Picky parents? Foodie friends? Quirky kids? We’ve got a local gift for everyone on your list, from a whiskey club and private chef dinners to museum memberships and pet portraits.
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Food & Drink
Whiskey Del Bac
$120-$320+
What to get the friend whose liquor cabinet is bursting with Bulleit? A membership to The Whiskey Club, which ships in February, June and October from this Tucson distiller. Choose a tier (Cask Club for $120/shipment, Distiller Club for $320/shipment) and your recipient can customize their selections and get access to special events. whiskeydelbac.com/the-whiskey-club
Tiffany’s Candy Co.
$30-$115
Charcuterie and crudité boards are fab, but sometimes you need a sweeter finish. Phoenix sugar queen Tiffany Taplashvili’s luxury candy boards come in three sizes ($30/small, $50/medium, $115/large) and more than 20 themes and styles for the perfect host gift. tiffanyscandyco.com
Primitive Glass
$35-$85
A gorgeous vessel makes even grocery-store olive oil or basic beer taste better. Phoenix artist Daniel Shircliff hand-blows glass oil decanters and beer glasses that double as kitchen art. primitiveglass.com
The Miller’s Daughter
$29.99
Hayden Flour Mills co-owner Emma Zimmerman is getting international buzz for her cookbook celebrating heritage grains and artisanal flours. Gift the baker in your life this tome and they might reward you with chocolate-flecked farro banana bread in return. haydenflourmills.com
Hayden Flour Mills
$150
Stock your baking friend’s kitchen with the Tempe mill’s complete pantry kit, which boasts obscure ancient grains and flours mentioned in the cookbook that aren’t typically available in its shop. Feeling especially generous? Gift the cookbook and the pantry kit for $179.99. haydenflourmills.com
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Curate Cuisine Dinner Party
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Your foodie friends have done Binkley’s, Christopher’s at Wrigley Mansion and ShinBay, but have they had a private chef experience in their own home? Chef Joseph Lerner creates custom menus for intimate dinner parties, from romantic date nights to milestone birthday bashes, under his Curate Cuisine shingle. The former resort chef can work with a budget or indulge every extravagant request. Inquire at curatecuisine@gmail.com. curatecuisine.com
Suncliffe
$38.49
The dry gin from this woman- and LGBTQ-owned distiller beautifully showcases Arizona terroir through its trio of native juniper varietals and wild-foraged botanicals like ponderosa pine bark. Available at Total Wine. suncliffegin.com
SW Grilled Coffee
$16+
Instead of roasting their beans in the traditional manner, Phoenix couple Taylor Kirkman and Steven Leganski give them the rotisserie treatment, spinning them in a drum inside a solar-powered propane grill. For every pound of this eco-friendly coffee sold, they donate $1 to the Grand Canyon Trust. swgrilledcoffee.com
Project Roots
$35-$100
Nothing delights a home cook like beautiful ingredients. Give the gift of a single produce box ($35) or a subscription ($55-$100/month, depending on frequency of delivery) from this Downtown Phoenix farm dedicated to food access for all. Delivery fee may apply. Produce varies seasonally and by harvest. projectrootsaz.org/produceboxes
Fashion & Jewelry
Frances
$60
Need a gift for a desert kitsch fan? No problemo with this “No Problemo” cotton-rayon button-up men’s shirt by Pyknic. Festooned with tacos, cacti, avocados and skeleton hands flashing peace signs, it’s muy Southwest cool. shopfrancesboutique.com
Black Amethyst
$75-$250
Head to Pemberton PHX to peruse Phoenix jewelry artist Melanie Franco’s mystical wares. She hand-forges silver and gold pieces like these statement rings, necklace, lighter and oversize safety pin for keys.
black-amethyst.com
TATEJONES
$160-$290
Longtime friends Stacey Horton and Shawn Harrison express their minimalist style through their clothing line, designed to transcend work, play, travel, sleep – and gender. In addition to women’s and men’s lines, they have an Ungendered collection meant for everyone. tatejones.us
kaeraz
$9-$42+
Mesa designer Kaeli Day draws inspiration from ’70s-’90s country music for her line of cowgirl-cool T-shirts, keychains, patches and other accessories. They’ll make your giftee the queen of the honky-tonk. kaeraz.com
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KP Studio Jewelry Classes
$250-$295, plus materials
Is your relative ready to level up their DIY jewelry? Gift them a class at this Phoenix metalsmith studio. Choose from beginning, intermediate or advanced classes, which also come with studio time usable up to 90 days after the class ends, so they can keep on creating. kpstudiophx.com
Art & Home
Hamster Labs
$95+
For the midcentury Phoenix lover, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better artwork than “Quick Breeze” by Quinn Murphy of Hamster Labs. The screen print – available at Practical Art – features a roadrunner, desert flora and breeze blocks. practical-art.com
Western Works Glass
$60-$400+
This isn’t your church’s stained glass. Tempe glass artist Kendall Louise’s designs are informed by pop culture and American traditional tattoos, so she’s more likely to immortalize Homer Simpson, Ghostface or bikini-clad bums than white doves and saints. westernworksglass.com
Jim Sudal Ceramic Design
$15
Nobody does Southwestern art for the home like Scottsdale ceramic artist Jim Sudal. His metallic prickly pear fruit ornaments elevate any Christmas tree. jimsudalceramicdesign.com
MAME Soy Candles x Changing Hands
$15.99
Phoenix’s premier candle maker and premier indie bookstore created the perfect gift for bookworms: desert-inspired candles to burn while you read. They come in three scents – Sonoran Sonnet, Monsoon Muse and Prickly Pear Prose – with watercolor art labels by past PHOENIX artist of the month Alexandra Bowers. Available in-store only. changinghands.com
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Brightside Studios Art Classes
Prices vary
Give the budding artist in your life the gift of creativity with a Paint & Sip class (starting at $39.99/person, includes one free beverage) or a gift card to use on a one-day ($39.99), monthly ($99.99) or annual ($999.99) pass to this studio space and café. brightsidestudios.com
Sports & Outdoors
Bad Birdie
$30-$72
Help your bud be the best-dressed golfer on the green with these brash, youthful designs by Scottsdale fairway fashionisto Jason Richardson. He introduced Bad Birdie on Shark Tank in 2017, and the rest is pastel polo history. badbirdiegolf.com
Caesar Chaves
$50-$200
Caesar Chaves’ iconic “Rides” design posters were inspired by Josef Albers’ color studies and depict the artist’s favorite places to ride his bikes in Phoenix. You can buy single prints – South Mountain, Papago Park, Apache Wash Trail or Central Avenue – at Practical Art for $50 each, but when you purchase the set ($200), the skyline continues through all four pieces. practical-art.com
The Hike Book Vol. 3 by Mare Czinar
$19.95
Complete your outdoorsy pal’s hiking library with the third volume of PHOENIX magazine The Hike Book: City Summits. Our resident hiking maven Mare Czinar is back with 88 hikes within a 70-mile radius of Metro Phoenix. phoenixmag.com/shop
808s & Otherworlds
$15.99
The beautiful cover of this collection by Sean Avery Medlin will look great on your poetry-loving pal’s bookshelf or coffee table – but they’ll also love the content, which centers on black identity, hip-hop, gender, comics, racism and culture. twodollarradio.com
Chris Paul x Move Insoles
$39.99-$59.99
Know an amateur baller who wants to play like CP3? These professional-grade insoles designed in partnership with The Point God won’t get them all the way there, but they’re a good foundation. move.one
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Arizona State Parks & Trails Gift Cards
$25-$500
For the non-materialist in your life, we suggest the gift of the great outdoors. Arizona State Parks & Trails offers gift cards in denominations of $25, $50 and $100 (up to $500), good for state park day-use, park store purchases, cave tours or overnight camping. You can also purchase non-commercial annual passes – standard ($75) or premium ($200). azstateparks.com/passes-and-gift-cards
Self-Care
Naked Fig Soap
$3 each
Madeline Harn’s darling saguaro-shaped soaps make a great gift on their own, or part of a gift basket or a stocking stuffer. The vegan bars come in multiple scents and colors and are made with shea butter and local ingredients. You can also order a kit ($30) with supplies to make 16 mini-cactus soaps at home. nakedfigsoap.com
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Body R-N-R + BallancerPro Lymphatic Massage
$99+
Registered nurse Alisa La Liberte offers a coterie of wellness treatments in her Scottsdale office – acoustic wave therapy, IV therapies, facials and custom programs. Most interesting of all: lymphatic drainage with BallancerPro, a space-suit-like contraption that provides a precision lymphatic massage beloved by celebrities and athletes for its purported ability to reduce inflammation, aid recovery and enhance weight loss. Purchase a gift card at squ.re/3esu47D; bodyrnr.com; ballancerpro.com
Love Skin Botanicals
$15-$75
Your skincare-obsessed friend will plotz over these medical-grade products from Gilbert cosmetologist Diana J. Rieger, who founded Love Skin Holistic Med Spa. Everything – from the citrus-green tea facial cleanser to the collagen-creation serum – is made with organic, plant-based ingredients. loveskinbotanicals.com
Phoenix General
$20
For the bewhiskered blokes in your life, there’s no better self-care than smoothing, softening beard oil. This Phoenix shop – with Uptown and Downtown locations – crafts this woodsy blend of hinoki (Japanese cypress) and cedar essential oils via its Phoenix General Apothecary line. phxgeneral.com
Local Nomad
$20-$32
Notes of grapefruit, ylang ylang, jasmine, vetiver and cedarwood evoke the floral, woodsy and citrusy musk of the high desert in Agua de Sedona, a unisex fragrance made in its namesake city and sold at this Uptown Plaza boutique. Available in a 10-ml. roller or a 60-ml. spray bottle. localnomadshop.com
Pets
Love Dog Republic
$15-$45
In addition to subscription boxes for dogs and their moms, Laurie Stephens curates collars, bowties, bandanas and other canine accessories. Save $5 when you purchase a bowtie-collar combo. lovedogrepublic.com
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Flash and Hound Pet Photography
Starting at $985
Scottsdale couple Craig and Irene Amrine translated their love for animals into a pet photography business. Their custom sessions have immortalized birds and lizards as well as cats and dogs. Images can be rendered in digital files, wall art or custom gifts. The Amrines donate 15 percent of every package to Ukrainian charities – Irene was born and raised there. flashandhound.com
Frances
$12
For the dog mom who binged Trixie Motel this summer, there’s no better gift than this vintage motel-style keychain from Phoenix’s most beloved boutique. It’s lightweight and bright enough to quickly spot in a purse. shopfrancesboutique.com
Nate + Jeremiah for PetSmart
$299-$399
Celebrity design couple Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent partnered with Valley-based PetSmart on a collection of sophisticated, pet-minded pieces. To wit: this mahogany stand, designed to pair with an aquatic or reptile tank (sold separately). petsmart.com/nate-and-jeremiah.html
Hauspanther
$69.99
Phoenix cat maven Kate Benjamin designed this Cubitat multi-level cat bed with a raised perch and lower, covered hideaway. As with all her Hauspanther products, it offers a sleek, minimalist look for cat parents while being utilitarian for felines. shop.hauspanther.com
Kids
85 Local
Prices vary
Misty Stachel’s Peoria shop features more than 20 small businesses, most owned by women. Bestselling kids’ items include apparel like a twirl dress ($28) and buffalo plaid lounge set ($40), plus sensory toys like a gnome Play-Doh jar ($9) and ocean sand bin ($22). 85localaz.com
High Jinks Apparel
$20
Whether you’re encouraging your junior gift recipient to contemplate world peace or to simply give their parents a little peace and quiet at home, this super soft Peace T-shirt is a winner. Available in newborn through youth XL. highjinksapparel.com
Arcadia Toys
Prices vary
This shop within a shop is an infants’ and toddlers’ emporium nestled in the chic lifestyle boutique urbAna. Arcadia Toys’ wares – like this Sweet Soothie cactus blanket ($24) and Cutest Baby in Arcadia onesie ($32) – never fail to delight. Like mother, like daughter. shop.urbanashop.com/arcadia-toys
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Children’s Museum of Phoenix Membership
$135-$345
Give the gift of ongoing exploration with a yearly membership to Phoenix’s foremost children’s museum. Members enjoy unlimited admission, exclusive events and discounts on programs, camps, toys, and gift shop and café purchases. childrensmuseumofphoenix.org/buy-a-membership
