She’s So Shoe Smitten


Shoe Smitten Boutique: the online store for shoe lovers. Whether you’re looking for ways to spruce up your shoe collection with accessories, or you need to find a gift for yourself or a fellow shoe-a-holic, then you’ve found the right place!

Plus, right now you can get 10% off your entire order! Just enter discount code SMITTEN10 at checkout.

And don’t forget to check out the Shoe Smitten Blog for the latest shoe and fashion tips!

Celebrate a New Way to Shop!



*Offer valid through 5/31/08 at 11:59 p.m., E.T at oldnavy.com, gap.com, bananarepublic.com and piperlime.com

So now it’s easier than ever to put together an awesome outfit on a budget!

Reusable Bags: 1BagAtATime

Do your part for the environment by using reusable shopping bags.

Did you know that 14 plastic bags contain enough petroleum to drive your car 1 mile. It can cost your city 17 cents per bag to dispose of it.

Now I know most people don’t want to hear about global warming, so I won’t say that…

However… my feelings are, plastic bags are a convenience. If I can bring my own bags to the grocery store and reuse them all the time, I will. Not only does it help out the planet a little bit by decreasing about 11 pounds of garbage, but it saves like $140 a year for the city I live in. Sounds like a good enough reason to me.

So I’ve been using reusable shopping bags for about 2 months. I have 2 from Trader Joe’s and I have a “clover green” reusable shopping bag from 1BagAtATime. It holds the same amount as like 3 plastic bags and that’s without squishing the bread. I highly recommend these bags because they are lightweight, strong, and you can use them over and over again. Plus, they are totally affordable!

Price: 10 bags for only $15.99

Available online at www.1bagatatime.com

Haggling 101: Finding Hidden Deals

I watched 20/20 last Friday night at 10:00pm and was baffled by this awesome story that Bill Ritter covered. I just had to share it with all you gals because it’s fantastic information!!

Quick rundown on how to haggle:

1. Ask for the store manager or owner. They have the authority to give you a discount.

2. Look for imperfect items. You can usually get 10 percent to 20 percent off.

3. Ask about discount or coupons

4. Don’t think you can’t haggle on already discounted items and get an even better deal.

5. The more you buy, the more you should ask for a discount.

6. Compare prices before shopping. If you’re not happy, walk away. You can get it someplace else.

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Shop It To Me!

Shop It To Me is an innovative free email service that notifies users when clothing they like goes on sale in their sizes. Shop It To Me’s signature “sale mail” alerts inform recipients about only brands they’ve pre-specified, in sizes they want, at a frequency they request and from only trusted retailers. Described by its shop-a-holic user base as “a pick-me-up in the morning,” “fun,” and “totally addictive,” Shop It To Me is as entertaining as it is efficacious. It’s like having one’s own personal shopper who gives a head’s up anytime a new piece of merchandise gets marked down or becomes available at a significant discount.

Consumers sign up for Shop It To Me at www.shopittome.com. They select the type of clothing in which they are interested, pick from among the 500+ brands that can be searched (such as Diesel, DKNY, Prada, Theory, Banana Republic, BCBG, Hugo Boss, etc), input their personal sizes or range of sizes and choose how frequently they want to be contacted about items that match their preferences.

Shop It To Me works by scouring Web sites of leading Internet retailers to find out what’s on sale. It then sends users personalized emails with product images, pricing and links. Because Shop It To Me maintains relationships with the best retail sites such as Saks.com, Nordstrom.com, Bloomingdales.com and Shopbop, among many others, its “sale mail” is highly comprehensive and completely safe.

Founded in 2004 by serial entrepreneur and avid sale shopper Charlie Graham, Shop It To Me fulfills a vision for a more convenient and fun way to shop online. Rather than finding out about sales too late to act, or spending hours searching for the latest deals—Shop It To Me helps people quickly find out when the items they want go on sale in their sizes before they go out of stock.

Shop It To Me currently informs users about sales of clothing, shoes and accessories for women, men and children. It also has a niche offering for running shoes and gear (www.shopittome.com/running). The company is headquartered in San Francisco’s trendy
South Park neighborhood.

www.shopittome.com

3 Perfect Christmas Gifts

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift? Let us help…

Ferrero Rondnoir Chocolate

Ferrero Rondnoir dark chocolates, features a dark chocolate cream surrounding a crisp wafer and topped with crunchy dark chocolate morsels. It’s the first dark chocolate product from the company.

A personal favorite of mine, I can’t speak highly enough of these little confections. Seriously… anyone would love to get a box of these for Christmas.

They are available in most drugstores, Wal Mart, Target, and grocery stores.

Purchase online here >>



Vintage Inspired Aprons

Any housewife or woman who loves to cook will appreciate one of these gorgeous vintage inspired aprons.

No housewife will feel desperate with these glamour girl, vintage-inspired apron and matching glove sets.

Gift-giving has never been more fun for hostess gifts, bridal showers, holidays or for simply indulging yourself…just because!

Designed and produced exclusively by Carolyn West in Los Angeles, California, Carolyn’s Kitchen aprons and glove sets are fun, sexy and all about feeling glamorous.

Carolyn’s apron and glove sets have been featured in numerous media outlets.

So whether you’re a gourmet chef or can’t boil an egg, nobody will even notice when you’re wearing one of Carolyn’s hot and spicy apron sets.

Not available in stores. Purchase online >>



“Big Bone” by Meg Cabot

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
MEG CABOT
Delivers Big Laughs, Bones Up on Romance
In Newest Heather Wells Mystery,
BIG BONED

BIG BONED goes On-Sale 11/20/07 for $13.95

“Bag the tiara and get out the gun…Cabot delivers Heather’s amateur sleuthing adventures in a rapid-fire narrative that may leave some readers begging for time-outs to control sudden laughing fits”

Library Journal

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I think this is a wonderful book to give as a gift! It was light, funny, and I think any girl would love to read it. I know I enjoyed it!

I am giving a copy to both my grandmother’s for Christmas, as well as my best friend Jaclyn. (Hope she’s not reading this post! :-o )

Exciting Fashion News

TheFind.com Puts Fashion Forward
With Acquisition of Glimpse.com

Leading Shopping Search Engine Enhances Lifestyle Category for Women Via Addition of Award-Winning Fashion Website

Mountain View, Calif. – August 29, 2007 – TheFind, Inc. (www.thefind.com), a leading shopping search engine and premier destination for discovering lifestyle goods, today announced that it has acquired the high-fashion shopping website, Glimpse.com. Through this deal, TheFind gains a leading fashion destination site that identifies and delivers the hottest trends in women’s fashion, while Glimpse.com users gain access to TheFind’s unparalleled roster of online boutiques, specialty fashion retailers and leading brand stores. With the addition of Glimpse.com to TheFind family, users will be able to find and purchase trendy clothing, accessories, shoes, beauty products and jewelry from more retailers than ever before.

Glimpse.com, one of Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites 2007, launched earlier this year and has quickly become a popular shopping destination for fashion-conscious women everywhere. Shop.org and Forrester Research predict that consumers will spend $22.1 billion on apparel, accessories and footwear in 2007, and that 10 percent of all apparel sales will be conducted online. To accommodate this rapidly growing market, TheFind.com purchased Glimpse.com for an undisclosed sum, deepening its commitment to providing female consumers with the most user-friendly online search engine and shopping tools available for finding the latest fashion, apparel and lifestyle products.

“By acquiring fashion-forward shopping guide Glimpse.com and integrating search technology from TheFind, we are continuing to deliver on our promise of providing shoppers the easiest way to find all of the popular lifestyle and fashion products on the Web,” said Siva Kumar, CEO of TheFind, Inc. “This acquisition further proves our ongoing commitment to providing the most engaging, efficient and fun online shopping search experience for our fashion-savvy consumers.”

The enhanced Glimpse.com website will maintain the chic and stylish philosophy of Glimpse.com, but will now offer TheFind.com’s unmatched Web search ability that includes access to unique and hard-to-find boutiques, brand stores and hip, must-have products. Glimpse.com users will benefit from TheFind.com’s authentic approach in offering shoppers search results which are ranked by natural popularity, instead of offering results influenced by paid placements, as is the case with the majority of alternative shopping search engines. By searching on Glimpse.com, fashion-conscious shoppers will be able to immediately access the equivalent of a visually appealing, personalized online fashion boutique tailored to their product search.

“We are very excited to become a part of TheFind.com family,” said Frank Han, Founder and CEO of Glimpse.com. “We will continue to provide style inspiration to fashion lovers, and can now offer our users a much broader group of stores, boutiques, brands and products to choose from so that they can better express their inner fashionista.”

For fashion-savvy and trend-spotting shoppers, Glimpse.com will continue to be accessible through www.glimpse.com, while TheFind.com users will be able to access Glimpse’s high-fashion search results through www.thefind.com.

About TheFind, Inc.

TheFind, Inc. offers the leading shopping search engine that delivers comprehensive, authentic and visually compelling results for products across the lifestyle goods category. The Find.com family also includes leading fashion shopping website Glimpse.com, which specifically caters to fashion-savvy shoppers searching for the latest trends and hottest apparel products. From the most popular e-commerce sites to the most unique, hard-to-find brands, TheFind.com uniquely crawls the entire Web to find over 190 million products from over 500,000 stores. By using its patent-pending “product ranking” technology, TheFind.com displays the best-selling products, styles, brands and stores for any shopping search right on the first page of results – saving consumers time and money.

TheFind.com, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is backed by the leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.thefind.com.