Mast Store Waynesville

Owner and Creative Designer, Kimberly Masters, of Essential Journeys is currently featured on the cover and in the article "The Right Fit" in WNC Magazine (January/February 2012 issue).

Here a few ideas for ways to enjoy an Old-Fashioned Christmas: A wonderful annual tradition is Choose and Cut Christmas Trees. People come from all over the southeast to choose and cut their own Christmas tree in Western North Carolina. Many local tree farms offer hot chocolate and other treats while your family selects the perfect tree for your living room.

This Friday and Saturday, enjoy spectacular savings at Mast General Store. Coupons are available only in the store between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. There are no cut-out or print-out coupons available this year.  The "Make Your Own Sale" means you can use the in-store coupon with any one item* in any department during the entire shopping day the coupon is issued.

With many of our neighbors being unemployed or underemployed and winter on the horizon, there’s even more need to share the warmth and help others to fend off the cold. The Mast General Store is hosting its seventh annual Share the Warmth coat, sweater and blanket collection campaign from now until November 30th.

Trees are aflame with fall leaves, apples are being harvested and the frost is on the pumpkin… all signs that it’s time for two beloved Waynesville traditions: The 23^rd Annual Apple Harvest Festival and Mast General Store’s Tent Sale. On Saturday, October 15^th from 10 a.m until 5 p.m., 35,000 people are expected to stroll down Main Street Waynesville for the Apple Harvest Festival.

What if you had to wait two days to eat? Mast General Store, Merrell Footwear, and MANNA FoodBank are partnering to provide children in the Waynesville area with weekend food, and you can help.  For each pair of Merrell shoes purchased at Mast Store October 1st through 16th, Merrell will fill a pack with food to feed a child for a weekend.

The end of summer is the gateway to one of the most breathtaking seasons of the year …. Autumn. Beginning with a few random leaves on your lawn in early September, October cascades into a brilliant wash of color, flaming our hills and valleys with hues we can only dream of creating with a paintbrush. Enter Mother Nature, the master artist. Her palette of reds, golds, greens and russets creates quite a spectacle, and the changing fall foliage never fails to delight us and take our breath away.

Kimberly Masters is not only a world traveler, but a woman who creatively harnesses the tantalizing scents of her journeys in one unusual package – soap! Kimberly has pedaled her bike across the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) as well as cycled around the stunning landscapes of Thailand, Costa Rica, and the Himalayas of Nepal. It’s Kimberly’s unique gift for gathering the scents of her travels into a very special bar of soap that’s made her company Essential Journeys (makers of Soap by the Slice) a sweet smelling success!