Stuff & Nonsense

Next weekend heralds one of my favourite annual events: Salt Spring Island’s 13th Annual Apple Festival.  At Stuff & Nonsense we don’t get to contribute to the tasting (as all we have is a brambly troublesome blackberry bush threatening to take over our recycling shed), but we do get to decorate the porch with April Cornell apple patterned table cloths and trade apple stories with locals and visitors alike.  And if there’s one thing that everyone agrees on is that the Salt Spring Apple Festival is not to be missed (nor is the apple pie baked by Salt Spring’s famous pie ladies).

This year, also not to be missed is our third annual PRE-SEASON BLOWOUT EXTRAVAGANZA!  We’re teaming up with Cedar Mountain Studios as well as Twang & Pearl for a two day sale at the Lion’s Club.  There will be lots of discontinued stock at wholesale prices and some seconds at deeper discounts.  A few pieces of Twang & Pearl’s Indian teak furniture too!  Also joining us this year is Raffleasia Marketplace’s Thai handicrafts & jewelry and Two Loops’ Christmas decor.

If you missed this sale last year you definitely don’t want to miss it again.  If you made it last year, this year’s sale will be even better!

Sales are available in the Blowout location only:

Lion’s Club – just off Drake Road on Bonnet Avenue

Saturday & Sunday, October 1 & 2

9:30-4:30 pm

So take a bite out of an apple (or 100) and then head on down to the Lion’s Club and let us take a bite out of your Christmas spending.  The apples may be tart but the deals will be sweet!

Even though summer isn’t technically over yet, Labour Day always seems to herald the end of it for me.  As I sit here listening to Harry Manx at the store, the last wave of summer family visitors have just sailed away and I’m looking forward to meeting the wave of less rambunctious visitors that September usually brings in at a less frenetic pace.  I for one don’t yearn for the fabled endless summer, and always welcome the return to school and with it the knee high socks, sweaters and tall boots I get to pull out of summer storage.

At Stuff & Nonsense fall is arriving in boxes: boxes of calendars, boxes of Pure Handknit sweaters, boxes of Paperblank Daytimers, boxes of the best ever fleecy on the inside tights, and yes boxes of knee high socks.  We also are happy to welcome a new line of eco-fabric clothes from Echo Verde.  If you haven’t met their organic wool/bamboo/silk drape neck vests & cardigans yet, I can tell you they are divine.  Come in and wrap yourself in one and you too may find yourself excited for the coming of fall.