You may remember Dede Peters’ excellent guest post about Using Art in Kid Friendly Places in Your Home. Dede owns DDP Gallery and has been around enough starving artists to know how to be frugal. Here are her tips:
When I’m feeling broke….I do this:
- Hit the library and enjoy the different areas – especially sitting in front of Anita Huffington’s sculpture on the 2nd floor, taking magazines out to the patio and sitting on Philllip Starck sofas.
- Dickson Street Books- just to ponder and let my mind wander. Let one topic take me to the other – just like the internet does. Barnes and Noble is good for this too.
- Art Day- ddp gallery (duh). UA art at the Library, Fine Art Building (swing in the swing), Anne Kittrell Gallery. If you walk it – it is funner. Plus you can hit Dickson Street and hope there’s a table open by the french doors at Brewski’s.
- Antiquing without buying- shops in Prairie Grove and Famous Hardware in Springdale. Stop by the Art Center of the Ozarks and Shiloh too.
- Mexican tacos – usually $1 or $1.25 each at the various restaurants in the area. For $5 – you’re stuffed!
- Makeover! at Sephora in Rogers. You don’t have to buy!
- The Fayetteville Farmer’s Market! At least 2 hours of fun.
- Hike the Mount Sequoyah trail – hard to believe it is in town. Great cell phone reception so you can play hooky and still answer the phone.
- Mud Creek Trail – great for exercise or walking the dogs.
- Day at Lake Fayetteville and the Botanical Gardens – so much to do. Pack lunch and snacks.
- Great Places for sack lunches: Fayetteville Downtown Square, Gardens around Walton Arts Center
- Canoe!
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