
Friday and Saturday (21, 22 May) Unique Motif is celebrating Nosey Parker’s Shop Outside the Box event. The purpose of the event is to celebrate local merchants – to bring the consumer out of the big box store mentality and spend a day shopping at mom-and-pop stores in the Coeur d’Alene – Hayden area. Handbags [...]

This Saturday only (20 March) – 40% off all Handbags, Wallets, Shawls, Scarves and Beaded Blouses! Don’t forget, all silk flowers are only 50 cents per bunch. These are high quality and normally $1.75 each. Also all dried floral, normally $2.99 and up are only 99 cents! When they are gone, they’re gone – we [...]

MERRY CHRISTMAS – from Dean and Robin and Unique Motif ! We wish you and your family a very merry Christmas celebration and a Happy New Year. We wish for you, in 2010, the greatest prosperity and blessings. PROSPERITY does not consist in the quantity or substance of the things we possess, or how much [...]

This is a test run for a radio ad. This is modified from the previous ad, in which, I tried to sound like a hawker – but it was grating on my nerves and thought it might on others. So this one is toned down. I hope it is not too bland. Please tell me [...]

Take a video tour of Unique Motif. You will see all the wonderful new products for your home and they make great gifts. Local carvings and jewelry boxes and boat oars by local craftsmen. You will enjoy the high quality, solid mahogany furniture line – and the prices are lower than the larger furniture stores. [...]

This week the new furniture line from International Ideas arrived. This is quality furniture made from kiln-dried mahoghany hardwoods. Every piece is hardwood lumber throughout – there are no softwood, no fillers, no bi-products and no particle boards. All drawer sides are dovetail joined. This is the kind of quality furniture that you pass on [...]

When I talk on the street about supporting local merchants, a lot of people respond with references to local services. It struck me, we have this idea of local merchants being services, salons and things of this nature. When we think of retail stores, we think of Big Box and Warehouse Wonders. Small businesses and [...]
The Sparrow At Starbucks
It was chilly in Manhattan but warm inside the Starbucks shop on 51st Street and Broadway, just a skip up from Times Square. Early November weather in New York City holds only the slightest hint of the bitter chill of late December and January, but it’s enough to send the masses crowding indoors to vie [...]