For the artsy friend:
($50) Chrystal Jackson creates small watercolor paintings and portraits known for her nature scenery, including butterflies. She also paints ink and watercolor portraits done on the spot within 15 minutes.
($45-$95, depending on size and wood type) Ken Exline’s company, Trees to Treasures, makes various wooden products, such as these bowls. Exline gets the wood from various places and hand-carves the bowls and the patterns in them.
For your sports lover:
($12) Forever Flowers and Other Upcycled Crafts makes various sports-themed flowers for your front yard. The “upcycling” comes from the material the flowers are made of: the aluminum from industrial-sized canned goods.
($23) For the younger sports fan in your life, DKG Crafts makes fleece teddy bears printed with your favorite sports team’s logo on it. They hand-make the bears for a homey effect.
For your fashionable friend:
($18) Doubling as a broach and a hair clip, Elle Parker’s feather fashion go with just about everything. Parker uses precious stones and real animal feathers in her feather accents. This specific accessory is temporarily attached to a hat and is made of real peacock feathers.
($9-$12) Carolina Mingo’s hand-crafted necklace charms and earrings are affordable and trendy. Her designs include inspirational quotes on necklaces and clocks as necklaces.
For the St. Louis fanatic:
($20) Ray Horton’s Shades of St. Louis photography captures our city in quite a unique way. Every photograph is of a famous St. Louis location, but in the reflection of a pair of sunglasses.
($35) Diane Kropa’s photo cubes take multiple pictures of famous St. Louis places and put them on waterproof, scratch-proof cubes. Pictures stretch across several faces or have a singular place.
For the animal lover:
($15-$30) Special Needs Under Gentle Guided Love Everyday (SNUGGLE) is a non-profit organization that cares for special needs and rescue animals. Volunteers make animal beds and quilts. All money raised goes to the hospital bills to help shelter pets.
($28) Silver Basket Ministries makes practical, artistic wooden bird houses and metal feeders. Feeders can be lowered to fill and have a guard to keep out squirrels, while houses are carved to look like faces.
