The Factory

After doing the workshop at Home Depot, I took the kids over to The Factory. We've never been there before and I wanted to check it out. The Factory once housed the Dortch Stove Works. It's been renovated and now has shops, restaurants, and event space. The Franklin Farmers' Market is also there on Saturday mornings.

We walked through the farmers' market but it was ridiculously hot outside again (99F, I think) so we headed inside pretty quickly. We walked past a bunch of shops housing local artists and then decided to stop in Third Coast Clay and paint some pottery. I've never done this with the kids before and they did a good job. Carter did most of the painting, but Rylan got a few strokes in too.



Afterwards we walked around for a bit more and played in the toy shop.



We called Brian when we were getting hungry and he met us at The Factory for lunch. We ate at Music City Dog House and had some good hot dogs and corn dogs. I got a Tennessee Tornado Potato which is a spiral cut potato that is fried on a skewer. It seemed like something you'd get at a state fair. Very yummy.


The Factory was a neat place to explore and a good place to shop for home decor or gifts. I'm sure we'll head back to the farmers' market when I have a better idea of the vegetables I'll need for the week.