Dormez-vous, Canada’s largest mattress retailer, which started out right in DDO with one store, is having a one day warehouse sale. You can score big discounts on their overstocks, demonstrators, floor models and mix and match combos. There will also be some pillows and linens being cleared out.

The sale will be held in the west and the east. In the west, it’s at their warehouse, in the east at their Liquidation store. They are partnered with Sleep Country and offer brand names (Simmons, Sealy, Serta, Stearns & Foster, Tempurpedic, Kingsdown). If you miss this one, they usually hold them also in July, end of October and January.

Locations: 59 boul. Hymus, Pointe-Claire H9R 1E2 corner:  boul des Sources
and 6166 Henri Bourassa E. (514-321-4134) corner: boul. Rolland
Phone: 514-695-6376
Date: May 10
Hours: 9-5
www.dormezvous.com

Spring & summer clothing by Point Zero, Nicole Benisti Signature Collection, Maurice Benisti,  Karl Kani, Blend, Kani and more are all being sold off for men, women and children at up to 70% off. The warehouse sale will take place twice over a period of 2 weeks.

Started right in Chabanel in 1979, Point Zero has become one of the largest Canadian producer of men’s, women’s and children’s coordinated sportswear. They are known for their innovative styling and good quality for the right price in clothing, socks, handbags, suits, bathing suits.

When you spend $150 or more, you will save $30, $125 or more, your savings will be $20 off, and if you purchase for $124 or under, you will get 10% off. This is all before taxes.

Location: 1650 Chabanel ouest
corner: Charles de la Tour
Tel: 514-384-0140
Dates: May 8-10, 15& 16
Time: Thurs & Fri 9-7, Sat 9-6
Metro: Station Cremazie
www.pointzero.ca
FB: www.facebook.com/PointZeroClothing

Stock up on Liquideco’s great savings on bedding, curtains, comforters, pillows, shower curtains, bath towels, mats, dishcloths, oven mitts, mattress covers, etc. They offer great deals like cushions for $3, curtains for $5 and comforters starting at $15. The savings of up to 80% off are amazing enough and on top of that they even pay the taxes for you.

Head to their manufacturer’s warehouse sale in the east end. It will only be held for 2 days, so make your list and be sure to get extras of everything at these prices.

Location: 8566 Boul. Pie IX
corner: Boul. Robert
Dates: May 9 & 10
Times: Fri 10-6, Sat 8-3
www.liquideco.com

Boutique Java Kap, sells capsules for all single serve coffee and espresso machines. This is coffee heaven, since they have over 350 choices. Right now they are running a contest for Mother’s Day, where you can win a treat to spoil Mom.

The walls are lined with bins of capsules, and you can wander through and select a variety of flavors using their cute shopping trays , or you can buy them pre-boxed – all of the same kind. You can make your own mix of 24 Keurig compatible capsules for only $16 – that’s less than $.70 per cup. Caza Trail capsules are on sale now buy 2 boxes and get the 3rd one free.

The shop sells all the Keurig brands you know and love, such as Green Mountain, Van Houtte, Donut House, Eight O’clock, Timothy’s World Coffee etc., as well as the high end Keurig brands Starbucks and Barista Prima. In addition to that they have all the popular Keurig compatible brands, namely Brown Gold, Brooklyn Bean, Grove Square, Jetsetter, Authentic Donut Shop, Hurricane, Barnie’s Coffee, Hamilton Mills, Martinson and Caza Trail. For those of you seeking premium coffee brands, you can try: Peet’s Coffee from San Francisco, Marley ( including the world famous Jamaican Blue Mountain) or Second Cup. They have a large selection of Tassimo products as well as the hard to find new flavors.

They do have Nespresso compatible capsules, Cap’Mundo, Smart Coffee, and Espresso Italia. For your Nespresso they also have Capsul’in which allows you to use your favorite espresso in your Nespresso machine.
There are environmentally conscious options as well – between 90%-97% biodegradable
Expect friendly helpful service with knowledgeable advice about all those flavors.

Location: 4583 St. Charles Blvd. Kirkland QC H9H 3C7
corner: rue Oakwood
Tel: 514-675-4410
Hours: Mon-Wed 10-6, Thurs & Fri 10-8, Sat & Sun 10-5
www.javakap.com / FB: http://on.fb.me/OGG30i
www.smartshoppingmontreal.com/store.php?s=312

Mother’s Day is this Sunday. If you haven’t picked up anything, why not buy Mom something sparkly which she’ll have for many years and she’ll remember you each time she puts it on?

Well let’s see – you can pay full price for gold jewelry in full-price retail stores downtown or you can go up to Bijouterie Oro, a wholesaler, and save half your money. Since 1987, this 3rd generation jeweler has been selling wholesale, and now is open up to the public. Lucky us.

There is lots of golden stock to choose amongst, more than you would see in your small local jewelry store. You could go nutsy over the vast assortment of gold hoop earrings – they sell them by weight. You can select amongst the 100’s of chains; they are strong in 2-tone and 3-colors of gold from Italy or Turkey. There’s 14-carat Italian chain bracelets too, and lots of little religious pendants.

If you want to buy Mom illusion diamond studs, they have those too. These earrings give the illusion of a whole stone, but are made up of little ones – for a much littler price.

If she has an older diamond (or any other precious stone) ring and you’d like to change it into something more modern, they can show you trays and trays of semi-mounts (that’s what your stone sits in), so you can see exactly what the ring will look like – it can even be tried on. You can take jewelry which has been just sitting in her jewelry box and have it re-modeled.

Bijouterie Oro still does local manufacturing, so they can reproduce a piece of jewelry from a photo. And they can repair your broken jewelry too.

If you decide to have something made from scratch, it would take only two weeks from the time you walk in the door until you happily present it to Mom.

Location: 1255 Phillips Square, Suite 1010
Tel: 514-393-1721 or 514-575-7511
Hours: by appointment only, Mon-Fri 9-4:30
orojewelleryinc@gmail.com
www.smartshoppingmontreal.com/store.php?s=280

This sale is perfect timing for ladies and men who need a new bathing suit.  High fashion, trendy 2014 season bathing suits are clearing at discounts starting at 60% off the original retail prices. Come early for the great selection of one-pieces, bikinis, tankinis, swimdresses, cover-ups, sandals and accesssories.

Famous brands you love will all be there: Christina, Baltex, Body Glove, Seafolly, Sunseeker, O’Neill, Captiva, Skye, Pia Rossini, Point Zero, Smash and more…

Premium Retail Group just keeps getting better and better. They are the kings of youthful trendy clothing warehouse sales so they have runway brands at runaway prices.

This new sale is a first ever in Canada. It is True Religion brand jeans and they will be selling over 25,000 units of clothing and accessories reduced by 60%-80% off regular prices. This sale is for the whole family, so men, women and even the kids will find something they want to buy.

Location: 4344 Garand, VSL
corner: Pomba
Date: May 7-18
Hours: Wed 11-5, Thurs & Fri 11-9, Sat & Sun 11-5
Visa and Mastercard accepted
www.smartshoppingmontreal.com/store.php?s=94
www.premiumretailgroup.com

Go get tickets for this show for your whole family right away. Piano lessons never were this much fun. You get to eavesdrop on the lives of  classical piano kids who make even “Chopsticks” funny. As you laugh through their excuses for not practicing and learn with them the difference between major versus minor chords or watch them suffer through the competitions, you hardly realize that you are listening to a classical music concert (along with everything from the Mr. Dressup theme to the Beatles) – and enjoying every minute of it.

When Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt wrote this play in 1994, they thought it would appeal to a small group of classical piano nerds. They could never have  imagined that they would play the show together for 17  years in over 4,000 performances, in 150 cities,  200 theatres (off Broadway, the Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC, London’s West End) on five continents, making this one of Canada’s most successful plays ever.

In this new run, Reza Jacobs (Ted) and Bryce Kulak (Richard) play 20 diverse characters with humor, and play on two huge Yamaha pianos with expertise, creating a fabulous two person dynamic. It’s difficult to find actors with these talents, but the ones who take on the roles absolutely adore them, because it is the story of their lives, and they play their hearts out and love it.

Pianos are the stars here too. Yamaha has always worked with this show, and since the space permits it in this theater, we get to hear the sound of these extra large grand pianos. They receive constant care, are tuned three times a week and must not only be in tune but must also be in tune with each other.

The show brings out the dilemma of what to do in life with all that training. Anyone with a musical gift or any other kind of gift must face the music if they are not going to ever become the next Glenn Gould or reach the dreams they might have had.

Location: Centaur Theatre, 453 St-François-Xavier
corner: Notre-Dame
Tel: 514-288-3161
Dates: until May 25
www.centaurtheatre.com
www.2pianos4hands.com

On the West Island, there will be an evening of shopping, lots of raffle prizes, in order to support 3 Montreal hospitals.

Distibution GeoEvoo will be at this event, selling their own olive oil. You can even have a sampling of it and while you are looking over their products keep in mind that Mothe’rs Day is around the corner, and you can pick up one of their lovely gift baskets to give Mom.

Those of you who pine for fresh from nature products will be delighted to know that they import Greek extra virgin olive oil directly from their Dad’s family estate in Messinia, Greece. The trees have been in the family for over 100 years. Olo-Ena is first cold pressed olive oil produced by the Geo Ligris Estate.

The entrance cost to this event is $10 and it buys you 5 raffles tickets to increase your chances of winning a prize.

All proceeds from this evening, will benefit The Montreal Children’s Hospital, The maternity ward of The Lakeshore Hospital and The Royal Victoria NICU.

Location: Holiday Inn, Pointe Claire 6700 Transcanada Hwy, Pointe Claire
Date: May 7, 2014
Time: 7-10 pm

This Spring-Summer Pony Ride sample sale offers up good brands: Yosi YS Samra, Designers Remix Collection by Charlotte Eskildsen, swedish hasbeens, Amanda Uprichard, Rails, Darling, Charli, Pink Stitch, peace love world. Everything will be at wholesale prices.

This sale is cash only.

Location: 225 Chabanel, suite 405
Dates: May 8 & 9
Times: Thurs 9-8, Fri 9-7
Tel: 514-937-5311
www.pony.ca