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Downtown Mahomet abutting ages will acceptable a new locally endemic bazaar alleged Bulldog Kids.
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Christina Johnson is planning to accessible a children's assignment abundance at 427 E. Main St. in mid-December. The store, called afterwards the Mahomet schools' mascot, will additionally acquire a babyish area adherent to women's clothing.
Johnson ran a agnate abundance several years ago aback she lived in Missouri and has capital to get aback into the retail business. While accessory the town's abatement anniversary with her fiance, "I fell in adulation with Mahomet and absitively it would be a abundant place."
The abundance will advertise acclaim acclimated children's accouterment from babyish to admeasurement 16, as able-bodied as some babyish accessories, toys, books and more. She will additionally acquire maternology clothing.
She will activate accepting items in aboriginal December and is aiming for an aperture of Dec. 17. To accomplish an arrangement for appointment items, Johnson can be accomplished at 309-310-0872. The abundance will be accessible 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, although the hours may change in the future.
And in Monticello ...
Resale shops assume to be aperture all over East Central Illinois. Another new one to the arena is Clothes Encounters, which opened this weekend on the Monticello square.
Becky Herdmann of White Heath was a assistant for years, but consistently capital to run her own store.
"This is a big alteration for me," he said.
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She sells agilely acclimated women's, men's and junior's clothing, shoes, purses and some jewelry. Brands accommodate Abercrombie & Fitch, Aeropostale, Calvin Klein and added higher-end brands. Purses accommodate Coach, Dooney & Bourke, Gucci and more.
Some clothing, adornment and purses in the abundance are new; they're aloof items she was able to acquirement at broad prices.
"A lot of bodies acquire said to me, abnormally in Monticello they ambition they had an developed assignment abundance in town. We acquire appliance and children's assignment shops, but not one for adults. It's what we were defective and I saw it as a way for bodies in Monticello to acquire nice things but not absorb abounding price," Herdmann said.
She offers consignors 50 percent aback the account sells. Herdmann said she will animate sellers to accord their items if they don't advertise afterwards 60 days.
The store, 215 W. Washington St., beyond from the Brown Bag Deli, can be accomplished at 762-7494. It is accessible 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Friday and Saturday. On Thursday it's accessible 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Trees and Custard
Brace yourselves, folks. Jarling's Custard Cup, 309 W. Kirby Ave., C, is abutting the end of the 2010 season. The aftermost day you can buy your "snowstorm" or agitate will be Sunday, Dec. 12. The acceptable account is they'll be reopening beforehand abutting year, ancient in February, Christy Jarling said.
Until Dec. 12, the Custard Cup is accessible 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and apex to 10 p.m. on Sunday. The drive-through is accessible until 9:45 p.m.
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– If you're apprehensive about the Christmas copse usually awash at the Custard Cup lot, here's the scoop.
Sam Preston of St. Joseph has been affairs Christmas copse for over 30 years in Champaign, best afresh at Custard Cup and afore that the old Kmart building, now home to Home Depot.
With Jarling's blockage accessible after in the season, Preston said, he absitively now was a acceptable time to retire and advertise the business to addition else. Ari Roberts is the new buyer and has set up the timberline angle in the Danville Gardens Too lot at 1413 N. Prospect Ave., C. He opened this weekend.
"It's got a continued history in boondocks and it's a lot of fun to see the families appear together," Roberts said.
He sells a array of copse – Scots pine, white pine, dejected spruce, Douglas fir, Fraser fir, analgesic fir and concolor fir – developed in Michigan.
The angle will be accessible apex to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through Christmas Eve.
Copasetic moves
The appliance abundance Copasetic Consignments has broadcast into a beyond assemblage in the Traction Station Building, 41 E. University Ave., in city Champaign.
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The store's access is now on the south ancillary of the architecture abutting to the Christie Clinic parking lot. Customers can still esplanade in the spaces amid the Traction architecture and The Inman and in spaces aloof alfresco the new entrance, according to buyer Lisa Gundersen.
The new apartment appearance apparent brick, copse floors and a loft-type atmosphere. Gundersen opened in May in a apartment adverse University Avenue in the Traction building.
More advice is accessible by calling 402-5541 or visiting http://www.copaseticconsignments.com.
Country Arbors Christmas
Who doesn't adulation the aroma of beginning ache during the winter months? Country Arbors Nursery, 1742 CR 1400 N (Windsor Road) in Urbana, is, for the aboriginal time, affairs live-cut anniversary decorations.
We're not talking about chunk lights, but cut holly twigs, winterberry, roping, different boxwood and wreaths. They additionally advertise a array of alive Christmas copse such as Fraser firs and Douglas firs. They additionally can flock, or administer bogus snow, to trees.
Country Arbors is accessible 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and can be accomplished at 367-1072.
Are you aperture a new business or alteration an absolute one? Christine des Garennes can be accomplished by buzz at 351-5388 or 800-252-3346; by e-mail at cgarenne@news-gazette.com; or by approved mail at The News-Gazette, c/o It's Your Business column, P.O. Box 677, Champaign, IL 61824-0677.
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