Shopping with BPG

Dear readers!

There are mere months to go until Christmas, and Blog Princess G is on the case.

Some of my favourite online shops:

Laura Wilder is a Roycroft master artisan and her work is magic:
http://www.laurawilder.com/

Situated in New Mexico, here is the delightful Cranberry Press:
http://www.cranberrypress.com/index.html

Mary Philpott makes her enchanting tiles at her studio in Stratford, Ontario, and - yes - I've shopped in person:
http://www.verdanttileco.com/

Another in-person series of purchases followed up by online shopping: Elora Soapworks' "flowers and leaves ointment" is the most wonderful lip balm and apparently fixes all sorts of skin ailments:
http://www.elorasoap.com/

I go quite potty over Paine Products' balsam incense logs and hot pads, first purchased in a shop in Maine, now ordered online and inhaled. I'm addicted! I burn the little incense log in a cedar cabin burner, so similar to the one my dear Great-Aunt Leecy had from her time in Canada in the 1920s, and with which I was completely fascinated as a child. The rising column of balsam-scented smoke rises out of the little chimney. It still enchants me.
http://paineproducts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc