Photo: Barn on the Hill Boutique
A Prior Lake pop-up shop has shoppers covered for everything from seasonal home décor to holiday giving.
The Barn on the Hill Boutique in Prior Lake offers two seasonal pop-up shops, featuring unusual finds from local businesses and artisans. Owner Sandi Gustafson has been coordinating these events in her barn for the past 16 years, and a few years ago, she added a festive holiday shop in the greenhouses at Queen Bee’z Lawn & Garden.
The Fabulous Fall Boutique is open October 23–26 and features about 50 local vendors, selling one-of-a-kind fall and winter-related items. Products inside the barn include candles, vintage and repurposed home décor, jewelry, pet accessories, signs and soaps. Outside, vendors offer crafts, clothing, food and gifts in tents scattered throughout the yard.
As the holiday season approaches, The Barn on the Hill opens a Christmas Market that runs every weekend from mid-November through mid-December in the greenhouses at Queen Bee’z Lawn & Garden. “We chose this location because of the greenhouse aspect as well as [to support] another business,” Gustafson says. “I also love watching people walk into the greenhouse for the first time and hear the ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ of how pretty it looks!”
