Driftstone Pueblo

Maybe its just me, but the amount of carcasses in this place is atrocious. Im no vegetarian, im quite the meat eater. BUT there was way too many animal skins. They had coyote and bobcat FACES!!! Who sells faces!!! They had a whole pheasant! The head included! They had hooks full of skunks, racoons, some kind of weasel, coyote, fox, and a huge buffalo skin. A bit of overkill. Literally.
The jewelry was pretty, but way too over priced! There was a shelf of stones ranging from 75 cents to $ 6!!! Would have bought a lot more stuff if it wasnt so expensive!
If you have money to blow, i recommend this place because it DOES have nice stuff, despite the price tags. If you ever wanted enough real animal fur to make a coat or two, or twenty, this is your place!

The store is really big, and they have a beautiful collection of jewelry and some cool loose leaf tea! I gave them 3 stars because, though they have a large collection, only a small portion was actually authentic. Purses and shoes were made in china and Pakistan. I would have loved to see more authentic stuff, but the pottery section so really nice. I especially liked the horse hair pottery.

Driftstone Pueblo is foremost a wholesale supplier and has excellent price for their product. I have never been by their retail store in St Elmo but order from them for my business frequently and always get excellent service and prices.

I stopped at this store on my way driving back from St Louis last year. My sister and I kept seeing signs for it on the highway, but then we decided we’d rather just get home. A mile and half past it I had to just say «um, I kind of regret not stopping at that store» to which my sister responded with «me too!» and we turned around. Women.
We pulled up to the store, which was pretty large in size and was being renovated at the time or something because their were a handful of guys working on the place. No areas inside were closed though. Inside there was tons of stuff. The advertisements on the road side mostly boasted Native American jewelry and things like that but it had lots of other stuff as well like hand woven baskets that were very nice (and expensive) and hand crafted figures (expensive) and statues (expensive) and blankets (expensive). I don’t mind paying more money for nice things but how do I know they are all legit handmade? I am a skeptic about things like this in souvenir shops. Lots of books and little kid souvenir type things as well. We walked around the place for at least an hour.
They strayed away from the Native American theme only slightly, with weird cowboy souvenirs and the random little kid junk. But it still felt like a kitschy souvenir shop more than a cool Native American jewelry store that was being advertised.
Regardless, my sister and I both ended up buying stuff for the family, our boyfriends, and of course, ourselves. It is a cool shop to stop at if you just so happen to pass it by. Tons of stuff inside, two floors, stuff for kids to make you buy them… a nice little roadside stop. I was glad we stopped, but wasn’t overly impressed.