You absolutely have to go to Urban Craft Uprising this weekend at Seattle Center. If anyone tries to stand in your way tell them that it's to Christmas shop - Consumerism is a valid excuse for anything. Then, when you get there, shop for yourself. Buy like eight things you can't live without. When you get home you'll realize that your bank account dictates that you can indeed live without at least four of them. Wrap those up as Christmas gifts, but don't deliver them immediately. You've got another couple of weeks to save up and if everything works out well you may yet be able to keep them for yourself.
Here's a list of the vendors they have lined up.

Weekly Around the -Ists


I checked it out and got some good gifts for the women in my life.