Stop by the Carousel

If you’ve ever read any of my columns in the past five years, then you already know I am a huge fan of shop­ping locally and I’m a darn proud sup­porter of our local shops, eater­ies and busi­nesses. Delaware is a great place to live and is for­tu­nate to have a thriv­ing down­town (which is up to all of us to sup­port). With that in mind, I have to share about a great new store that just opened in down­town Delaware called Carousel Closet, a con­sign­ment shop for infant, children’s, juniors and mater­nity clothing.

Started by local moms Jenni Willis and Holly Vigar, the bou­tique at 24 N. San­dusky St. fea­tures high qual­ity con­signed cloth­ing as well as new gift items fea­tur­ing locally-made prod­ucts. The selec­tion is fan­tas­tic, the prices are very rea­son­able and they even thought of pro­vid­ing a play room for chil­dren so the par­ents can shop.

Stop in soon to see the cur­rent win­dow dis­play of a hand-carved carousel and carousel horses cre­ated by local arti­san and for­mer com­mis­sioner Don Wuertz.

If you can’t find a park­ing spot on the street remem­ber to check the East William Street pub­lic park­ing and enter through Carousel Closet’s back entrance. If you are inter­ested in con­sign­ing, go to their web­site for guide­lines (www.carouselcloset.com). The store is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tues­day and Wednes­day, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thurs­day and Fri­day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat­ur­day and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sun­day. To learn more, you can also find them on Face­book or call 740–362-0444.

Just like I love Tou­jours (con­sign­ment shop at 8 N. San­dusky St. in Delaware), I love Carousel Closet, too, because not only are these shops locally owned and oper­ated, they are green! Reusing gen­tly used items is the way to go. Saves you “green” and is good for the planet. Put these shops on your fre­quent stop list as you never know what trea­sures you will find!

Tues­day Trip­pier lives in Delaware, is a writer and mother of four with a spe­cial inter­est in green living.

Posted by Tuesday Trippier on Sep 17 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Comments can be made below.