Small Businesses Near Orange, CA to Shop This Holiday Season

Supporting small local businesses helps people in your community while supporting the local economy. You can often find unique gifts for friends and family members at small businesses as well. Here are some of the best small businesses for holiday shopping in the Orange, California, area.

Eastern Star Jade

Eastern Star Jade, also called Churk Work Shop is a family business that started with the owner’s great-grandfather. This unique jewelry store specializes in cutting, carving, and polishing jade. It also sets jade in gold and silver to create beautiful bracelets, necklaces, and other items. Staff members speak English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and you can have jade jewelry custom made. If you aren’t satisfied with an item, you can return it for a refund within seven days. Online orders are available, and you can set up a layaway plan for items over $200.

Eastern Star Jade has something for everyone. Bangles for babies, jade Buddhas and dragons, rings and bracelets, and much more. Stop in and check out the discount items or have something unique made for that someone special.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday through Saturday.

Location: 1612 E. Mayfair Ave., Orange, California.

Landers Supply House

Landers Supply House has a great selection of trendy clothes and vintage finds for men and women. It’s in Costa Mesa, about 15 minutes from Orange. It has many T-shirts, baseball caps, and beanies with comical messages. For example, there’s a black hat that says, “IF LOST RETURN TO THE NEAREST BAR.” This place also has cool t-shirts, vests, tank tops, hoodies, and more. You can place an order online or visit the store.

The Landers bar and restaurant is next door, and you can try the Aces High, a cocktail with whiskey, black tea, peach schnapps, lemon juice, and simple syrup. The Blue Violet comes with gin, blueberry syrup, almond syrup, lemon juice, and elderflower. For brunch, served on Saturdays and Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., you can enjoy a waffle with fried chicken, smoked maple syrup, and honey-roasted sriracha glaze. This place also has great burgers and chicken sandwiches.

Pub and restaurant hours: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Food is served until 9 p.m. daily.

Store hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Location: 2139 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, California.

Nevada Mineral & Book Company

The Nevada Mineral & Book Company (NMBC) is a unique earth science bookstore and natural history gallery. It has the largest selection of earth science publications in North America. This place also has a variety of fossil and mineral specimens, meteorites, educational kits, unique jewelry, and more. You can find geodes, agate slices, marble vases, jewelry boxes, mineral lights, and interesting art as well. Walt Lombardo, a prominent geologist, founded the NMBC in 1985.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Location: 342 S. Tustin St., Orange, California.

Book Carnival

If you love to read, you can visit Book Carnival down the street from the NMBC. This store specializes in mystery and suspense novels and often holds special events where people can meet their favorite authors. Many first editions and signed books are available, and you can participate in a virtual or in-person book club.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Location: 348 S. Tustin St., Orange, California.

Inspirations Gift & Home

Inspirations Gift & Home offers a variety of unique home decor and gifts. The store supports many local artists by selling their creations, and it’s in Yorba Linda, only 15 minutes away from Orange. You can shop online or in person. This store has lots of cute stuffed animals for kids, distinctive bells and wind chimes for your porch, fantastic candles and home fragrances, and adorable heart mugs. You can also find plenty of fashionable purses and bags, beautiful jewelry, pet-themed items, hand soap, lotion, and more.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Location: 4935 Yorba Ranch Road., Suite A, Yorba Linda, California.

Spice & Tulips

Spice & Tulips offers authentic Turkish spices and beautiful custom flower arrangements. Its signature spice blends make cooking easy, even for novices, and there are many delicious recipes on the website. You can also choose from a variety of gourmet salts, including Applewood Smoked sea salt, Black Lava Hawaiian sea salt, organic celery seed sea salt, ghost pepper sea salt, and lemon pepper with salt.

Many single spices are available, including Turkish mint and oregano, Turkish rose petals, ground cinnamon, and lavender flowers. This place also has several flavors of aged balsamic vinegar from Italy, including pomegranate, strawberry, raspberry, currant, fig, and pear. The Turkish soap bars have an olive oil base, and they’re made with high-quality, all-natural ingredients. This place is in Tustin, about 10 minutes away from Orange.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Location: 403 El Camino Real, Tustin, California.

Zilly Monkey

Zilly Monkey is a contemporary gift shop in Irvine, about 15 minutes from Orange. It offers a variety of beauty products, including perfume, cologne, lotion, hand sanitizer, sunscreen, and unique decorative soaps shaped like fish, bunnies, flowers, leaves, and more. You can also find interesting, fashionable furniture, mirrors, wall art, candles, candle holders, garden tools and accessories, and collars and toys for pets.

The Love in Bloom heart-shaped vase looks like it belongs in an anatomy class and makes a memorable gift. Kids will love the 12-inch Miffy bunny-shaped lamp. It has a dimmer, comes with a USB charger, and it’s made of soft silicone.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Location: 2691 Richter Ave., Suite 132, Irvine, California.

These are just some fascinating small businesses where you can find holiday gifts in the Orange area. Did we miss any of your favorite places to shop? Contact us at Mazda of Orange and let us know where you like to get holiday gifts for your friends and family members.

Fluorite and Jade Necklace by Christina Clendenin Tate is licensed with CC BY 2.0