Marketing the Days

A nostalgic calendar depicts a Seattle landmark

Norman Rockwell has nothing on Sarah Clementson, a Seattle-area artist whose depiction of the Pike Place Market—for the Market’s first-ever Advent calendar—is a homespun scene of cherub-faced buskers, cheery fishmongers and a horse-drawn carriage. The 24 “doors” on the freestanding calendar (Studio Solstone, 93 Pike St.; 206.624.9102; seattlewatercolors.com; $27.50) open to reveal Market businesses (rather than chocolate), with nary a tourist in sight (they must’ve been tipped off to our winter weather). The scene may alter reality—thankfully we aren’t asked to peer behind the short doors of the Market’s odorous public restrooms—but on dark December days, twinkling holiday lights do glisten beguilingly on wet pavement, beribboned cedar swags fill the air with fresh scents, and its easy to wash our beloved Pike Place Market in holiday nostalgia. Isn’t it nice to know you can now package up that feeling and take it home?