Doing online Christmas shopping can seem so simple. Just push a couple of buttons on your laptop or smartphone, and virtually any item in the world will arrive on your doorstep. However, you’re missing a lot if you don’t shop locally, say Yakima merchants.
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Candles and cowl neck sweaters, flowers, farm-themed baby onesies, knicks and knacks and a shelf to put them on. Stir in a chance to grab a latte while browsing and it’s one stop holiday shopping at a couple of local home décor shops.
As the holiday shopping season rapidly approaches, many of us begin perusing advertisements for sales on those extra special gifts. Bargain shopping isn’t a new concept. A hundred and twenty years ago, North Yakima (now Yakima) citizens often read through advertisements in search of holiday sales.
Candles and cowl neck sweaters, flowers, farm-themed baby onesies, knicks and knacks and a shelf to put them on. Stir in a chance to grab a latte while browsing and it’s one stop holiday shopping at a couple of local home décor shops.
Longtime educator, mother and homemaker, Liesl Mefford, 54, decided she needed something in her life just for her. After teaching for over 30 years and her teenage sons nearly grown and busy with their own lives, Mefford turned to baking, something she’s always loved to do.
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Yakima Magazine in July 2021.
Whether its a hostess gift or white elephant gift exchange or a neighbor brings over a holiday gift and you are left scrambling trying to think of what to offer in return; I’ve got just the idea.
There’s nothing “butter” than giving a gift for the holidays – a gift from your heart, especially when you learn how simple it is to make butter. It is seriously so easy to make!
Inspired from Erin French’s cookbook, The Lost Kitchen, this peach and ginger cobbler is a favorite.
Hart Ranch near Selah and Kinship Trail Rides in Ellensburg can help beginners who want to try out horseback riding.
The Rattlesnake Hills Wine Trail — "the Green Trail" — winds its way through more than a dozen wineries in the Lower Valley's spectacular rolling hills.
EXPERIENCE: Mighty Tieton Artisan group in Tieton
After an exhausting and enormous amount of travel — 18 hours by plane and seven by car — we arrived on the other side of the globe from Yakima in Surat, India, a town of 8 million people that you probably have never heard of.
A year into my infancy in the Pacific Northwest, I am still discovering many places in Washington and beyond that take my breath away, Yakima Herald-Republic
We are jet lagged and so everything carries a dream-like quality to it. The lush green countryside of Tuscany unfolds outside our car window on our first full day in Italy. Tuscany is breathtakingly beautiful and I’m happy that I agreed to spend our first full day here in the care of a priva…
Doing online Christmas shopping can seem so simple. Just push a couple of buttons on your laptop or smartphone, and virtually any item in the world will arrive on your doorstep. However, you’re missing a lot if you don’t shop locally, say Yakima merchants.
The community of Tieton will once again come together for this year's Día de los Muertos celebration at The Mighty Tieton Warehouse.
In 2008 UNESCO added the “indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead” known as Día de Los Muertos to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the first cultural practice from Mexico so recognized.