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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1993)
Here’s A Sweet Gift Idea: ^Christmas Cookies Made To Order* $3.50 a Dozen, ^ with one day's notice. 138 n. 12th' 475-0625 o Ka is the night before Christinas, And throughout the University You're looking for gifts, unique with diversity. Your roommates are nestled AD snug in their beds. And you have no ideas Tor gifts in your head. (So put on your kerchief. And put on your cap. And head to Nebraska Bookstore As quick as a snap The shelves ho* they t*inklc. The salesclerks ho* merry, The stone has more gifts Than a reindeer could carry. There’s gift, books and sale books, Big Ded and Framing, There’s Electronics and Hallmark And others *orth naming I heard a shopper exclaim As he *alked out the stone Arms Full of packages There’s Free Gift. Wrap and monel* Come home for Christmas. fjree ffift rWrap! ^ with any purchase. i-^wa I Lrr*— with park & shop. jFree ^Delivery! . ... _ _ . _ _ . with minimum purchase 13tn & Q 476-0111 within Lincoln dty limits Kiley Timperley/DN Cheryl Conner is the owner of Always Christmas, which is a little corner of her antique store that displays and sells Christmas decorations year round. It’s always Christmas Year-round store prolongs holiday joy through unique and festive decorations By Paula Lavigne Staff Reporter Every year, Christmas falls on December 25, unless it’s “Al ways Christmas,” where the holiday never ends. Always Christmas is nestled in the back of Conner’s Architectural An tiques store at 7th and P streets in the Haymarket. It boasts an eclectic se lection of Christmas ornaments, figu rines, trimmings and other holiday decorations. Cheryl Conner, owner of Always Christmas, said her interest in open ing a year-round Christmas store stemmed from her own obsession with the holidays. “When you’re a Christmas nut, you leave Christmas decorations up all year round,” Conner said. “It looks so festive.” Although November and Decem ber are her busiest months, the store attracts customers all year round. “You get a lot of people travelling and going to conventions over the summer, she said. “You also get a lot of collectors who buy a lot of indi vidual ornaments.” Visitors often want to take home something that will remind them of Nebraska, she said, such as a Santa snuggling a chicken or Christmas cows. “People are always looking for festive things,” Conner said. Conner is always looking for new and different ornaments to add to her inventory. And it appears she has done just that. Ornaments range from singing pigs in Santa suits to glass icicles hanging from the ceiling. Christmas cows on wheels and hand carved Santas sit next to silver deer and nativity sets of all sizes. The main difference between Al ways Christmas and department stores is die originality of the ornaments, Conner said. “We have a diverse inventory,” she said. “We have a little bit of everything. We don’t have a back room where we have 100 of each ornament.” Conner said she tries to keep unique items for collectors and people who want an ornament as a gif) for a spe cial occasion. Scrap ornaments are among her more unique ornaments, she said, which are made from maga zine scraps and tinsel from the 1930s. - (( “We have a little bit of everything. We don’t have a back room where we have 100 of each ornament. ” — Conner owner of Always Christmas -ff — Hand-made items by local artists are another specialty of the shop. “We have an artist in Omaha who carves Santas,” she said. “We have blown-glass ornaments done by a man in Lincoln, too.” Conner said the success of Always Christmas results from a desire to preserve the Christmas season. “This season always brings out the best in us.”
