EAT IT UP, BLECH
Play Clay
Wild Oats stores and online at playclayfactory.com
Play Clay was the natural way for Linda Clark, a Lamar entrepreneur and mom of four, to help her family budget weather the ups and downs of the fickle oil industry in the late ’80s. Two decades later, she’s a grandma and is marketing her made-from-natural products play dough to a new generation of parents looking for a “cleaner” product for the play table. It comes in seven colors, and unlike the stuff from Play Clay Factory’s enormous competitor, the local dough smells sweet but tastes icky, which helps keep it out of Junior and Fido’s tummies.
SAVE LOCALLY
Be Local Coupon Book
$10, at Larimer County retailers, find locations at sustainablelivingassociation.org
The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association put 115 ways to think globally and save locally in the nonprofit’s first Be Local Coupon Book. It’s a Gold C-style book containing $2,000 in potential savings when you choose to spend your hard- earned dough at hard-working locally owned businesses. The book also includes a map to local food sources and tips for community building. Not a bad deal, at all.
SUCK IT UP
Gadgets & Gizmos: Tools in Longmont
Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374
Two-hundred gadgets – the good, the bad and the very useful – from a huge collection of tools are on display through Oct. 28, with the museum’s vintage Wurlitzer jukebox at center stage. Perfect for anyone who’s ever had an idea for a better whatchamacallit.
