Carolina Creations - Fine Art Contemporary Gift Gallery

Newsletter November 2008

Ornaments & nativities, Open house & ArtWalk, November Birthday gift for you

Handcrafted Nativities and Ornaments
featured during the holiday season & at ArtWalk!

A gorgeous selection of ornaments and nativities are available in a variety of shapes and sizes. Come into our gallery or click on the link below to see what we have found for you this year. Stock up on ornaments for your own tree or for Holiday gifts.

Don't miss ArtWalk on November 14, 5-8 pm. We'll be serving wine and snacks. Special art openings at Carolina Creations, Craven Arts Council, New Bern Art Works, Ballantyne Framing and Art, Galley Stores, Art & Materials. A fun night downtown, come early & stay for dinner!

Our handcrafted ornaments and nativities are by Don Drumm, Sticks, Clayton Dickson, Jason Probstein, Chris Moses, Justine, to name just a few. Click on our holiday collection to see more.

Visit Carolina Creations Collection of Hand Crafted Ornaments and Nativities

New Bern Ornament & Christmas Card 2008

For the 13th year in a row Carolina Creations resident artist Janet Francoeur has created a New Bern Ornament and the 16th year in a row a New Bern Christmas Card!

Ornament $12, Christmas Card 10 for $9.

Click Here to Purchase Ornaments

Click Here to Purchase Cards

Our Birthday Gift to those born in November!

If your birthday is in the month of November and you can show us proof, we will honor this coupon with a 25% discount on any one item in the store.
Print out and bring in to redeem. One offer per customer for the month.
25% Off!
Offer Expires on November 30, 2008 for November born customers. Item must be in stock, no special orders, cannot be applied to layaway or previously purchased item.
This is available only to email newsletter customers.

Open House, Luminaries, Santa, Dickens Trolley Tour, Fezziwigs Party

Read the story "A Christmas Carol" on life sized storyboards in 20 Downtown Windows starting Thanksgiving!

You're invited to our annual Christmas Open House on Friday, November 28 from 10 am to 8 pm and Saturday, November 29 from 10-6 pm.

We'll have refreshments, and unveil our "original Christmas Tree" which is a tree hung with original paintings and etchings that retail for $60 and less. Our Handcrafted Ornament and Nativity Show continues.

You'll be able to read the story "A Christmas Carol" in the Downtown store windows on 6 foot tall storyboards painted by me, Jan Francoeur, and Carol Tokarski from the Arts Council 24 hours a day.

The shops having open houses on Friday and Saturday are Carolina Creations, Four C's, Mitchell Hardware, The Next Chapter Bookstore, Juliette's Boutique, Nauti Paws Boutique & Bakery. The Pepsi Store, Accidental Artist, One World Shoppe-Life is Good, SnapDragon, BoatHouse, Green, The Galley Stores, Bear Essentials, Craven Arts Council and Gallery.

Each Friday from Thanksgiving until Christmas starting on the 28th over a dozen shops will be open until 8 pm. Our luminaries are from 5-8 pm on Middle, Pollock, South Front and Craven Street. There will be A Dickens of a Christmas Trolley Tour ($10) from 5-8 pm on Friday evenings as well.

Each Friday evening has a theme, the 28th is Fezziwig's Party. Fezziwig was Scrooges employer when he was a young man.

We hope you'll join us on these Friday evenings for a relaxed, fun, shopping, strolling and dining experience.

Also, you also won't want to miss Bear Essentials' Victorian Tea Tasting Party at 309 Middle St 5-8 pm, Nov 28.

For the calendar of what's going on downtown during the holidays from the shops, to the Palace, to the B&B Tour, Scrooge, the Nutcracker, the Symphony, Santa and more visit our website www.downtownnewbern.blogspot.com.

Holiday Jewelry

We have hand crafted holiday jewlery, from $14-$48. Come into the gallery to see the entire collection or find some pieces on our website in our holiday collection.

It's going to be a Dickens of a Christmas in Downtown New Bern this year! Something for everyone, lots of events, Santa in Bear Plaza Thursday, Friday and Saturday, great shopping. We're looking forward to seeing you!