FYI everyone. Our Commercial Drive location will be closed this upcoming Sunday/Monday to have our floor painted. We will reopen Tuesday at 11 am.  Port Moody will be open for business.

Please come early for the best selection.

dandelion KIDS was invited to participate in the ‘Making Magic Fund’ by Suzanne of Green Planet Parties and Mommy Foot Print.

What is it? It’s a collaboration of  many small businesses who want to give back. We are  joining together with The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt a school to help children. Between December 5-11th if you shop at these stores online – proceeds will be donated to help schools, which help children, helps families and helps our future.

The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund launched a special fundraising project called Adopt-a-School. This project identifies schools and their specific needs throughout Metro Vancouver. The site tells you the individual needs within each school so everyone can  identify something to donate (sports equipment, winter coats in particular sizes, mitten, socks, etc.) The most needed item identified by all the schools of course is money so they can assess and fix their most outstanding needs. The amazing thing about donating the money via Adopt-a-School is they will match all donations so the money is being doubled, hence why we are all donating 10% of our  online sales.  Let the giving begin!

Here is the list of Stores participating:

Apricot Culotte:  an e-boutique specialized in previously loved baby clothes that we bring in from France. We also carry end of season brand new designer baby clothes including some very nice French organic brands.

Bamboobino: is an adorable line of children’s clothes and accessories made from soft, eco-friendly bamboo.

Bumblebee Toys: offers a unique collection of natural toys, crafts and playthings to inspire the imagination and nourish the senses.

dandelion KIDS: modern kids shop that stocks hip baby clothes, stylish duds for boys and girls plus cool, unique gifts for the next baby shower or kids birthday party.

Fill Your Own: offers an array of carbon-neutral, non-toxic and reusable products ideal for both kids and adults.

Giving Gifts – fair trade, eco friendly and fun gifts for babies, kids, adults and pets.

Green Planet Parties: where it’s possible to shop for eco-friendly party supplies in one place! Supporting locally manufactured decorations & goodies!

Kippo Kids: proud to offer you a quality mix of products that include a good selection of eco-friendly, handmade, organic, and Made in Canada items.

Maxwell Designs: leading Canadian designer of beautiful purses, the best diaper bags in Canada, and many accessories.

My Little Green Shop: is a hip e-boutique that provides a wide range of safe, non-toxic products for babies, children and mamas. We are careful that the products we carry meet our standards of what’s safe and eco-friendly.

Onyx Containers: food storage containers that are of the highest quality, manufactured in responsible conditions and available at affordable prices.

Puddlegear: toddler and baby raingear- children can play outside feeling warm, unrestricted and dry in their PVC and Phthalate free rainwear – certified by oko – tex.

Today I Ate A Rainbow: passionate about creating tools to help parents and caregivers raise healthy kids!

A fun and festive evening for you and your family!  Have your photo taken with Santa, take a ride on the horse drawn carriage, listen to the carolers, make a craft or two. We will be offering a special discount that evening.

Our Friend Michelle Libby from Studio 32 will be set up in front of our shop to take silly photos of you and your family.  Perfect to give as a presents this season!

Voted “One of Vancouver’s top Portrait Photographers”- vancouvermom.ca -2010
Voted “Best Wedding Feature” – aislewalk magazine -2011
Voted “Best Editorial” — aislewalk magazine -2010
Voted “Best of Weddings” — the Knot  – 2007

When?  This Thursday, December 1 6-9 pm at Suter Brooke Village, Port Moody. Corner of Ioco Road and Murray Street.

Wow, we can hardly believe it! We’ve been open for 7 wonderful years and so many fantastic things have happened. We’ve met beautiful babies, adorable toddlers, big kids entering Kindergarten and growing up happy and strong! We’ve enjoyed getting to know wonderful parents, aunts and uncles, best friends and good neighbours. Thank you for this!

When we first opened on Commercial Drive in 2004, we were proud to be the first to introduce many new and amazing children’s products to Vancouver. We are so pleased to continue with many of these beloved lines and still introduce innovative, earth-friendly, well-made, beautiful, practical products for children. We are grateful that our reputation has continued to grow over the years and we were able to expand our little neighbourhood shop into the online world and then open a second community-minded shop in Port Moody for the Tri-Cities. Our mandate has always been to present products that are well-crafted and safe with extra emphasis on natural, organic and sustainable items for kids. We hope for your continued support and welcome many more years of introducing the best things for babies and kids to the Vancouver area and the rest of the globe.

And what fun is a birthday without a celebration? Please join us at either location this weekend (Friday Nov 4 to Sunday Nov 6, 2011 and receive 25% off in stock items (a few exclusions: Strider bikes, Early Rider bikes and Daily Tea). For web orders please use promo code: happy birthday when you summit your order.

Just in time to start your holiday shopping!

Fondly,

Maria + Stefanie

Ladies! Now that Halloween is almost over, let’s have some fun just for us before the other Holidays begin.

dandelion KIDS is delighted to be invited to share an evening with the lovely ladies of Vive Clothing in Port Moody. Every year, Vive hosts a Spa & Shop night and this year, we will be showing off  Desigual children’s clothing. We adore this funky, colourful brand and if you like the kids stuff, Vive has the adult collection for you to try on! Oh, and since it is also our Birthday Sale that weekend, the Desigual kids collection is 25% off!

Great deals, beautiful clothing, delicious wine, manicures, prizes and yes… chocolate! This is a night not to be missed! Grab a gal or two and RSVP for Saturday Nov 5th from 6-9! See you there.

Visit the Vive Clothing website here, or check them out on Facebook.

Coast Modern is a documentary project about the history of residential modernist architecture on the West Coast of North America, and how our laid back culture informed the movement.

For anyone with an interest in Modernism, or a chance to mix with some of the local luminaries of the modernist architecture set, here’s your opportunity to do it with oysters on the half shell and fine local wine and beer!

Tickets are $10, including a free drink. If any of you design oriented types are interested in snapping up a limited poster, you can snap up a ticket + poster for $100.  Our favourite is the blue handmade limited edition Byron O’Neill silkscreen print, but the pink one is pretty awesome too!

Buy Tickets Here: http://coastmodernfundraiser.eventbrite.com

Invite your friends on Facebook.

It’s Summertime and Wednesday Morning Story time is taking a summer vacation just like you!

We do have loads of new books arriving over the summer and can easily pull out a pillow or two anytime if you’d like to get comfy and read with your child.

We hope you’ll join us again come Fall.

We are excited to welcome 4Cats Arts Studio to the growing community of kids related businesses on The Drive!

Join them for their opening celebration this Saturday, June 25th from 1-5 pm at 1650 E 12th Avenue + Commercial Drive. Any questions? Call them at 604-569-2287.

There will be cake and light refreshments and a draw to win 1 of 3 paint splatter parties (value of $175 each). Plus they will be handing out loads of Goodie Boxes for kids ( dandelion treats are in there!)

For Summer Camps or their Fall Artist of the Month Sessions, there is a 10% Grand Opening Special if you book by June 25th. You can book online at www.4cats.com/commercial to take advantage of this offer.