shop local GIFT GUIDE

BY ANNIE SPRATT OF UNSPLASH

Consider supporting the local boutiques and services in Downers Grove this holiday season while doing your shopping. This is your chance to bring some joy to someone in your life and support a local business at the same time. Give the gift of local this season. Happy shopping!

RIBBONS & STRINGS 816.520.7953 ribbonsandstrings@att.net

Give the gift of time! Affordable and convenient gift wrapping! Ribbons & Strings offers holiday gift wrapping, corporate packaging, gift baskets and more. Mention the Downers Grove Magazine “Shop Local Gift Guide” and receive complimentary pickup/delivery within a ten-mile radius Downers Grove. Schedule today!

RYBELL’S BLOW DRY BAR 5221 Main Street in Downers Grove

Put a little pep in her step. Give Rybell’s Blow Dry Bar gift certificates to those that need a wash, blow, style, and go approach. Purchase $100 in gift certificates and receive a $20 credit. A gift for you too.

PHILLIP’S

FLOWERS & GIFTS

524 North Cass Avenue in Westmont

Enhance any Thanksgiving gathering with this compact candle centerpiece in rich Fall colors and textures with a Mercury Glass hurricane. Featured flowers include roses, lilies, alstroemeria, chrysanthemums, hypericum, or similar seasonal favorites.

The Paper Peony Maker Studio

1008 Curtiss Street

Gift the experience of a candle making workshop! Perfect for the person who “has everything.” The Paper Peony offers group and individual candle making sessions along with a full collection of stunning, clean burning coconut-soy candles. Come in and sniff our best-selling Downers Days and Nights candles. Festive workshops during the holiday season are available as well.

Maple Home Market

1015 Maple Avenue in Downers Grove

Eloise + Eric Trophy Sculptures are expressive animal characters, hand-cast in metal, with an oil-rubbed bronze finish. The antique appearance, including the incredible detailing of the sculptured heads and the expressive visages of the animals, uplift your wall decor beyond the ordinary. Based on the popular children’s story of Eloise and Eric this set celebrates the saga of unlikely friendship between five animals.

WELLS STREET POPCORN 5124 Main Street

Wells Street

Popcorn’s premium old-fashioned popcorn is the perfect anytime gift. Chicago sports-themed tins are also available including the Chicago Bears and Chicago White Sox. These tins are the perfect giveaway, table centerpiece and or employee holiday treat. All tins are refillable for the life of the tin.

Tobias Music And Garage

5013 Fairview Avenue

Give the gift of music! Founded in 1978 in Downers Grove, Tobias Music is a family-owned and operated music store specializing in stringed-instrument sales, service, and lessons programs. Tobias Music also offers an excellent teaching staff for guitar lessons, bass, mandolin, banjo, and drum lessons.

Downtown Downers Grove Management Corporation

933A Curtiss Street

Are you having a tough time knowing what to give some loved ones? Let them choose! Downtown Downers Grove Management Corporation offers downtown Gift Certificates that are redeemable at most downtown businesses. These gift certificates make the perfect gift for everyone, young and old.

Photo courtesy of the Village of Downer Grove.

“A straight, beautiful smile is universally sought after. While it is an esthetically pleasing feature, it enhances a person’s overall wellbeing in many ways. When a person’s teeth are not in alignment, the function of the teeth and jaw are not optimal; therefore, food may not be digested properly, excellent oral hygiene is difficult, wear and tear on the teeth is advanced, and the pressure from the misalignment may cause headaches and facial pain.

Seeing these transformations in my patients, along with a renewed self-esteem and a new desire to smile, is by far the greatest reward of my profession as an orthodontist.”

Exceptional Academic Achievements, Leadership and Research

“The commitment to helping patients have a straight, beautiful smile started with my dedication to learning. Education was the gateway to my profession, and I optimized the opportunity to learn. With a desire to exemplify academic excellence, I graduated first in my dental class.”