Stephen Frank Laguna Beach

We've Consolidated

We're excited to announce that we've combined our two stores back to one. After 4 years of enjoying the gourmet foods and wine, we decided that it worked better for us to have everything under one roof. Now all our dinnerware and linens will be back together with all our home decor pieces. The response so far has been wonderful. The store looks great with everything merchandised together. Stop in and see how it all works.

Hospitality Night in Laguna Beach

Friday, December 7th is Hospitality Night in Laguna Beach, a community event that kicks off the holiday season. Downtown merchants, non-profit organizations provide a myriad of activities around downtown including carolers and other live music. The event begins with a tree lighting at City Hall. Then Santa makes his way down Forest Avenue to his house on the corner of Glenneyre. Forest Avenue is closed to traffic so it makes for a wonderful evening of walking and mingling in the street. Our shops are directly across from City Hall so you can make us your first stop of the evening. We'll be serving Frank's special gingerbread and hot apple cider. We'll be open late so stop in and say hello. If you've never been to the store before, click here for a map.

Don't forget we're offering FREE SHIPPING for the Holidays. This is a great opportunity to let us manage your Holiday gift giving. Stop by the store, call us, or go online with your shopping list and let us handle it from there! There are a few caveats. This offer applies to standard UPS shipping only. Crated and oversized items, shipping outside the 48 contiguous states, and rush shipping are not included in the offer.

Welcome Carrol Boyes

We're excited to welcome South African designer Carrol Boyes to our store. Artist, designer, entrepreneur and successful business woman, Carrol Boyes is recognized as an icon in the South African Design Industry. Carrol's love of and for South Africa is evident in her creative work and in numerous associated projects and bears testimony to the culture and ethos of her company.

Here at Stephen Frank we're privileged to represent her exclusively locally. We've brought in a great sampling of her work for the holidays including an array of serving pieces, home decor items and barware - including one of the most popular pieces the "at rest" Bottle Stopper. Click here to go to our website to see a few more of Carrol's pieces.

Don't forget we're offering free shipping on all your purchases between now and December 24th. This is a great opportunity to let us manage your Holiday gift giving. Stop by the store, call us, or go online with your shopping list and let us handle it from there! There are a few caveats. This offer applies to standard UPS shipping only. Crated and oversized items, shipping outside the 48 contiguous states, and rush shipping are not included in the offer. For online orders use code HOLIDAY2012.

Happy Anniversary

It's hard for us to believe, but it's been 5 years since we first opened Stephen Frank Garden & Home. We've seen lots of changes since then, most notably the acquisition of Laguna Gourmet, incorporating it into the Stephen Frank family as our Table & Pantry store. During the 5 years we've seen great growth in our product lines and inventory. Our sales staff has increased and we continue to provide the kind of top-notch service we're known for.
To help us celebrate, we're offering free shipping on all your purchases between now and December 24th. This is a great opportunity to let us manage your Holiday gift giving. Stop by the store, call us, or go online with your shopping list and let us handle it from there! There are a few caveats. This offer applies to standard UPS shipping only. Crated and oversized items, shipping outside the 48 contiguous states, and rush shipping are not included in the offer.
Thank you for 5 great years. Looking forward to sharing many more with all our great customers.

Friday & Saturday, November 2nd & 3rd, we're having a champagne reception for renowned jewelry designer Jackie Jones. Jackie will be presenting a trunk show of her new collection at Stephen Frank, giving our customers a first-look of her holiday collection.

After spending 18 years in high tech marketing in England and the US, British-born Jackie Jones began her career as a jewelry designer in 2002. Frustrated by a lack of bold and distinctive jewelry designs, Jackie quit the corporate world to pursue a lifelong passion of running her own creative business.

Inspiration for her designs comes mainly from being around gemstones: “When I see the combinations of different stones, the cuts and colors, the size and shapes - the creative juices start flowing and I see endless design possibilities.” Each unique piece of jewelry is a work of wearable art.

Ultimately, Jackie achieves her greatest satisfaction from the women who wear her jewelry. “I have always admired women who are not afraid to be bold and different - in their fashion style and the way they live their lives.” Jackie’s distinctive jewelry attracts self-assured women who are comfortable standing out. “Sometimes I can be wearing a simple outfit and I feel invisible. Then I put on a fabulous necklace or some dramatic earrings and I feel transformed.”

Around 250 high-end boutiques, gift stores, galleries and jewelry stores in the US currently carry Jackie’s line as well as stores in Italy, England, Japan, Canada, and Mexico.

The late actress Elizabeth Taylor owned several of Jackie’s necklaces. Jackie’s jewelry was also chosen to accessorize the collection of leading fashion designer Sue Wong at LA Fashion Week.

Our Autumn Dinnerware Promotion and More Fall News

We have lots of things happening this fall. First off all our Halloween decor is 25%. We only have a few pieces of 2012 Woof & Poof left. We anticipate all of these being gone by the end of this weekend.

One of our favorite promotions is going on now and will come in handy for holiday entertaining. We are offering 2 FREE dinnerware pieces with every 6 you purchase. That's 8 for the price of 6! We can't name the brands, but if you've shopped in the store, you know the lines we carry. All 8 pieces will need to be the same style and color but don't have to be from in-store stock. We can order anything from any of the ceramic lines we carry. If you're ordering online, you'll need to call or email us for the special checkout code. This is a great promotion so if you've thought about new dinnerware or adding to your current collection, don't wait. We offer shipping, free local delivery, or store pickup.

For all our collectors, we're having a trunk show with jewelry designer Jackie Jones. It takes place Friday and Saturday, November 2 &3. Jackie will be presenting over 300 new one-of-a-kind pieces - just in time for all your holiday parties. We'll have images and more details in our next posting.

Photos from our Once a Year Sale

Here are some photos with a selection of items from our Once a Year Sale. The sale runs through next weekend (September 16). Be sure to check our previous blog entry for a link to a special coupon.