Showing posts with label Arts and Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts and Crafts. Show all posts

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Saturday Shopper: Gray's General Store in Hoquiam


Gray's General Store
Owned by Britta and Judy Folden, Established 2012



520 Simpson Ave.
Hoquiam WA
360.532.0366
M-F 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-5pm; Sun 12pm-5pm

All About the Business:      Gray's General Store is a source for high quality, handmade, local goods. Come in and find the perfect gift or make something yourself using the variety of sewing and craft supplies in the store. You can even stay a while and use the sewing studio for the day to work on your project away from the house or, better yet, bring some friends in to make something together!

What Makes Your Business Unique?      We are expert makers. We will use our creativity and resources to help you make something yourself and we guarantee you will have a good time. And for the coffee and tea snobs out there, we've got some really good stuff for you to try! Our coffee comes from a Seattle roaster who buys direct, meaning everyone involved is fairly paid, and our tea is from an artisan tea-maker out of Portland. Customers have claimed it's the best tea they've ever had! Not only do we believe in quality, but we love having unique products in our store. Most things we carry are not available anywhere else in Grays Harbor and we are adding new things every day.

Advice for New Customers: Come in and say hello! Tell us what you're working on. Bring us your questions and out-of-the-box ideas, we love the challenge of answering them.


Friday, April 6, 2012

Friday Five: Creative Eggs

It looks like Spring is finally here, Grays Harbor! Yes we can look forward to at least another five weeks of tempermental bipolar weather, but at least the sun will continue to show it's face occasionally!

Anyway, Easter is this Sunday and I'm sure those of you who have tiny humans in tow have been busy knocking over other parents at Wal-Mart in search of some Peeps and Easter basket grass, both of which you will likely find wedged in the back of the couch sometime around Thanksgiving. Other things you might find around the house in the off-season? Easter eggs. That did actually happen to me once. Found an Easter egg behind a picture frame in the middle of summer. I was pretty excited... not gonna lie.

Anyway, again... let's dye some eggs, you guys! Or, rather, let's just make some eggs look kind of cool and then probably not eat them. Here are five ways to do it that you may not have tried before!

1. So, modern!

Drip rubber cement on the eggs and THEN dye them. Brilliant.I have many fond memories of rubber cement and elementary school... I'll tell you about it some time after a few drinks at the 8th St. Alehouse.

2. Chalk it up.

Paint your eggs with chalk board paint then write secret messages to your relatives at Easter brunch about how much you love quiche.

3. Keep it Natural.

Use these natural dyes to make eggs that will probably make your children a little bit sad on Easter morning.

4. Decoupage!

For those of you with absolutely nothing planned for the next 48 hours, this one is for you!

5. Nerd alert.

If you are really talented and think that a single egg will be plenty for your Easter celebration, you should try this.

I hope you all have a very happy Easter and if you need any more creative Easter ideas, just visit me at Gray's General Store!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

How Bazaar



Maybe you decided to forgo the Turkey and spent your Thanksgiving with one hand on a mysteriously wrapped package at some box store which may have ended up with you getting a seriously cheap television or maybe you went home with a face full of pepper spray. Well GOOD NEWS folks! You won't have to beat up anybody to get to the deals at this weekend's holiday bazaars!

It seems that this weekend is the weekend for getting that unique, local and handmade gift. So, get out there and hit up some of these sales:

Crafy Christmas Vendor Bazaar
Alder Grove Church, 1800 Coolidge Rd. Aberdeen
Friday, December 2nd and Saturday December 3rd
11am to 2pm

McDermoth Holiday Bazaar
Saturday, December 3rd
9am to 4pm

Holiday Open House
Grays Harbor Farmer's Market

Saturday, December 3rd
10am to 7pm

Montesano Church of God's Christmas Bazaar
317 Spruce St E
Saturday, December 3rd
9am to 3pm