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Find Your Creative Outlet in Downtown Fayetteville
It’s cold outside! With temperatures dropping like they have been lately, it’s time to raise the heat in the house with a new hobby to set ablaze your passion for creativity and downtown is the place to get started. We have such an array of creative outlets that you would be hard pressed not to find something that did not peak your interest from jewelry making and quilting to cupcake decorating and painting, there is something for everyone.
For all of our jewelry makers, Strung out on Beads (101 Hay Street) offers classes on making necklaces, earrings and the like and carries a wide selection of beads and clasps. The store, Beads and Botanicals (112 Anderson Street), also has sells beads that can be worked into your handmade piece of jewelry. Their selection is handblown and created by the artists/owners in-house.
Right next store to Beads and Botanicals, is Quilt n Tiques (122 Anderson Street), which for all of the quilters out there know is one of the best stores to find that perfect piece of fabric or the instrument to finish your masterpiece.
At Greg’s (122 Maxwell Street), painting pottery is the name of the game and you can pick one of your favorite dishes to personalize with every color imaginable. Also, at Greg’s are four-week adult pottery classes where you can learn to throw pottery with a professional instructor. As for what to put on the dish or in your new pottery, try having your child’s birthday party at The Cupcake Gallery (107 Person Street). Not only will your child and all of their guests get to eat fun cupcakes, but they will get to decorate them beforehand!
What about getting into a new book? Try one of the two book clubs that meet at The City Center Gallery and Books (112 Hay Street). Men and women met every 2nd Tuesday at 10 a.m. and a group of young women meet every 4th Thursday at 7 p.m. And, of course, if you have a penchant for art, we have several artists and galleries downtown that can help you find your niche including Cape Fear Studios, Greg’s and the Arts Council of Fayetteville.
There are new experiences waiting to be had or old ones that need to be rediscovered while looking at the creative clusters in downtown so after you have cleaned your house top to bottom twice, bundle up, venture out and explore!