Christmas Gift Guide: Great Stuff From Cool Women

To help you with your holiday shopping, we palled up with 6 of our Canadian entrepreneur friends. Each of us picked a couple items that are guaranteed to make a mama smile and solve your holiday shopping dilemma.

All of these gift ideas are available online and are from women-owned Canadian small businesses. Yup, that includes our store, too!

In alphabetical order, shipping to you from coast to coast, here is our Christmas Gift Guide...

Searching for the perfect gift?

The stars aligned and helped us map out the best gifts for the entire year, no matter what the occasion is.

Let us help guide you towards the perfect gift!

All of these gift ideas are available online and are from women-owned Canadian businesses. Yup, that includes Sparkplug, of course!

Our limited edition seasonal coffees celebrate our love for unique coffees, and road trips!

Inspired by quirky-cool attractions found across Canada, read on to learn more about these coffees - and the slices of Canadiana that inspire them!

We’ve been everywhere man…

We know you love taking your tastebuds around the world. Here’s a recap of some of the places our seasonal coffees have taken us…

You are given a bag of coffee and it’s kind of puffed up. Or you find a bag of beans in the back of the cupboard. How old are they? Are they still any good?

Sparkplug here to help you figure out if it’s fresh or not even before you taste it.

Read on to find out how to tell if your coffee is FRESH… or NOT.

Making espresso with an espresso machine can be a bit more fiddly than making drip coffee or brewing with a moka pot.

Guest blogger, Oli, takes us through how to use a basic portafilter-driven espresso machine in a way that gives you the best chance of achieving optimal extraction when you brew. Follow his advice to avoid sour, under-extracted espresso. Instead, you’ll be pulling great shots every time!