The results are in for this month’s Enterprise Readers Choice Awards. Readers overwhelmingly chose Lynnwood’s Creation Station as the best local shopping destination.
Opened in 1995, the Creation Station offers a broad selection of unique materials, much of it recycled from local businesses, that can be reinvented in arts and crafts projects. It’s become a popular resource for parents and teachers looking for affordable and unusual art supplies. Materials can be purchased by the bagful to take home or assembled at in store worktables for a small fee.
Creation Station customers have nothing but praise for the store, which also offers weekly drop-in art programs for children and a monthly singles night event.
Customer Raven Neumann said whatever the occasion, from “Birthday, holiday projects or even strange knick knacks for boring rainy days, I’ve always found something great. There’s always something different and the staff is always helpful in suggesting great hints and projects. You can tell the staff loves what they do and that makes a difference.”
Dee, another loyal customer, said Creation Station “is the best place to take your children. You can let them create right there in the store, even host a party for your child there too! The store offers creative items for children of all ages and most of the items are recycled! So it is a conscientious environmental store as well as creative and educational.”
“They promote creative ideas, have lots of cool stuff, great prices and they help recycle,” said Edmonds artist Rachel Van Citters.
Customer Lisa Utter agrees.
“Just going in there makes me feel creative,” she said. “In a world where so much is replicated over and over it’s great to go into a store with a unique purpose, to recycle and create art.”
Creation Station owner C.C. Leonard describes the store as a “shopping adventure.”
“I believe that as a small retail store it offers customers an opportunity to discover something that they can’t find anywhere else,” Leonard said. “I think it feeds a part of the human soul that is hard to get in this fast paced world we live in.”
Other popular shopping destinations readers noted included downtown Edmonds, Old Mill Town, and individual Edmonds merchants House Wares and C’est La Vie. Country Village in Bothell and Wight’s Home and Garden in Lynnwood were also top picks.
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