We are the most intriguing biggest little Stuffed Animal shop in California!
We also feature Decorative House and Garden Flags for the home
plus amazing Three-dimensional Greeting Cards!
Store Hours:
Monday-Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM
Thursday 2 PM -7 PM
Sunday 11 AM -5 PM
1410 Industrial Park Ave. at the TriCity Center in the former location of SweetPea and Me Bakery
(email:startulipstuffies@earthlink.net)
Extremely easy access from Interstate 10 in Redlands between San Bernardino and Palm Springs!
Find us NOW at our NEW HOME, at 1410 Industrial Park Avenue in the Tri-City Center
Open 7 days a week!
Friends from Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura Counties and beyond: Do you pass "routinely" through Redlands on your travels?
Make Us a “regular” stop!
**VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION:**
If you would very much like to donate Beary Sweet and/or Bumbley to Caden's Collection and live too far away or simply cannot get to our Shop for any reason, PLEASE CONTACT US!
We can send you an email invoice for whatever Teddy Bear(s) you choose to donate that you can pay through PayPal from your computer. PayPal accepts your credit card information to apply directly and only to your purchase without us even being able to access it and sends both you and us a receipt record of your transaction. You DO NOT HAVE TO BE A PayPal MEMBER to make a one-time payment; you just "Use as a Guest", following the (EASY) prompts at the link to Paypal our email invoice will include! There is NO SERVICE CHARGE to you to do this, just the cost of the Bear(s)!
OR
In fact, you can purchase one or more Teddy Bear(s) RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW by using the following Paypal "Add to Cart" Button!
(NOTE: Be sure to CHOOSE your Bear Design(s)/Price(s)!)
We have two Collection Boxes for Caden Henderson's 2019 Teddy Bear Drive. This one is for Teddy Bears you bring in from other sources or ones you purchase from us that have been out on our display shelves, however briefly. The second box is behind our counter so we can sequester bears from our First and Main shipment(s) directly from their plastic protectors inside their shipping cases into it so we know these are only the most pristine Teddy Bears for the most severely immune-compromised patients--remember ANY donations MUST be NEW and unused Teddy Bears because they are going to children who are ill!
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Today is Thursday, November 21
We are OPEN until 7 PM today!
We will be changing out our Thanksgiving and Fall decor in another week or so to match the beautiful Christmas decorations just placed by the Property Management and Crew on the buildings and light poles at "our" end of the Tri-City Shopping Center! We just hate to blow past the autumn season, especially since it is such a lovely time of year here! But just so you know, while you will still be able to nab a Thanksgiving Decorative Flag from us for your celebration right up until Turkey Day itself, Christmas Flags are available NOW inside on our Flag Wall even if you don't see them on our storefront yet!
We just ordered CHRISTMAS Swing Cards! These are the British designs of three dimensional cards that have various elements suspended such that parts of each card actually sway at the slightest jostle or puff of air--and this is the FIRST time at least since we've been offering them (it has been years!)--maybe EVER--that they have made cards specific to a particular holiday (best we could do for Christmas previously has been a card with snowflakes or a winter/snow scene, but no holiday reference)! And once they decided to make Christmas ones, their designers did not hold back on details, sparkle and bling! It's totally worth it, but not surprisingly, the price ($9 each) is a little higher than "standard" (which has gone up to $8 each after at least a half-dozen years) for these very special cards... They should be arriving just ahead of Thanksgiving next week--and we cannot wait for you to see them! We also suspect they won't last very long on our shelves, so don't miss checking them out before that happens in the coming weeks!
Meanwhile, have you thought about what you will be doing the day after the day after (that would be "Black Friday") Thanksgiving? We hope you will plan to do some LOCAL SHOPPING on Small Business Saturday, November 30! We will again have some awesome incentives on that Saturday to encourage you to pay us a visit (and thank you for doing so) and support your local economy by procuring at least some of the items on those gift lists you will be carrying around by then (if not already!) at independently owned and often family-operated businesses like ours right here in Redlands! We'll be telling you about our Small Business Saturday deals over the next few days, so watch here for all of the details!
How is it even possible that we are ALREADY at the beginning of the third week of November? There's little argument left that we're now on the downhill run to Thanksgiving, which is now only ONE WEEK away already, followed by Christmas NOW LESS THAN FIVE weeks from right now! How are YOUR holiday preparations progressing?
We can most certainly help you with at least some of them! Come check out our gorgeous Decorative Flags if your house front would benefit from a little refreshing ahead of the arrival of all those guests (plus they might even be able to find you a little more easily--and be impressed with your visual hospitality!), nab a Hostess gift or add to your gift stash for special people on your list while we have the best selection of "Stuff" in store!
Picking out and organizing arrival of enough Teddy Bears for you to contribute through us to Caden's Drive always gets us excited about our own (regularly priced) Teddy Bear selection--and it's always a great excuse for us to fill up the shelves where they always live! Right now those shelves are veritably overflowing with choices, with a few more on their way, so if any of you Teddy Bear aficionados out there "need" a good excuse to consider adding a little something to your own collection, now would be a very good time to come check out our gang 'o' Teddy Bears!
We just gave away all of this swag to the lucky winner of our "Fall Harvest Fun" Customer Appreciation Gift Basket Drawing! Surely you will want to qualify to participate in our winter holiday version of this fun opportunity we are offering to thank you for shopping with us! As you can see from the above announcement, we are already taking entries, as often as once a day per (no minimum) purchase per customer, right up until we choose our winner just ahead of Christmas!
So--whatchya gonna do the day AFTER Black Friday?
Well we HOPE you'll be popping in to see us on Small Business Saturday! It's on November 30 this year and we will soon be letting you know what our line-up of Customer Appreciation "incentives" will be for you to visit us for some LOCAL SHOPPING on that day...
Small Business Saturday will be the first day of this winter holiday season that you can "earn" a Christmas Gift-with-Purchase Customer Reward! What do you suppose it will include this year?
THIS is the DISCOUNT COUPON NOW APPEARING inside the November issues of the Redlands Coupons Monthly, Highland Coupons Monthly and Yucaipa Coupons Monthly!
Many of these are delivered right to houses in these areas, but if you don't happen to receive one on your doorstep, never fear! We will soon receive new stacks of BOTH the Redlands AND the Highland issues in store, so pick one up when you visit and take advantage of all the cool deals inside!
We have no less than FOURTEEN BRAND NEW DESIGNS of Decorative Flags for Christmas/Winter (and that's not counting our stash of holiday Flags from previous years!), most available in BOTH House and Garden sizes. With only a couple of exceptions, the new ones are double-sided, dimensionally layered mixes of fool-the-eye printing, applique (plus occasional additional embellishments) and embroidery, resulting in an absolutely sumptuous array of choices this year!
Look what we're finally unpacking! Christmas Crystal Ornaments from Ganz are finding their way onto display!
OK--THIS holiday "Kissing Krystal" Ornament is REALLY SPECIAL!! Rather than the requisite sparkly mistletoe decorating the top of a fancy faceted acrylic crystal, in this case the mistletoe sits atop a translucent 4" diameter frosted globe illuminated from inside by a batteries(included!)-operated "Luxurylite" LED candle (it even has a "flame" that "flickers" with movement)! You can turn the candle off and on manually or set it to timed mode of 5 hours on and 19 hours off (the package says the batteries are good for 100 hours?!!). And (our favorite part!) look at what bird is featured on the globe surface design!
Here's a recap of the awesome new additions in from Ganz in October!
Newest "contributions" to our Teddy Bear Collection from Ganz!
We are just loving the NEW Ganz's Crystal Ornament Collection for Fall this year!
Here's a recap of the new styles now in store!
The more or less "flat" Crystal Ornaments have faceted acrylic pieces cut to either transmit (like the transparent petal portions of the Sunflowers) or reflect (when mirror backed as in the case, for example, of the big acorn) light prismatically, creating all sorts of blingy sparkle in direct light! The Kissing Krystal accented by an autumn-hued (Great-horned?) Owl is brand new this year, replacing the long-time previous version whose sparkly, fall-colored mistletoe was studded with only acorns; its giant clear faceted portion also transmits tiny rainbow spots when illuminated through and through! We love how unique and creative these new styles are for Autumn decorating--and are especially impressed with the new Fall Kissing Krystal!
Teddy Bears and Sesame Street Characters were riding in those huge Gund boxes that just recently arrived!
"Big Bo" Panda, "Graham" (seated, upper right and about the same color as the crackers), "Maxie" (classic big hugs from her!) and "Henry" (preceded by his very imposing schnoz and luscious in velvety black!)
Count The Count, two (oops, three) versions of Abby Caddaby and Chef Gonger among the new arrivals! (All available 10-14" Sesame Street Characters are back in stock!)
Gund's wonky little "Toothpick" Teddy Bear has become SO popular (although not always on first impression--until you realize they MEANT to make him that way!) that Gund has created an entire NEW collection of "related" plush characters around him! We just ordered almost all that are currently available--and here are the ones in stock now!
We have refilled all those empty "leaves" on our "Tree" (now again) full of Audubon Birds with the authentic sound chips recorded by Cornell University! Back in stock are Meadowlarks, Mockingbirds, House Sparrows, House Finches, Black-capped Chickadees and Eastern Bluebirds!
Our Desert Habitat is FULL once again, thanks to all of these pieces that arrived in our most recent shipment from Wild Republic!
We also just filled in a bunch of gaps in our Forest Habitat with new pieces from Wild Republic!
Here is a montage showing critters added from the most recent shipment!
These unique pieces from Wild Republic just assisted in repopulating our South American Rain Forest Habitat!
Newly arrived additions from Wild Republic to our Australian, Asian and African Habitats!
Things are taking a familiar, albeit not quite finished shape in our new digs! It may be a little while before we're sure enough of our arrangements to hang our habitat backdrops behind some of our groupings, but meanwhile, we've actually created some additional space in several of them that we will be working on filling with new "stuff" in the coming weeks!
Of COURSE we brought along the Decorative Flags (now "guarded" by our plush Dogs!), Raggedy Ann and Andy and our 3-D Greeting Card Collections (both Swing and Pop-Up)!
Yes--we brought the "Cat House", currently housing both our Realistic Domestic Cats and Kittens as well as our Caricature Cats like Grumpy Cat, Pusheen (a few left) and Simon's Cat AND our Ocean Habitat! Those Jellyfish and that big blue Sperm Whale will eventually find themselves again "floating" among the waves--as soon as we can get a ladder in there to suspend them from the ceiling...!
Our Medical Area has become one of our most popular displays, so of course we have it at the new location! We even made more space for it to house additional fun "stuff" in anticipation of adding more plush Cells, Germs and Vermin from Giant Microbes in the near future!
Here is a montage of the SECOND round of NEW Fall Decorative Flags. This group comes to us from Evergreen Enterprises, maker of gorgeous, highly dimensional (on BOTH sides!) appliqued and embroidered, burlap- or linen-look flag masterpieces--and includes Turkey and/or Thanksgiving designs, most available as House AND Garden sizes!
Here is a montage of the first wave of NEW Fall Decorative Flags, some with available matching 6" Accent Magnets--in store NOW!!
It is hard to believe that Star Tulip Stuffies, House of Fine Stuffed Animals has been open for over four years home again in Redlands, CA (we started here back in 2003 in the now-defunct old downtown Redlands Mall)!
We have lived and worked and been your neighbors in this area for more than 40 years! Star Tulip Stuffies was originally opened as a storefront in the Redlands Mall back in 2003. Since then a growing following of stuffed animal aficionados has managed to find, support and spread the word about us.
From the very beginning our intent has been to bring our customers the very best selection of the finest quality plush creatures we can find while keeping our prices as rational as we can.
We are all about choices; we like nothing better than to present several different companies’ version of the same animal because we have found that every designer will have a different take on that same critter. Thus, if you visit us, which we certainly hope to make you curious enough to do, you should not be surprised to find that, not only do we have an “unusual” creature, say a porcupine or an opossum, rendered in plush, but that we also will likely have four or five or even more styles from as many different manufacturers (with accompanying differences in sizes and prices!) of that individual kind of animal! This also means that while you will find respected and familiar names like Gund, Ganz, Douglas Cuddle Toy, Fiesta Toys, Aurora, Wild Republic, etc. on many of our products, we make a point of searching out quality companies less well known, especially in California, that you may only brush up against on a trip to the zoo or aquarium (we really love the educational kick provided by those extremely realistic representations!) or while traveling east of the Rocky Mountains (many retailers are simply unwilling to stand the cost of shipping some of these…)--or that are just outrageously esoteric (we have plush germs--in Petri dishes, no less--by GiantMicrobes and body parts--if I only had a brain--from I [Heart] Guts!
Our selection is so diverse (we are simply stuffed with “stuff”, but then “stuff” is what we do!) in order to keep track of everything we have resorted to arrangement by habitat! When you visit (by now you know you have to if you can…) you will eventually notice that our entire shop is suggestive of the interior and exterior of a gigantic fantastic playhouse or dollhouse. “Inside” live authentic Raggedy Ann and Andy, Sesame Street characters, etc. Also living the pampered “indoor” life are plush Cats and Teddy Bears “Outside” you will find our rather extensive collection of realistic Dog Breeds (this is a personal favorite category of ours, so if someone makes a decent version of a specific breed, we will try to have it for you!), Barnyard Animals, Horses, Frog and Turtle ponds, Forest critters, Desert animals, Birds, and creatures of Central and South America, Australia, Africa and Asia as well as an area devoted to Ocean life! There is even a section “inhabited” by the fantasmagorical creatures of the imagination including dragons, faeries, unicorns and the like!
About Our Name: The “Star Tulip” part of our name alludes to our other life as occasional botanists! “Star tulips” are members of a rather large genus, Calochortus, meaning “beautiful grass”, of native Californian lilies that includes species with enchanting common names like “butterfly” or “mariposa tulips” and “faerie lanterns”. The butterfly tulips have large goblet-shaped tulip-style flowers, often marked with spots and bobbing in the breeze above their cohabitating grasses like the insects they appear to mimic. The more diminutive faerie lanterns have closed flowers on slender overarched stems and could easily be imagined to light the nighttime activities of elfin woodland inhabitants. Our tiny namesakes open fully wide and close to the ground as if they were stars scattered across the forest floor! The alliteration of “Star Tulip” and “Stuffies” was just too tempting to pass up!
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