Best craft place around. It has anything you could need for making jewelry, yarn work, quilting, embroidery, sewing, woodworking, kid's how-to toys, coloring/painting/drawing books and kits, silk flowers, model kits, scrapbooking, ribbons, glues, spraypaints, mosaics, candles, wall decorations, t-shirts for tie-dying, stickers, and hundreds of other items.
There is also a large section for unique baking pans & candy molds, melting chocolates, tier level plates, and decorations.
In the picture framing area, there is a counter where you can pick out backgrounds and frame type to professionally frame your picture. A made-to-order frame can be expensive, but there are 25-50% off specials several times a year.
Craft classes are available for different age groups (child to adult). The basic class fee is not expensive; most of the cost is for the materials you will need (as the finished item is yours to keep). These classes are especially great for young kids in the summer.
The employees are patient and helpful, and returns are easy with a receipt although you can usually get store credit without one. Coupons are available to people who sign up with an email address (which is not used by the store except for coupon notification). Coupons up to 50% off a single non-sale item are sometimes found at the bottom of your receipt when you...
Read moreI had a birthday party here recently and the main reason I chose this location is because the price was right. Most kids party places are out of control when it comes to the price. On the day of the party the kids definitely seemed to enjoy themselves and they got to make some crafts and that part was great. My only problem was with the execution of the party. First of all, when we got there the person they gave me to assist was just setting out the stuff for the crafts, which would have been fine if she had gotten it all completed by 11am when the party started. At 11:15, she was still putting things out, just cutting the shapes for the kids to use on their canvases, so finally I asked her if she needed help and started helping her get everything prepared. I was puzzled as to why everything was already prepared when the store opened at 10am. The kids were supposed to make 4 things and they only got to make 2. Which wouldn't have been so bad if the supplies for the other 2 crafts were separated and organized into a bag that the kids could have taken home to finish later, but that wasn't the case. I didn't say anything because the lady was nice and I could see that she was doing her best, but honestly I think there should have been an assistant to...
Read moreThis review is for the store on Walt Whitman Road (rte.110) Quite different from the review given for the Huntington store!
3 pieces of fine art were brought in for framing by their "experts". The framing staff possessed no expertise whatsoever. The process of choosing a frame and matting was a joke with help from the experts that resembled that of amateur framers I was told it would take two weeks to complete a rather simple framing job. Received an email, after 2 weeks, that the joe was ready for pick up only to discover upon pick up that only 2 were ready. The other piece came back to them damaged and had to be sent back! Upon my complaining about how long I'm waiting, I was told this 3rd piece would take less than two weeks. They would call me when ready and email me. Two weeks later I called them to find out where my pre-paid framing was, I was told it's been ready and that it shows they called me 10 days earlier! I Never received such a call.nor did I get an email.This is what I call piss-poor service especially for work prepaid in full! Experts my ass! More like after...
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