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Kandie Itisme Five Oaks Copper, Morton, fiveoakscopper.com.

Mandy Montgomery Mullen Mississippi Blues Box Builder Archie Storey’s handmade cigar box guitars and accessories, 228-229-6159, msbluesbox@gmail.com.

Donna Ladd SOME of my local favorites: Rainbow Fair Trade (and Rainbow Whole Foods beauty products and stocking stuffers), Circa, Brent’s Drugs (fabulous fun staff gifts), Orange Peel, Green Room, NUTS, Organizers/Inside-Out (in Highland Village), Mississippi Museum of Art gift store. Josh Hailey’s daddy’s drugstore, Beemon, down from McDade’s in Maywood Mart (across from McAllister’s) has wonderful stocking stuffers, including gifts from a lot of regional sports teams. Ace Hardware next door has a fun gift section.

Amanda Holder Bettie Jenn Graves’s SHESABETTIE at www.etsy.com/shop/shesabettie.

Hollie Penuel b. fine art jewelry in Ridgeland! They have great handcrafted jewelry, plus apparel, accessories, home decor and more. But the coolest thing about b. fine art is that they can take your old jewelry and make it into something new.

Jane Sanders Waugh Elizabeth Robinson’s Bluescandy & Bebe Wolfe of Wolfe Studios.

Tommy Greer The Chimneyville Crafts Festival (Nov. 31-Dec. 2, mscrafts.org)

Tate K Nations Skip Best Buy, go to Cowboy Maloney’s!

Scott Essex Pearl River Glass. Andy Young Christmas ornaments. Any Chane tee.

Kathy Clem NUTS of course! Small business shopping combined with recycling and supporting a great charity all in the same purchase.

Chris Myers Interiors Market or the Mississippi Craftsman’s Guild.

Amanda Joullian Ragland The Olive Branch, Clinton.

Ariss King Lipstick Lounge for accessories!

Add yours at jfp.ms/localgifts and use #shoplocaljxn on Twitter to share ideas. Shop local!

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.