LOCAL: Best Gift Ideas for Local Shopping on the Kitsap Peninsula | Winter
The only local gift guide you’ll need on the Kitsap peninsula.
a local shopping guide celebrating our favorite small businesses for winter birthdays, celebrations, and just-because gifts from gig harbor to Kingston. Gifts for men, women and kids!
Winter ~ the world begins to slow…Nature herself seems to slumber and the moonlight hours step into the spotlight. We take extra time to focus, realign, prepare, and do ‘less’. However, celebrations continue to mark a steady beat on the calendar and gift-giving is an ever-present thought in our minds. All year long our local, small business community is here to help us give the most thoughtful and delightful gifts. Here are 17 of our favorite gift ideas you can shop for locally in Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, Bremerton, Silverdale, Poulsbo, Bainbridge Island & Kingston, and would be perfect for anyone born of this dark, wet, season of rest.
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Quality Skincare • Truelux Candles • Create Art • Winter Gear • Immunity Boost • Sweater Weather • Retreat Drinks • Bold Accessories • Books + Blankets • For the Kids • Something Vintage • Plants • Character Country • Spiva Cooking • Pickleball? • Home Decor • For the Dudes
quality skincare
Quality products nourish our souls as well as our bodies and during the colder months our skin needs an extra helping of nourishment. Shops like FROG Soap use sustainable ingredients locally harvested on the Kitsap Peninsula - like dandelions, charcoal, lavender, and even local sand (check out their PNW Collection)!
FROG Soap | Bremerton
Flora Goods | Bainbridge
Rain City Soap | Port Orchard
truelux candles
This untraditional candle also doubles as a silky smooth lotion! Made with oils (not wax) that melt as the candle burns, simply dip your fingers right in, apply to your skin, and carry the candle scent with you everywhere you go.
Truelux Candles are available around the Kitsap Peninsula at these locations: Treasures 4 Humanity, Crimson Cove, Elandan Gardens, and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art or online via the Truelux website.
create art
Drop into one of the many hands-on studios to create a unique gift for a loved one. Or make the getting-together part of your gift and take your loved one to the studio. Here are a few of the many creative mediums on the Kitsap Peninsula to choose from.
Eastern Wind Glass | Bremerton
AR Workshop | Gig Harbor
Bainbridge ‘BARN’ | Bainbridge
Java & Clay | Gig Harbor
Dream Maker Creative | Bremerton
Dancing Brush Studio | Poulsbo
Rimbert Studio | Bremerton
Black Barn Fine Art Studio | Kingston
winter gear
A wardrobe compatible with cold and wet weather options is basically the ‘closet-staple’ of the PNW. Treat your loved ones to some new winter gear and then head outside on an adventure!
Indigo Plum | Poulsbo
Wildernest | Bainbridge
immunity boost
With the winter months bringing an extra slew of coughs, colds, and influenza, give your loved ones the gift of immunity. This is the perfect acceptable moment to throw a few extras into your cart for yourself!
Syllings Elderberry | Port Orchard
Willowtree Market | Bainbridge
Iggy’s Alive & Cultured | Kingston
Bainbridge Apothecary | Bainbridge
sweater weather
Our winter babies are sure to be a fan of stylish sweaters and there are tons of locally owned boutiques to help you choose the perfect one.
Treasures 4 Humanity | Gig Harbor
Gigi’s Emporium | Port Orchard
Purpose Boutique | Silverdale
Flicka Shop | Poulsbo
Indigo Plum | Poulsbo
Wild Society | Poulsbo
Plum | Bainbridge
Petit & Olson | Bainbridge
retreat drinks
The vision, ideation, design, and development of healthy hot chocolate all happened locally when a Gig Harbor mom decided her family needed a better option. Made with an impressive list of clean ingredients like low glycemic dehydrated maple, organic coconut cream, and fair trade cacao, we can personally attest this is a tasty - vegan! - treat sans headaches or sugar crashes!
bold accessories
There’s never a wrong season to gift beautiful accessories and if it’s made locally by a stay at home mom or a mom who’s crushing a full-time job - plus a side hustle?? Even better!
Kennedy Clay Company | Online
Western Dawn Art | Online
Life in Mauve | Bremerton
books + Blankets
Who doesn’t love to curl up in front of the fire with a velvety blanket and a good book? Winter provides the perfect backdrop to accomplish more reading and resting so gift your favorite bookworm something new to sink their teeth into!
Eagle Harbor Books | Bainbridge
Liberty Bay Books | Poulsbo
Away with Words | Poulsbo
Ballast Books | Bremerton
Salmonberry Books | Port Orchard
Find the Path Books | Port Orchard
Invitation Books | Gig Harbor
for the kids
Enrich their indoor imagination with gifts like Legos or Calico Critters. With several Toy Shops on the Kitsap Peninsula to help you choose a fantastic age-appropriate gift even their parents will want to jump in and play along.
Brick Ally | Port Orchard
Danas Showhouse | Bainbridge
Calico Toy Shoppe | Bainbridge
Curious Child | Poulsbo
something vintage
The gift of adventuring through treasures of old to find their own antique piece is only made better when it’s accompanied by a hot coffee and time spent with YOU!
Josephine’s Mercantile | Port Orchard
The Dusty Pug | Bremerton
Manette Garage | Bremerton
Silverdale Antiques | Silverdale
Red Plantation | Poulsbo
Abigail’s Artful Abode | Poulsbo
Zutto’s Vintage | Bainbridge
plants
Green things always have a way of cheering us up even on the gray-est of days. The Kitsap Peninsula hosts a mecca of nurseries to get lost in. This is another easy gift that comes with the opportunity to scoop up your loved one, grab a latte, head out on a plant finding mission, and bonus - 1:1 time.
Send Nodes | Bremerton
The Flower Box | Kingston
Bremerton Nursery | Bremerton
The Brothers Greenhouse | Port Orchard
Valley Nursery | Poulsbo
warm cocktails
Shop your resident mixologist a grab bag of ingredients to inspire a new creation or create a warm winter cocktail recipe that represents their personality. Conservatory Coastal on Bainbridge or Revival in Port Orchard are a few of our go-to’s for mixers and glassware.
Heritage Distilling | Gig Harbor
Bainbridge Distillers | Bainbridge
Highside Distilling | Bainbridge
Black Ring Spirits | Port Orchard
character country
Quality, waterproof leather is never a bad idea. Local leather maker out of Bremerton, Noah Irish creates leather gifts the guys will get excited about, beautiful items for the ladies, and even a few things for your pets!
spiva spices
Winter is the perfect time of year to throw a roast in the crockpot! Sam Spiva, Chef extraordinaire and owner of Spiva Cooking, creates his own blends of rubs and spices locally in Bremerton. Meat lovers - or any food lover really - will rejoice when they bite into these professionally mixed blends.
Here’s another gift experience or birthday party idea: Sam teaches a variety of cooking classes throughout the year and there is a whole section of inspirational recipes on his website.
Pickleball?
Take a quick walk down Winslow Way on Bainbridge Island and you’ll see several shops helping you get decked out in Pickleball swag. Millstream even had an entire Christmas tree dedicated to the sport! A thoughtful winter gift idea, the gift of a new sport, and added bonus if it also comes with a friend to play with!
Millstream…
Island Life…
Basically any store on Bainbridge Island.
home decor
We love Marshalls and Home Goods just as much as the next person (just ask our husbands and watch their eyes start to twitch) but there is something special about finding home goods in a local boutique. Shops like Revival, in Port Orchard, stock their shelves with merchandise made by local makers and artists living on the Kitsap Peninsula. And because they do, they can tell you the story of the product, how it’s made, and the family your purchase supports, which adds a bit more magic to your gift-giving in our opinion. Revival also plays host to the ‘Local’ pop-up market every other weekend where you can meet several of these local makers in person.
White Barn | Belfair
The Garden Room | Gig Harbor
Details | Poulsbo
Revival | Port Orchard
for the dudes
This last list is all for our dudes. Collectively, the men of the Kitsap Peninsula tend to be an understated bunch. They roll up their sleeves, work hard, love their families, love exploring our great outdoors, and they don’t typically expect much hullaballoo when it comes to celebrations. So, here’s a list of local shops where you can find the perfect gift that treats them to a little extra on their special day.
Character Country | Online
Conservatory Coastal | Bainbridge
Indigo Plum | Poulsbo
Bigfoot’s House of Vinyl | Bremerton
Revival | Port Orchard
Spiva Cooking | Bremerton
Wildernest Outdoor | Bainbridge
Crows Curiosities | Port Orchard
get to know these local Kitsap makers
Sam Eitzen, the co-founder of SnapBar, is a truly inspiring story of grit and perseverance as he grew his company through the pandemic.