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Anticipating the Holidays
At Over the Rainbow, we have a very nice selection of gift ideas, holiday cards and some wrapping paper, Christmas décor, both new and vintage, that you won’t find anywhere else around here, and much more. We are small but we pack a mighty amount of merchandise into this space. We’d love for you to visit and shop. We’re decorated inside for the holidays already, and by next week we’ll be lighting up the night [though always mindful of the Dark Sky Initiative that is keeping our area one of the most beautiful for stargazing in the United States] as well.
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Fourth of July Weekend
West Texas Celebration~ Well, is everybody ready for #Fort DavisTexas Coolest Fourth Festival (See the Chamber of Commerce Website for complete schedule). We’re especially looking forward to the Parade tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10:00 am. We’ll be at the store early for anyone who wants to shop as well. Somewhere Over the Rainbow will be open Friday and Saturnday (June 30th and July 1st) until 6 pm, and Sunday 11 to 4 pm (or later if we still have shoppers). We’re planning regular hours on Monday the 3rd and Tuesday the 4th (but again, we’re flexible if you want to shop).
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Anticipation…
Almost Spring Break in West Texas~ March, the first month of Spring, when the Calendar finally makes it official, and when everyone from families of school age children to college students take advantage of some time off to explore, is upon us. In West Texas, we will be ready to greet the many tourists that seek out this wild and wide open corner of the Lone Star State. Spring Break is a divider for us. The wind is still wild, the weather still changeable and unpredictable, but wildflowers and tree buds are showing up everywhere, and the eagerly awaited rites of Spring are looming. Winter here isn’t the trial it…
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Live Local
This is an edited Repost from last year. The Idea of Shopping and Living Locally is as relevant and important a topic as ever. Happy Holidays… Close to Home Whereas I’m a proponent of Thinking Globally, I am also always aware of and trying to be mindful of what is happening close to home (Where the Heart is!) We need, I believe, to be considering the implications and ramifications of the actions we take, not just personally, but as each ultimately affects the world we live in. And a great deal of what influences the directions this planet is being carried, happens close at hand. We live in a culture…
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Go WEST
Here’s another post featuring a nearby #Small Business that we at Somewhere Over the Rainbow loves. WEST is amazing! An Antique and Vintage shop just packed with trinkets, treasures and the unexpected. It’s every bit as offbeat and eclectic (maybe even more so ;-)) as we are and so much fun to visit. I could spend hours and still not take it all in. Join me today for a pictorial tour that doesn’t even begin to show you all there is to see at WEST. The Guadalupan Lady WEST. Fort Davis Located in the heart of Fort Davis, at 411 State Street, on the corner of 4th Street, WEST (some…
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Happy Birthday to…
Somewhere Over the Rainbow The long and short of it is that I’m not sure if it feels like a year since we launched this small Shop on the Edge of Eternity or not. Some months have trickled by like a dried up desert spring, and others have rushed by like the water down State Street after one of our monsoonal downpours. (Yes, we think about Water a lot out here.) However it might feel to me, a year has wound passed since we opened the store. The Official Birthday is March 18th (Wednesday; the only day of the week we are closed) but we will be celebrating this significant…
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Spring Break in Fort Davis TX
March (Spring Break) Events in Fort Davis Old Overland Trail Museum Reopening 3-3-2022 Texas Trail Tamers at CDRI 3-6-2022 through 3-12-2022 CDRI Cactus and Succulent Sale 3-14-2022 through 3-16 Old Spanish Trail Centennial+2 Celebration 3-26-2022 (Fort Davis) Southwest 100 Ultra Expeditions Eco Series- Mountains 3-26/27-22 Details There’s a lot going on all over West Texas with the coming of Spring, and the arrival of not only the season, but our first major ingress of tourists and visitors of the year. These are just a few local events we can look forward to this month. New Spring Schedule at the Old Overland Trail Museum beginning March 3rd 2022: Thursday, Friday and…
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What’s Behind the Curtain
As of this weekend (Mid-February…) we have officially been open for business nine months. I’ll admit that it has not been without its ups and downs. There are days when business is so good that our optimism soars. And then there are those others that pass with not a single customer coming through the door. When that happens, the mood tends to shift into unwelcome channels of “what if?” I Wrote the first version of this post last summer after being open for only a couple of months. A lot has changed in the interim, but just as many things remain virtually the same. I still struggle with the moods…
