If you've booked a treatment at the day spa, allow yourself extra time to browse through the shop -- you are going to need it. Between the jewelry lines, including whose simple silver work is etched with wee inscriptions of quotes from Shakespeare and others, the selection of gorgeous homewares, the cute clothes, and the clever gift items, there is a lot to coo over.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's New Orleans 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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