“Look at my hands, I’m shaking,” I tell the gal ringing up my oven mitt (gift for Carrie ) and key ring (gift for Marcy ).
“I get like this when I shop in a store with such beautiful things–all shaky and over excited,” I unabashedly confess. She just nods her understanding head. She must have seen every shopping induced physical reaction–she works at Heavenly Hostess in Orange after all.
If you want to find a gift that will make the receiver think you are the most clever, stylish girl they know or perpetrate some death-deifying budget infractions, Heavenly Hostess is a good shop for you. Though she is known for her aprons, the store has a stunning aray of other beauteous house-y type things.
This is not, let me repeat, NOT the store to drag your poor, dutiful husband into to show him those “darling” dessert dishes. It will break his shopping tolerance barrier the moment the aroma of truckloads of candles and soaps hits his nose and he spies his first mannequin.
Just send him over to Mustard’s for a reuben, or, better idea, just go with girlfriends. Then you won’t have to fiercely explain (justify) every purchase in your bag over lunch and a Diet Coke.
If you don’t have the luck to live near the Orange Circle, you can frantically search for Heavenly Hostess products near you: HERE. Sadly, it probably won’t give you the same thrill as the actual store.
I am shaking just looking at the photos.
You know what I am gonna use my new Smart Women coin purse for? To save to buy things at Heavenly Hostess. OR to pay the stupid toll on the way to visit you. Either one is a great investment in my eyes.
Wasn’t it a fun day ‘photo shopping?’….some how if I take photo of something I really covet to own. It eases the pain.
I have reached my “shopping tolerance barrier” just from reading this and seeing the pictures. Looks like a girl’s dream come true.
Never been there, but the way you describe it I might have to call in sick tomorrow to take a look. I love those charms. Yes, definitely feel a cough coming on…
Oooh ooooh, I wanna come!
Holy crap…I wanna move into that store and wear that pink-ribboned dealie-ma-bob.
And HEY! I like Etsy too! I was just making fun of it that one time on behalf of Todd. And you don’t fit into that mommy blogger category very nicely….you’re cool and lots are not. So there.
Thanks for mentioning the ad with Meg Ryan’s lips. Now I’ll be up for hours reloading my site looking for them so I can see the horror you saw.
P.S. Hi Hazel and George and the rest of the furbabies!
I am totally going tomorrow!!! Never heard of the place but from the pictures I can tell there will be a whole lotta shaken going on with me too!