Ziggy’s Place, Russellville’s newest gift shop, is proving to be a win-win situation for Logan Countians.
For craftspeople and vendors, it’s a beautiful setting for sales, complete with an on-duty manager six days a week. For customers, it’s an easy-to-find treasure cove of delightful gifts, clothes, furniture and decorations.
Throw in great grilled lunches two days a week and an outside area for one-day setups, and Ziggy’s Place is a delightful haven for hometown shopping.
Currently Ziggy’s Place is filled with 22 vendors set up full-time, all from Logan County. And, yes, there is a full waiting list of people wanting to set up there.
There’s a large graveled area on the west side of the building where vendors can pay $25 most days and $35 on fourth Saturdays. That special Saturday is going to be called Community Market Days, and the first is this Saturday, April 27. “People can offer anything from yard sale items they want to sell, even crafts, vendor items, produce, whatever, says owner Tamie Dye.
Ziggy’s Place, which opened in its current site in early March, is located at 471 West Second Street in Russellville, near where Second Street turns into Bethel Street at the Southern States Cooperative. The building is the former Firehouse Restaurant.
The force behind Ziggy’s Place is Tamie Dye of Lewisburg, who was Tamie Adler when she graduated from Logan County High School in 1990. She ran her business as Ziggy’s Palace for eight years, either out of her home or at Southern Home Designs on Nashville Street.
Now the mother-daughter duo of Janice Harrison Belcher and Erika Duncan, formerly of Southern Home Designs, are vendors at the new Ziggy’s Place. Southern Homes Design is now owned by Peggy Steele and Whitley Steele, another mother and daughter team.
Dye describes her original business this way: “Starting in 2011 with personalized tumblers just for fun...within two months I had sold over 500. We have since expanded into lots more personalized items. We now offer car decals, wall decals, t shirts, wooden signs, growth chart boards, car tags, burlap wreaths, floating frames and burlap frames (number one sellers for Christmas and weddings) and so much more.”
She sold her equipment a few months ago so she could concentrate on fostering teen boys with her husband Brian in addition to their four children who are high school or older. “The ones we foster are in high school, though, and I can’t sit still, so we started the business again. I changed the name from Ziggy’s Palace to Ziggy;s Place because that was what people were calling it anyway.”
One of the vendors is Brian Dye himself. He custom makes furniture.
Other vendors include Mary Lynn Milam, Elaine and Lindsay Turner, Hunter Johnson, Kathy Rippy, Brittany Tatum, Kim Rico, Kathy Von Lehman, Kim and Eddie McDaniel, Dottie Hightower, Steve Metzger, Jennifer Wilson, Linda Martin, Jamesa Layne, Megan Rosser, Michelle Brown and Kathy Meacham.
Shoppers will find applique, handmade jewelry, handcrafted soaps, scrubs and lotions, scents, candles, pillows, customized whiskey barrel lids, trays, lazy susans, stove covers, boutique clothing for children and adults, and more.
On a regular basis, Backwoods Grillin’, operated by Richie and Sherry Belcher, will be cooking and serving burgers and more Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. for anyone looking for a tasty lunch.
At Saturday’s Community Market Day, Dye expects a variety of outside vendors along with We Be Grillin’ providing food offerings. Coach Todd Kerr will have plants available as a fundraiser for Rush Soccer. Many of the regular vendors plan sale prices inside that day.
Regular hours for Ziggy’s Place are 10-5 Mondays through Fridays and 10-2 on Saturdays. 270-772-2922 is the phone number.