It’s always gift time at Shelly’s Gifts & Christmas Boutique, although you will find Christmas temptation year-round in this beautiful store. With 60 known brands providing over 1200 different products, there are plenty of attractive, glitzy, and useful things to buy in the 4,700 sq. ft. store. Shelly’s Gifts & Christmas Boutique is centrally located on South Tamiami Trail in Sarasota in a high-visibility purple building, it’s even just minutes from the beaches too!
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Gifts for Every Occasion at Shelly’s Gifts & Christmas Boutique
First time visitors often drop in when they a need a special gift for a friend or family member, and will often go out carrying a gift for themselves too! It’s hard to resist the entertaining and party wares, cute elves, and glitzy baubles in this store where everything is handpicked with love. If you can’t decide between glazed china, sparkly jewelry, and tempting home accents, how about a Gift Card? It will give the lucky recipient an excuse to visit the store and struggle with the decision for themselves.
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
The shop has extravagant one-of-a-kind gifts as well as small and meaningful gifts such as foil-wrapped chocolate treats to give “just because…”
Every month Shelly’s Gifts & Christmas Boutique finds something new to celebrate. There are gifts, trinkets, and home decor for Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduations, summer vacations, Halloween, Hanukkah, bridal showers, hostess gifts, and more. It’s hard not to catch the infectious happiness that emanates from the face and attitude of owner Michelle Witzer. She clearly loves her work and does it so well. The boutique is always decked out in splendor with new things to keep shoppers coming back.
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
It’s Christmas Year Round at Shelly’s Gifts & Christmas Boutique
Christmas gets its own special spotlight at Shelly’s Gifts & Christmas Boutique every month of the year. Buying gifts and Christmas decorations one at a time each month is a great way to pile up a beautiful collection of Christmas items without it hitting your pocketbook too much all in one go. You also get the chance to handpick each item individually, making shopping for gifts the pleasure it should be rather than a hasty chore in December.
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Even snowbirds and summer visitors enjoy picking out Christmas tree decorations or holiday ornaments to take home, they may be an unlikely souvenir of any visit to sunny Sarasota, Florida but they will certainly put a smile on the face of everyone who sees it, and that’s what souvenirs are all about.
If you are a Sarasota resident, you have an added advantage. Keep your eyes open for some of the generous discounts during Tent Sales and other events. It’s the time to get your hands on even more beautiful gifts for less than half price in some cases.
If you’re shopping for a birthday, baby shower, or the perfect gift for your BFF, you’ll certainly have fun looking for it at Shelly’s Gifts & Christmas Boutique.
