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Today is Wednesday, September 18, 2024!
We're OPEN until 6 PM today!
In general we are maintaining the following STORE HOURS until further notice, with an occasional extra day off for wildflower foraying: Mondays and Wednesdays through Saturdays, OPEN 10:30 AM - 6 PM, Sundays OPEN 11 AM - 5 PM and CLOSED on Tuesday.
We have gathered up everything we need to assemble our own promised Late Summer Southwestern Desert Customer Appreciation Gift Basket we plan to give away this coming Saturday (taking entries with purchase until Friday)! Almost all of it has found its way into the basket, except for a few decorative Flags we're anticipating in store in another day or so. We will need the flags in the rest of this impending shipment for our next Customer Reward Gift-with-Purchase packages, also in a Southwestern theme! So once they arrive, we'll have plenty to keep us busy again! Meanwhile, we spent our "day off" this week trading the Summer Flags on our Flag Wall out for Halloween and Thanksgiving versions!
Increasingly mellow weather has begun to arrive, hinting at last of Autumn, officially beginning this coming weekend! Of course there is always the possibility the hot weather, hopefully not quite as punishing as the daily hours of sunlight diminish, could return well into October, although with shorter days and cooler nights it may actually feel reasonable to get out the Fall Flags and Pumpkin decor by then! We have plenty choices for gift-giving (or keeping) and decor to get you ready for those upcoming Autumn celebrations--including some of those anxiously awaited Pumpkins!
Halloween and Thanksgiving Decorative House and Garden Flags have replaced the Summer Flags, now banished into storage until next year, on our Flag Wall!
General FALL House and Garden flags are still out on the big display rack near our check-out counter!
For those of you who wish Summer would soon be OVER (or just like to do your seasonal shopping early...), FALL "STUFF" is up on our seasonal display shelves!
Be sure to take advantage of our always-available and recently updated bribes, ...er, "incentives" to encourage you to SHOP LOCAL with us for your celebration and everyday gift-giving (and keeping!) needs!
We are now taking entries to WIN our Summer Customer Appreciation Gift Basket drawing! You can qualify once a day per purchase per customer for about another week! Don't miss your chance(s) to score some awesome free swag!
The newest version of our DISCOUNT COUPON has been published and distributed in the September issues of the Coupons Monthly fliers (we have stacks of the most current Redlands, Highland and Yucaipa issues full of local deals in store)! You can SAVE MONEY with ANY of our coupons, since they NEVER expire!
We just gave away the LAST ONE of our Patriotic Customer Reward Gift-with-Purchase packages, valued at around $45! Looks like it's about time for us to hurry up and start making up some Late Summer/Early Autumn Customer Reward packages (they will be in a southwestern theme) for you to earn!
Reminder: ALL of our Stuffed Animal Habitats have been restocked (and are continuing to be!) for 2024, so be sure to check in to see our selections in every area better than they have been, possibly for years, with more choices for you than ever!
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We have Summer Customer Appreciation Gift Basket to finish in time for the give-away drawing this coming Saturday, so we've (had better have!) started to collect items to go into that one! The theme is "Desert Southwest" this year, so we're digging out the desert flora, fauna, et. al. plus a Cowboy item or two...!
Ever a "challenge" to stuff everything we pick out into our current Customer Appreciation Gift Basket! Will this one be done in time to give away this coming Saturday? Working on it!
If you happen to be wondering why you may have sensed a slight lull in our usual relentless blithering on Facebook (activity drives the search engines to find us!), it's because, not only did we have a Gift Basket to prepare for the San Bernardino Humane Society, but also one for the YouthHope Day in the Park Car Show last weekend! Cutting it a little close this year, we had to shut up for a minute and get it done!
REMINDER: Your support of our business contributes directly to our ability to provide this kind of support for our local community organizations such as these--and we appreciate you helping make that possible!
Our donation Gift Basket for the San Bernardino Humane Society's "Howler"-ween Casino Night Fundraiser in October has been "fetched" by them and will be up for grabs in some form at this event! The ONLY way you can WIN it is to attend in person! Check here for all the details:
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(HINT: Our contribution is one of the LEAST impressive prizes they'll have available to WIN/bid on!)
More adorable Fall Pocket Charms just in from Ganz!
These are miniature characters in the form of boy and girl versions of itty-bitty Scarecrows and/or Scarecrow Gnomes!
More cute figures to slyly "imperceptibly" decorate your home or office small spaces for Autumn (or give as sweet little gifts for good luck)!
FALL "STUFF" is up on our seasonal display shelves!
A little more Fall "stuff" has spilled over onto our back table!
We've always loved the nostalgic use of sleigh bells for winter decorating, so we fell in love with his autumn design wherein the bells are in the form of acorns instead of classically round and are accented with Fall foliage rather than Christmas holly! At a little over a foot long and six inches wide this creative fall swag is imposing enough to get attention and, yes, the acorn bells do jingle! A bit of "Not-stuff" to embellish your autumn decor!
We don't usually display much in the way of wall art (except to help define our Habitats!), but we found these 16" framed Sunflower images that our own interior August decor will soon nearly "match" and couldn't resist! One of these will very likely make it into our Fall Customer Appreciation Gift Basket, but the other two, currently found among our Fall "Stuff", are up for grabs...!
We have a nice collection of Acrylic Crystal hanging ornaments for late Summer and Fall, but we couldn't resist this detailed rendering of an autumn-ready Woodland Squirrel that seemed to us would be a perfect accent piece for your seasonal window sill, mantel, tabletop, desk or ??? His size makes him a little too heavy to hang, but we bet you can find a space where he can just sit charmingly with his golden acorn and be admired!
A new addition this year to our hanging Acrylic Crystal Ornaments from Ganz is this sweet little light golden Owl (last year's Fall version was gray with orange berries) perched on a Sunflower stem (the resin sunflower is actually repeated back-to-back to read as open from the front or rear side of the Owl). We simply had to include this design along with the rest of our sunflower themed items for Autumn 2024--and because it is adorable!
While casting about for items consistent with what seems to have become one of our Fall mini-themes this year we ran across these encouraging, anytime pocket tokens from Ganz. These little permanent Sunflower mini-greetings can be carried in a purse or pocket, stashed in a drawer or small container of collected diminutive items of personal significance on a desk or dresser or even kept in a car glove compartment as a reminder of each of our own inner strength!
OK--THESE Autumn Joy Fox Pocket Tokens were made by Ganz to help celebrate Fall!
Each one is 1" X "1.5" and is holding or curled around an autumn flower or fruit. At about the size of Easter eggs wouldn't they be fun to "hide" among whatever else you keep on your shelves, desktop, cubbyholes, etc. as little surprise reminders of the season? We love the perky expressions on their little faces!
We've been seeing the Sunflower show up as an Autumn icon in a number of "not-Stuff" items debuted for this Fall, especially several coming from our friends at Ganz! We are happy to show you that this familiar flower has been selected to also be featured in their Fall plush! This is Ganz's Autumn 2024 addition to their soft doll collection--and we are loving the pretty frock strewn with Sunflowers! Stem-green stockings and hair bows and brown hair and shoes take their cues from a Sunflower colorway to perfectly compliment the dress, making "Saffron" a lovely embodiment of this beloved late Summer/early Fall flower! Such a sweet face to match!
While "Saffron", Ganz's Fall Soft Doll, is dressed in fabric printed with Sunflowers, this little Bear is dressed AS a Sunflower! "Sunbeam" the Bear sports a green body suit for its "stem" topped with a circle of yellow petals around its face forming the flower and stands at about 10" tall! By its concerned expression, it would appear that "Sunbeam" is working really hard to out-cute all the real sunflowers in the garden--and is doing a darn good job at it!
This piece is very similar to the little Bear dressed as a Sunflower, but a Baby (slightly more pudgy than the Bear) dressed as a Sunflower was just different enough and ridiculously adorable-cute that we HAD to have it, too! We found this one in the Ganz Baby section, but we have to say that we have already sold several (had to reorder!)--and ALL were for "grown-ups"--who adored them!
Acorns always figure prominently in seasonal decor as we approach Fall, if for no other reason than that they are being busily harvested in autumn by a number of creatures to add to winter food stores, keeping squirrels and woodpeckers, et. al. seriously occupied and reminding us all of the importance of vigilance in planning ahead! They also serve as a perfect example of how a single seemingly tiny and insignificant thing can become quite the big deal if it sprouts and grows into a mighty Oak Tree! Hence, these little Pocket Tokens, each in the form of an acorn, are designed to serve as powerful "little" reminder inspirations to keep or share!
We loved this Acrylic Sunflower Ornament from Ganz last year and were very pleased to find it available again this year! A big (3.5" round), bold flower head accented with clear YELLOW crystals around a contrasting opaque center of "seeds" and detailed with a beaded stem and painted metal leaves can hardly be misread as anything but the quintessential floral harbinger of late summer and early autumn!
Yes... OK, OK, we've got a few plush Pumpkins for you, but only if you promise to keep them away from the sun until it's too cool to bake them out there!
Costumed Teddy Bears for different seasons, so popular some years ago seem to have almost reached extinction, but thankfully, one of our suppliers who made some of the cutest ones, Ganz, has this little guy to offer this year! At just 7" tall he is the perfect size to decorate a niche in your office area or to tuck in with the gourds and colored corn cobs spilling out of that cornucopia you are planning as an autumn centerpiece for your table! Not sure he's completely comfortable in that Pumpkin suit, but he certainly is adorable!
How cool is this? We were able to procure not just one Teddy Bear dressed as a Pumpkin, but TWO different ones! This is the version from Aurora! He's a little bigger (about 8" tall) and more intensely ORANGE than the Ganz Wee Pumpkin Bear (he also seems a bit more chubby--has he already been hitting that Thanksgiving buffet table?). In any case, he would seem to be an adorable--and eminently pokable--addition to any Fall Harvest decor!
OK--this Turkey Gnome is pure silliness!
We saw it when we were ordering little Pumpkin Gnomes for our Autumn Gift-with-Purchase packages coming in November and could not resist! This guy NEEDS to be the star of someone's Thanksgiving table centerpiece!.
Here is another whimsical potential addition to your Fall decor--if you can force yourself to unhand it long enough! Creative and adorable is this fat and fluffy Woolly Caterpillar (with a fall leaf for a "hat"!) from Douglas (so, of course, it's delectably SOFT)!
FALL FLAGS are available on our Flag Display opposite our check-out counter!
Here is a very small sampling of Fall Flags on hand...
Halloween and Thanksgiving House and Garden Flags are up on our Flag Wall!
We will be putting together our NEXT Customer Appreciation Gift Basket, for SUMMER, soon! Here are the details on how you can become a WINNER, too!
We are taking qualifying entries for our SUMMER Customer Appreciation Gift Basket drawing as of...NOW!
The current version of our DISCOUNT COUPON will soon be published in the September issues of Coupons Monthly! Note: We ALWAYS honor our standard discounts even if you don't bring a physical Coupon in with you because we have a stack of the most recently published issues for Redlands, Highland and Yucaipa right inside our front door (FREE for you!). We don't need the remaining shreds if you tear out our coupon--but you can use all the other coupons inside each issue for deals all over town(s)! Also, our Coupons never expire!
Above are shown some awesome new Sea Dwellers were very recently added to our Ocean Habitat, having arrived in a previous shipment from Wild Republic that arrived just a few weeks ago...
With the arrival of ANOTHER shipment from Wild Republic on 7-2-24, we just got our hands on a Ray we've been hoping to restock in some form for a loooong time--and are happy to have added this particularly elegant version of an Eagle Ray to our Ocean Habitat!