived) and Highway (Spring bags expected soon).

All month long, in-stock bracelets and concrete cuff links are half price. The concrete cuff links you’ve always wanted to buy as a gift for the man in your life? Half price. That Kate bracelet you’ve dreamt of owning? Half. Price. From now until April 30th.

And, if you want to special order a different color than what we have in-stock, go ahead and take 25% off, just because we like you. 

“four square” cuff links $98 $49

“kate” bracelet $430 $215

Our 20% off online sale lasts through the end of March. You know, the one where you enter the code MARCH20 and get 20% off your entire order? You probably saw it in our newsletter. If you didn’t get the newsletter, you should.