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By Peter Bbewington
the annual Christmas Gift Guide, I looked at (me option — “Buying agftt for your discriminating wife* — and thought, “I can do this."
My wife lisa is not that brutally critical when it comes to evaluating the gifts I give her, and, even if she were, I knew there were plenty of quality stores in the county that could help me find my (fiscnminating (I prefer to call her “selective’’) wife a present
Most husbands know they can’t just go out and buy their wife two dozen gptfbals from Costco and think that's a special gift. One secret to good Chnstmas gift-giving is communication.
I asked lisa for a few tips before we embarked on a scouting trip to Fauquier County stores, “Anything that sparkles, feels good, smells good or tastes, good makes a good gift,” she instructed, which really is a ‘ darned good idiot's guide to buying a gjft for anyone, male or female.
So, you’re a husband in «Fauquier County with a discriminating wife, and you need a gift. Here’s where Lisa and I went
$ We started at Marta, a -■>' small jewelry store on Main \ - Street that also sells chocolates. *: The store features its own master goldsmith on the premises, | Chns Duncan. He can make an | assortment of custom pieces for g any price range, starting as low % as $100. We also looked at a cor**
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