Gift Giving is art, yes that is true. Psychologists have found a great similarity in the creative thought process in selecting just the right gift for that special someone and artists” individual evaluation of the many choices before them and the selection process in which they choose to interpret that one special sight or moment.
For most of us this process is jump started when we find a source where the preliminaries are completed and there right before us is that one special creation that hits us as just right and we know where it belongs, in the home and the heart of that “special someone.” We spend a long time trying to find this source and before we know it we are running out of time to find just the right something and we find ourselves saying “Never again! I”m going to start my holiday shopping early this year.”
This year you can jump start your holiday shopping by heading (gift-giving list in hand) for what is probably one of the best-kept secrets in Lake County, the gift shop housed in the Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main Street, Lakeport. Browsing the gift shop shelves you will find an astounding assortment of “one-of-a-kind” items crafted by local artists, small paintings and prints, jewelry, books about Lake County by local authors, ceramics, pottery, T-shirts with Lake County/Clear Lake images, decorative gourds, sculptures, tongue-in-cheek “found item” art objects and a special section of “art” cards that cannot be found anywhere else and that”s true for everything presented on the gift shop shelves.
Patsy Mitchell, the gift giving guru for the Lake County Arts Council, says, “I promise you … that if you have a special someone on your gift list that just has to have that distinctive gift especially selected by you and is bound to make a hit, visit our Main Street Gallery ?Gift Shop.” Believe me, you won”t be disappointed.”
The gift shop is open during the regular business hours of the LCAC”s Main Street Gallery. For hours and more information call 263-6658.
