Here’s another thought...

Holly Sears painting

Holly Sears tile

Don’t shop AT ALL this weekend.

Take the entire four day holiday (if you’re lucky enough to be off work all four days, that is) and spend it with your loved ones. Take a hike with the kids, go to a museum, sprawl on the floor drawing airplanes, cats and flowers with your nieces and nephews, visit with your father and make him laugh. On your own for the weekend? Enjoy the blissful solitude. Go for a stroll along the beach, ice skate, chain-read Ransom Riggs’ trilogy, take yourself to the movies.
On my movie list?
Trumbo
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Meet Your Makers
Spectre

Taylor Custom Cuttlefish

 Shopping for art/craft? (and, really you should.) None of the local—Boston/Rhode Island area—open studio events happen until the first weekend in December anyway.

The Foundry Show in Pawtucket opens on December 3rd.
The Pawtucket Armory | Center for the Arts
172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860
Open on the weekends, beginning December 3rd and running through the 13th.

P. Kroner at Vernon Street

Mudflat Studio's sale starts on the 4rth and closes on the 13th. They're at:
81 Broadway, Somerville

The Feet of Clay Holiday sale opens on Thursday, December 10th. The website says they’re open daily through the 23rd though I don’t see biz hours listed. Call (617-731-3262) or email  (info@feetofclaypottery.com) before setting out. Parking in the Brookline Village area is hard to come by. There’s a Green Line T stop right across the street though. Just FYI, Holly Sears' amazing paintings, pots and witty scuptures can be found here.

Lori Watts bowl

The Vernon Street Studios open house is on the weekend of December 5th & 6th only from noon until 6pm. The website notes that there’s a parking lot. Good as I don’t believe there’s a T stop nearby.
6 & 20 Vernon Street • Somerville, MA 02145

You could shop online thereby not having to leave the cozy warmth and comfort of your home. AND, if you're in Buck Snort Arkansas (a REAL town!) or someplace similar—i.e., nowhere near anything but giant chain stores selling nothing but made-in-China gimcracks and gewgaws—you can shop for gorgeous artist made work on line!

Wendy Baker earrings—FYI, she does a lot more than skulls!

Wendy Baker’s transcendentlly beautiful necklaces, earrings, bracelets can be found on her Etsy page.  

Shadow May mug

Lori Watts of A Fine Mess Pottery—You can find her pots and soaps on line at her website (link above) or you can shop in person. These Maine and Rochetser, New York joints carry her fab work:
    Portland Pottery Cafe, Portland, Maine
    Quench, Belfast, Maine
    Gray Fox Gallery, Rockland, Maine
    Bayview Compay, Saco, Maine
    Handworks Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
    Monkitree, Gardiner, Maine
    Craft Company No. 6, Rochester, New York

Jill Burns’ elegant, illustrated plates, mugs and bowls can be found at Early Bird Designs site.

Chris Taylor of Taylor Custom says:

Each of our items is exhaustively researched for scientific accuracy, and painstakingly crafted for a maximum quotient of aesthetic and mechanical elegance, educational richness, and general nerdiness!

Many of the products in our unique and diverse line are are small scale replicas accurate enough to use for instruction and study... and very convenient to keep on-hand

Jesus, I want one of everything! He’s got frog drawer Pulls, tyrannosaurus skull clip keychains, an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lockets, a squid and whale ring, cuttlefish necklaces and more.

Atomic Earrings—LOVE these!

Shadow May is mostly, I think, a sculptor BUT I've scored some of my fav mugs from him.

So then, resist the gods of commerce, keep your wallet shut for the next four days, unwind and chill. K?