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 inside SweetPea and Me Specialty 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 LOCATION, sharing space with SweetPEA and Me Specialty Bakery in the TriCity 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!
Having made the above announcement and showed you Aimee's logo that you will currently see above the door of our new location next to "Bakery", we are equally saddened (for us) and delighted (for her) to announce that while Aimee will be finishing up orders placed for specialty baked items through the end of August when her lease here ends, she will no longer be accepting new orders because in just the last couple of weeks she was offered and accepted a terrific full-time job offer with administrative duties in the Redlands School System! This is a wonderful, desired and well-deserved opportunity for her, but it also means Aime will be closing the Bakery portion of this space--and we will soon be missing the heady sweet aroma of baking cupcakes! We are currently in hopeful negotiations with the landlord to try and assume the lease in September... Fingers are crossed, stay tuned!
Today is Tuesday, July 16, 2019.
Wow! How is it that we are ALREADY halfway through July--with the return to school (Aaaaack!) looming just beyond the horizon? We know that summer is far from over here in the I.E., but we also know that if we don't get our orders in for Autumn and even Christmas Decorative Flags SOON, our vendors will run out of their best styles for these seasons--even though some of them have not even arrived in their own warehouses yet (can you say"Dibs!"...?)! So that's what we have been occupying our attention with for the last few days--and we're going to start showing you some awesome Flag designs we expect to begin arriving mid-to-late NEXT WEEK--including some still perfect for the heat of SUMMER!! Scroll on down for the "coming soon" preview...
WILDFLOWER ALERT: We are running out of pictures to share from our most recent wildflowering adventure back in late June--so it must be time for a new one: Oops! We lied! We thought a new piece of photographic equipment would be here by now, but since it is not we must amend our hooky-playing for this week to FRIDAY, July 19, (instead of tomorrow) when we will be CLOSED (only) for the day to try to catch some mid-summer bloomers in our local mountains--we're hoping the higher elevations have been spared at least some of our recent heat!! Therefore, we will now NOT be CLOSED, but OPEN regular hours on WEDNESDAY (10 AM - 6PM), July 17, and on Thursday (remember regulars hours on Thursdays are 2 PM - 7 PM), July 18, gone on Friday and resuming regular hours on Saturday, July 20, and thereafter--at least until we again exhaust our newly acquired stash of captured wildflowers in bloom!
Have you joined the Hunt for Waldo hosted by The Frugal Frigate Children's Bookstore in Downtown Redlands and surrounds, yet? Be sure to grab your Passport from The Frugal Frigate, stop by and find Waldo in our Shop to collect our stamp on your Passport along with enough from other participating LOCAL businesses to qualify to WIN PRIZES! Enjoy!
Don't forget that we are NOW OPEN at our NEW LOCATION inside SweetPea and Me Specialty Bakery (which will be disappearing by the end of August, leaving us here by ourselves without the aroma of baking cakes...) in the TriCity Shopping Center!!!!
To help you find us even more easily, we now have a few of our (Patriotic) Decorative Flags out across the storefront just under the "Bakery" sign! These should be pretty hard to miss from the parking lot, Industrial Park Avenue or even from See's or Big Lots across the street--just like they are difficult not to admire if you happen to have one (or more!) adorning your own home! And, yes, it feels more like "home" here every day as we continue to settle in and very soon to begin filling in new merchandise, flags first!
Our Greeter Cheetah's duties have been assumed by our somewhat sillier, although perhaps more worriedly "concerned"-looking Boxer! S/he is patriotically dressed and sitting at attention on our sidewalk to alert you to our presence--and welcome you to our new location!
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!
It's JULY--and the Hunt for Waldo in Downtown Redlands is ON!
Pick up your Passport at The Frugal Frigate Children's Bookstore and make the rounds to find Waldo (and get your Passport stamped to prove you did!) in enough local businesses to WIN Prizes!
We'll even help you find Waldo in our Shop with a CLUE:
Here's a vibrant Decorative Flag style that fits these brilliantly golden midsummer days! Featuring "hot" Pink Geraniums "Welcoming" voracious Butterflies to feed upon their nectar, this design will be available on both House and Garden Flag sizes AND on the coordinating 6" Accent Magnet that can attached to any compatible surface or displayed alone or with a Garden Flag (matching or otherwise) on one of the above fixtures!
THIS is the DISCOUNT COUPON now appearing inside the July 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 have a stack of them in store, so pick one up when you visit and take advantage of all the cool deals inside!
somewhat skunky
The weather was so wet and mild late into spring and early summer this year, things that would usually have beenbe burned to a crisp in our local San Bernardino Mountains were still in prime bloom on June 28, especially from about 5000' to 7500' in elevation about a month later than usual--a very pleasant surprise!
Another "carpet" of delicate little annual flowers trying to cover the forest floor! Not the pretty white phlox we showed earlier, but a member of the same family a species or two away. These are just one of many species of Gilia that commonly occur in springtime landscapes through various habitats in southern (and many places in the rest of) California. What they lack in size they make up for in numbers--and that lovely pink color!
We FINALLY got around to choosing a WINNER for the Fantastic Spring Customer Appreciation Gift Basket we put together just before we got all involved in moving--now that it's SUMMER! That's OK. Alex was thrilled to be able to find our new location and fetch her winnings!
Watch for a new Customer Appreciation Gift Basket Drawing to qualify for in the coming weeks!
When we selected our collection of nine different realistic Bunnies in the Myoni Collection from Aurora, we made a point of choosing ones with no reference to a specific holiday! We think Bunnies like these are in season anytime--especially for anyone who loves the real ones and/or collects plush versions. As we make way for Graduation "Stuff" in the coming days, these guys will simply "relocate" to our Barnyard Habitat where you will still be able to find them!
We recently added some beautiful Spring Plush Animals from Douglas!
Look for these in our Barnyard and Stable Habitats!
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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