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Time flies in an hourglass with silver-plated sand

By Craig Nakano
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Holiday shoppers, how about a precious gift of time? At Gold Bug in Pasadena, owner Stacey Coleman swears that this hourglass runs on weighty silver-plated sand.

It comes in a wooden gift box, so you don’t even need to wrap it. Price: $42. (Dismembered concrete hand sold separately.)

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The store also is well stocked with the cheeky Lisa Wood insect dioramas we blogged about last year.

If the hourglass is more your style (and budget), the L.A. at Home crew has more finds just like it. The piece is No. 92 in our gallery of 99 gifts ideas for home and garden.

-- Craig Nakano

L.A. at Home
Craig Nakano

Craig Nakano is the assistant managing editor for Entertainment and Arts. He joined The Times as an assistant travel editor, later served as home editor and most recently was the fine arts editor, leading a team whose accolades included a Pulitzer Prize and an Online Journalism Award. A California native, he worked at the Desert Sun of Palm Springs and at the San Francisco Chronicle after graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Long Beach with his husband and son.

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