North STL News Christmas Gift Guide: Top Unusual Gifts

North STL News Christmas Gift Guide: Top Unusual Gifts
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Christmas shopping for your adult friends and family can be difficult.

To take the guesswork out of buying gifts this year, we at North STL News asked our friends at The Grommet for their latest and greatest practical gift suggestions for 2021.

These guides are geared towards specific interests. You’ll be able to find something for even the toughest person on your Christmas shopping list.

Top 5 Unusual Gifts

1) Blooming Tea Flowers – Set of Two
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Tea time can be a mesmerizing ritual with these blooming tea flowers. Each flower opens and grows as it steeps, releasing fragrance and flavor into your brew. These two sets of four beautifully-wrapped blooming teas come in a collectible glass tube with a wooden cork. Each flower is good for about three infusions. Serve in a glass tea pot to really enjoy the aesthetics.

2) Screenie Sand Art
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KB Sand Art: Screenie Sand Art – Charcoal

3) Rechargeable Waterproof Penlight 
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A powerful 360 lumen rechargeable, waterproof penlight with 4x zoom power and 3 light modes (high, low, strobe).

4) Hand-Blown Glass Decanter
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Prestige Decanters: Hand-Blown Glass Decanter – Atlas

5) Ceramic Figures
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Handmade ceramic figures by Artist, Jon Baring-Gould. Kiln glazed. Unique ringing rattle noise when shaken. Weight: ½ lb. Made in USA. Meditating One/Blue



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