Guest Post: {Shop Highlight}: noon stationary, San Diego – Lovely handmade jewelry, hair candy and letterpress stationary

August 11, 2010

Pink Argyle is one of my first and dearest blogger buddies.  She is the sweetest lady and also has great style, a love for cupcakes, and an eye for lovely finds (check out her invitations and the mini bamboo steamers  and other details from her Chinese banquet – so cute!)  I’m glad to have her here and happy to meet her in September!

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Hello Chic n’ Cheap readers! I’m so pleased to be guest blogging here, as Chic n’ Cheaphas been a great blog buddy and avid supporter of my blog, Pink Argyle. I hope you enjoy my guest post about a local favorite shop of mine, noon designs, where I purchased all of my bridesmaids’ gifts.


[The interior of noon designs.] 
noon designs is located in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California. If you look close enough, you can see that the entire wall is covered in unfinished cootie-catchers. It’s amazing in person!]
I married my partner in crime of 8 years this summer on July 3rd in a colorful Southern California vineyard wedding. Planning my wedding was at times stressful, but quite honestly one of the happiest times of my life because of the constant influx of creative energy from myself, my blogger buddies, and from the talented vendors and artisans I met along my journey.
One of my favorite finds was noon designs, a local shop in San Diego that sells handmade jewelry and letterpress stationery, run by two talented artists: Nora Farrell (the jewelry designer) and Maie Liis Webb (the graphic designer).
[Maie was on site when I was shopping, and gladly showed me her letterpress printer, which is right in the shop next to the cash register!]

[She designs everything from wedding stationary to business cards.  You can view more of her work here.]

I picked up a lot of fun goodies for my bridesmaids and our friends who were making toasts at the wedding, including pearl earrings, pink swarovski crystal earrings, and handmade fragrant soapsThe ladies at noon designs packaged them up in cute tissue paper and brown twine, and labeled the copious pairs of earrings I bought so I would know which package was which! It was hard to choose what to buy, because the shop is chock full of cute, affordable (earrings were an average of $32,) stuff from independent artists in San Diego.

[They had a plethora of colors and pieces to pick. All jewelry from noon designs]
[These smell sooo good! Soap from naiad soap arts]

Super cute hair candy, hair pins from Acute Designs]

[All photos by Mo of Pink Argyle]

[A note about pricing: prices you see in these photos may be different if purchased in the online store, because noon designs gives a small discount in its San Diego shop.]

I was really happy to have found this local gem and give my bridesmaids and friends something special they could wear at the wedding and in the future.

 

What’s your favorite shop to purchase gifts?
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  • nookie August 11, 2010 at 12:24

    I think Parfois because I usually gift accessories, and they know their way with those;;)

  • PartyPlannerGal August 11, 2010 at 13:35

    Everything in this shop is beautiful! I will definitely have to stop in there the next time we are in San Diego (we go often because my fiance lived there for 10 years before moving to San Francisco). Those hair pins are adorable!

  • Pop Champagne August 11, 2010 at 14:19

    cool rooms! The wallpapers are super neat. Those flower pins are also so pretty!

  • Emilie August 11, 2010 at 14:49

    Lovely pics!

  • very married August 11, 2010 at 14:56

    those walls are SO cool! maybe if i own a cabin in the woods, i’ll decorate like that!

  • Jaime @ La vie...J'aime August 11, 2010 at 15:36

    Oh lots to love here…nice post! Checking out the earrings.

  • Krysten @ After 'I Do' August 11, 2010 at 16:05

    Oh my gosh, I don’t even know where to start. So many pretty things.

  • honey my heart August 11, 2010 at 16:56

    what a beautiful store with darling creations! i also love handmade jewelry, hair candy and all kinds of stationery 🙂

  • Kristin August 11, 2010 at 18:51

    What an absolutely darling shop!

  • * Reena Rai * August 11, 2010 at 19:41

    Noon is such a gorgeous shop!

  • The Professional Bridesmaid August 11, 2010 at 20:26

    I love it when my fave blogger buddies collaborate! I’m drooling….LOVE the hair pins. I love how the store is set up…so creative, warm and inviting!

  • LyddieGal August 12, 2010 at 03:09

    What a cool store! I hope I get to visit it someday, meanwhile, I will just lust after that wall of earrings.

    Chic on the Cheap

  • theanaizview.com August 12, 2010 at 03:22

    Everything looks great, I will definitely try to find that shop next time I’m in town 🙂

  • this free bird August 12, 2010 at 04:16

    I think I’d love to visit this shop. It’s so nice to find individual things that aren’t mass produced – and it’s always nice to feel like you are just a step away from the designer/creator.

    Thanks for sharing! I live in Southern Cal so might have to check this out. Bookmark!

    xoxo,
    Carrie

  • Midtown Girl August 12, 2010 at 05:03

    I love these interior pics! Handmade soaps are a wonderful indulgence 😉

  • legallymarried August 12, 2010 at 13:53

    I love the hair pins! So fun! I used to live in Waco and there was a fun, fabulous store there called Spice (http://www.spicewaco.com/) – impossible to walk in and not come out with something adorable.

  • MizzJ August 13, 2010 at 05:24

    What a cool looking shop!

  • Mo August 14, 2010 at 18:48

    Glad everyone loved the shop tour, it was fun exploring every nook and cranny of the place while writing this post. Yay for noon designs and all indie artists!

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