Songbird

I have two favorite stores for gifts for my wife and family. Songbird is one of them. Jennifer always has items that no one else has. Campy. Kreepy. A little evil. And amazing. Where else do you get a coffee cup for your wife with an octopus in the bottom? Beautiful candy skulls and crafty stuff made by local artists. Great Star Wars stuff I’ve never seen. Great tattoo related stuff. Great jewelry. Kitchy and AMAZING! I’ll take pics of what I got after Christmas! Thank you so much for always having the perfect items for my «a little bit twisted» family! Please support her and her store!!! She supports the local crafty people and those people bring so much to the community. Go now!

The best. Love my pug backpack I bought here. Let’s talk about service-​excellent. We will be back.

Absolutely adore this shop! My go-​to for all sorts of high quality gifts big and small. Never fail to find something perfect for the silly, classy and the hard-to-please…and while supporting local artists, too!

I can’t ever seem to go into this store without buying something! That’s because most of the time they have just the thing that i didn’t even know I was looking for. I love their reasonably-​priced, quirky, fun wares – everything from clothing to robot-​shaped wine bottle openers. It’s my go-​to for fun gifts for myself or others.
STEPH JUDGEMENT: It’s as good as a quirky little gift shop can get!

The easiest place to buy a gift. Wide selection of fun items and fair prices. The owner is super friendly and helpful. I get almost all of my xmas shopping done here every year.

Fun, fun, fun! Lots of neat accessories. They were even nice enough to open their other shop Sneaky Tiki up the street for us so we could do even more shopping. Loved that place too!

I’ve been here twice with some friends. It is very inviting and def a place you are drawn to. When I walked in I was very visually stimulated b/​c there are a million adorable little things to look at. They have some cute clothes, bags, and accessories. It’s small shop so take your time.
PROS:
–Cute gifty and nifty items
–Good cards
–Some clothes
–Trinkets
–Super nice staff
–Great items for sale
CONS:
–Store is a little small
–Clothes sizes can be unforgiving for a short person

This shop is fun and near a lot of other neat places to visit. I love that they have pinup dresses, neat knick knacks on themed sorted shelves, and other cool things to explore. Worth popping in and then getting coffee across the street at Portfolios.

I love this place, always try to make it there when I need to pick up a gift. Cute, interesting selection, good prices and the lady that helped me was super sweet!
Oh and I got a cool t-​shirt for myself too!

Love Songbird! I’m always able to find amazing gifts and things for myself! My friends are always asking where I bought this or that at and I tell them. You HAVE to check out Songbird they have the cutest things you can’t find at most other stores.

If you’re walking down Retro Row, the first store you might pass is Songbird. You might not go in right away, but you’ll probably do a double-​take as you realize you just passed a store that has a variety of zombie toys, art, robots, and other quirky gifts. How can you not go in?
I’m not going to lie — I usually purchase something every time I’m there. Some of their items are not that expensive and they make great gifts that I’m sure the receiver probably never thought they were ever going to get. But when they open, they can’t help but laugh that they just received a zombie foot squeak toy or a gravy boat in the shape of the sinking Titanic.
On this trip, I bought a pair of wind-​up racers in the form of old ladies on walkers. You wind them up and watch them click across the table to a finish line of your choosing. I actually bought them for my grandma because I thought she would get a kick out of them. Again — I had no intention of buying anything when I walked in, but then I found a gift that I just couldn’t leave without.
There is a lot to see inside and the staff is not pushy at all. They say hello to you when you walk in and are always open to answering any questions.
This is why I continue to come back; that and they keep restocking the store with new goodies that strike my fancy.

I love this store! I bought two beautiful, high quality, dresses from here last night and have made purchases from here in the past. I am always surprised by their reasonable prices and love all the unique treasures found within the store!

Rad art, gifts, jewelry, and pop culture items. Art shows monthly. On Retro Row which I love.

Eclectic gifts in the hip vintage shopping district of 4^th Street Long Beach.
Lots of lighlty, dark, and macabre jewelry, t-​shirts, and an amazing kids backpack stacked with bone imagery and sporting iPod speakers.
One of the many amazing shops on this stretch of 4^th Street.

If there isn’t something at Songbird for that someone in your life, either you don’t know them well enough to be buying them a gift, or that someone isn’t worth getting a gift from you.
All joking aside, Songbird has some pretty cool stuff available, and new stuff comes and goes, so go there quick and often. On the last visit, I picked up a shrunken seahorse in a vial ($ 25), a bronze octopus necklace ($ 10), and a smashing cocktail ring ($ 12).
Visit this one-​of-​a-​kind shop for a one-​of-​a-​kind gift for a friend, or for yourself.

I LOVE this store. I have always had friends/​family drag me to these adorable boutique style stores and while I love them other than the arts and crafts they were not for me. I spend most of my time waiting while my friends and or family finish trying things on. Sometimes there is a well placed chair for me to sit in while they model their findings. Oops I forgot to mention, I am a plus size girl, and looking at accessories is only fun for so long. Don’t get me wrong, I have a fierce love for accessories, but it’s rare that these kinds of stores have more than accessories for me to look at. BUT songbird has PLUS SIZES! This makes me so happy. If I was not so broke I would have left with some new dresses. Once I am employed again, I will be back.
Thank you for buying cute clothes for ALL of your customers instead of just the ones that fit in popular sizes.
Now on to the accessories. I love the zombie shirts, the mishmash of arts and crafts. The felt animals are adorable. As I already mentioned, I will be back, and I will be dragging others with me.

Songbird has cute stuff and it’s a great place to shop for gifts. Nice dresses, adorable totes, little knick-​knacks, etc.
Some of the stuff they sell has problems with the quality, though. By the time I discover that, however, the receipt is long gone and they only accept store credit for returns anyway.
Two recent issues were my purchase of an iPhone case that looked like a camera. Coolest iPhone case ever AND it only cost $ 8. In a few weeks, I discovered why it was only $ 8: it stretched out and wouldn’t stay on my phone anymore. I had to toss it.
And a few weeks ago, I got my brother the Port-​A-​Pint. He loved it, until it began to leak. On the second day of use, it cracked and broke in his hands. In the garbage that goes, too.
I think I’ll be a little more cautious with some of the purchases I make here — if it’s something that’s going to go through daily use, I’d steer clear.

Such a fun and unique store… the only problem is ever time I go in there, I can’t pick one thing, because I kind of want everything! They sell clothes, shoes, jewelry, cards, novelty stuff (moustache Bandaids, anyone?) It’s the perfect place to find a fun gift for a friend or for yourself. And if you like something, buy it, don’t hesitate, because it will sell out and you’ll never see it again and you’ll be sad. Trust me, I speak from experience.
The prices are great, the owner, Jen, is wonderful. Oh and also you can totally bring your dog in, she loves dogs, especially boxers (like my Sasha)

Songbird is just too cute!
I can’t count how many times I squealed over the adorable Japanese themed items.
Awesome place to get unique gifts.

Songbird kind of reminds me of a little store I loved back home called Pandora, but with a more limited selection and fewer awesome girls working there. (Not that there are mean girls here. There are actually just fewer in number.) On a recent trip here I was able to pick up the following:
Cupcake barrette
Sushi magnets
Elephant topped coffee spoons
As you can see they have a collection of gifts as eclectic as my imagination so we are a good match, this store and I. Added bonus — they are reasonably priced so I can buy these impractical things without feeling guilty about how I spend my money. Guilt free shopping = happy Sundays for me.