LAST DAY to Enter the Accessorize 1-2-3 Giveaway!
You have until 12 PM tonight! If you haven’t entered yet – do so here! (And spread the word to your social networks to get more entries!)
Hurry – the clock is ticking!
Leave CommentIdeeli Wants to Know Your Opinion: Fur & Pop-Up Shops!
Ideeli has a couple more one-question polls for ya if you enjoy taking these things.
Earlier this month, David Arquette started prepping for the final blowout sale at his pop up shop, Propr Clothing on Abbott Kinney Boulevard in Venice, CA. Propr is closing after being open for 3 months.
The idea of a pop up store at first glance is a genius idea for a brand or designer that wants to showcase a diffusion line, or who cannot fully commit to a long term lease. But now has the pop up charm worn off especially since so many ho-hum sample sale events are now trying to bill themselves as “pop ups”? Share your opinion with us. Take the poll below. Feel free to share the names of your favorite pop up shops in the comment box.
The new PETA ad featuring First Lady Michelle Obama, which the White House says is using Michelle Obama’s image without her permission, is popping up in Washington’s Metro stations, magazines, and PETA’s Web site. Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Carrie Underwood, and Tyra Banks all shun wearing fur. We want to know your thoughts on the fur debate. Take our poll below and remember, we love you either way!
And, if you’re not a member of Ideeli.com yet, click here to use my invite code and gain access to some of the best designer brands out there, on sale for up to 80% off!
(Plus they have fabulous giveaways from time to time…and right now there’s a giveaway going on for a $1000 shopping spree, 7 items from the ADAM collection, 2 round-trip tickets to NYC, a $500 gift certificate to Bliss Spa, and a 6-month membership to the House of Blues’ VIP room!) Join now for instant access!
-Carly J. Cais
Leave CommentStrappy Sandal Giveaway from ShoesGotSole!
January is turning out to be Giveaway Month here at Chic Steals!
I have the wonderful opportunity to offer my readers another fabulous item for a giveaway – this time courtesy of ShoesGotSole.com!
ShoesGotSole is part of the CSN family of stores (200+ online stores for baby, home furnishings, housewares, luggage, and pets, just to name a few), and offers competetive prices on a wide variety of Men’s, Women’s, and Kids’ shoes, as well as socks and accessories. With brands such as Aerosoles (just launched – check it out if you love the brand!), Carlos by Carlos Santana, Fergie Shoes, Bronx, Timberland, Dingo, Gwyneth, Luichiny, and Dr. Scholl’s, the picks run the gamut from comfort to trendy to fashionable. Orders over $69 ship for FREE – and they offer free shipping on all returns. They also work hard to offer customers the lowest prices prices around – you find it for less elsewhere online, and they often can match the price for you! How’s that for customer service?
ShoesGotSole.com is offering a pair of shoes to one lucky reader! Choose between the Bronx Women’s Fancy Platform Sandal in Black (a $75 retail value) at left, or the Blast in Aqua/Black from Fergie Shoes (a $74 retail value) at right. (BTW, neither shoe is available anywhere else – and Zappos doesn’t even sell either brand!)
Sandals are in for Spring – the heels are high, strappiness and sexy are back!
How to enter?**
1. Leave a comment on this post! Make sure there’s a method of contacting you in your comment – and choose which shoe you want from the two above!
2. Extra entries? Tweet this giveaway, blog this giveaway, post on Facebook etc….come back here, and leave another comment with the link to your promotional effort. You’ll get one more entry per tweet/blog entry/FB post!
**Giveaway open only to residents of the U.S. and Canada.
Edit 1/19: Entry period is now closed and winner will be announced shortly.
Entry period ends in one week on Monday, January 18, at 12 PM PST. Winner to be drawn by Random.org – and she gets to choose her size and have it sent to her by the folks at ShoesGotSole.com!
Enter, tweet, blog, promote! Thanks ShoesGotSole for offering this – and best of luck to everyone!
xoxox
Carly
1-2-3 Giveaway with Accessorize.com!
300 Followers! You guys are awesome!! I can’t believe there are so many of your out there, reading, commenting, being on the journey along with me. After starting this blog, it took almost a year to even gain one follower. I had that one for a very long time after that. I wondered who that person was and what she was into – and I was thrilled she was out there somewhere, reading. Then, one day, a second follower appeared! I was ecstatic. To think there was a time when I squeed at 2 followers! (Then the next day I was back down to 1 follower. I took that really badly.;-)
Now this little blog has 300, and I’m so so proud. Thank you for being there and reading! I have the best readers in the world!
So to commemorate this momentous occasion – I’m giving away not one – not TWO – but THREE SETS of items this time – SIX pieces in all! Wow!
Accessorize.com has graciously partnered with Chic Steals to offer my readers a sampling of their Spring 2010 line. (If you don’t know about Accessorize.com, you can check out my intro post to the brand here.) They are a U.K.-based mega-chain of affordable and chic jewelry and accessories – hence the name. They’ve just introduced U.S. shipping on their website (and they already ship domestically in the UK and to much of Europe).
Here is what is available for the giveaway (in 3 sets):
SET 1: ONE SEQUINED CLUTCH (TOTAL ARV = $48)
American Sequin Clutch from the Blue Belle Collection, ARV = 30 pounds ($48 US)
SET 2: TWO BOHO BAGS (Total ARV = $104)
from left, Safari Sequin Bag from the Harlem Collection, ARV = 35 pounds ($56 US)
(Note: the bag I have for the giveaway differs slightly from the bag in the photo…it has gold beads on the ends of the drawstrings instead of tassels.)
(Note: the bag I have for the giveaway differs slightly from the bag in the photo…it has gold beads on the ends of the drawstrings instead of tassels.)
Rope Handle Beaded Carryall, ARV = 30 pounds ($48 US)
SET 3: THREE FLOWER RINGS (TOTAL ARV = $40)
from left, Mauritiaus Cluster Ring, ARV = 10 pounds ($16 US)
Large Flower Ring, size S (adjustable), ARV = 5 pounds ($8 US)
Triple Flower Gold Ring, size 8, ARV = 10 pounds ($16 US)
Large Flower Ring, size S (adjustable), ARV = 5 pounds ($8 US)
Triple Flower Gold Ring, size 8, ARV = 10 pounds ($16 US)
So…one sequined clutch, two boho bags, and three rings! (Somehow that has a lovely ring to it, don’t you think?:-) It’s over $190 of merchandise up for grabs – my biggest giveaway yet!
How to enter?
1. Follow this blog (subscribe thru Google reader, Bloglovin’, an RSS feed etc.). If you’re not a follower already, please become one! I’d love to have you here:-)
2. Leave a comment on this post telling me which set of items you want: the sequined clutch, the boho bags, or the rings. (You can’t split up a set – if you win the rings, you get all three!) Your comment must have an email address in it/method of contacting you. Don’t just leave your Blogger profile if there is no “Contact” option in it!!
3. Extra entries? Tweet this giveaway, post it to Facebook, blog about it, Digg it…whatever you like! Come back here and write the link to your posting in a comment AFTER your original entry comment. And you can pick a different item that you want the second time around…or the third time around…or whatever. You get my drift!
Any comment that does not conform to entry method will be removed. Sorry, but that’s the way it rolls.
3 Winners will be chosen one week from today on Friday, January 15, at 12:00 PM midnight PST, by Random.org.
Edit 1/16: Entry period is now closed and winner will be announced shortly.
Giveaway is open only to those with a U.S. or Canada mailing address. Sorry – I will go broke shipping things internationally if, say, all the winners are in Italy. I’ll be having a giveaway open to all my readers worldwide soon!
Please enter – tell your friends – and spread the word!
Best of luck to all, and thank you for helping to make this blog what it has become!:-)
xoxo
Carly
Chic Steals Has Received a Beautiful Blogger Award from Brunette & Pink!
Wow! I’m so honored to be the recipient of this award – and from such an inspiring source, too.
Tamara from Brunette & Pink is such a gorgeous lady – classic and elegant – with wicked skills with a makeup brush. Having survived a bout of thyroid cancer (!), she blogs about makeup, style and life in an upbeat, inspiring way. I love her “Footwear Fridays” and her “Makeup 101” posts. Great reading and necessary fashion food!
The award requires me to list 7 details about myself – well, here they are:
Swoon. Maybe it’s the effeminate hairstyle??
1. I had this major, MAJOR crush on Lou Diamond Phillips when I was a kid. (Young Guns II was my favorite.movie.ever for like 5 years in a row.) I even sent him a fan letter and got an autographed photo back that said “God Bless Lou Diamond Phillips.” I was never sure if he was writing “God Bless” to me specifically or if it was an attempt at reverence for the actor himself.
Is it wrong that George Bush’s photo is bigger than Lou Diamond Phillips’?? Blogger, your photo compression sucks!!
2. While we’re on the subject of autographed photos…When I was 9, I was horrified to find out that such a beautiful thing as the rainforest was being destroyed at an acre per minute [it’s actually now an acre and a half per second, apparently) in the name of “progress.” I was so incensed I wrote a letter on my best scalloped-edge stationery to Pres. George Bush (the senior, who was Pres. at the time), that he needed to do all he could to save such an important and necessary part of the environment. I received an autographed 9 x 11″ photo of the Pres., sitting in the Oval Office looking important, in reply.
3. I graduated high school in 3 years instead of 4 by condensing my junior and senior year into one and taking double the courseload in order to get the credits to graduate. Majorly bad move.
4. I get horribly chapped lips during the winter. Nothing helps them – not even the infamous Kiehl’s. I’ve tried just about anything, and now just slather on Neosporin covered with a layer of Chapstick when I sleep. If anyone has any recommendations for a super-healing lip cream, I’m all ears!
5. I pierced my bellybutton myself when I was 16. It came out, though.
Um, okay…that’s not me. This popped up under “Oahu Activities” when I googled snorkeling images. Gee, I wonder who that website is trying to lure to the islands???
6. I love snorkeling for shells in Hawaii and when my family and I go, we always go to the same secluded off-the-radar bay to find the best shells on the whole island. I haven’t found anything extremely rare though!
7. I don’t drink alcohol. At all. I hate the stuff, the taste, the burn in the mouth. Blech. I tried to force myself to drink 4 oz of red wine a day for the health benefits like a year or so ago – on the second day I was already gagging and so gave it up. I can stand rum raisin ice cream though, but that’s it!
The seven other Beautiful Bloggers I am passing this on to?
Pandora at Accessory Source
Chie at Vivat Veritas
Aya at Triangle Y Triangle
The Owl’s Closet
(I know you’ve already received one of these already…but I thought you deserved another!;-)
Melissa from RetroLove
Sophia from Phosphene
Please list 7 little-known facts about yourselves on your blogs…and pass it on to seven other Beautiful Bloggers!
Thank you Tamara! You are the sweetest ever!
xoxox
Carly
Who I Am
Carly J. Cais I am a DIY’er, designer, sewist, maker, and marketer. Chic Creative Life is where I share what I do, and help others bring their unique style into their own lives.
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