SEDONA, Ariz. - (Business Wire) Looking for holiday gifts with an artistic flair? Christmas shopping for friends and loved ones who appreciate unique and artistic gifts just got easier. Holiday shopping
online at Sedona, Arizona's Tlaquepaque Arts & Crafts Village, Arizona's most popular arts shopping destination, may be the next best thing to being there. And standard shipping is
free until December 31st, 2008 among participating stores and galleries.
The recently launched Tlaquepaque online mall, www.ShopTlaq.com, represents 21 art galleries and shops featuring hundreds of affordable gift ideas and art in every medium from Southwestern and contemporary fine art, clothing, pottery, decorative art, home furnishings, music and jewelry to spectacular blown glass creations. Most of these items are one-of-a-kind and made by artisans in the USA.
Close to 100 gift categories are listed on www.ShopTlaq.com. It's easy to navigate with a simple-to-purchase shopping cart process. With an emphasis on holiday gifts, categories range from belt buckles, bowls, ceramics, clocks, crystal, gourds, kaleidoscopes, lamps, music boxes, quilts, to stoneware, T-shirts, vases, wall art, and wood, and much more.
"For every purchase made online through www.ShopTlaq.com, Tlaquepaque will donate a Care Bear for the Marine Corp's Share-a-Bear, Toys for Tots campaign as an incentive and a way to give back to the community," reports Wendy Lippman, managing partner of Tlaquepaque.
ShopTlaq.com seems to be following a national trend in Christmas shopping this holiday season. According to a recent posting from E-Commerce News (10/22/08) predicting the 2008 gift buying season: "Increasingly, they (consumers) will turn to the Internet to get gift ideas, find bargains and locate online retailers that stock desired products. Shoppers will shift a larger share of their purchases from physical stores to the Web in an effort to save money on gasoline and avail themselves of retailers' free shipping offers."
Tlaquepaque, the Mexican-style village, known as the Art and Soul of Sedona, is home to over 45 shops, galleries, and restaurants and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. Online shoppers now have a user-friendly website with many beautifully handcrafted items to leisurely browse for their holiday gift purchases.
To visit the Tlaquepaque website, go to, www.tlaq.com or for more information on upcoming events call, 928-282-4838.
Tlaquepaque Arts & Crafts Village
Wendy Lippman, 928-282-4838
Managing Partner
wmid@commspeed.net
or
Thunder Mountain Design & Communications
Wib Middleton, 928-862-0600
