We love celebrating the hands, minds and hearts of this fine state.
Book of Pikes Peak paintings
Some folks say they could stare at Pikes Peak all day. Those folks should have this book on their coffee table, “Pikes Peak America’s Mountain: 100 Oil Paintings by Jack Denton.” The artist spent years capturing the storied mountain from its many angles, amid all seasons and elements. The pages make us fall in love all over again with the peak that inspired the song “America the Beautiful.”
gracepointpublishing.com
ColoradoSol Wooden Sunglasses
These sustainable shades are handmade using high-quality wood and UV 400 polarized lenses. The sunglasses are made from a variety of woods, including zebra wood, oak, ebony, bamboo and walnut. The pairs are also durable, with all glasses being double hinged.
coloradosol.com
Tourmaline jewelry
Celestial Crystal Jewelry sells handmade pieces of jewelry made with tourmaline. The gemstone tourmaline comes in a wide range of colors, from green to pinks and colors in-between. The shop also takes custom orders to make your gift extra special.
celestialcrystaljewelry.com
Hunter’s Hope Soaps and Candles
A gift with a beautiful story and wonderful scents. Hunter’s Hope was created to empower the developmentally disabled and indeed, Hunter is real, a “quiet, kind, funny” Colorado Springs native and high school graduate diagnosed on the autism spectrum. His mother and sister-in-law had made soaps and sugar scrubs for gifts, with Hunter choosing colors and scents, including his favorite Larkspur Lavender. Then they became a business team with shoppers loving the bath products and the special, even personalized, candles, now in shops all around the state and on Etsy.
huntershope soaps.com
Everwood COS Propagation Stations
A great gift for the plant lover in your life, the propagation station by Everwood COS is a wooden plant display laser-cut with unique designs and different shapes. Each station comes with a glass vial to get started propagating.
etsy.com/shop/EverwoodCOS
Blue Butterflies Taxidermy
At Novis Mortem Collective, they happily and creatively call themselves an “oddities gallery, a curiosity gallery.” Beautiful blue butterflies are the creations of owner and curator Beatrice “Bea” Solo as part of her entomological fine art with a focus on insect taxidermy. They also have insect jewelry and Christmas ornaments with butterfly wings. And the gallery has a famous fan after star Alice Cooper, his wife Sheryl, his tour manager and guitarist recently shopped there before a local concert.
novismortemcollective.com
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Love Her Leggings
Tara DeAngelis scoured Como Creek in the Rocky Mountains for aspen leaves this year. Not to press between the pages of a book, but as inspiration for her high-waisted, eco-friendly, compression yoga leggings. The gorgeous, buttery yellow and steel gray pants are printed using solvent-free sublimation inks and feature EcoPoly fiber, which requires much less energy and water use during manufacturing. And these pantaloons are made to order by hand. DeAngelis offers many stylish leggings in her Etsy shop.
Search for loveherleggings at etsy.com
Colorado Hammock
Chris Sawyer has always loved a good hammock. In 2014 he started his own company, specializing in classic hammocks, double hammocks and hammock chairs woven by hand on a loom and made with recycled materials. Want yours in a particular color? No problem. They can customize it. And they also sell $35 camping hammocks made from parachute ripstop fabric. Studies have shown the gentle rocking motion of a hammock makes people fall asleep faster and sleep more deeply.
Colorado connection: The company is based in Colorado Springs.
Contact: coloradohammock.com
Frontera Silver
After falling in love with the art of metalsmithing seven years ago in central Mexico, artist Chayse Romero opened a Durango storefront in 2021 to showcase her work. Her pieces all connect their wearer to a sacred place, plant or story in the form of custom wedding rings, bolo ties, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and cuffs. All the sterling silver is recycled and the stones are ethically sourced. Bolo ties are made with gorgeous stones, and her wedding rings feature such natural iconography as the San Juan Mountains, waves of water and starry nights.
Colorado connection: The store is in Durango.
Contact: fronterasilver.com
Marble Distilling
The white, gleaming stone from the Colorado town called Marble is responsible for the likes of the Lincoln Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Nowadays, it’s responsible for some award-winning vodka — a secret ingredient no other maker can claim. Marble Distilling’s stuff is born from Crystal River water filtered through that fine, Yule marble. Along with its flagship vodka, the distillery bottles tasty blends with coffee, ginger and lemon.
Colorado connection: You can find Marble Bars (yes, cut from that marble) in Carbondale and Aspen.
Contact: shopmarblespirits.com
Grass Sticks
We don’t think bamboo when we’re rushing down our favorite, powder-packed ski slopes. But maybe we should. Grass Sticks — bamboo is a grass, you know — claims the lightest, strongest, most durable poles your favorite ski bum never knew existed. It’s not just performance that makes the company proud; compared with carbon fiber and aluminum, bamboo is said to be more environmentally friendly.
Colorado connection: Former engineer and skiing fanatic Andrew Beckler started Grass Sticks out of a garage in Steamboat Springs, where the company continues to make the poles.
Contact: grasssticks.com
Wiggy’s sleeping bag
It’s called “the world’s best sleeping bag.” To thank for it is Lamilite, a special product Jerry Wigutow developed in 1968. Just how confident is he in the insulation? Wiggy’s offers a lifetime warranty on all sleeping bags, which have been used over the years by search and rescue crews and polar explorers. Call it the gift of incredible warmth.
Colorado connection: Wiggy’s sleeping bags have been manufactured in Grand Junction since the late 1980s.
Contact: wiggys.com
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