We’ve been searching for a new handbag line for a while, and have finally found the one. GABS by Urban Junket are an amazing convertible bag… just a few snaps and your bag transforms from flat to an adorable boxy shape in an instant. They come in two sizes of two styles… one that is all leather, the other is leather and wool. Get them while you can.
It’s really exciting to have Dixie’s work in our Jewels in May show. Dixie was our jewelry production manager up until last January. Her reason for leaving the perfect job you ask?, so that she could make her own work. Well she has. We have her bold brass hooped earrings freshly spray painted and literally dripping with color, her meticulously sawed and shaded feather pendants and her amazing one of a kind felt rings. We are also thrilled to hang her Paper Doll series of paintings on the walls of Click! Dixie found some old paper doll books at a second hand store and gave the ladies a new life. They are all grown up now and they each have something to say.
Paper Doll Series #4 $350
You can meet the one and only Dixie Darling at our Jewels in May artist’s reception on Thurday, May 8th from 6 to 9pm. The show remains up at Click! through the month of May.
We’ve often said that we live in a parallel universe with our good friend Daphne. She and her husband make jewelry together, and have opened a contemporary home furnishings store in “the other Washington” (DC). They recently bought a home on Chesapeake Bay (does that mean we we get a place in the San Juans?) which has inspired her to do a line of “botanical” jewelry, cast from the wild plants and seeds she finds on the property.
Her work is carried by many of the same shops and galleries that carry Frances’s designs, which makes sense as they have a similar, clean aesthetic. We will be featuring Daphne’s jewelry May 1 through 31, along with a few more of our favorite jewelers!
As we’ve been hinting about in our newsletter, we have something special planned for May. Beginning May 1, we will be featuring the work of five of our favorite jewelry artists (in addition to Frances). There will be an artists’ reception on Thursday, May 8, just before Mother’s Day weekend, where we will be serving cosmos and donating a portion of the jewelry sales to Northwest Hope and Healing. On a personal level, it seems natural for us to support an organization that assists women with breast cancer for Mother’s Day. It’s also exciting to get the chance to show off the work of some very amazing women!
We will highlight the individual artists here in our blog, but in the meantime you can view the postcard for the event here (front) and here (back).
This week for the West Seattle Art Walk we are having an official “opening” party for Brad Strain, who has been our featured artist for the last two months. Brad’s work will be coming down at the end of the month, but not before we hang his latest creations:
“Thoughts Left Behind” 11″ x 14″ $250
“Winter Talking Blues” 7″ x 7″ $80
The Art Walk is Thursday, April 10, from 6 to 9pm. We will have snacks and beverages and several more of Brad’s beautiful pieces… one of which might just find a home on one of your walls.
They’re back! After the Seattle Times featured them in their Valentine’s Day gift guide, demand has been pretty high. Sure Calla Lilies are nice, but these will last well beyond Easter.
$3.50 each, set of 18 $56
Click! will be closed this Sunday, March 23rd, for Easter. We plan to spend the day with family, most especially our four-year-old nephew Enzo (check out Enzo’s dad’s blog!), who will be visiting from Southern California. If Enzo has his way, we’ll probably ride a train.
We will be open our regular weekend hours Saturday (11-5), and closed Monday.
Yes it’s true. We always have the best snacks and beverages on the West Seattle Art Walk (Thursday March 13, 6–9pm), but you have to when you’re a little off the beaten path. Of course it doesn’t hurt that we’ve got some kick ass art to show as well.
Our current featured artist Brad Strain has brought us some new work that takes some of his themes of home (and a longing for home) and incorporates them with polaroid images of local urban landscapes. He also brought more paintings, which seem to be gaining quite a following.
Our own “in-house” artist is featured this month as well: Frances is introducing new colors to her cork jewelry line. Fans of Frances’s jewelry will love the way the silver and gold light up with “ocean” and “sage” — two new colors of dyed cork, as announced in our recent email newsletter. (Sign up here)
Oh hai!
Adorable Doggy and Kitty cushions, good for hanging out on the couch with. With props to the teh cheezburger kittehs…
available in gray, orange, and pink $42
The groovy folks at Modern Twist who brought us the Amy Ruppel “Birds and Trees” table dressings are introducing new designs, including “Origami” and “Pebbles”. Made of non-toxic silicone, they are are a beautiful way to set your table.
They arrived today… Frances’s favorite are the pebbles and I suspect a set of them will follow us home.
Placemats $18 each, Coasters set of four $21
Everyone loves the botanical cheese plates that we picked up last year, but until now we had not been able to find a suitable knife/planer set to complement them. “Mingle” is a 3-piece cheese set designed by Peter and Eva Moritz, who have had their design studio in the south of Sweden since 1998.
We love the way they look and the way they feel in your hand. (The knives that is, not Peter and Eva — although they’re not bad looking either.)
set of three, gift boxed: $32
The folks at Town Graphics have just put out The Discovery Map of West Seattle, a 3D “bird’s eye view” map showing local businesses and points of interest. We have them free of charge at Click!, and I imagine many of the other featured businesses do as well.
When you’ve got friends or family in from out of town and don’t know what to tell them to do while you’re at work, hand them one of these and turn them loose!
We are very happy to have a new selection of coffee, console and end tables in stock. (Don’t worry - We still carry the awesome work of local designer urbancase!) Both of our new collections are from the boutique line, U+.
“Nestle” Nesting Tables, $548 I love the finger joint construction and gentle arched shape of these pieces. Arrange them all together as a coffee table or use them as accent tables throughout a room.
At $238, the “Mimosa” Coffee table is a great deal. It’s got a lovely profile, storage for all your “must read” items and the sustainably harvested Mimosa wood is rich and buttery beautiful. I also love the long neglected fold up tray table in this line. You’ll have to come in and check it all out.
On February 14th Click! will begin participating in the West Seattle Artwalk. Come out with your sweetheart or non-sweetheart for wine, cheese and of course, art. Our premier will feature new work by artist Brad Strain. His mixed media paintings are expressive glimpses of emotion. We love them.
see through thoughts, 14 x 11″, $280
no i am not, 18 x 24″, $350
Sometimes New York can be closer to home than Ballard. We’ve known and loved Gwen and Anita of Three by Three Seattle for years before we ever had a store, and are so very thrilled to work with them now. Although they are based just across town, we mostly only see them at trade shows now, where they take care of us with rock star treatment, despite the fact that we must be one of their smaller accounts. This includes making sure that we are stocked with these sweet-as-pie picture frames, which are both magnetic — for sticking on your fridge (or one of their magnetic bulletin boards) — or standing alone on your sweetheart’s desk. $7
Now until February 14, any gift purchase over $30 will be embellished with ribbons and bows and dressed with an organic, fairly traded chocolate confection from local choclatiers Theo Chocolates.
Love is delicious!
As it turns out a week is not very long to take off. But we did manage to clean up a bit, and hang some new art on the walls — more on that soon.
Our “regular” hours for the rest of winter: tues–fri noon–7pm, sat/sun 11am–5pm, closed mondays.
As we’ve mentioned in our newsletter (you are on our mailing list, aren’t you?) we are closed this week. We will re-open Saturday, see you then!
We are just on our way home from the California Gift show and couldn’t wait to tell you about our favorite new product. As it turns out, paper is not obsolete. We frequently have people have come into Click! looking for something to carry paper files to client meetings. The ladies at Oblong have it all figured out.
Introducing the Oblong BoxTote. Made of high-quality, laminated paper, it breaks down to ship or store flat, and snaps together in seconds. Its sturdy, boxy structure is ideal for carrying anything that might otherwise get folded or bent. There are even matching file folders available.
We expect to have them in the store in a few weeks. Call or email for availability.
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