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The Meanings of Things

Walking into this nearly three-year-old lifestyle boutique makes you want to be the sort of person who uses Italian brass paper clips, who tucks kitchen sponges into hand-painted stoneware dishes, who gives friends special gifts like candles that look exactly like real lemons and fancy Umé Studio soap, who lights Wild Yuzu incense with matches from a fancy pewter matchbox, who meditates with a jade eye mask, and who jots things down in tiny handmade notebooks with deckle edges. And who knows? Maybe you can.

19 North Main Street, New Hope, PA 18938; themeaningsofthings.com