DO-IT-HERSELF NIGHT AT THE HOME DEPOT: DIY-minded women can take advantage of free training from 7-8:30 p.m. Monday when The Home Depot stores nationwide host the workshop “Empower Yourself: Basic Home Repair and Home Safety.” Attendees will learn how to handle the many little at-home mishaps like clogged toilets and broken locks that can lead to major repair headaches when left unattended. Register in advance at your local store or online at home depotclinics.com. The website also has a 10-percent-off coupon customers can spend on anything in the store before or after the clinic.
NEW HANDS AT CONGRESS PARK GARDEN, GIFT STORE: There’s new owners at Wild Flowers, the tasteful, 11-year-old, independent gift and decor store located in Denver at 1201 Madison St. Plans for the store include enhancing its current mix of Zen-inspired gifts, specialty cards and bath products, and copious house plants with hard-to-find outdoor furniture lines and a larger selection of artful containers. Wild Flowers also intends to offer container-planting classes. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
MADE WITH HIP MOMS IN MIND: Skip Hop is a New York City-based company that produces sleek satchels for diapers, pop art baby food organizers and Splash, the rotating drying rack that looks like a bright, plastic, table-top waterfall. For only $28, this modern bottle-drying apparatus offers accessible style for budget-minded parents. Look for Splash and other Skip Hop products in Denver at Decade, 56 S. Broadway, and Belly, 3003 E. Third Ave. Or find other Colorado retailers stocking the line at skiphop.com.
