Best Buys -- Greer Wylder

Antiques 4 You offers a great deal on consignment items. If you choose

to bring in consignment pieces, Antiques 4 You will charge 30%. Owner

Nina Khodorovsky says 30% is the best deal you’ll find in the

Newport-Mesa area. The store accepts jewelry, silver, mirrors, art,

lamps, china, porcelain, silver, figurines and furniture. It also offers

a service in which it will sell your antiques on E-Bay at auction.

Antiques 4 You is at 324 Old Newport Blvd., Newport Beach. Information:

(949) 548-4123.

Shoe lovers will have more to chose from in October when the new Marmi

store opens at Corona del Mar Plaza in Newport Beach. It’s the first

Marmi store to open on the West Coast and will feature fashionable and

sophisticated European-influenced footwear and accessories. Marmi will

carry the latest styles from Sesto Meuuci, Van Eli and Rangoni of

Florence in a large selection of sizes. The store will carry sizes from 4

to 12, and size 13 in some styles, and five widths, from super-slim to

wide. Marmi will also have handbags, belts and sterling jewelry.

Corona del Mar’s Coco’s Bakery Restaurant is temporarily closed for

extensive remodeling and will reopen with a new look at the end of the

month. Among the many improvements is the addition of the Corona del Mar

Room, a new facility for community meetings and events. The Coco’s Bakery

Restaurant will reopen with a three-day celebration, complete with

special promotions, entertainment and more. “Our newly designed

restaurants offer our guests a whole new dining experience, with a more

relaxed and contemporary setting. Special for this location will be the

creation of the Corona del Mar banquet room, which will allow us to give

the community space that’s been needed for quite some time,” said David

Devoy, president of Coco’s Bakery Restaurant. Coco’s is at 3446 E. Coast

Highway, Corona del Mar. Information: (949) 673-7154.

Scandia Down, which is also in the Crate & Barrel/Macy’s Home Store

wing, is having a lightweight comforter sale through Aug. 12. A select

group of lightweight comforters and an assortment of fine bed linens are

reduced 25%. Information: (714) 549-9046.

Cottage Corona del Mar for Cottage Furnishings & Home Accents is

offering a craft class Aug. 28 on how to make mosaics using broken china.

Joan Holmes, a mosaic expert, will show you how to transform broken china

into a decorative mosaic piece. The fee is $25 and requires reservations.

The new craft series will run from 7 to 9 p.m. on the last Tuesday of

every month. Cottage Corona del Mar is at 2411 E. Coast Highway, Corona

del Mar. Information: (949) 566-9339.

Roger’s Gardens has discounted what some experts consider to be the

best rose, the Iceberg rose, at 25% off. There are also informative

seminars for garden enthusiasts offered this weekend. Today there’s a

“Bringing the Outdoors In” seminar at 9 a.m. Roger’s creative director,

Eric Cortina, and horticulturist Cristin Fusano will show how to bring

garden elements into the home for seasonal accents. On Sunday, there will

be a “New Plants” seminar at 9 a.m. Tom Foley, a garden expert, will

present a few of the new plants that are now offered by Hines Nurseries.

Roger’s Gardens is at 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road, Newport Beach.

Information: (949) 640-5800.

Pet’s Central has an ongoing special on Tuesdays. Every item,

excluding dog and cat foods, is reduced 10%. Pet’s Central is a one-stop

shopping destination for pet owners. It also carries a big selection of

reptiles, fish, small animals, and flea and tick remedies. Its new store

is at 2300 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. Information: (949) 642-5673.

BEST BUYS appears Thursdays and Saturdays. Send information to Greer

Wylder at 330 W. Bay St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627, or via fax at (949)

646-4170.