Shop Small & Local Holiday Guide
Keep it local, keep it festive!
We know now more than ever the great impact that shopping local can have on our communities. And lucky for you, Kansas City makes it way too easy for us to want to shop small this year and every year. In this guide I have collected my top picks for gifting the 2020 Holiday Season:
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Mean Mule Distilling Co.
1733 Locust St, Kansas City
Mean Mule Distilling Co. offers their signature Gold and Silver American Agave Spirits alone, as well as in a wide array of cocktail kits. My favorite kit is the GOLD Fashioned Cocktail kit. It makes 12 servings of their well loved Old Fashioned, and includes a full bottle of their Gold Agave Spirit. This complete kit is a steal for only $50.
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Cooking Class at Billie’s Grocery
3216 Gillham Plaza Suite 100, Kansas City
Billie’s Grocery is a new restaurant concept focusing on nutrient dense, organic, whole foods. They offer a cooking class experience, perfect for the beginner home cook or the full on foodie. Billie’s will provide all necessary ingredients and cooking equipment. Tickets are $85 per person.
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Etiquette Beauty
115 W 18th Street, Crossroads, Kansas City
I think by now we are all well aware of the blessing that an experience gift is. Etiquette Beauty is my top pick in Kansas City for thoughtful holistic beauty services. Whether you’re gifting someone with a facial, a massage, brow tint, lash lift, you will make someone very happy! I promise!
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Paradise Garden Club
1621 Locust St, Kansas City
After you finish grabbing a cocktail kit from Mean Mule Distilling Co, walk just up the street to Paradise Garden Club to pick up a perfectly curated Snake Plant Activity Kit. This plant kit includes everything you might need to pot, decorate, and care for your very own Snake Plant for only $27.
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Sierra Winter Jewelry
7017 Oak St, Kansas City
Sierra Winter Jewelry features high quality, handcrafted jewelry designed here in Kansas City by Sierra herself. Truly anything from this shop would make for a wonderful holiday gift for anyone this Christmas. If you have trouble trying to decide which would make the best gift, head to their website where they have created their own Holiday Gift Guide!
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Coco Shea Skin & Body Care
Main Street, Grandview, Kansas City
Coco Shea Skin & Body offers all organic, plant-based products made with love from hand here in KC! Any of their products would make for the perfect gift, but their from scratch soaps are my favorite! Their Brown Sugar Fig Body Soap screams best stocking stuffer gift.
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Made In KC
It would be silly not to put the amazing Made In KC storefronts on this guide, each one offering the perfect gift for anyone you might be gifting this holiday season. All six Made In KC locations stock endless local goods, apparel, and more!
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Oddly Correct
3940 Main St, Kansas City
Oddly Correct consistently fuels the KC community with the most intentional coffee and hand roasted beans– it is only right to return the favor by shopping their merch this holiday season. They have shirts, sweatshirts, prints, mugs, and of course, coffee beans! If there’s anything we all need in 2020, it is more coffee.
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Apothe Wellness
3216 Gillham Plaza #170, Kansas City
Apothe Wellness takes a modern approach to wellness by creating handmade powders and a large selection of curated dried loose leaf teas. My favorite from Apothe Wellness is their Jared Local Honey, and the Golden Goddess Blend that has cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, coconut milk powder, black pepper. It warms me up just thinking about it!
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Golden & Pine
19 on the Mall, Prairie Village
Golden & Pine is my go-to home goods store. Whether searching for ethically-produced candles, ceramic mugs, throw blankets, or any other home goods– Golden & Pine has it all!
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Soul Rebel Jewelry
Soul Rebel is an online store featuring hand woven beaded jewelry by Frederick Savhad. These pieces are all intricately designed, with a large selection of colors and shapes. My favorite being the Pecan/Terracotta beaded earring, but truly each design would make for a gorgeous gift.
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Verdant
128 W. 18th St, Kansas City
Verdant is a botanical gift shop in the Crossroads specializing in plants, flower arrangements, ceramics, and more! Verdant has multiple gift boxes on their website that are the cutest idea for holiday gifts. The Plant Care Gift Box and Propagation Gift Box are both incredible gift ideas, and only around $35!
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No Vacancy
1717 Wyandotte St, Kansas City
No Vacancy is an intimate boutique hotel with eight studio suites. Each room is designed and styled with intention and creativity, and staying here is an experience that everyone in Kansas City should have! A weekend staycation would make for the perfect gift this year. But be careful, because you might want to stay forever.
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Big Mood Natural Wines
2020 Baltimore Ave Suite 102
Big Mood Natural Wines is bringing natural wines from around the world to Kansas City. You might be asking “What does natural wine even mean?” Well, natural wine is a category of wine that doesn't have a strict definition. Natural wines are typically made from hand-picked grapes, and they stay away from herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides, making it better for you and the planet. Because this place has endless amounts of natural wines, I suggest gifting someone with a gift card, so that they can experience Big Mood for themselves and chat with the employees about which natural wine would be best for them.
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Hammerpress Letterpress & Design Studio
1413 W 11th St, Kansas City
During the pandemic I think we have all turned to the simpler things in life, like taking long walks, reading, journaling, and writing letters to our friends and family. Hammerpress specializes in high quality stationary kits, letter writing kits, and handmade cards all designed in Kansas City. Our favorite past-time of sending out snail mail is back, and we should all take part and do it in style with Hammerpress stationary.
Ruby Jean’s Juicery
3000 Troost Ave, Kansas City
If there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s the mutual love for pressed juices, especially ones made with love and care. So give the gift of health this season with Ruby Jeans, whether in the form of a giftcard or a cold-pressed juice delivery!
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Sweet Kiss Brigadeiro
Brigadeiro is a traditional Braziallian dessert similar to a chocolate truffle: it has sweet condensed milk, cocoa, and butter, all covered in sprinkles. It is truly a gift to us all and now we have a female owned shop specializing in Brigadeiro here in Kansas City! They create custom boxes full of sweet treats with high quality assorted flavors. You will not regret purchasing a box for a loved one, or even yourself. You deserve that.
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Josey Records
1814 Oak St, Kansas City
Josey Records is Kansas City’s largest record store with hundreds of records whether they be newly released records or vintage finds. For the music lover in your family, grab a record they’ve been eyeing and a Josey Record’s Tee!
