Sarah Davis Kicks Off the Season at the Nutcracker Market

The Houston Chronicle - Faves - By: Tammy Portnoy

October 10, 2010

WHO: Sarah Davis, Dulles High School grad and state representative candidate (District 134).

 

WHAT SHE LOVES: The Nutcracker Market, which will be held Nov. 11-14 at Reliant Center and benefits the Houston Ballet.

 

WHY SHE LOVES IT: Davis and her mother kick off the holiday season every year with a trip to the Nutcracker Market.  “I always start to feel the holiday spirit when we go to the Nutcracker Market,” said Davis, who scours the market looking for what she calls the “gift of the year” – the perfect gift for everyone.  “It is really just the two of us, a day that we take to spend together.  We get up, have breakfast, head to the market and then spend a few hours looking at our purchases and sorting it all out.”

 

HER TIP: Take advantage of checking your shopping bags for a nominal fee.  When you are finished shopping, you can pull around back and retrieve your checked items.  “It makes shopping in bulk very convenient – and me and my mom very happy.”

 

HER FAVORITE FIND: Little antique tiles with pictures of the Alamo, perfect as accents on necklaces.  Also, don’t leave without a few bags of candied, spicy or chocolate pecans, which makes excellent gifts and look great in a bowl.

 

FAVORITE MEMORY: Trying to get to the car loaded down with purchases in the days before the market checked bags.  “We were downtown and could barely walk to the car, so we flagged a pedi-cab.  We had so much that we didn’t really fit, and it turned out that he didn’t have it in him to take us the whole way.  So we gave him a nice tip, walked the rest of the way and laughed for the next 10 minutes.”

 

WHY GO: It is truly unique to Houston.  There’s “literally every category of shopping under one roof."