We’ve put together some thoughtful ideas and places to shop this holiday season.
Holiday Gift Guide
We’ve created this Holiday Gift Guide in hopes that it will help with your gift giving this year. Here you will find a carefully curated selection of our favorite places to find gifts that are personal, thoughtful, and Unique.
Experiences:
Wake Foot Sanctuary: Give someone the. unique experience of a specially formulated herbal soak and rejuvenating massage that is sure to de-stress and re-energize.
Plaid Apron: Gift someone a meal or gift card at this great eatery in our community that prides themselves on bridging the gap between farmer, restaurant, and mouth.
Top Golf: Give the sports lover in your life a gift certificate to Knoxville’s newest entertainment venue. The bays are climate controlled all year long and even if you aren’t a golfer, it’s a great way to spend a few hours having fun!
Help You Dwell: Give the gift of HYD’s services to a friend, loved one, family member or neighbor. Our services are a wonderful way to show love to a new mama, a transitioning homeowner, or just someone you love. This gift card can be used towards organizing, packing, and/or unpacking services.
Goods:
Reece: This is one of our favorite shops for one-of-a-kind pieces! They have thoughtfully sourced home goods from all around the world and offer services to help you style your space and can also source custom or antique pieces that will be unique to your home.
Happy Envelope: We love this shop for so many reasons! They offer luxury letterpress wedding invitations, custom stationery, art prints, and gifts that will make your heart smile.
Minimal Optimist: This shop is a lifestyle boutique that specializes in sustainable, eco-friendly, and nature-inspired goods and unique gifts. They also have great gifts for your plant-loving friends!
Union Avenue Books: Downtown Knoxville's locally-owned independent bookstore with a great selection of the newly published titles. They also host a variety of local, regional and nationally known authors for readings and book signings. We love to support local shops as well as local authors!
Unique Seasonal Items:
Bradley’s Gift & Home: In addition to hundreds of handmade sweets, you can find unique home goods and special gifts for any occasion. We love all the different ornaments, candles, and decor they have for sale during the different seasons of the year.
Fig & Co.: FIG exists as an avenue to provide unique and one-of-a-kind goods for the home, including accent decor, art, furniture as well as gifts. Their selection of holiday decor and gifts is amazing!
Back Porch Mercantile: This shop is a unique space that offers specialty finds for baby, home, gift items and accessories that are inline with a modern farmhouse aesthetic and southern hospitality. Their seasonal merchandise is beautiful and like no other.
The Painted Perch & Co: This market has over 30 vendors offering goods such as antiques, painted furniture, Haitian artwork and handmade pieces (all proceeds go back to Haiti), new and repurposed furniture, gourmet food, hand crafted textiles, gourmet pet items, boutique adult and children clothing and jewelry like Myra bags, Fusion paint, reclaimed wood pieces, gift items/baskets and so much more! They have a huge selection of holiday items that would be great for anyone on your Christmas list.
Local Holiday Markets:
Stanley’s Greenhouse-Located across the river south of downtown Knoxville, Stanley’s is a locally owned greenhouse and plant farm. Shop with them on Small Business Saturday (November 26), or visit on Sundays in November and December for their Holiday Marketplace for one-stop shopping for gifts and decor.
Riverview Family Farm-Located in West Knoxville, Riverview Family Farm is holding their annual Holiday Barn Sale on Friday, December 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, and Saturday, December 3 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stop by and see local vendors with a variety of goods.
Ijams Holiday Market-Located on Island Home Avenue, go celebrate the holiday season by supporting local artisans and makers at the ninth annual Ijams Holiday Marketplace on not one, but two dates this year: Nov. 27 and Dec. 4 from 10 am-3 pm! You'll find crafty delights, including beautiful jewelry, all-natural body products, glass, pottery, apparel, local food trucks, a beer garden, hot drinks, and so much more!
Foothills Holiday Market-Located in the Smithview Pavillion in Maryville, this market is going to be open Saturday, December 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be a variety of gifts and items from local vendors, as well as food trucks for snacks and lunch.
Happy Shopping Friends!
More than Memories
Somewhere in the back of one of your closets or in the basement, there might be some boxes of cassette tapes, slides, and more just waiting to be taken out and remembered. The problem is, we have made so much forward progress with technology, that we might not have a way to actually listen to or watch those tapes!
Wil Davenport is the man with an answer to that exact problem while also helping you invest in yourself, friends and family with his company More than Memories (MTM). Wil works to do three things— Preserve, Create and Communicate.
Preserve- MTM will digitize and enhance old media such as home movies, slides, printed photos and documents, 8 and 16mm film reels, cassettes, records, and more.
Create- MTM also makes video slideshows for all kinds of occasions including Memorials, Anniversaries, Birthdays, Church events, Retirements, Christmas, and Easter.
Communicate- MTM also interviews people to help them communicate their values, faith, and stories to those they care for and love.
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Wil is a one-man team, and works hard to “give folks back a better treasure than they started with.” Wil has several sample videos on his webpage and Facebook page that show just how much time he puts in each and every memory.
He finds his work the most rewarding when he can help people share what’s most important to them, and spark meaningful conversation from videos and memories. He says: “Without a doubt, my favorite part of the job is getting to know new people. I love it!”
““Without a doubt, my favorite part of the job is getting to know new people. I love it!””
Help You Dwell absolutely loves sending our client’s Wil’s way. So often we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to sorting through memorabilia. They are precious memories, but so often they remain in their box unwatched, under-appreciated and, frankly taking up space we need for other things!
Wil can bring all those memories to light, while also helping us keep them organized in a way we can actually get them out and appreciate them. (And the digital copy takes up much less space!)
“If you want to know what Wil Davenport strives to be known for, it can be summed up in three short phrases: integrity filled, a great encourager, and kind. The husband of Celeste Davenport and the father of Kaleb, Elise, and Nika, Wil seeks to serve and exceed the expectations of his customers. He is also an avid Duke basketball fan.” —More than Memories Webpage
What Wil does is more than memories, it’s about human connection and celebrating life every day! He loves helping you be the family hero who took the time to get those precious memories preserved and enhanced.
If More than Memories sounds like it might be just the thing you need, or a perfect gift for a loved one, Wil would love to hear from you! You can call More than Memories at (865) 414-3954 or reach him by email at MoreThanMemoriesTn@gmail.com.
