It's six days 'til the fat fella is due and you have cookies to bake, bows to tie, carols to sing, fruitcakes to cut and rooms to clean. And you're still short a few ideas for your shopping list.

        Here are a dozen last-minute, all-local ideas from $3.50 to $495,to help you out of your shopping bind and send you into the Christmas week with a song in your heart and a credit card in your pocket:

        • “Hairy” Potter cotton T-shirt, showing a brown bear potting a plant from Rustic Comforts, 120 Main St. Milford. $18. 965-8944.

        • Handmade hickory rocker from northern Ohio at Waynesville Gallery, 177 S. Main St, Waynesville. $149. (513) 897-0888.

        • Hand-crafted inlay earrings by Amy Wallace at St. Theresa's Textile Trove, 1329 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. $6-$15. 333-0399.

        • Carved oinkin'-porker pink nutcracker from Germany at Linden Noll Gift Haus, 506 W. Sixth St., MainStrasse, Covington. $125. (859) 581-7633.

        • F.B. Fogg papier-mache character clocks — dogs, cats and whimsical animals — from Miller Gallery, 2715 Erie Ave., Muncie, Ind., has hummingbird houses ($115), fiddler crabs ($215) and a flaming tomato ($235). 871-4420. People's Pottery at Rookwood Commons, has a black lab clock (about $195 on sale). 351-9080. Or go to www.fbfogg.com.

        • Thermogrip Cordless Glue Gun with a detachable cord and a no-drip design, at Home Depot and Lowe's. $14.

        • Classic Radio Flyer go-cart from Target, $59.99.

        • Mini burlap bags, hand-painted by Elaine Thompson for the Snowkins Collection. At the Lavender Stick, 117 Main St., Milford. $3.50. 248-2340.

        • Weathervanes of every type — pigs to trout, golfers to angels, from Spencer's Antiques & Imports, 274 S. Main St., Waynesville. $175. (513) 897-7775.

        • Ever-so-soft sheared rabbit knit vests and matching purses in solid black or brown and multicolors of red, lavender, blue, green or orange hues, from Fettner-Friedman Furs, 113 W. Fourth St., downtown. $495. 241-1352.

        • Brighton Tiny Treasures intricately detailed small leather purses and cases at Parisian and Brighton Collectibles, both at Kenwood Towne Centre, and Cloud 9, 2643 Erie Ave., and the Acorn, 2701 Erie Ave., both Hyde Park. $25 and up.

        • T-shirts ($18) and sweat shirts ($26) with the picture of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Maestro Paavo Jarvi, from the CSO box office, Memorial Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, 621-1919.

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