I love this place. So many beautiful, unique gift items. I love the jewelry, the alpaca socks, the…read morecandles. And best of all, everything sold here furthers conscious commerce!

This is a special place! Beautiful! Large pop up shop with food, crafts, gifts, speciality items…read morefrom around the world. Everything is fair trade and/or local social enterprise. The staff were knowledgeable about everything -- even the stories behind the products. Easy consolidated check out. Recommended.

I purchased a lotion bar from a local craft fair not too long ago. I absolutely love this lotion! I…read moregot the scent in plumeria, which is hard to find these days. Trying to pick out which scent I wanted was hard too, as they all smelled wonderful. The lotion works great and the scent lingers. I love layering it with my plumeria perfume oil. I hope to run into this vender again. Although they specialize in candles, I really dig my lotion bar. Thank you!

A smaller Squishable store, but still a fun stop while you're in the Water Tower Place. There…read moreusually is a buy one get one half off deal when you go into a Squishable brick and mortar store, which is better than buying an item online. A bonus when we went in is that they had a $5 bin which had some retired squishables, beach towels, and Doctor Plague backpacks (this would've been a good buy if my kids were younger)! We ended up buying one of the stuffies from the deal tin this round... usually we end up buying something bigger. The person at the register was very nice and friendly. Store was in order and easy enough to find items that you would see on the website. If you are vertically challenged, bring a tall friend as you will need assistance to get to things on higher shelves.

I really enjoyed Squishable and didn't realize it was just a pop up shop from the online retailers…read more The stuffies were honestly the cutest stuffies I'd ever seen. It was comparable to the kawaii stores you see photos of from Japan. I'd never seen a bacon stuffie or an avocado one either. They had so many different food options, color options and even cute dogs in little outfits that look like other animals. I ended up getting a dog in a froggy costume because I just can't say no to a frog. The only draw back is they are on the pricey side. They are worth it in my opinion but considering just one medium sized squishable was $30, it is easy to rack up a bill if you need multiple items. If you love stuffed toys, check out their website because they have almost anything you can imagine. It's a truly adorable store.

Found this little shop walking down Damen today and am so excited about the things I found! It is a…read morecute little pop up featuring local artists/businesses (most of whom are women) with jewelry, plants, and home decor. It's the perfect place to stop for a gift for someone (I got my sister a housewarming gift!) or treat yourself. The owner (Anna) was super friendly and sweet, and introduced me to their featured artist of the day who was selling super cute acrylic products. I got a couple pairs of earrings! I'll definitely be back and would reccomend anyone in the area to stop by and check it out!

Once again Lollapalooza opens a pop-up shop to sell its wares outside of the Festival. It's a great…read moreidea, and gives them more space and leeway to sell their tees and posters, but other pop-up shop exclusives like Skateboards and a bike! One of my favorite things at the shop is the locally made Souldier guitar straps, made right here in the Windy City. Get in here while you can, the shop is gone when the last band says, "Thank you, Chicago, goodnight!"

When I called to make my appointment, I specifically asked the owner to give me someone who knows…read morehow to do platinum(not everyone can)...she gave me her daughter. They were very nice people, but I've gotten better, more attractive color from a $10 box at Walgreens. And, heck, everybody makes mistakes, but even when I said it was too dark, daughter assured me that it will dry MUCH lighter. It didn't. Then the mother did that salon thing where other stylist tell you how good it looks, hoping you believe them instead of your own eyes. I went to my car and cried. I went home and tried to fix it. No luck. In fact the picture I have posted of the "after salon look" is brighter in the picture then it looks in person. In person it looks like a dull grey/green. The color I walked in with was closer to the color I wanted then what I walked out with and I was $125.00 poorer. Once again, very nice people but they knew it was a bad color, they should have just said sorry and fixed it. But instead, to add insult to injury, they tried to schmooze me into believing muddy grey/green is attractive. I will never go there again. Money wasted!

Horrible. Messed up my color and pretended it looked nice. The owner's daughter is NOT good at…read moreblonde. Fine. But then give me someone who is. Mother is more worried about putting money in her daughter's pocket than what you're going to have to walk around looking like. They also charge Chicago Salon prices for supercut service.