Last-Minute Holiday Shopping

With the holiday countdown in its last week, we're all busy wrapping and cooking and, of course, shopping. Whether it's a final gift or two, or some holiday decor for yourself, Relish has lots of great options.

We have gorgeous new cushions from two Canadian designers, sales on our great vintage furniture and decor, and lots of incredible original artwork by T Waxman - and the artwork is 40% off for all of December!

So come on down and visit us this week, and have a very merry holiday season with your family and friends.

Happy Holidays!

Holiday Wish List

I think it's official; the holidays are here. And to celebrate this, let me introduce the James St. North Wish List!

Here's how it works:

• pick up this Wish List at any of the participating retailers
• fill out the items you just must have this holiday season and the store where you found them
• give your completed list to whoever is shopping for your gift (or you can use it to shop for yourself!)
• when it's time to shop, just bring the Wish List in to the participating store and you'll get 15% off! Just for using this list! Pretty amazing, right?

You can find and use the Wish List at any of the following retailers...

• Relish
• White Elephant
• Hawk & Sparrow
• i fiori
• Art Gallery of Hamilton Design Annex
• Hansen & Lubbers
• Humblepie
• Mixed Media
• O's Clothes
• Needlework
• Mulberry Street Cafe

And finally, here are Relish's hours for the month of December

Mon-Tues:   closed
Wed-Thurs: 12pm - 6pm
Fri:              12pm - 8pm
Sat:             11am - 5pm
Sun:            12pm - 4pm

See you soon!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone!!

Hope you all did lots of visiting and relaxing and are now ready to attack the new year. I had a really, really great holiday season. I spent the last week at my parents' house near Ottawa, so there was lots of family time and visiting and catching up and dog-walking through the fields. There was also A LOT of sleeping and eating cookies and chocolates and huge dinners. It was wonderful!

Now I can't honestly say that my New Year's Eve was very eventful - my sister and I spent the day driving back to Hamilton from Ottawa, bought some much-needed groceries and then made dinner and watched movies. I'm sad to report that neither one of us lasted until midnight. Whoops! But the sleeping was just SO good, we couldn't help it!

I'm not sure if most people have taken down their tree by now, but I love mine so much I try to leave it up until the last minute. Which I think will be this Sunday. But if you still have some packing up of holiday decor to do, WAIT!...

Relish is having a sale right now of all the beautiful holiday decor that is still in stock, so you can pack it away for a great surprise next year! That's right, all holiday decor is on sale!!!

There are lots of lovely things left - vintage ornaments, plate sets, vintage holiday glassware, handmade garlands, and cards and gift tags.

So get in here to Relish, quick!

New Vintage and Cleaning Update

First, you must check out the great new vintage I picked up for Relish this morning!

A lovely old wooden sled

Lots and lots of holiday glassware

And don't forget Art Crawl is tonight!! You can see a run-down here.

Now for the cleaning update - although I forgot to take any photos at all, I'm happy to report that I'm already into Day 3 and have been following the schedule to the letter. I think this could work! No more entire days dedicated to hours and hours of cleaning. Yay!!!

Holiday Open House!

The one consolation about the arrival of this cold weather is that the Holidays are coming! And lucky for you, the shops along James North are having a Holiday Open House on Friday November 25th and Saturday November 26th. This includes Relish, Mixed Media, Chaises Musicales, La Petite Spa, Humble Pie, White Elephant, i Fiori and Hawk & Sparrow.

This map shows you exactly where these shops are so you can't miss us!

Relish will be open from 11am-9pm on Friday and from 11am-6pm on Saturday, and everything in the store will be 15% off!!! 

I'll have yummy snacks on hand, and holiday tunes on the radio, so come by for a visit and a little early gift shopping. Hope to see you here!

Now, I have to admit I'm one of those people who adores the Holiday season and actually does not ever get sick of hearing Christmas music. But what's not to love? An excuse to bake all kinds of treats, drink eggnog, and eat way more chocolate and cookies than are ever good for you. Not to mention a few days off to hibernate with family and friends and just enjoy spending some quality time together. Preferably involving chocolate.  :-)

Holiday Goodies

It's official - the Holidays have arrived at Relish! Here's just a sample of some of the goodies we've got in stock for you. Get in here quick so you don't miss out on your favourites!

Lots of yummy decor items, including those little tiny handmade mittens tree ornaments.



Lots of seriously stylin' vintage glass ornaments.

A whole new suppy of made-in-Canada greeting cards including, of course, holiday cards. These lovely printing press cards are by Papillon Press.

More vintage ornaments, and more greeting cards, including ones shown here by Crafted by Lindy.

And of course my favourite treasure - a vintage silver aluminum bottle brush Christmas tree, covered in vintage ornamnets!

Hope to see you soon!