End of year specials

We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. Ours has been truly great. We want to thank all our loyal customers for making this our best season ever so we're offering 20% off of EVERYTHING in both our stores. Nothing is being held back. This is special sale for 3 days only. The sale starts Thursday at 10 a.m. and ends when we close New Year's Eve. We'll be open late Thursday and Friday. If you're shopping the web, use code YEAREND20 at checkout.

As usual, all our Holiday Ornaments and decor (including any remaining Woof & Poof!) are reduced 50% to 70%. We still have a few Lafco Holiday Candles left. Their "Berry" Holiday fragrance was immensely popular. It's a currant based fragrance that's wonderful year-round. We have select Seasonal pieces from Michael Aram and Julia Knight that are half-off, also.

We're sorry we won't be able to offer internet sales on Holiday items. We're processing phone orders on a first-come basis. Please call the stores to check stock availability.
Garden & Home 949-494-2014
Table & Pantry 949-376-1615

We have a couple of lines we're going to discontinue. Dr Vranjes, the Italian line of diffusers, and Carriere Freres French candles are all reduced by 50%. Both these fragrance lines are of the highest quality and won't last long.

Once again, thank you all for an amazing year. We'll continue to do our best to provide you with a great shopping experience for years to come.

Free Shipping and Gifts to Go

In case you missed the last eblast and blog post, we're still offering free standard shipping through December 22nd. Bring in your list, pick out your gifts, and let us do the rest. We'll get it wrapped and shipped out by the next weekday.

To make your holiday shopping even easier, we're featuring some great prewrapped gifts from Beatriz Ball, Julia Knight, and Michael Aram. Beatriz Ball is featuring mini trays - perfectly sized for that classic cream cheese and pepper jam appetizer, wine coasters, and petite bowls, all in the beautiful hand cast and hand polished metal that makes the pieces from Beatriz Ball so appealing. Michael Aram has a combination Salt & Pepper Shaker and Trivet in his new Bamboo pattern. Michael's artistry and craftsmanship really shines on these pieces. Lastly, Julia Knight is offering several combinations in her Peony pattern - all in the Pomegranate color. This is our favorite color for Holiday and each of these sets make perfect hostess gifts. Each of these special offerings are available in limited quantities. Call the store our check our our website to order yours today. And be sure to use code "holiday2011" for your free shipping online.

Free Shipping and Woof n Poofs

We're ready for the holidays. Our stores are full of great new merchandise to fit every budget and every person on your list. We have some exciting news. We're offering FREE SHIPPING on all your purchases throughout the holiday season. Just bring us your list and let us do the rest. As long as it's standard size UPS shipping, we'll ship anywhere in the continental US for free.

We have something new this holiday season, Woof & Poof Holiday decor. Each Woof & Poof Collectible is handmade in Northern California. Woof & Poof creator Jacki Headley designs a new collection each year, carefully choosing beautiful fabrics and creating unique body styles that come together to make this exquisite collection. You know a Woof & Poof instantly from the face, but each also has button on the back marking the year it was made. The collection includes handmade dolls and pillows featuring Santas, angels, reindeer and snowmen. These unique pieces are available in limited quantities. Some styles are already sold out. We hope you and your family will share the warmth and whimsy of Woof & Poofs through many generations of holidays. Due to the limited nature of these great items, we're only able to offer them in the store. If you call our Table & Pantry store (949-376-1615) we'll be happy to send photos of what's available.

Final Week of our Once a Year Sale

We're entering the final week of our Once a Year Sale. If you haven't been by the store you still have time to pick up some great bargains before the holidays. We have a coupon for added savings at the end of the next blog entry.

Keep checking out our blog for exciting happenings at the store. Thanks for shopping!

Once a Year Sale

It's time again for our Garden & Home Once a Year Sale. The sale will be announced to the public on Friday, September 16, but we're letting our returning customers, facebook friends, and blog readers know ahead of time. We'll have reductions of up to 70% throughout the store. We'll have a link to a coupon at the end of this blog for an additional 10% off your entire purchase!

We'll have great pricing on our lighting with some reductions up to 50%. Handmade Italian table lamps from Vietri are 25% off and a beautiful pair of ceramic table lamps from John Derian are reduced $100. We have an amazing chandelier from Thomas O'Brien that retails at $5500. During the sale we have it for $2950 - a savings of over $2500. All our other chandeliers are greatly reduced as well. Check out our popular Laguna Blue and Chianti Red Murano style chandeliers, now $1350 - a savings of $450.

All our blue & white Italian pottery and wall decor from Fortunata and Vietri is reduced 35 - 50%.

We have two fragrance lines which are now half price. The first is Carriere Freres. Paris based Carriere Freres Industrie was founded in the XVIII century by two brothers during the industrial revolution. In 1889 the brothers were awarded the Exposition Universelle Gold Medal for their Madeleine candles which have been used by the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur ever since. The Carriere Freres Industrie Candles offered today are based on the same quality and innovative qualities formed two centuries ago. Based on single base scent notes such as gardenia, lavender, and tuberose and underlying notes that provide balance and complexity. Next we have Dr. Vranjes, a handmade line of diffusers from Florence, Italy.

“The culture of perfumes was literally infused in me,” says Paolo Vranjes. “My grandfather was a silk trader with a passion for essences, and as a child I would watch him in the room where he kept his collection of perfumes which he searched for on his travels around the world. I was enraptured by that universe of rare, transparent bottles with their unusual, evocative scents, and I was fascinated by the secrets they held within them."

There are specially priced items on our web site and lots of other items throughout the store. Our web items will get updated daily so check back. In addition, Click here for a coupon worth and additional 10% off your entire in-store purchase.

A Perfect Saturday with Julia Knight

It's almost a week later, but we're just coming down from an amazing weekend with our reception for Julia Knight. For those who missed it, we had designer Julia Knight in the store this past Saturday signing her beautiful serveware. The store was packed from the minute we opened at 9am until early evening. Julia was gracious as always, making her way through the store, greeting our guests, regaling them with stories of her travels. We had Brian Cuddy from The Organic Cellars pouring a refreshing Prosecco Merlot from Giol in the Veneto. This is the perfect summer rose - a seductive soft pink with the aroma of fresh strawberries. It's perfect for your next picnic or concert in the park. Pick up a bottle or two at Stephen Frank Table & Pantry. Tell us you read about it on the blog and save 1.50 off the regular price.

While Julia was regaling the crowd with her stories Frank wasn't far behind with hints on recipes and entertaining. We were serving slices of cured French sausages, assorted cheese, and for a sweet treat, pastry shells filled with lemon curd and topped with raspberry infused sugar. The biggest hit of the day was Frank's Beer Bread with Jalapeno and Cheese. It's a classic he's served for years but this time he topped it with a raspberry compound butter. The sweet from the butter mixed with the spice of the jalapeno was an inspired combination. We've attached the recipe. Click here and ENJOY!

Focaccia Pugliese

Today in the Table and Pantry store we're sampling a wonderful focaccia that we made using the Tipo "00" flour we carry in the store. This is the classic flour used all over Italy in pizzas and focaccia. For this recipe we also used Beldi Moroccan dry cured olives. We've attached the recipe. Click here and ENJOY!