My Favourite Tings | Not Amazon

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Here is an ever-changing selection of some of the most special gems I have found while doing my own retail-therapy on the site.

All women, BIPOC and LQBTQ2S+ owned businesses

Something interesting I did was spend $40 on a claw clip shaped like a dog as a way of bringing joy, and, you guessed it, it worked.

My sweet friend Max gifted this to me and it's just so magic. Made by infamous women and Indigenous-owned business, SḴWÁLWEN Botanicals, it's perfect to use with a gua sha for clearing those lymph nodes y'all. Plus organic and sustainably sourced???

Baseball is back and so is pretending you're eating chewing tobacco! Nice! If 7 year old me knew a girl that looked like me donned the packaging now she'd freak tf out.

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This is simply a bench scraper, for shovelling your mirepoix into an awaiting pot, for cutting your dough just so. I'm already narrating a cooking show in my head when I make dinner so why not get the accessories to make me *feel* like a professional?

I'm a big fan of Nadia's already after her truly unreal job getting all the Raptors in her handmade Toronto BLM masks. These are equally amazing.

Remember THESE? With Sandy Lion out of business, I'm still clinging to these very 90s sticker books that I used to get in lootbags. They haven't changed a bit. Now I put them in envelopes whenever I give someone a card as a lil extra special momento. 100% "oh my gooooshhh" success rate.

Ya, ya ~money can't buy happiness~ but the joy this fancy towel has brought me hanging in my bathroom is actually immense. I find my head tilted while looking at it. Felt like a kid seeing it in the window, saving up for it, then taking it home :')

Some chapters were hard to put down, others, hard to read. That dichotomy is what makes this book so ingenious. Seeped in history, told through rich stories, 'WHALREP' is both a stand-up show and a history lesson, told by the purveyors of Indigenous comedy.

This wallet is one of the best purchases I've ever made. Hugely affordable, practical, handmade, vegan, cute as all hell... come onnn. She fits all my cards perfectly, nice and compactly on my lil keychain. Clarice who makes them is a total angel, and clearly a genius.

Admittedly, I don't own this, but I *did* get really jealous when my friend Zoe unwrapped it on her birthday. Made by the Embera (a Colombian Indigenous group), Santa Isla makes pieces that provide a source of income and opportunity for their artists. Hell ya!

I'm breaking the rules on this one as this is a full on American business, but Urban Native Era are such an amazing company (read their About page, or else!) This hat provides a great, healthy, well needed reminder.

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