DECK YOUR HALLS
One-stop Christmas shop year-round
Emily Wilkins
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Bewildered eyes shift from glitter to porcelain to Christmas decorations galore. Carols play and glistening coal-eyed snowmen ornaments hang next to stationary jolly Santa's sitting on the shelves. People consider it the most wonderful time of the year in downtown Omaha
South of Howard Street in the Old Market stands the festive Christmas shop Tannenbaum. The only Christmas store open year-round, Tannenbaum Christmas Shop is widely known for its array of holiday decorations.
"Christmas isn't the only holiday we carry decorations for, but it's the majority," sales clerk Debi Cloyd said.
Some of the more popular items this year include feature collectibles Department 56 Village line and Jim Shore's Heartwood Creek items.
The Department 56 simple pleasures are an arrangement of village pieces including miniature light-up buildings to create the ideal Christmas-clad village. Small figurines and various trinkets top off these shelf or mantel decorations for holiday perfection. The shop's most popular collectibles, regular shoppers stop in to Tannenbaum every year for a new collectable from the Department 56 line.
Jim Shore Heartwood Creek items come in at a close second in the popularity contest. Shore uses quilt patterns in each of his pieces to promote a country and cozy theme of artwork. Each piece is handcrafted, made as the perfect Christmas decorations.
The Tannenbaum Christmas shop is a widely known privately owned business in the heart of town. It attracts many families every year to stop in and ejnjoy the holiday scenery of the store.
"Many families come in every year and each child picks out an ornament," Cloyd said.
With the Christmas season right around the corner, the shop is beginning to pick up business and store hours are stretching. The weeks are dwindling and customers know it, traveling from all over to visit the Christmas shop for their yearly picks.
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