NOFOmation Spring 2011
One Hop Shopping
Easter weekend is busy, busy, busy. Between church services, egg dying, hunting and hiding, basket making entertaining, and preparing for Easter lunch, NOFolk are left spinning about like the Energizer Bunny.
Stop hopping and start shopping! NOFO has everything you need. The shop is bursting with Easterness and the Market's full of food for the weekend.
Save your energy! Shop in one hop at NOFO.
Be an Original
When you put on a dress from a big box retailer or department store, you're likely to "see yourself" when you venture out. But if you step out in an original outfit from North Carolina's Bella Jane Originals, you're safe.
Mary Fulkerson collects old chenille bedspreads, vintage curtains, and bolts of retro fabrics and turns these treasures of the past into adorable dresses and bonnets for fashion savvy young girls.
All Dressed Up...
... with somewhere to go. Put on that pretty Easter outfit and parade on over to NOFO for Easter Brunch. We'll be serving from 10am - 3pm (Make your reservations now, quick as a bunny).
Spring Silliness
If you've been searching for a whistling gnome, a singing caged bird, or a light up, dancing, musical rubber birthday cake, look no further. We've got you covered.
Perhaps you've been yearning for a sun visor made from beer boxes, jewelry fashioned from aluminum cans, or that perfect beach purse created with gorgeous fabrics, zippers, and once-used soda bottles.
Silly, you say. we say come see for yourself.
All a Flutter
There's simply no need to ruffle your feathers or get ina flap over Easter entertaining. Ask for a copy of The Joy of NOT Cooking and let NOFO prepare your weekend without a peep from you.
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A Tisket, a Tasket
Let NOFO do your basket. we can fill it with more than just candy. We've silly toys, plush animals, cookies, games, books, and more! We'll even stuff it full with pastel grass, fluff it up, and wrap it with a bow. Leave it to us and you'll leave... task completed.
While the Cat's Away...
... the mice will play. Especially if they have a proper house to play in.
Our adorable mice in matchbox beds will soon have a playhouse, furniture and new mice friends to invite over. Watch for them in the toy department.
In the meantime, enjoy our new painted wooden furniture fit for our brand spanking new bunnies and bunny babies. Choose a family and create a home complete with a dining room set, beds, high chairs, pram, stove, ironing board, and even a bench.
These charming pieces are sure to become treasured keepsakes.
Throw on the Towel
When you update your towel wardrobe with oue new, fringed cotton towels, you'll never look back. These oversized towels are lightweight, endlessy soft, and ever so attractive. Soon your terry towels will seem small, heavy, and ordinary.
Perfect for the beach or pool and big enough for a picnic in the park, you'll find places for them everywhere. We throw one on the end of the bed, the back of the sofa, and the dining room table. Where will you throw yours?
Tarheel Beer and Bowties
The Carolina Collection is pleased to introduce a new line of neckties and bowties from Raleigh's own Lumina. These Spring and Summer fabrics are perfect for Easter, graduation, weddings, deb ball parties and Summer yacht club dances.
Hot Hype
We heard about Restore from folks who'd seen it on the Today Show and Rachel Ray but we chalked it up to simple hype.
When we heard a NOFO customer rave about how well Restore worked to calm her hot flashes and night sweats we were no longer skeptical and ordered it right up.
Restore is a hormone-free spray made from a secret marine algae. It instantly relieves the symptoms of flushing and hot flashes due to menopause, fever, nervousness, chemotherapy, or medications; and the cooling results can last for up to 4 hours. It's been a very hot seller.
Meant To Do
Emily Nelson knows a thing or two about craftsmanship, practicality, and good desing. She's a graphic designer, entrepreneur, and mom.
Emily combined all these asstes in creating Baby Bump burp cloths. These impeccably cratfed cloths are 100% cotton for ultra-absorbency and only grow softer with each washing.
Like Emily, they well do the job they're meant to do.
"Twofers"
Fleming Samuel has created a line of young children's Spring/Summer clothes exclusively for NOFO. The cleverly designed clothes are reversible, so you get two outfits for the price of one.
Fleming was surrounded early on by fine fabrics and all things beautiful; She grew up in Wilson close to her interior designer grandfather, Stuart Walston. She's combined her intrinsic talent for design, her love of working with textiles, and a desire to support North Carolina industry in creating her new clothing company.
We're happy to welcome Fleming to the Carolina Collection at NOFO @ the Pig.
MarketWatch Spring 2011
The Sitter's Supper
If you're going out and leaving the sitter to prepare a meal for the children, why not make it a fun activity for them as well? With Gallolea's Whole Wheat Pizza kit they'll have everything they need to prepare a delicious pie.
Created by tom Gallo of Asheville, the box kit makes two whole wheat pies. We also offer Gallolea's bags for a more modest, one pizza supper. Choose between whole wheat or gluten-free.
Hunt and Gather
Gather everything you need to throw an all-Tarheel egg hunt from our Market.
For the Hunt:
*Bee Blessed Farms has locally raised eggs to boil, dye, and hide.
*Fill a tub with ice to keep LuMil's Fruit Juices, NOFO Citrusade, and Dr. Rootbeer cold for your parched hunters.
*Lay out a festive spread of Moravian Easter or plain iced shortbread cookies, carrot cu-cakes: Carolina Popcorn and Baker's Peanuts.
*Add dry ice to a cooler to keep you Locopops, Nye's Cream Sandwiches, and Homeland Ice cream frosty and on hand.
Be a good egg, shop local!
Award Winner
Did you know that our very own Bamboo Ladies' pickles won the grand prize in Cooking Light magazine's 2010 Taste Awards?
Did you know that Bamboo Ladies have added Thai Bamboo Pickles to their line?
Well, now you know!
In a Shake
A friend of NOFO was traveling through the dee South when he happened upon Tabasco Salt. He brought us a bottle to try and we knew in a shake that we had to get it in for our customers. MAde by the McIlhennys in Avery Island, Louisiana, the product is new and yet to find its way on many store shelves.
This spicy condiment adds a kick to scrambled eggs, french fries, Bloody Marys, baked potatoes, practically anything that needs to be shaken up a bit.
The Real Thing:
Authentic sugar panoramic eggs are a rare find these days. The ones you see in most stores are styrofoam imitations.
Cristeen Elliot of Sanford has been making her sugar eggs for 50 plus years. She's a legend. Each Spring, folks who fancy them vie for her eggs to add to their collections.
We are lucky yo have some eggs from Mrs. Elliot's 2011 collection. they are truly beautiful and we assure you, the real thing.
Thank Heaven...
...our early warning buzzer sounds each year a month before Easter. It gives us the chance to remind NOFolks to order their Edward's Hams, Caroline's Cakes, Dewey's Sugar Cakes, ABC Pies, Simply the Best Cakes and other crucial Easter weekend food items. Supplies are limited. Pick them up early so your guests won't be, heaven forbid, without.
