7/8/10
Everything for the cat lover!
Cat books, art, décor, stuffed animals, figurines, jewelry and more!
50% of all proceeds on cat collectibles this weekend will be donated to the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society which suffered a tragic fire in May 2010. Visit their website for more information or to make a donation.
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New Inventory This Week
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6/3/10
Tablecloths and More!
Tablecloth extravaganza! On sale now!
We have just received hundreds of GORGEOUS, nearly new, large tablecloths (essentially big pieces of high-end fabric with seams and hems)!
Dozens of different patterns, colors and fabrics to choose from:
Solids, stripes, polka dots, swirls, sequined, embroidered, black & white, Indian motifs, and more. Linen, satin, polyester, rayon, cotton.
Only $15-$20 each!
Sizes include:
108" x 62" Oval
198" x 104" Rectangle
132" diameter Round
Make your own curtains, duvet covers, upholstered furniture, pillow cases, and more! There are endless possibilities for this exquisite fabric.
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Also just in...
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| Cowboy hats for adults and children. In natural, red, green and yellow: $1.50 each |
Red-painted square ceramic vases: $2 each |
White & gold ceramic pots: $2-3 each |
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| Plastic faux fruit sprays: $1 each |
Gold stars, cherubs, and musical notes: $0.75-$1.50 each |
Decorate your own cowboy hat! |
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5/14/10
Kid's Sale!
Begins Saturday, May 15th
We have a large collection of gently used (and some new), affordable children's stuff! Great for keeping your child busy over the summer, or for stocking your summer camp or summer school classroom.
Sale begins Saturday, May 15th and will continue throughout the week.
Items include:
- Wood furniture (benches, chairs, desks, cabinets)
- Play kitchen
- Rocking horse
- Books in great condition
- Legos
- Radio Flyer tricycles and red wagons
- Dinosaurs in all shapes and sizes
- Beanie Babies
- Dolls
- Stuffed animals
- Barbie Dolls and accessories
- Disneyland and Mickey & Minnie Mouse products
- Action figures
- Plastic soldiers
- Board games
- Videos
- Crafting kits
- Art easels
- Educational toys & books
- Puzzles & games
- Kites
- Many toy cars & trucks
- Matchbox cars
- Wooden blocks
- Baseball & softball bats, gloves & balls
- Dress-up costumes and accessories
- Lunch boxes
- Rubber ducks
...and more!
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4/23/10
Novelty toys are back!
We have thousands of brand new little toys, games and decorated pens, perfect for classrooms, prizes, give-aways, school events, or goodie bags.
• Sports ball pens
• Heart and star pens
• Nudie cutie pens
• Space labyrinth puzzles
• 3-D square puzzles
• Round nostalgic puzzles
• Glitter magnets
• Pig, cow and chicken keychain lights
• Lemon, lime and apple stress balls
Prices:
Individually: $0.10 - $0.50 each
By the small box: 30% off individual price!
By the case (up to 1,000 pieces): 60% off individual price!
Also just in:
Jute burlap drawstring pouches in Green, Orange or Natural, 6"x10":
Only $0.50 each or $4.00 for a package of 12!
Lab equipment with a variety of uses:
Polystyrene test tubes, 4ml
Cell culture clusters (packaged and sterile)
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4/8/10
Winter Vintage & Collectibles Sale!
April 10th & 11th
UPDATE: All remaining vintage merchandise 50% starting April 16!
Please join us for another wonderful Vintage & Collectibes sale!
Begins Saturday, April 10th at 11:00am.
Sale will continue throughout the week until inventory is sold.
Most items are under $10.
Specific highlights include:
- Linens, antique handmade lace
- Small amount of vintage clothing, costumes, hats & purses, including vintage wool Naval uniforms
- Jewelry – costume, rhinestone, etc.
- Buttons
- Globes
- Dishware, including Franciscan & Hall
- Bone china cups & saucers
- Tea sets
- Old clocks, radio, cameras
- Lots of enamelware/spatterware/graniteware – colanders and pots
- Vintage kitchen tools from a pink Mixmaster to green-handled egg beaters
- Framed prints, signed paintings, antique photos
- 1960’s clown oil paintings
- Two original impasto paintings by Van Hoople
- Milk glass & depression glass
- Old bottles & mason jars
- Old toys and baby & doll clothes
- 1930’s suitcases
- Mid-Century Modern chairs
- 1930’s twin beds
- Machine age industrial deco chair set
- MANY antiquarian and rare books from the 1850’s to 1930’s, included illustrated and children’s books
- LOTS of paper ephemera – letters, certificates, photos, diaries, brochures, magazines, and more!
- Old postcards in great condition – Linen era and RPPC’s. Some very rare!
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2/8/10
Valentine's Weekend Crafters Showcase!
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Valentines for You!
To show our appreciation to you, on Saturday and Sunday, February 13 and 14 we will also be handing out a special Valentine to each customer, containing a 20% off coupon for your next purchase as well as a mystery gift!
We also have all the supplies you need to make your own beautiful Valentines: beautiful red paper, ribbon, lace, trimmings, buttons, beads and more!
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1/12/10
Winter Vintage & Collectibles Sale!
Begins Saturday, January 16, 11:00am
Please join us for another wonderful Vintage & Collectibes sale!
Begins Saturday, January 16 at 11:00am.
Sale will continue throughout the week until inventory is sold.
Most items are under $10. This sale will be a delight for all crafters, sew-ers, collage artists, scrap-bookers and collectors!
Most items fall into the following categories:
FABRIC: Linens, lace, yardage, hats, purses
TOYS: Games, board games, plastic prizes
BOOKS: 1840-1950, many illustrated
PAPER EPHEMERA
BUTTONS & JEWELRY
Specific highlights include:
• Jewelry & buttons & buckles, including rhinestone and Bakelite
• Vintage fabric yardage, trim, patterns and sewing notions
• Antique lace, linens, Vera scarves and vintage kitchen linens
• 1940’s-50’s magazines
• Lots of vintage ephemera including old ledger books
• Antique valentines
• Old science paraphernalia: scales, metal bits & pieces
• Toy biology lab set
• Vintage toy cash register and sewing machines
• Antique Wilcox & Gibbs sewing machine
• Vintage Philco radio
• Lots of old kitchenware and tools; enamelware
• Fiestaware & Bauer-ware
• Fancy vintage hats
• Hawaiian shirts
• Old washboards
• Old cameras
• Cigar boxes, tins, decorative containers
• Old library card catalogue file drawer
• Mirrors, paintings, prints
• Bird cages
• Danish modern chairs
• Carved antique chairs
And remember, Valentine's Day is coming up! Find a unique gift for your special someone.
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12/22/09
Kitchen & Garden Sale!
We have just brought in two truckloads of housewares, kitchen items and garden decor that is the result of six months of collecting!
Some items are new, some reused, most are under $10.
The collection will go on sale on Wednesday, December 23 at 11am.
Includes:
• Sets of dishes
• Sets of glasses
• Set of mugs
• Cooking implements
• Pots & pans
• Muffin tins & cookie sheets
• Pyrex
• Storage canisters
• Serving trays & platters
• Wooden bowls
• Table linens
• Hand-painted ceramics
• Aluminum tubs
• Garden furniture
• Metal patio chairs & tables
• Mosaic tables
• Baskets
• Glass vases
• Wrought iron décor
• Vintage metal toy trucks
• Original oil paintings on canvas
Come on in for some last minute gift shopping!
Holiday Hours:
Wednesday, December 23: 11am-6pm
Thursday, December 24: 11am-4pm
Friday, December 25: CLOSED
December 26-30: Regular hours, 11am-6pm daily
Thursday, December 31: 11am-4pm
Friday, January 1: CLOSED
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12/14/09
30th Anniversary Celebration and Holiday Craft Fair!
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10/30/09
Tie Silk is back, for the last time!
This weekend we will be putting out for sale the last of the extraordinary packaged tie silk pieces. Pieces range from 5"x12" to 10"x12" and there is a wonderful array of assorted colors and prints. This is a fantastic opportunity for quilters and other sewers and crafters!
The silk is now priced at $5 per pound and we expect it to sell quickly!
Holiday Store now open!
The Depot Holiday Craft Shop is now open in its own room off of the main store. It is packed with holiday ornaments, decorations, wrapping paper, gift boxes, ribbons, lights, cards, little trees, wreaths, and more.
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8/21/09
Huge Vintage and Collectibles Sale!
Beginning Saturday, September 26th, 11:00am
Please join us for a special sale of Vintage & Collectibles items, beginning Saturday, September 26, at 11:00am. Sale will continue until inventory is sold.
Most items are under $10! Highlights include:
• Old wooden birdcages
• Board games
• Vintage fabric, linens, hankies, aprons, furs, hats
• 1920’s & 30’s kitchen tools and enamelware
• Glass, crystal and china, cups & saucers, plate sets
• Vintage sewing ephemera and patterns
• Suitcases and train cases
• Old Barbies and Barbie clothes
• Horseman Cindy doll
• Composition bride doll
• Celluloid kewpie dolls
• Jewelry boxes and old containers and tins
• Gorgeous old gilded ornate frames and mirrors
• Original 1930’s chemistry set with all parts
• Avon bottles and turn of the century bottles and jars
• Large framed vintage prints, photos and paintings
• Chromed breadbox
• Incredible hand-printed Art Deco/ Art Nouveau wallpaper rolls
• Pre-1900 lace and shawls
• Many, many old books from 1870’s to 1950’s: children’s illustrated, magazines
• Figural banks
• Vintage and antique photographs
• “Kitschy” 1960’s & 70’s stuff
• Ice skates, lunchboxes
• Old stamps, typesetting letters
• Arts & Crafts rocking chair
• Thorsen kitchen chairs
• Antique Army surgical chest
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9/4/09
Upper Playground contemporary art books are here again!
$5 each or $40 for the full set of 13 titles:
Anthony Lister, "Tales of White Trash Prophecy": Mixed media |
Go back to school the GREEN way
with reused school supplies from the Depot!
Stock up on low-cost reused school supplies for students and teachers! Create your own notebook, decorate your own binder, adorn your classroom, while saving money and the environment.
We have the following on sale:
* Great assortment of new paper
* Art supplies (paint, brushes, crayons, markers, rubber stamps)
* Office supplies (pens, notepads, folders, binders with logos)
* Containers (cardboard tubes, jars, baskets, new deli containers)
* Books and curricular materials
* Farbic and yarn
* Craft materials (craft sticks, lanyard chord, buttons, beads, ribbons)
* Posters
* Stickers
* Magazines
* New lockers
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7/31/09
New inventory:
Vintage Wallpaper and Scrapbooking Paper!
Beautiful vintage wallpaper by the roll from the 1930's through 1950's, manufactured by Thibaut, Union Made, Janeway & Carpenter, Thomas Strahan Co. and others.
$1 per foot. Rolls $10-$20. Scraps and pieces $0.50-$1.00
Vintage Linens
Tablecloths, napkins, handkerchiefs, collars, and assorted embroidered pieces.
We still have posters but stock is running low on certain images, so come in soon! Free poster tube included with purchase.
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7/17/09
New inventory:
Beautiful new posters from Celestial Arts and Ten Speed Press!
This is a one-time opportunity to purchase these high-quality art posters at a fraction of their retail value.
The posters are classics and are mostly photographs and botanical prints of food, including cheeses, apples, tomatoes, eggplant, squash, wines, etc.
Large posters (24"x36") are $5 each and smaller sizes are $3 each.
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