PICKLEBOOTS: I’m not sure if PS shoppers are aware of this newish shop on Lincoln Place between 7th and 8th Avenues. The mainstay of the shop is handmade bedding, pillows and comforters for children’s room with a slightly vintage feeling.

This Christmas, Pickleboot’s owner, Melanie, has added interesting handmade gifts, as well as newly manufactured vintage toys from Schilling.

Melanie makes beautiful fabric bags to hold toys for toddlers like tool kits and other things. Definitely unusual and nice.

One of her best sellers is the Brooklyn Pillow, which is in the picture above. The front is a picture of a guitar with the words BROOKLYN underneath. The other side is fun guitar fabric. The price is $55.

Pickleboots is located at 178A Lincoln Place in Park Slope. 718-622-1200

TODAY’S GIFT OF THE DAY:
A troll jack-in-the-box ($21); Brooklyn pillow $(55); tool kit for toddlers in pretty fabric bag ($18).

Check out the rest of OTBKB’S HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE, which includes every store on Fifth and Seventh Avenues.

The OTBKB Holiday Gift Guide is a work in progress. But you can check it out as I go.

Yesterday I started on the 2007 Holiday Gift Guide and I did just about all the stores on Fifth Avenue from Degraw to Fourth Street, as well Knit Therapy, Orange Blossom, and Mandala on Lincoln Place east of Seventh Avenue.

So take a look at the gift guide. There’s still a lot missing. But I will be filling in as I get around town over the next few days. Check it out.

The photo shown is a new store on Fifth Avenue called Brooklyn Mercantile, which may be a one-stop-shopping paradise for Hanukah/Christmas gifts. They’ve got a variety of interesting items to choose from including, journals, runners for festive tables, candles, glassware, plates, vases, artwork, soaps, and more. Very unusual selection.

Remember OTBKB’s BROOKLYN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE? Well OTBKB is at it again.

Yesterday Diaper Diva, design professional extraordinaire, and I hit Fifth Avenue and checked out some shops. She has a great eye and the ability to zoom in on the perfect item in any store. Looks like she’ll be helping me out this year.

Diaper Diva showed me the amazing hardware store on Fifth Avenue across from Key Food. They have these bizarre plaster owls in the window. DD says that the store is filled with treasures. She’s found never unwrapped items from the 1970’s in there. It’s amazing. So that’s one of our new stores this year.

But there are many more new Fifth Avenue shops, which will be included as well. The aim: to pick out 1-3 gift items from every store on Seventh and Fifth Avenues.

We’ll have it all on the OTBKB gift guide when it rolls out sometime around Thanksgiving. If you’ve been to a shop and see something fabu please let me know.