NORTH AUGUSTA – For those who are looking for gift baskets, floral arrangements, and items for Masters Week or for unique items for Easter baskets or Easter arrangements, family-friendly Sweet Fig Market and Gifts on 512 West Ave. may fit the bill.
Sweet Fig Market and Gifts, with co-owners Jesse and Jenny Elliott, has a variety of gifts and food and is truly a family affair. They even have their children involved in some of the decision processes for choosing items for the store.
“We sometimes put in what our kids like. If we see stuff they like, we brainstorm what to put in based on their likes,” Jesse Elliott said.
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Candies, snacks, toys and books are often gifts, which children like, but the store also has gifts for all ages. Though not exclusively a candy shop, toy store or children’s bookstore, Sweet Fig Market and Gifts has items which can be found in each. It is a one stop for kid-friendly fare.
It also has items one might associate in a gift shop for all ages of tourists and locals and even a few some might think of as being in a florist’s shop. Eclecticism in the eats and tchotchke choosiness abound there. Floral variety does as well.
“We have Candy Club gummies and other candies, for example,” Jesse Elliott said.
They also have Ty plush and Ty beanie-babies which children, teens and adults collect.They have carried Devon’s Mackinac Island Fudge Co., fudge of miscellaneous types, and Dave’s Sweet Tooth candies near the register area in the past. Food items vary depending on vendor availability and seasons.
“We also have boutique-style chips and awesome Pop Daddy flavored popcorn,” Jesse Elliott said.
They have other flavored snacks as well.
“We gave out free pickle pretzel samples on Black Friday (last year), and we were sold out of all our bags of that type by lunchtime. We had to reorder the pickle pretzels,” Jesse Elliott said.
For the unusual palates, they’ve also had jalapeno and bacon flavored cotton candy They also have jars of little cookies for birthdays and sell latex balloons with characters on them and mylar balloons with a helium tank on site.
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In one of the four rooms of the converted house where Sweet Fig Market and Gifts is located, also has glass bottle Coca-Colas and Sprites (as well as the usual ones in plastic bottles). In one of the main rooms, they have jams, local honey as well as charcuterie boards to place dried meats and cheeses on — meats and cheeses which they also carry.
Within the past months, they have had fresh cut flowers there, potpourri, candles and sachets. Seasonally, when a customer walks in on the wood floors, they are greeted with the sight of eucalyptus, button mums, dianthus balls, carnations, myrtles, cedar, baby’s breath and roses for sale in containers. In the entranceway, Sweet Fig Market and Gifts guests’ nostrils fill with the scent of eucalyptus and a slight floral aroma, and this harkens back to the aroma of a gift shop where co-owner Jenny Elliott once worked.
They do custom flower arranging and did have a couple of arrangements with enlarged, decorative golf-ball bases for sale for the Masters on a first-come, first-serve basis according to their Facebook page.
Also, for those visitors who want South Carolina and Georgia items, the store does not disappoint. Jesse said, “We also have local items with South Carolina, North Augusta and Augusta written on them with some landmarks.”
They also have a selection of novelty and religious signs.
They carry children’s religious books as well as other age-appropriate books for children. Recently, on their Facebook page, they noted that they have some cookbooks for young, budding chefs.
They even have a small section with gifts for pets and so much more.
For more information, see their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Sweetfigmarket
Ron Baxley Jr. is a correspondent for The Augusta Press.
