Pop-up shops – Page 2 – Danforth East Community Association

July 19, 2013

Pop-up Shop Deal of the Week

This week’s deal is a fun one from In This Closet:

Christina and Colleen are offering a summer discount card. Every $10 spent gets you a stamp and at 10 stamps you’ll receive 15% off your next purchase.

In This Closet | 1765 Danforth Avenue
Tuesday-Thursday 11-8 | Friday 11-9 | Saturday 12-8 | Sunday 12-5

In This Closet offers the best of thrift pricing with a boutique experience for quality and unique fashions for women sizes 0-20. Modern and classic quality clothing to take you from the office to a night on the town and everywhere in between…

And a reminder that Krystle Lee pop-up boutique’s exclusive trunk show with Toronto designer Tess Barbieri this SATURDAY, July 20, from noon to 6 pm.

Plus, you still have time to fill up your Pop-up Passport for a chance to win a big bag of awesome FREE stuff. No purchase necessary, just get your passport signed by the participating stores by July 31. The prize packs include:

scalp massages courtesy of Manzer Hair Studio
$50 shopping spree at Cheap Thrills
a six pack of cupcakes from Yummy Stuff
shoes from In This Closet
coffee from Circus Coffee House
sandwiches from Danforth Sandwich
scones from Cake Town Cafe
discounts at E-Closet
goodies from Silly Goose Kids and Better Bulk
cookie cutters from Madame Gateaux

You can pick up a passport at the Thursday East Lynn market or in any of the stores mentioned above.

DECA’s latest round of pop-up shops will be open for up to 6 months on the Danforth. Get all the SHOP DETAILS here. Please support our community’s efforts to revitalize our commercial strip by taking some time to visit and support these exciting pop-up enterprises.

July 11, 2013

Pop-ups: Deal of the Week, a Trunk Show & yet more deals!

Pop-up Shop Deal of the Week

This week’s deal comes from fun, fashionable (and extremely affordable) E-Closet:

Take 20% off in-store! Natasha is even including previously reduced sale merchandise, so you definitely should check this out. Bamboo bottoms (shorts, leggings) not included in the deal.

E-closet | 1801 Danforth Avenue
Monday-Saturday 11-6 | Sunday 12-5

Fall Fashion Preview & More deals

Mark your calendars: Krystle Lee pop-up boutique will be hosting a trunk show with Toronto designer Tess Barbieri on July 20, from noon to 6 pm.

Lucky Danforth Easterners will get an exclusive preview of Tess’ new collection of Canadian-made, eco-friendly fashions, plus the designer will be on hand for a meet and greet. There’ll be tons of excellent deals to be had, so be sure to save the date.

Tess Barbieri Trunk Show flyer July 2013

Over at Cheap Thrills, just in time for the opening of local pools, Jonathan and Eyob have a special on water wings. They also have a few designer (Coach, Fossil) handbags and watches still in stock, but they’re going fast so stop by soon.

And finally, a contest alert! E-Closet is giving away all the ingredients for a great summer date: a new outfit (value up to $80) and 2 tickets to the movies. All you have to do is enter here before August 15.

Speaking of FREE stuff, have you got your Pop-up Passport signed by the stores yet? No purchase necessary! The prize packs include:

scalp massages courtesy of Manzer Hair Studio
$50 shopping spree at Cheap Thrills
a six pack of cupcakes from Yummy Stuff
shoes from In This Closet
coffee from Circus Coffee House
sandwiches from Danforth Sandwich
scones from Cake Town Cafe
discounts at E-Closet
goodies from Silly Goose Kids and Better Bulk
cookie cutters from Madame Gateaux

All this FREE stuff just for going into stores you shop at anyway! You can pick up a passport at the Thursday East Lynn market or in any of the stores mentioned above. We’ve got 5 prize packs, so your chances of winning all this sweet swag are mighty good. Winners being drawn from the completed passports on July 31.

April 25, 2013

Design Help, Safety Notice & Hootenanny for Earl Haig PS

Are you a Graphic Designer?

The Pop-Up shop team is looking for some help with design work. They’re a fun group. And they’re helping to make our stretch of the Danforth more vibrant! If you have design skills to contribute please email the team.

Safety Warning from 54 Division

There have been a number of break-ins into homes in the Parkview Hills community. These break-ins have been occurring in homes that are under construction and have been taking place in the overnight hours. Residents are advised to be alert to any strange acitivity in their community. Power tools have been targeted in these particular break-ins and residents with homes under construction are reminded not to store power tools in their unoccupied homes. All tools should be engraved identifying them as belonging to the owner, using an identifiable mark such as the driver’s licence number.

East End Hootenanny

March 20, 2013

Pop-Up Shop Big Ideas Night & More

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel A. Barker

Big Ideas Night

DECA’s pop-up shops started with a vision to change the Danforth. You acted. You scrubbed. You scraped. You painted. You walked in the door. And you shopped. Each of these are small, but vital acts that support the future of our community and of walking neighbourhoods in Toronto and around the world. People who change the world don’t do it grand sweeping gestures. Well, I suppose you might if you were Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. But those guys just give money to people who scrape, scrub and and walk in the door. In these acts you are creating a community that is more vibrant, walkable and safe. Now we’re asking, once again, for a little bit more. We need your ideas.

You are cordially invited to join us for the DECA Pop-Up Shops Big Ideas Night. We want you and we need your big ideas. Pop-up shops have already been responsible for the renting of two spaces on the Danforth and we’re looking forward to a few more pop-up tenants opening up permanent shops this spring. If you like the pop-ups and the activity they are creating, we’d like you to help us think about the future of pop-ups and where to go from here.

Wednesday, March 27 7-9 p.m. This meeting will be fun and interactive. We promise!

One Last Hurrah for the Current Pop-Up Shops: Krystle Lee & Fa Real

Fa Real Designz N Prints | 1898 Danforth Avenue
Tuesday-Saturday 12-8
Fa Real brand clothing is all on sale for $10. Plus, if you want your name put on a hockey jersey you can get it done for between $15-30.

Krystle Lee | 1801 Danforth Avenue
This weekend only she will be offering everyone and additional 30% discount (on select merchandise) off the already super low prices, best to go out with a bang!

If you haven’t had the chance to shop or you left that special something behind, now is your chance.

You can catch her this Saturday and Sunday between 1-5pm

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March 7, 2013

March Pop-Up Shop News

Did you hear? Two of the February pop-up shops that we fell in love with are sticking around another month! Now, they are the pop-up shops formerly known as the February pop-ups. (Thankfully, they have much catchier names:) Fa Real Designz N Prints and Krystle Lee will be gracing our neighbourhood with their awesomeness for the entire month of March.

Fa Real Designz N Prints | 1898 Danforth Avenue
Tuesday-Saturday 12-8
Birthday celebrations are happening. We hear there will be cake to celebrate owners Allister’s milestone. And this weekend only you can get custom tee’s for $20 (regular $30) and toddler/baby shirts for $10 (reg $15). There is also a end-of-winter season sale on FaReal clothing (hoddies, long sleeves and tees) and if you spend over $50 the toque is on them!

Read more about Fa Real owners Tracey and Allister from an interview they did with the Scarborough Mirror and check out what local resident, DECA Board Member and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee recipient Catherine Porter has to say about her experience with the shop below. And if you too would like to be the best gift giver in your family, you should visit Fa Real this weekend.

I am a good gift giver. I pride myself on this. I’d say I have the record in my family as the best gift giver.

I give thoughtful cool presents.

Allistar and Tracey at Fa Real Designz N Prints have helped me keep my record. I am in love with them. You will be too.

Let me explain.

Seven summers ago my husband’s family built a lop-sided cabin at the cottage. I was up on the roof too. The project ran over time and budget. So, for Christmas that year, my husband and I got everyone in the family (the Burt family — I kept my last name, thank you very much) custom-made shirts for the Burt Building Company. On the back it says: “We may not be smart…. but we’re slow.”

The shirts were a hit.

My sister-in-law just had baby number three. I needed to get little Ollie a gift. An AWESOME gift. So, I took a photo of the T-shirt — both sides — and emailed it to Allistar and Tracey, who specialize in custom-designed shirts. They have one of our pop-up shops on the Danforth, where the old jewellrey place was.

I asked them to approximate the design — use a triangle instead of a house, you know, whatever. It’s the idea that counts.

Tonight, I picked up a dark blue onesie that matches EXACTLY my own T-shirt — except I don’t have clasps at the bum, but you get the idea.

Allistar and Tracey are geniuses.

I got two more — three custom-made shirts for $50.

This place is the BOMB. It’s around for another month, as one of DECA’s pop-up shops. Lucky us.

We’d like them to stay even longer.

Don’t you have a gift to give someone? A soccer team to outfit? A street party coming up?

For more information about these pop-up stores, the DECA Pop-Up Shop project and DECA, please visit our website, and follow us on twitter @DECAdiaries.

February 21, 2013

There’s still time to POP in.

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There’s about one week left for the February Pop-Up Shops – still plenty of time to pop in! And if you want to know more about the people behind these pop-up shops, check out this Beach Metro article.

Fa Real Designz N Prints | 1898 Danforth Avenue
Tuesday-Saturday 12-8
The buy 1 get one 1/2 off promotion will continue this week.

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