RV’ers who tow a Fifth Wheel trailer can celebrate their choice with this beautifully crafted pewter key ring. The key ring is the newest gift available from the RV Art Gallery. Gifts that highlight the Fifth Wheel are hard to find, even though their popularity is rising ever year.
Check out all the Fifth Wheel gifts at RV Art Gallery.
RV themed playing cards are one of the newest items celebrating the RV lifestyle. Designed and distributed by the RV Art Gallery, the cards celebrate the motorhome, fifth wheel or travel trailer.
The Happy Camper Too fabric collection designed by artist Richard Neuman and manufactured by Clothworks Textiles is now available at the RV Art Gallery. Clothworks decided to design and manufacture a follow up collection due to the immense demand for the Happy Camper fabric collection released in April 2009.
The RV Art Gallery has an ample supply of the entire Happy Camper Too fabric collection. The 100% cotton fabric lends itself especially to quilts. The RV Art Gallery can make a Hawaiian style shirt of any of the fabric in the collection. Just call 800-467-5521 to make a custom order.
The RV Art Gallery has added leather belt buckles to their collection of unique gift items celebrating the RV Lifestyle. Gift items that celebrate the Fifth Wheel are hard to find; this buckle is a response for those seeking something unique and interesting.
Crafted by leather artist Becky Dawson, the buckles are individually carved, stamped, painted, and sealed with leather wax to brighten and protect the design. The buckle can fit up to a 1 1/2 inch wide belt.
The buckles come in three varieties: the canned ham travel trailer, vintage silver trailer, and fifth wheel.
The travel trailer recalls the “Canned Ham” trailer of the 50’s.
The vintage silver trailer evokes memories of the Airstream, Spartan, Silver Streak, or Avion brand of aluminum clad travel trailers.
This travel trailer doll house turned out to a fun project for the staff at the RV Art Gallery. The kit includes wood parts for the body, wheels, front stand, table and chairs! We took a trip to our local craft and hobby store, where we found an ample supply and choices for wall paper, flooring, paint, brushes, wood putty, glue, etc.
Whether you are a skilled craft person or a beginner the kit will engage you in hours of focused assembly.
The top and back are open, so doll house play is a definite possibility.
The dimensions are 23″ W x 8″ D x 9″ H (plus 5 ½” hitch).
The RV Art Gallery is well stocked with Christmas gifts for RV’ers.
Some of the most popular items this year are the RV Christmas ornaments, and photo frames. Jerry Bergman, General Manager says, “RV’ers are liking many of our gifts, we sold out of a popular throw pillow. We still have a limited number of these Vegas inspired RV Throw Pillows.”
Strong sales are expected to continue on into 2010 as many new items will be restocked next year.
The 2010 Vintage Travels Calendar is now available at the RV Art Gallery. The 9″ x 12″ size lends itself to easy reading and the glossy paper is easy to write on. Each month features a Paige Bridges vintage travel trailer painting, reproduced for this calendar. Back by popular demand, the 2008 and 2009 calendars were favorite gift items sought after by RV enthusiasts, so get your copy of the 2010 Vintage Travels Calendar now!
from Woodalls Campground Management
by Bob Ashley
Jerry Bergman, General Manager of Texarkana (Texas) KOA, added 25 sites to his park since last March for a total of 63 in anticipation of a continuing construction boom in the area that includes a new oil pipeline, a $120 million road project and an anticipated 600-megawatt electric generating plant.
“That added up to a lot of construction workers needing monthly RV sites,” said Bergman, who converted the RV sites from vacant mobile home pads that were on the same property. “It was pretty easy to covert them because the electric was already there,” he said.
Even with an increase in monthly rentals to construction workers, overnight travelers aren’t being pushed aside. “We still have plenty of sites for them,” Bergman said, noting, though, that RVers in transit are “slightly less than last year.”
“We usually get a lot of snowbirds going back and forth, but we haven’t seen as many this year,” he said.
Bergman also oversees what he calls the nation’s largest RV art gallery with more than 200 objects, including 88 prints – some that he commissioned – miniatures, clothing and other items. “We think it’s an interesting way to celebrate the RV lifestyle,” said Bergman, who opened the gallery in 2005.
Hindostone Products Inc. has announced they are closing their stone coaster manufacturing business. A victim of the economic downturn of 2008, Hindostone made several custom coasters with the RV’er in mind.
The RV Art Gallery still has an inventory of the Richard Neuman collection as well as coasters featuring art by Paige Bridges. These beautifully crafted stone coasters are now truly collector items.
Richard Neuman Collectible Coasters
Paige Bridges Vintage Trailer Collectible Coasters
Happy Camper Wine! Sure to entertain and charm your next dinner party guests. Welcome them to your RV with a Merlot, Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon . According to Happy Camper, the 2006 Merlot and Cabernet, won Silver at wine competitions at the 2008 Florida State Fair International, the 2008 Houston International, and the 2008 Dallas Morning News. Produced from California grapes in a family-owned winery in the Central California Coast community of San Martin, Desert Living December 2008 magazine says, “Despite the low sticker price, the wines are quite good…”
Jeffrey Dye, President of Exclusive Brands, Inc., an outdoorsman-type person who has RVed, says in RV Business magazine March 24, 2008, that “He’s aiming Happy Camper at two diverse groups - outdoor enthusasts in general and the younger “millennial” generation, or wine drinkers in their 20’s. “Its not for wine snobs.” he said, “It’s a new-generation fun brand.”
The 2006 vintage was marketed in 30 states. For a complete list of retailers visit happycamperwines.com/availability.php
