To help with the holiday hullaballoo, the SFBG staff is revealing — at last! — its secret shopping secrets, to perhaps give you some gift inspiration. In this installment: Senior Arts and Entertainment Editor Kimberly Chun‘s adorable-minded giving pleasures. Previously, Dulcinea Gonzalez and Marke B. shared their faves.
Check out more suggestions in our ginormous 2008 Holiday Guide — and enter our contest to win $500 in gift certificates if you spend $100 locally. Wowza.
Too-cute Mummy Boy figurine from Super7
Rare Device
Wow: adorable, beautifully designed gifties for your design-junkie chums — books, tchotchkes, jewelry, stationary — and is there a nicer, quirkier selection of covetable handbags around? I also dig the precious metal objets a la the human tooth.
1845 Market, SF. (415) 863-3969, www.raredevice.net
Park Life
Can’t resist the inhouse T-shirt designs, awesome ’80s-old-school watches, art and design tomes, and of course the always-intriguing art shows in back.
220 Clement, SF. (415) 386-7275, www.parklifestore.com
Curiosity Shoppe
Adore the faux moustachio – and the cute necklaces and DIY kits – all so winsomely displayed.
855 Valencia, SF. (415) 671-6384, www.curiosityshoppeonline.com