Category Archives: Shopping

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Adding to the wishlist—Rachel Leigh Jewelry

September 21, 2008 – 8:17 pm

I’ve been sick and tired, quite literally for the past 4 days.

I came back from Paris and had to dive back into the work, so no pictures yet (haven’t even uploaded them-arg!).

But I needed a little Vitamin D, so Summy and Jeremy joined me this afternoon for a stroll through Gtown :)  Nothing like retail therapy to make this cold go away:P

At Urban Chic, I stumbled across this Rachel Leigh Jewelry.  I’m not much for non-real jewelry pieces and accessories.  While I can definitely admire and swoon over cutesy items that my friends wear, I’m more of a wear the same basic classics every day kinda girl (same watch, necklace, rings, bracelets, etc.).

But, branching out might be a good thing when there are pieces like this…

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Zippers on leggings? - for real?

August 12, 2008 – 11:27 am

I love chickdowntown.com, but this showing up in my inbox is just ridiculous

and then I got this, ay caramba

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It’s coming

August 8, 2008 – 6:24 am

Tuesday Monday at 10am I will be buying VIP tickets to the greatest shopping event of the year. The District Sample Sale :)

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Anthro, where have you been all my life?

July 30, 2008 – 7:26 pm

Maybe it’s the fact that I’m closer to 30 than 20, or maybe it’s the fact that I’m always looking for decorating ideas and seeing Anthro raves on those blogs. I’m not sure why, but Anthropologie was the hot store to shop at years ago and so I wrote it off as another one of those. When you live in a college town with 1 mainstream store, ::Express::, you easily write-off chain stores. (Notice my passion for boutiques and one-of-a-kinds).

Well, now I’m loving everything I see from Anthro. In fact, I thoroughly look forward to their email ads, because the photography, text, clothing, setting, etc. …everything is just beautiful. Is this shabby chic? Am I turning shabby chic? In someone else’s favorite words, oh my!

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One of my favorite boutiques is back up online (and local for you DCers)

July 30, 2008 – 1:58 pm

Urban Chic came back online! Hooray!

With that, they had a 20% off sitewide promo last week (not sure if it’s still valid) and now they have 15% all their shoes :) Use code KICKOFF at checkout and cash in!

Dolce Vita Daisy flips, how I love thee…

FYI, if you prefer purple (not me, I love my pinks you know) and you have bigger feet than this shrimpy author…head over to Overstock for a great deal! Also, in my experience, Dolce Vitas run true-to-size or a little small so I hope that helps :)

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