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 at the former location of 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!
We are a little saddened (for us) but very pleased (for the Baker we had planned to share the space to which we have relocated) to announce that, while the Bakery is gone because the Baker is now working full-time as a school administrator for the Redlands School District (too good of a job offer for her to pass up, so congratulations to her are definitely in order!), we have assumed the lease and will continue to occupy this suite for at least a year beginning September 1! While we will miss the heady aroma of baking cake, we are expanding a little to accommodate more "Stuff" for you--and have some storage space for our back stock that we will soon be able to keep on site (just in case someone wants an Easter Flag in November--or more than one of a given style of stuffed animal)!
We apologize for any inevitable confusion, but while the main graphic part of our NEW sign is done and ready for us to come fetch (in San Diego--can you say "one-day road-trip"?), and the frame is due to arrive next week, we do have to assemble it all--and the Bakery sign needs to come down--so it will probably take us another couple of weeks or so to remove and replace the big sign that now misinforms about the current tenant of 1410 Industrial Park Avenue being a "Bakery"! It really IS us, so please do not be mislead from finding us because of this temporary mismatch in the meanwhile!
Today is Monday, September 16, 2019
We are OPEN until 6 PM today!
Aaaah! At last it's beginning to cool off!
Are you ready for it to become Fall?
SPECIAL IMPORTANT NOTICE:
We will be CLOSED (only on) TUESDAY, September 17th!
Why, this time, you ask?
We will be doing a brief road-trip to San Diego to pick up the graphic part of our NEW SIGN!!!
Plans are now afoot for the Baker's sign to come down (it's still for sale at an absolute STEAL for a very classy, full-channel-cut, LED lighted sign if there is ANYBODY anywhere in So Cal about to open a new Bakery!) and ours to replace it! Hopefully this will soon alleviate any confusion as to who actually now lives at 1410 Industrial Park Avenue, Tri-City Center, Redlands, CA (92374)!
We apologize for any inconvenience, but this is something we MUST do ASAP!
We will resume regular business hours on Wednesday, September 18!
With the Baker having adjourned from this space we have stretched ourselves out to very comfortably accommodate all of our "Stuff"--we even made space for a mini-section featuring Dane's beautiful photography and a reduced, but plenty adequate space, for seasonal displays! There's even some open shelves in our Barnyard/Stable space reserved for and awaiting arrival next month of Llamas and Goats! We could not fit all of our "House" panels into our front windows, but never fear! They have found an important functional use defining the back of our retail space and hiding our storage area--and we can still decorate them!
Come check in on our progress--we are definitely making some every day now!
If you happen (as well we encourage you!) to patronize local restaurants, Gourmet Pizza and/or Saverino's Italian Deli, you should catch an occasional glimpse of our ad on the video screens inside both placed by Digital Network Advertising! Beginning in September we are trying to get some outside-of-just-local-attention on the similar screens just added to Law's Oak Glen Coffee Shop, in hopes of reminding folks visiting for the Apple Season that we are among plenty of great reasons to stop here in our town on their way coming or going (they are likely driving right by us anyhow!), too!
We are working on a replacement business sign to trade out for the "Bakery" one that is currently confusing everyone--and is for sale at a ridiculously "reasonable" price--contact us if you know anyone who could use a generic, unbranded (the lettering is removable vinyl), full-channel-cut, LED, "Bakery" sign for their shop! Meanwhile, with the Baker's permission we have removed the information miss-identifying us as a place to purchase baked treats that was on the windows and replaced it with a very temporary sign on the door letting visitors know that this location is our new home! We hope this helps for now!
Don't forget that we are NOW OPEN at our NEW LOCATION in the Tri-City Shopping Center!!!!
To help you find us even more easily, we now have a few of our (Back-to-School and Apple) 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, especially since we are finally able to work on filling in empty spaces and adding new merchandise.
Did we mention that 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 a few have already arrived!
Meet "Toothpick Lion" by Gund!
THIS is the face that lured us into suckering for most of the rest of the new "Toothpick" Family just introduced by Gund! We love the colors and luxuriant mane and tail tuft of this adorable little lion caricature, but it's the woebegone expression, quite uncharacteristic for the King of Beasts (well, that and those cute pudgy little paws), that captured our heart! Careful--yours could easily "suffer" the same fate!
More characters in this fun collection are currently wending their way here from Gund, so watch for more images coming soon...
Our shipment from Ganz (Plush Cats and Wildlife and Fall Crystal Ornaments are lurking inside those boxes...) finally made it to us!
Back to Ganz's gorgeous realistic Heritage Collection! Parrots and Macaws that are NOT cartoon-like caricatures are hard to find in plush--probably because birds, in general, are a challenge to accurately portray... We were thrilled, therefore, to find this beautifully rendered plush Macaw in Ganz's high-end Collection, split tail, penciled eye decoration and even a slightly counter-positioned stance with wings slightly ajar and all, not to mention the brilliant Rain Forest hues of its plumage!
All seven of the boxes from Wild Republic are open and unpacked, with at least one of each plush designs contained therein having found a home on our habitat shelves!
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!!
Not quite ready to display a Fall Decorative Flag yet, knowing we won't be seeing anything like Autumn weather for months? Never fear! We have awesome NEW Summer Flags in store, along with coordinating 6" Accent Magnets for those from Custom Decor, to help get you through those intervening "dog days"!
THIS is the DISCOUNT COUPON now appearing inside the August 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 JUST received a stack of them in store, so pick one up when you visit and take advantage of all the cool deals inside!
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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