Flight Of Fancy Arts Ltd — Attraction in Bear River

Great little arts & crafts store! It is beautiful in there, and they have so many different things! So I'm sure everyone will find something to tickle their fancy! Paintings 🖼. Rock art 🪨. Natural products like handmade soaps 🧼, jams, beautiful and unique jewelry, and more. Pottery. Ceramics. Macramé. Wood art and 🪵 carvings. Books and a lot more! Lot's of Nova Scotia's culture in there! Glad to have found this beautiful place while on vacation in Nova Scotia! VERY friendly and knowledgeable staff! A must-visit for art enthusiasts!

Suggestion to get there, if you're pulling something like a camper trailer, or something similar, don't take Sissiboo Rd, it unfortunately becomes a rough gravel road really fast and with no warning at all (I think they call it "washboard gravel"), and it was really rough on our camper trailer, so rough that the little metal door for our hot water heater flew off, and we only noticed it was gone because we decided to turn around to go back to asphalt. We instead took the roads "Back Road" and then "Lansdown Road", which are both asphalt. They are off of the road "Evangeline Trail", (the number of...

This is a must-see stop at the western end of the Annapolis Valley. Rob, and now Carmen helping him, have assembled remarkable art by local painters, potters, carvers, weavers, and other craftspeople. There is a good selection of evocative work from the Bear River First Nations community, and a tidy shelf of books written by local authors or with a local connection. Downstairs you find the coffee mugs and the wooden toys, the jewelry and the hard-to-categorize works. Upstairs is primarily paintings--an art...

Wow, such really cool art works, amazing local artists! My sister was here from Vancouver and fell in love with a sculpture, we will be back tomorrow to buy it and keep it until her 70th birthday next year. She will be over the moon! Definitely drop in for a browse, Bear River is a wonderful...