Shop Small-Scale {My Favorite Small-Scale Businesses}

Hi friends, Happy Friday!  I promise you lot all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving...I don't mean value I ask to swallow for a few days!  While driving domicile from my parents' final nighttime early on inwards the evening, I was rattling discouraged...sad...upset... to run into every parking identify at Super Target, Old Navy, Best Buy, Toys R Us, as well as Wal-Mart full.  I'm as well as then opposed to Black Fri sales starting before as well as before on Thanksgiving.  I experience as well as then sorry for those employees who induce got to study fifty-fifty hours before than the store opens, missing the vacation amongst their families.  I realize that a handful of people mightiness endure happy to function on holidays, but can't nosotros fifty-fifty accept i hateful solar daytime off to count our blessings as well as non focus on what nosotros tin flame buy/get/save $ on next?  I only mean value we're on a rattling slippery slope.

OK, rant over, but today, equally stores as well as malls are beingness swarmed, I'll encourage you lot to store pocket-sized this flavor as well as back upward pocket-sized businesses.  Tomorrow is officially Small Business Saturday, as well as today I'll portion amongst you lot several of my favorite pocket-sized businesses as well as work organisation owners.

First up, nosotros hitting the jackpot amongst our neighbors.  Our kids are fast friends, as well as induce got a smash playing together.  Greg is a truthful picker, hunter, as well as craftsman who sells his incredible finds at Broadway Antiques & Market inwards downtown Edmond.  His store is called The Barn Market, rattling appropriate considering all of the quondam barns he scours all over this purpose of the province to honour reclaimed wood, posts, hardware, as well as by as well as large only actually cool stuff!  If you lot similar his FB page, you'll instruct to run into all of the treasures he's bringing inwards the shop, but I took a piffling tour amongst my photographic television camera final calendar week as well as idea I'd portion amongst you.

Occasionally he finds these incredible quondam sleighs...they don't final long inwards the shop!

He makes gorgeous, quality, handcrafted article of furniture from all reclaimed items.  Harvest tables are his specialty,

but he thinks upward other non bad article of furniture pieces similar this bench made from an quondam door...perfect for a mudroom!

In the corner of that photograph you lot tin flame run into a flake of a santa as well as toy sack, as well as hither are the reindeer that instruct amongst him.  They are forest cutouts from an quondam Sears store.  They are huge as well as amazing.  I actually wanted to honour a topographic point for i of those deer, but they are all sold equally a set, equally they should be.

Often Greg is able to brand custom pieces to lucifer your needs.  Visit The Barn Market or Facebook page...you'll similar what you lot see!

Another favorite local shopping topographic point is here if you lot desire to run into more.

Need to a greater extent than or less suggestions for online shopping?  These pocket-sized businesses-and the ladies who run them- are awesome!

Wrist Soiree

Jones Design Company

Gus & Lula

Etsy is a fabulous resources is you're looking for a unique vintage or handmade gift.  Here are a few a few of my blogging pals that induce got shops...check them out!

Sew a Fine Seam

Little Urban Gem

 Cuckoo iv Design Studio

My Fine Art Canvases

Charmed Boutique Web Design

If you're local (OKC) as well as you lot ask a non bad photographer, I've got 2 talented ladies to recommend:

CaitPhoto

Angela Maze Photography

Or if you're lucky plenty to alive inwards Miami, hire Gail!

Gail Centeno Photography

Happy shopping as well as I promise you lot induce got a non bad weekend!  Now I tin flame officially function on my Christmas decorations without feeling guilty that it's before Thanksgiving!

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