November 18th from 5:30 – 9 pm you can support local businesses [remember the 3-50 project] AND get a jump-start to your holiday gift buying while enjoy treats and listening to great entertainment – all in Downtown Topeka!

Shop Crawl Map 2010

Participating Merchants + Specials Include:

[last updated November 13, 2010]

Absolute Design by Brenda
Gift Shop  / 731 S Kansas Ave

Refreshments / New arrivals of Pashmina scarfs, caps and jewelry sets [most under $20]. Many tree trimming and gift giving items under $15.

Avenue Hair Styling & Day Spa
Hair Salon + Rejuvenating Day Spa  / 807 S Kansas Ave

Thursday night special: Gel polish (non- chipping polish) 50% off service. All other service 25% off.
30% off select retail

Refreshment served. Sign up for door prize. Chair massages available.

Buttercups & Daisies
Gift Shop featuring Vera Bradley Bags  / 631 S Kansas Ave

Refreshments:  Several treats, featured dips and bottled water.  Must have gifts includes the new winter Vera Bradley collection, featuring  Aprons in a special recipe box. Lots and lots of snow men items.  Once your done shopping, enjoy complementary gift wrapping.

David’s Jewelers
Fine Jewelry  / 623 S Kansas Ave

Refreshments provided.  25% off all in-stock merchandise.  With each purchase, receive a strand of freshwater pearls ($25 value)  Drawing for a watch!

Hazel Hill Chocolate
Hand Dipped Fine Chocolates / 724 S Kansas Ave

Refreshments: Samples of their drinking chocolate.

Shop Crawlers take 10% off prepackaged gifts (Thursday, Nov. 18 only).  Santa will be at Hazel Hill for pictures from 5:30 – 7 pm.  Pictures available via email – see Wolfe’s specials for unique ways to use the photo.

Lloyd Zimmer, Books & Maps
Collectible Books + Maps / 117 SW 6th St

LIVE MUSIC: Highfalutin String Band
Three drawings (6 pm, 7 pm + 8pm) for $50 gift certificates.
Refreshments: Apple Juice + Ginger Snaps
All Shop Crawlers receive 20% off of everything in the store (including gift certificates to be used at a later time).

Marion Lane Candles
Hand-poured Candles / 715 Kansas Ave

20% off Jar candles with purchase of any candle warmer (up to $5 savings)
Our Buy 6 – Get the 7th Free Flower Pot Votives will be Buy 6 – Get the 7th & 8th FREE!!) (Savings of $7!)
15% OFF Pre-Packaged Tube T-Lites ($1.00 OFF) Buy any 10 2oz standard votives – Get 2 FREE! ($3.60 Savings!)
Purchase any plug-in burner and receive a FREE QuickScent! ($3.50 Savings!)
$15 500ml bottles of Lampe Berger Fragrance with any Lampe purchase! ($5 Savings!)

The Merchant
New + Resale Clothes, Jewelry and more / 728 Kansas Ave.

20% off entire purchase. Featuring: Kathy Bolanger’s soy candles, live music and face painting for the little ones.

Drawings for gift baskets and certificates. Minnie Makeovers by Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Live music by Ryan Tenholder

Personally Yours
A Unique Boutique of Gifts + Favors / 929 S Kansas Ave, Suite B

Discount: A Santa’s “Secret” Discount Card

Shoppers will receive a scratch off card that evening. Each card will have a discount from 15%-50% off their total purchase. One lucky person could get their entire purchase free (up to $50).

Drawings: Drawings throughout the evening

Refreshments: Shoppers can warm up with a hot cup of Door County Coffee and/or tea and a personalized chocolate bar (while supplies last)

Tulips, Tiaras ‘n Toads
Girl’s Boutique  / Set-up in Kansan Grill / 705 S Kansas Ave

Have little ones shopping with you?  Stop by this stand and let them create sand art while you secretly purchase their Christmas gift.

Wolfe’s Camera, Camcorders and Computers
Cameras, video + computers  / 635 S Kansas Ave / Open ’till 8 pm

Get a step ahead on the Holiday at Wolfe’s. Check out great personalized photo gifts, cards and calendars. Put a photo on anything from a dog dish to a license plate and stops between. Crawl shoppers will get 20% off on items they make (or a 20% off coupon if you don’t have your stuff together by Thursday night).

BLACK FRIDAY PREVIEW — Wolfe’s will feature select items including camera outfits at $100 off – exclusive during the shop crawl.  Also enjoy Fall Treats while shopping.

Warehouse 414
Unique Home Collection Items / 414 SE 2nd St. [2nd + Madison]

10% of your entire order!

Showcasing gift ideas from $5 – $50.  Jewelry by iamthemandy, Bailey Marabel, Diane Gates, Smithsilver and Maria Plinksy.  Live music by the Hayden Bell Choir @ 7 pm.  Refreshments and more!

Enter their drawing for one of the 1950′s vintage Silver Christmas trees!

Entertainment

Hayden Bell Choir, 7 pm @ Warehouse 414
Highfalutin’ String Band @ Lloyd Zimmer Books & Maps
Live Music from Ryan Tenholder @ The Merchant

After shopping – eat, drink and relax…

After you finish shopping – sit back, relax, eat or have a cocktail at one of our official Shop Crawl locations- All serving food ’till 10 pm

Kansan Grill – Eat and get back to shopping with their yummy buffet featuring a variety of their menu favorites.  $8.99 all you can eat (beverage not included.)  When it’s time to relax (or relax your wallet before shopping) enjoy $1 off house wine and $3.50 adult friendly hot apple cider.

The Break Room Metro Eatery [911 S Kansas Ave.] 99 cent Sangrias and Spanish Tapas menu

Bosco’s – Comedy at 8 pm / Unique American Cuisine including flat bread pizzas, sliders and organic salads.

Check back the week of Shop Crawl for a printable map

Read a poem about the Shop Crawl by Lloyd Zimmer, Books + Maps

Coinciding with the annual Hullabaloo Sale, the Shop Crawl will offer Topekans the chance to support local businesses while enjoying Kansas Avenue, the heart of our city, with the whole community.

Special deals and offerings include:

• Personally Yours: A Unique Boutique of Gifts & Favors
  Shoppers between 5 and 8 pm can enjoy a Peach Bellini and register to win a $25 gift certificate.  All in-stock merchandise in back sales area will be 20% off, most in-stock items in front sales area will be Buy 1/Get 1 Free.  Don’t miss their super bargain table in the front of the store.
• Buttercups & Daisies: Enjoy cookies and delish dip and chips while you shop and save with discounts throughout the whole store.
• Giovani’s Pizzeria: Purchase some New York style pizza between 5 and 8 pm and get a free order of either garlic knots or zeppoles with purchase.
• Hazel Hill Chocolate: prize drawing, free samples of handmade sweets
• David’s Jewelers: Register for a Hullabaloo drawing for a watch. Offering all sorts of special discounts on items storewide.  All shoppers between 5 – 8 can register to win a strand of Fresh Water Pearls, they don’t need to be present to win.
• Marion Lane Candles: Buy 6 get 2 FPV Free; 15% off T-Lite Oil Warmers; 20% off select jar candles
• Absolute Design by Brenda: $5 off tops; $10 off straw purses; 20% off home decor
• Wolfe’s Camera: Refreshments provided. Free case with every camera or camcorder purchased during the Shop Crawl. 100′s of other products on sale due to Hullabaloo sidewalk sale
• Lloyd Zimmer Books & Maps: everything in the store is 20% off. All books priced under $20 will be 1/2 off. Hundreds of books reduced to $1 each. Sale tables with even bigger reductions.

Merchants around the avenue:

• Rosita’s Ruff Cakes: custom cookies and cakes for your canine companion
• Michelle’s Picks @ Warehouse 414: Unique gift items and small art, decor items perfect for any home.  Michelle picks her favs each week and brings them to the Avenue.

Special entertainment includes:

• Between David’s and Buttercup & Daisies.: The Stringbucklers (local bluegrass from four of T-Town’s finest young musicians)
• 8th + Kansas Ave.:  Maple12String
• 9th + Kansas Ave.: The Argyll McHaggis Memorial Pipes and Drums
• In front of the Merchant: Billy Ebeling (award winning Kansas City Blues)
• In front of Marion Lane / Absolute Design: Karaoke
• At Lloyd Zimmer’s Books + Maps: The High Falutin’ String Band
• Look for: The Huff n’ Puff Hot air balloons between Quincy and Kansas on 6th Street

AND there will be Farmers’ Market vendors from 7-9 p.m.

Check back with www.seveneightfive.com/topcitythursdays or at Downtown Topeka, Inc. to view all the participating businesses, maps, entertainment + more. Or become a fan of Top City Thursdays on Facebook.