Looking for a unique gift or home decor? Check out The Strange and Unusual in downtown Greeley

A new retail store in downtown Greeley has some strange and, very well, strange offerings customers won’t obtain just any place.

Store homeowners Corri and Chase Mehan took over the retail store now residence to The Unusual and Unconventional, previously The Midwest Current market, a number of months in the past.

“The prior owner experienced handed away, and the loved ones experienced all of this stock that they did not want to liquidate,” Corri said. “So when we arrived in, we were being all set to sell.”

But with the Lincoln Park Emporium and other antique outlets close by, promoting off the items that arrived with the shop posed a obstacle.

“We had been not succeeding, so we ended up like, ‘You know what? We have to have to just do our matter like we wished to,’” Corri reported.

That intended carefully packing and transferring all of their Western-design inventory and replacing it with oddities like jars of healed specimens, a human femur, legitimate criminal offense trading playing cards, a selection of taxidermy weasels wanting fairly dapper in their outfits and other appealing pieces.

“We like oddity shops. We went to a single in New Orleans, and that definitely manufactured us want to do this,” Corri said. “They are all around Denver and Fort Collins, but nothing here.”

The couple have held a corner featuring some of the much more vintage-inspired pieces from The Midwest Sector which includes outdated suitcases, a few of jackets and some toys.

“Odd individuals like vintage things. So we are inclined to offer a couple issues in this article and there,” she said. “Eventually it will all go, but suitable now we are just keeping it in fantastic shape and storing it.”

Walking into The Peculiar and Abnormal is like getting in a blend museum and sideshow. Outdated photographs and trinkets are scattered between modern objects like a cross-stitched piece that reads “Ew, David” which lovers of the tv clearly show, “Schitt’s Creek” will surely get a laugh more than.

Corri also has some of her personal get the job done in the shop.

“I do terrariums, and I consider bouquets and bugs and rocks and place it all collectively,” she explained. “So you can seem at useless points, but it’s pretty. It just goes hand-in-hand with what we like — which are the strange factors.”

It was also Corri’s work that inspired them to get started seeking for a site to start their oddities keep. The few has invested their complete lives in the place, with Chase increasing up in Windsor and Corri currently being lifted in Loveland, so acquiring a area in Greeley was a major priority.

The few travels all around Colorado to estate gross sales in lookup of objects for the shop.

“I try out to come across matters that are distinctive at each and every sale. I really don’t go and wipe it all out like many individuals do I decide on and pick out issues,” Corri said. “And I try out to select points that will go with the retailer. I don’t choose things that are low-cost I select the nicer points.

“I never want to look at myself a 2nd-hand or thrift retail outlet. I experience like I’m a bigger-conclude antique keep.”

The pair also visits other oddity outlets on their travels to see what they carry and how pieces are displayed.

Whilst quite a few oddity retailers embrace a darker esthetic, the Mehans’ store is a combination of “pretty and darkish.”

“I try to make it far more of an elegant and creepy appear, like ‘elegant dark’ you could say,” Corri explained.

The store also hosts a assortment of classes this kind of as introduction to tarot cards, developing witches’ bells and far more.

Classes are from 1-3 p.m. at the retail outlet, 906 9th Ave. and all materials and recommendations are supplied. The cost is $37 per human being, and all ages are welcome.

Future lessons contain:

• Saturday, July 16: Introduction to Tarot
• Saturday, Aug. 20: Grieving Wreaths
• Saturday, Sept. 10: Witches’ Bells
• Saturday, Oct. 22: Lunar Journaling

Registration for courses is needed and can be accomplished by calling the store at (970) 691-0294.

The retail outlet is open noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, and midday to 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. It’s shut Sunday via Tuesday.

“We like the creepy points. It is just our matter,” Corri explained, laughing.

For far more information and facts about The Bizarre and Strange, or to choose a peek at some of their objects, go to https://bit.ly/3Nk5dyp.