join us for our 4th annual holiday open house thursday night December 11th! drop in anytime from 5-8pm for refreshments, gorgeous (& free!) gift wrap, unsolicited advice and more! hope you can make it. and sorry about the short notice.

wow, so much for my frequent blog updates…i’ve been busy packaging up online orders and making space for new goodies in our little shop in the cove. there are lots of new treasures to be found!

our holiday nyokkis are happily growing their little grass heads which can’t help but make you smile. our store window is up but not quite finished yet…i’ll be posting pics very soon when the finishing touches are up!

looking for some inspiration for the holidays? check out our 2008 gift guides–an elf is just a click away!

i knew when i saw smencils last year i had to have them. just the name “smencil” made me smile. if you’re wondering what the heck a smencil is…they’re great smelling pencils made from tightly rolled up recycled newspapers (no trees are used to make these pencils). They come in lots of great scents and just in: the brand new holiday version…gingerbread man, sugar cookie, sugar plum, candy cane and cinnamon. it’s so sweet to see kids come in and pick out their favorites and at only $1.50 per pencil (or a 5-pack for $7.50) they can buy ‘em with their allowance and still leave with change in their pockets.

kids of all ages love ‘em so if you’re well out of grade four, don’t let that stop you! they’re the perfect stocking stuffer for the kid in all of us!

i’m away in oregon right now visiting family for a few days and my poor colleagues are being inundated with boxes. nancy just called to say that duke (our UPS guy) was coming in with 11 boxes. oh my. the good news is that there are lots of special treasures coming soon…the bad news is, it’s going to be pretty messy until we can get through them all. stay tuned!

someone tells you something and you forget? today a young couple who had lived in japan were in the shop and told me about a cool place to shop there but the name went in one ear and out the other (my excuse: it was the end of a busy sunday)…you might know that i have a love affair with japanese design and would love to go back to japan for some Room6 shopping. it’s so overwhelming (tokyo that is) so hearing where to go from the locals is always the best. if any of you have any tips for navigating the myriad of shopping districts in tokyo let me know. for now, i’ll continue to rely on my japanese connections in nyc and san fran who bring the goodies back from japan…it’d be fun to do it myself someday though…

speaking of japanese goodies…if you’re ever in gastown, you have to check out an adorable shop called occupied (on abbott) it’s chock full of japanese goodies that the owner (miss jenelle) finds in japan. neat-o.

this desk had just been unpacked from a crate of mid-century furniture from denmark (from a shop called full house consignment in vancouver) and i knew it had to come to live at Room6. the chair? that’s ikea…the bag? orla kiely! so many new stationery goodies too!