Hobby Lobby

It’s great for MY needs. Maybe not for everyone’s. And that’s ok. The staff is great, the products are great, a little expensive — but worth it. I recommend.

This place is great for anyone that needs art supplies fast, home décor, or crafting materials of any kind. They have most everything you need as far as «arts and crafts» are concerned.
The staff is usually very helpful and insightful on the products they carry. The frame shop is one of the best in the area and they are very professional at handling any kind of art.
There are always good prices on supplies, weekly sales, and there is a great 40% off coupon online. Hard to beat a good deal on supplies. Keep in mind, they are closed on Sundays!

Terrible.

Hobby Lobby’s attempting to limit their female employees’ reproductive rights and limiting employees’ access to birth control is reprehensible. I do a considerable amount of graphics work and have shopped at Hobby Lobby here in Fayetteville for many years. After learning of their decision to take the federal gov’t to court with a lawsuit for requiring them to include family planning in your employee health care options I now shop at Office Depot and WalMart and other retailers to purchase items I used to buy here. After being asked to drop this lawsuit by tens of thousands of people through out the US they continue to refuse to drop their lawsuit. Until such time as Hobby Lobby stops attempting to restrict each of their women employees’s personal rights to make their own decision about birth control I urge others here in NW AR to shop elsewhere as well.
HOBBY LOBBY needs to understand that the American people do not want to live in a theocracy regardless of what each of us believes personally.

It’s Hobby. It’s Lobby. It’s got creative stuff.
Can run expensive, especially if you’re looking to frame something, but they typically cycle their deals so most times you can wait for whatever you want to buy for when it’s on sale. Also, a 40% off coupon can sometimes be found online.
Mentally prepare yourself — they start selling Christmas decorations in June. No joke.

Wow! Huge! And great prices! Super friendly people. Had a huge array of non-​hobby or craft stuff, but that’s what you have to do when your place is so huge. Everything from furniture to poster art. Not like the hobby shops I’m use to. Could use a bit more emphasis on hobby and craft.

I think One can only truly know & love a place like Hobby Lobby when they have spent a nine-​hour holiday-​season saturday shift working at the register, punching in $ 4.99 MINUS 50% until their fingers bleed and they wake up at night screaming NO, THAT POLY-​RESIN GNOME IS NOT ON SALE! because not only do old fat white ladies and their fat white daughters want to buy decorative seasonal items, they want to pay NOTHING for them. This would not bother me, if I was not aware that the useless shit HL sells is made by chinese babies and political prisoners and also tibetans. The founder actually admits this in his book, «More Than a Hobby: How a $ 600 Startup Became America’s Home and Craft Superstore.» This book makes me feel extremely unhappy, sick, and alone, because A) David Green (the author & founder of HL) was a high school drop out (or maybe he just never went to college. I can’t remember. In anycase, he writes like a ripe graduate of the third grade.) B) He naively admits to shady business practices including utilizing the free labor of people suffering from cerebal palsey (ie employing handicapped slaves) and exporting work to chinese «cottage industries» to save money (as in using underpaid sweatshop labor) C) He believes his work in the arts and crafts and home Day-​core industry is serving our lord, the almighty jesus christ. Many others believe this as well (as the second customer reviewer of his book on amazon says: «God bless David Green, his family and his business… How refreshing to see that commerce can be ethical.») And it is pretty convincing, considering the store is closed on Sundays. Note that employees are often, erhm, asked (as in,“Do you still want your job?”) to come in that day regardless. Oh and also the whole part about exploitation of foreign labor. God Bless! The moral here is: if you’re into googly eyes, unpainted wood crafts, scrapbooking, Jesus, and eating aisan babies, Hobby Lobby is there for you.

If you’re looking to decorate your home with cheap crap made in China this is probably a good place for you. At 50%-off it’s a great deal too. Now, if you’re an actual hobbyist you might be frustrated because less than 50% of this store is allocated to actual supplies and of that, most of it is for sewing and knitting. There’s like one table of models, a row of random stuff like telescopes and tripods and I couldn’t find any model rockets or RC cars or helicopters or anything.