KPBS presents a special holiday gift guide featuring unique and sustainable gift ideas from local San Diego artists, makers, and bookstores. Discover handmade goods, specialty foods, experiences, and more. Plus, learn about better ways to wrap your presents sustainably.
S1: It's time for Midday Edition on KPBS. Today is our holiday show. We've got a gift guide , book recommendations , and sustainable ways to wrap those presents. I'm Jade Hyndman with conversations that keep you informed , inspired and engaged. The KPBS Arts Desk will join us with unique gifts you'll only find here in San Diego .
S3: And I think we're seeing that in how many collaborative and co-working craft spaces that we have , like centers and residences. I'm thinking of San Diego made factory , San Diego craft collective collectives that are like burn all books and zine making groups , other places that are doing and providing space for art making , crafting , DIY art , making little pop ups and group meetings , stuff like that.
S3: Right. And I what I love about this list is it's almost like a jumping off point to where , you know , if you can't necessarily get to one thing or it's too late to do shipping from this person's Etsy shop , it's a way to think about , oh , I hadn't thought about gifting , um , from a museum , a local museum , like finding local artists. Oh , I hadn't thought about giving paddleboard lessons or the chocolate shop that's on here.
S2: Crissy and I think it's like really nice to where you know , where your money's going , kind of , um , you know , often it goes right back into someone's like dream or passion. So I really like that about supporting these local spots. S5: I love that people. You know , people are always saying to you , I'm so glad that your bookstore is like surviving. But , you know , I think bookstores , at least in San Diego , we're all kind of thriving , especially this time of year. People really just love. They love to get books recommended to them. They love to read the year end lists. And , you know , I think they like to give books to each other. And I think that's pretty great thing that people still like to do that.
S6: We have a board book that we really love. The series is by Jessica Spaniel and it's for ages six months to six years old. It's a bilingual universe , published by Child's Play International with titles such as Rosa Loves Dinosaurs and so as Soon Biblioteca Mario and Clive and His Bags , all books end with the children heading off for a good night's sleep after a day of imaginative play. They're wonderful. They're bilingual.
S1: Now or never. Comics also serves up options for fans of the DC comic book universe , Aaron has a rock for them too. S4: The holiday season is always really important for us as a store , just a wonderful way where we interface with customers more than usual because everybody's holiday shopping , and so we love talking to customers. We love talking about books and helping someone find the next story that they will love. So we try to do that any more and more , and that's always one of the highlights of the holiday season for us looking towards next year.
S10: So just the other two recs that I really wanted to mention of this year that I think are important , especially coming up here in 2024 , is Rivka by Mohammad El Kurd , which is a collection of poetry. It's by a Palestinian author , um , who has woven together some incredible poetry for us to be able to digest , um , some very real violence that has taken place in Palestine and continues to take place there.
S11: I'm happy to share with what I'm doing this holiday in my own house , and then also give you some ideas that I've just seen around that I'm excited to try at another time. So I think the very easiest thing to do is just look at what you already have inside of your house. So , for example , I brought today for you to see I had a package come in to my house with some goods and it was wrapped in paper. It was wrapped in recyclable , beautiful brown paper.
S11: Yeah , it's you know , it's fun because you get to be creative. I think it personally it feels even more satisfying to me. And now if people , they're like , oh , but I like the wrapping paper because it has stockings on it and it has presents and it has all of these kind of like holiday decor items on it. You could still also go in the direction of fabric , which is really beautiful.
S11: I mean , I think all of us , we love connection and we love community , and sometimes that's even the thing that we're most excited about around the holidays. We're coming to that family or friends house , or we're meeting up with the people that we care about to celebrate together , and we've attached gift giving to be part of that. But if we really look at what was meaningful about that holiday , it was the being together part.
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