31. Guiry’S
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 444-3800
Address: 2404 Pearl Street
Description: Guiry’s, a retailer of quality house paints, art supplies, and home-decorating resources, is also an excellent source of high-quality art supplies. They carry everything from professional supplies to starter kits and educational materials.
32. Michael’S Arts And Crafts
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 494-2008
Address: 4800 Baseline Road
Description: Michael’s is a bustling warehouse chain store packed with craft items, from dried and plastic flowers to the right kind of muslin and paint sets for creating doll faces. Beads, Styrofoam, jewelry findings, and all sorts of kits appeal to crafters of all ages and skills. It’s a big, reasonably priced place where kids and adults like to wander and take classes. There’s a framing shop in the back.
33. Shuttles, Spindles And Skeins
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 494-1071
Address: 635 South Broadway
Description: This South Boulder shop has walls and walls of yarn in a fantastic array of colors for knitting and weaving. Uncarded wool, silk, flax, and camel hair are all perfect for making doll hair as well as for spinning. You can also find a few handmade items for sale that are truly masterpieces. This small, charming store has a cozy atmosphere that just says “welcome.” The staff is very knowledgeable, and the shop offers both craft books for inspiration and classes to show you how to turn the inspiration into action.
34. Willow—An Artisans Market
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 443-0835
Address: 1500 Pearl Street
Description: Formerly known as The Middle Fish Gallery, this whimsical boutique showcases unique, hand-crafted items from more than 150 artists, most of them local.
35. Breadworks
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 444-5667
Address: 2644 Broadway
Description: Newly expanded, Breadworks features traditional rustic breads in addition to a wide assortment of pastries. The new menu includes an assortment of soups, sandwiches, paninis, pizza, salads, and coffee drinks. Open daily. Outside seating available.
36. Cakes By Karen
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 449-6254
Address: 2085 30th Street
Description: The name says only part of it. Photo cakes, custom wedding cakes, birthday cakes, and other sweet goodies certainly are the specialty here, but Cakes by Karen also can fill your need for balloons, party favors, decorating supplies—even a limo.
37. Great Harvest Bread Company
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 442-3062
Address: 2525 Arapahoe Avenue
Description: This is part of a tightly controlled franchise operation that makes rich, chewy, healthful breads and rolls. While other bakeries just put out sample bites, Great Harvest cuts whole slabs and invites you to slather your “taste” with butter and honey.
38. Panera
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 544-1800
Address: 1855 29th Street
Description: Panera arrived in Boulder when Twenty Ninth Street was developed. This bakery-cafe has a menu of freshly baked breads, pastries, sweets, bagels, tossed salads, soups, and sandwiches. The large comfy chairs offer an inducement to sit, relax, and watch the day go by.
39. Spruce Confections
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 449-6773
Address: 767 Pearl Street
Description: Homemade charm and beautiful detail. This west end gem features delectable cakes, pies and pastries as well as soup, salad and sandwiches
40. Barnes & Noble
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 444-2501
Address: 2915 Pearl Street
Description: This may be a big chain store, but it’s working to offer a more personal touch that’s gaining local respect. The store specializes in popular fiction and nonfiction but has a large sampling of more obscure works, too. People linger in the on-site coffee shop, and the store is the site of regular meetings of locals interested in both the creative and reading aspects of literature. There is also a nice selection of cards, magazines, books on tape, reading lights, and other gifts and accessories.
41. Beat Book Shop
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 444-7111
Address: 1713 Pearl Street
Description: If you want to turn the calendar back a few decades, check out this quirky store, which specializes in literature, poetry, biography, and books on film, sociology, and subculture, all with a distinct retro flair. It offers a commendable selection of first editions, too. The shop also stocks rare records and tapes, some fine art, and used CDs.
42. The Bookworm
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 449-3765
Address: 3175 28th Street
Description: The unprepossessing location of this family-owned and -operated bookstore, tucked into an aging strip mall, does not reflect its status as the largest used bookstore in the county. The stacks and stacks of books just keep going and going and going—400,000 titles in all. There is an extensive mystery section, and there are romances to soften up the hardest pragmatist. Books on tape and videos are a growing collection. The shop also does a mail-order business.
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Address: 1107 Pearl Street
44. The Colorado Bookstore
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 442-5051
Address: 1111 Broadway
Description: Located next to the big outdoor clock and the pedestrian underpass on University Hill, this is a classic college bookstore. It sells new textbooks and plenty of used books (they buy and sell) and has a mezzanine devoted to general books. You also can buy CU-Boulder sweatshirts, souvenirs, and school supplies. There’s a small post office substation, and copiers, fax machines, prepaid phone cards, photo processing, and other services are available.
45. Cu Book Store
City: Boulder, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 492-6411
Description: Located on the CU-Boulder campus, this store has it all if you’re looking for CU-related gifts and clothing. Their selection of textbooks as well as general books is extensive. Books and supplies are located on the lower level, gifts and clothing on the main level. Check out the life-sized stuffed Ralphie buffalo.