Pretty, but kind of odd
Thursday, May 18, 2006
I haven't figured out who shops here. It doesn't match the flavor of businesses or street traffic on 15th, and there are rarely many customers inside, but it just seems to stay there year after year. It's a somewhat fussily arranged collection of china, candles, soap, artificial flowers, shawls which look like hand-woven silk but which turn out to be made of acrylic, and a few pieces of jewelry. They also have quite a few greeting cards, although the selection is mostly uninspired unless your taste runs to the very flowery. You could find the perfect present for a standard-issue grandma here, although I think those are becoming an endangered species.
I did buy a piggy bank here of blue-flowered Asian ceramic in the shape of a frog, which I'm very attached to. So I guess you just never know. Maybe lots of people go in and just find one thing that is exactly right.