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Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Shopping Tips
Thursday, February 9, 2023
A Fabulous New Store
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| Flowers by Carolyne Roehm |
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Smart Shopping
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| Koi Ginger Jar |
You may recall my posting recently on this blue and white koi ginger jar I found at Amazon. I love it for my Florida home because it's so tropical chinoiserie. It's $83.58 with free shipping. It is 9.4" wide by 18.9" tall and weighs 7.5 pounds.
Sunday, July 19, 2020
HomeGoods Secrets
I have always been a really good bargain shopper. And I love to shop. But for me, it's the thrill of the hunt. Anyone with enough money can go and spend a fortune on something. For me, to find a gorgeous item for pennies on the dollar is fantastic. Many of you have commented and emailed asking about my HomeGoods store. Do you really think I am going to reveal my special store? Well of course I am, because you are my gang. I find all of my great stuff at the Bee Ridge store in Sarasota. Personally, I think the stores in Venice and at UTC are a waste of time and space. Generic trendy stuff. I have been to both countless times and have never found one thing.
But lots of you are not in this area, so here are my HomeGoods shopping tips.
1. Shop Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. They tend to restock on Monday. Weekends are busy and picked over.
2. Buy it if you love it, you can always return it. It won't be there if you go back for it and you will kick yourself.
3. Look for red tag items. All three of my Chaddock Home Mary McDonald items were red tag (further markdown) in the Clearance section. These yahoos down here don't know Mary McDonald from Old McDonald's Farm. Ei ei oh!
4. Look for designer items, not knock off trendy junk.
5. Shop all the aisles - I find great things everywhere - gourmet foods, dog items, cleaning supplies, gift wrap, etc. etc.
6. They offer delivery for big items.
7. My favorite departments are furniture, linens, home decor, lamps, and art. The art used to be awful, but mine at least has gotten really good.
8. Go consistently - once a week - stock changes daily.
Happy shopping and don't buy anything at Bee Ridge with my name on it. LOL
PS - I should have mentioned they have dedicated hours for Seniors, they limit the number of customers, employees are all masked, sanitize the carts, have Plexiglas at checkout, have enlarged aisles, some aisles are one way - I feel they have done a very good job at making things safe. Fellow shoppers are very polite and 99% have masks and social distance. Kudos to HomeGoods.
PPS - After my post yesterday on the raffia pendant, they are close to selling out (I bought mine this time before posting), so grab it if you want one.
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| HomeGoods Finds - Mary McDonald for Chaddock Home |
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Stay At Home Shopping
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| Brass Palm Tree Sculpture |
I have been trying to to enjoy shopping online as an alternative to shopping in person at stores. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention....
I have been looking for a great palm piece for my coffee table and fell in love with this brass and lucite palm sculpture at Williams Sonoma Home. It was even on sale. So I put it into my shopping cart and starting checking out and it tells me that it is not available online, but just in stores, and all their stores are closed. A corona conundrum. Customer service confirmed this. I tried in vain to find someone selling it on eBay or Poshmark or elsewhere. Have you had the experience of finding something you just had to have and it was discontinued or out of stock or whatever? Very frustrating.
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| Brass Palm Sculpture in a room |
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| Brass Palm Sculpture - 2 sizes - Williams Sonoma Home |
Years ago, Lonny featured the bedroom of Lonny founder Michelle Adams with the Kate Spade Cloverdale Rose Bowl. People went nuts over it. Unfortunately, it had been discontinued. Bloggers were posting their own DIY hacks, and bidding wars erupted on eBay when one was listed.
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| Lonny |
I was patient, and kept checking eBay after the sensation calmed down, and eventually found a brand new one on eBay at a great price. It took me five years of hunting, but I finally got one.
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| Kate Spade Cloverdale Rose Bowl |
In the meantime, I found it in its other cylindrical style at HomeGoods. Here it is in my previous home office.
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| My Office |
These are my favorite vases and two of my favorite pieces. Hopefully, I will have the same sort of experience with the brass palm. At least I am safe at home. Have you had a similar experience hunting down an elusive piece?
And I am making progress in my walk-in closet as promised. Here is my bracelet drawer -
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Snow Week Shopping Finds
Despite the snow and frigid temperatures in DC this week, I found two lovely treasures for my home.
Ages ago I posted on this gorgeous Dana Gibson ikat ginger jar above that I saw on One Kings Lane. By the time I found it, it was sold out. Then the other night on One Kings Lane, this ikat ginger jar below appeared and I promptly ordered one. It is being delivered today. The colors will be beautiful in my living room. Not exactly the same, the one above is painted metal and the one below is ceramic, but close enough for me.
I popped into one of my thrift store haunts yesterday after getting dug out from the snow and found this darling vintage wicker torso for $10.00. Wicker breasts. ;-) I thought it would be fun in my laundry room adorned with necklaces.
For me, a bit of shopping, online or in person, is just the cure for cabin fever. Hope any of you hit by this snow storm are safe and warm. My Tibetan Spaniel Izzy can't get enough of the snow.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Williams-Sonoma Home Goes Chinoiserie
Williams-Sonoma Home is a wonderful source for high end things for the home. Here are some of my favorite Chinoiserie pieces. Above are their new Ceramic Pagodas.
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