Bloom Local’s
Winter Gift Guide
Discover gift-worthy offerings from our trusted network of 2SLGBTQIA+ and allied small businesses located here in the River Valley and beyond.
Whether you're exploring for yourself or someone you love, our Winter Gift Guide is here for you. It’s full of locally crafted, intentional items and experiences. Don’t miss the special discounts for Bloom Local subscribers!
Shop Small! Shop Local! Shop Queer!
Beaded Trans Pride Earrings
These hand-beaded earrings made by Rayla Shawanda are one of many gifts available at Win/Win, a queer and trans-owned arts consignment and vintage store located at 2 Pine St, Easthampton, MA. Rayla is an Ojibwe craftswoman looking to honor her heritage through beadwork and seeking to bring wearable joy through color and shape.
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Online at winwinwinwin.online.
In Store: Win/Win - 2 Pine Street, Easthampton, MA
Sound Bath Experience
Immerse yourself in the impactful vibrations of sound. Fran's sound bath sessions embrace the power of soothing sounds, creating a unique and rejuvenating experience. Feel the stress melt away as you harmonize mind, body, and spirit. As you rest in gentle seated or reclined postures, you'll bathe in the vibrations of singing bowls, chimes, and other sound meditation instruments. These resonant tones will help relax your nervous system, reduce stress and anxiety, and transport you into a state of deep relaxation and inner stillness.
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Select a 30- or 60-minute Sound Bath session for yourself or a recipient. This is an in-person session in Northampton, MA.
30-minute sessions: sliding scale $25 - $50
60-minute sessions: sliding scale $45 - $70
Contact Fran via her website (button below) to book.
“Be Radical. Build Community.” Beanie
Yet Another Queer Pop Up Market
A limited-edition “Be Radical. Build Community.” beanie to wear as you build community in whatever ways resonate with your heart and the needs you see around you.
All proceeds to queer-run and/or intersectional mutual aid groups like Hillbillies Helping Hillbillies.
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HOW MUCH: We love a sliding scale to make collective action more accessible. $20-$35 suggested donation. Between $10-$15 of each purchase will be donated. We will report on the results of community giving.
HOW YOU GET IT: Purchase your hat from 12P-7P at the Dec. 7 Winter Market at 50 Arrow Gallery. NOTE: Quantities will be limited, so we recommend you arrive as early as possible!
Bringing it Alive in 2025: Claiming Your Best Year Yet
Setting goals for the new year can be overwhelming, especially after a year with as many collective roadblocks as 2024. This starter package of 3 coaching sessions will support clients in pinpointing their most deeply held longings for 2025 then mapping out a travel route for getting there. Together we'll sort through 2024 to see what worked well and not so well, what wants to be brought forward and what wants to be set down. We'll also come up with actionable steps to get you moving in the direction you want.
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Special price for Bloom Local subscribers:
Sliding scale of $180-$240 for package of 3
Contact Keith via www.keitharon.com and be sure to mention “Bloom 2025”
Opossum Stockings Plantable Wildflower Seed Card
These greeting cards feature our original illustration of three young opossums playing in holiday stockings hanging from a fireplace. Whether you call them "opossums" or "possums," their silly antics and the vibrant evergreen garland and red poinsettias make this a perfect card to send in the winter holiday season.
They are printed on cream-colored seeded paper made from post-consumer waste. Embedded in this plantable paper is a mix of wildflower seeds: bird’s eye, clarkia, black-eyed Susan, sweet alyssum, catchfly, and snapdragon.
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Online: https://smallvictories.com/
In Store at Small Victories on L1 of Thornes Marketplace in Northampton, MA
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Book online via the button below.
Special price for Bloom Local subscribers: $125 (regularly $216)
Personalized Artwork
Are you trying to turn an idea into a reality for the perfect gift?
CopyCat does everything from blowing up your personal photos into beautiful canvas prints to creating your very own label design for gifted beverage bottles. Whatever you are imagining, we can help make it happen.
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Pricing varies by project.
Email noho@copycat.com some ideas and we’ll help bring your project to life!
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