Shopping in Carrboro

When sports fans need to transform their house into a shrine devoted to their favorite team, Replay Photos is happy to oblige with high quality portrait photos and prints of every NBA team, every NFL team, and more than 130 college teams. Their framed and unframed prints capture thrilling moments and commemorate special events, including players standing around gabbing, slamming down a dunk, and the moment when teams win a national championship, and then stand around gabbing. They also sport unique wall art for 90 different college campuses, which is emblazoned with iconic landmarks and phrases unique to each school.

A partner of Superior Play Systems, Backyard Paradise beckons kids to gallivant across a showroom packed with safety-focused equipment. Laughter spreads throughout the indoor play haven as little ones bound about on wooden play sets, swings, and slides. Sports-focused areas let athletes step onto a putting green or finally dunk their chocolate milk in a Performance basketball hoop. Elsewhere, a trampoline's springy surface helps jumpers evade gravity's grasp.

My Back Porch rewards deal-seekers by stocking gently used garments, accessories, and shoes from well-known brands, all of which undergo a thorough selection process to ensure they're in near-pristine condition. The shop invites leisurely browsing with its cheerful red and yellow walls and bright lighting, which illuminates the Ralph Lauren and Hollister tags peeking from shirt collars and the stitched names of Coach and Vera Bradley emblazoned across purse linings. Glass jewelry counters glint with a collection of earrings and necklaces, and leopard-print chairs face racks of shoes, beckoning guests to sit and ponder which pair of heels would work best for aerating their lawns.

The professional florists at PG Flowers band bright blossoms together to create special-occasion bouquets, floral arrangements, and seasonal centerpieces. Housing a large selection of fresh blooms, tropical flowers, and plants, the arrangers pair vase-clad creations with stuffed animals, mylar and latex balloons, and other gifts. The florists offer prompt delivery service throughout Raleigh, Morrisville, and the surrounding area to help clients wordlessly express their emotions or demonstrate remorse for backing a station wagon into their neighbor's koi pond.

Beneath sunny powder-blue walls and cheery decorations, Bee Mine Kid Consign showcases an eclectic stock of children's and maternity goods. Hangers dangle with consigned apparel for pintsize patrons 0–12 alongside original handmade headbands, quilts, and birth cloths. Maternity dresses garb expectant mothers, and toys, swings, and bouncy seats appease youthful energy. As adults shop, kids can feast eyes on the shop's flat-screen television, frolic amid toys in the play area and play kitchen, or visit the reading area to scour copies of Good Night Moon for grammatical errors.

For 20 years, Ellen Ashley has pursued and shared her passion for gardening by tending and teaching in her own 10-acre paradise, which houses thousands of plants in nine types of gardens. Ashley's interest in flora ignited when she was a youngster in rural Virginia, where she watched her father grow vegetables and fruit trees while her mother raised flowers and tutored wood nymphs. After retiring from a career in technical sales, Ashley dedicated herself full time to her planting passion, both at home and in the community. Her decade of activity with the Guilford Horticultural Society has included lecturing on subjects such as butterfly gardens, seed saving, and herbs.