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December 2010 News
Carolina Creations Fine Art & Contemporary Craft Gallery
317 Pollock St, Downtown New Bern, NC 28560
252-633-4369 Email us
Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare!
Open 7 Days a Week!
You can order online by clicking here.
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Christmas in Downtown New Bern 2010!
Thousands of lights, wreathes on doors, Bear Plaza wonderland, "A Christmas Carol" in windows, singing on Pollock Street, Santa, North Pole Sign, Dickens Detective, Santas Mail Box, you won't want to miss it! Follow the link below for the entire schedule.
We are thrilled that we are celebrating our 21st Christmas in Downtown New Bern. One of the real blessings we have had from Carolina Creations is all the friends we have made. We've met your children, watched them grow up, and are now meeting their children.
We have a wonderful staff in Lou, Donna, Donna and Lori and our fellow merchants who have become family. Downtown New Bern, we wouldn't be anywhere else!
Jan & Michael Francoeur
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 It's a Dickens of a Christmas
in Downtown New Bern -
a month-long celebration
- Read "A Christmas Carol" in Downtown windows
- Friday Evening Trolley Tours (reservations required)
- Santa in Bear Plaza Friday, Saturday & Sunday
- Bear Plaza Christmas Wonderland
- Downtown Illumination! A sight to behold
- Become a Dickens Detective
- Put your head in our passe-têtes and become a Dickens character
- Vote for the best wreath!
- Also tours - a parade - music - the Nutcracker - NC Symphony - flotilla - open houses - daily events at Tryon Palace, many shops open on Fridays til 8 and open Sunday - Pet Parade and lots more.......
See the entire schedule by clicking here DowntownNewBern.blogspot.com.
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 Pick up your "Get a Clue" card!
Have you ever gotten a pressure cooker for Christmas when you would rather have gotten a great piece of jewelry or a beautiful piece of glass?
We have the solution for you!
Come in and pick up a "Get a Clue" card at Carolina Creations and one of our helpful staff will help you fill it out. Leave it on your husband's (or wife's) dresser in an obvious place. On the card is instructions on how he (she) can bring in the card, we'll help him (her) find the piece, and we'll wrap it at no charge.
Carolina Creations is determined to end getting something you don't want for Christmas!
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15 Gifts Under $15 Dollars
We have gifts in every price range! Here are some great gifts for stocking stuffers!
1 Birthstone Soaprocks - a beautiful glycerine soap that looks like a gem stone! A large bar of soap and a wood soap dish. $12 See them
2 Designer toothbrushes by Alan Stuart $7
3 New Bern Ornament $15 See them | Pewter Ornaments
Made in North Carolina
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4 Dynomighty Wallet, won't tear, expands as you fill it - luggage tags too See them
5 Collegiate wine glasses of North Carolina Colleges and Universities See them
6 New Bern Note cube See them
7 Fun and irreverant magnets by Erin Smith
8 Lots of Journals
9 New Bern Peace magnet See them
10 Recycled New Bern pen and pencil set See them
11 Butterfly and dragonfly magnets made in NC
12 Pewter Ornaments - Tar Heel, Lighthouse, Dogwood, Bear, Pineapple made in NC
13 North Carolina Jelly Rocks - jelly beans that look like rocks
14 Book Club Wine Coasters - can also be used as a small mouse pad! See them
15 Square soy candles with glass holders
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Featured Artists for December
Paintings by Brenda Behr
"On the Plein Air Trail With Brenda Behr
- paintings featuring the landscape of Eastern North Carolina.
Painted mostly en plein air (on location), the collection of oil paintings reflect the spontaneity with which they were painted. On a sunny day with the light constantly changing, the artist's challenge is to paint fast and ala prima (first stroke).
Traveling the roads of eastern North Carolina Brenda fell in love with the landscape outside her car windows and it all became subjects for her paintings.
Stop in and see Brenda's paintings or click here to view them on our website.
Pottery by Jim a nd Shirl Parmentier
North Carolina potters Shirl and Jim Parmentier have been making pottery together since 1975. They work on their vessels as a team, both in design and in the making of the pieces. They live in western North Carolina.
Their vessels are made with a high fired stoneware clay body. The clay body is transformed into vessels using coils and slabs of clays.
After forming the shape of each vessel is altered with files and rasps while it is in the hardening state of drying then they alter the surface by carving designs into the piece.
Their pieces are glazed with ash glazes by dipping, spraying or pouring then fired in a gas car kiln which takes about 18 hours from start to finish. Slow cooling takes another 36 hours before the kiln can be opened. The glaze results with a gas kiln are always a true mystery and surprise.
Click here to see more of their work on our website.
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What You Won't Want to Miss
Ornaments, Ornaments, Ornaments Hundreds of glass ornaments by 20 glass blowers from North Carolina and across the county.
New Pottery by Ira Burhans Beautiful stoneware pottery.
Hand marbled silk ties by Barb Polin
Beautiful note cards by Bonnie Bower Dennis
Greeting cards by Natalie Wargin
IO ION Watches they are hot!
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New Bern
Christmas Card 2010
Featuring Bear Plaza!
Bear Plaza is a winter wonderland this year! Our Christmas Card for this year celebrates everything that will go on in the plaza during the holidays.
- Santa
- North Pole Sign
- Santa's Mailbox
- LOTS of lights and decorations!
10 cards for $9.50 you can order online by clicking here. |
 Bridal Registry
We have awesome gifts awaiting your discovery - handblown stemware, handmade dinnerware, and functional pottery by dozens of different artists.
Have a blast registering with Carolina Creations. Our fun and knowledgeable staff takes detailed notes as you choose your gifts.
We'll show your friends and family the things you love, and even put them on our website so people can shop from afar! We wrap and ship!
Here are some of our current Brides and Grooms who have registered. Go to the bridal registry on our website by clicking here.
Sarah Risty and Charles Davis - December 31, 2010
Jen Reynolds & Rick Parrotte - June 11,2011
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Empty Bowl Project A Grass Roots Movement to End Hunger
Empty Bowls is an international project designed to fight hunger, personalized by artists and art organizations at the community level. RCS will again partner with Craven Arts Council to present New Bern's second Empty Bowls event on Febraury 10, 2011 at Temple Baptist Church. Tickets are now on Sale at the Bank of the Arts.
There are three ways in which you can participate in this campaign:
Purchase a bowl at Carolina Creations or the Craven Arts Council & Gallery.
These galleries will be selling handmade pottery bowls that you can purchase and immediately donate to the Pottery Campaign for use in the Empty Bowls Fundraiser. You'll pay for the bowl and leave it at the gallery, we will transport purchased bowls to the Project. The bowls, at Carolina Creations are made by Janet Francoeur and other gallery artists and will cost $20.
Or you can create your own Paint your own bowl at The Accidental Artist, 220 Craven Street, New Bern. Telephone:252-634-3411. Paint a bowl during regular studio hours and in turn donate that piece. The Accidental Artist will also offer the opportunity for customers to have the bowl painted for them for an additional charge and will have some pre-painted bowls for sale to donate as well.
Or create a bowl at Art Materials & Ballantyne Framing during one of two build-a-bowl
events. Participants need no experience to participate in this event. They will follow a
step-by-step process in making a bowl out of clay that will be fired, glazed, and then donated
to be used in the Empty Bowls Fundraiser. Art Materials & Ballantyne Framing is located
at 219 Middle Street in downtown New Bern. Call 252-514-2787 for additional information.
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 A Message from Janet & Michael
By reading and receiving these emails you have already shown your support for local businesses.
To tell you the truth we don't have any "door buster deals" because our one-of-a-kind, artist created items are already fairly and reasonably priced. By shopping with us you know that you help support local members of your community and the artists and their families that we represent.
So thank you again to all our wonderful friends and customers for making Carolina Creations possible for our 21 years!
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