Shopping Siren has a thing for purses. Just so you know. Like, say, in case I make your Christmas list. Or you remember my birthday (November). Or you happen to wander into EllieAnna Purse Co. Because if you have a thing for purses — or you know someone with a thing for purses — EllieAnna […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Good to be green
Exciting news: Trees now have leaves! Not every tree, granted. But enough trees with enough little buds to make Shopping Siren hope — nay, fervently believe — winter may actually be over (this being mid-May and all, it’s a reasonable expectation). So it is with green on the trees and optimism in my heart that […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Boutique unique
Shopping Siren has a thing about boutiques. The best of them are unique. Classy. And almost always super expensive and in posh towns with Harbor or Port in the name. I feel alternately posh and poor just stepping inside. Now, I hardly ever actually buy anything from boutiques (see above-mentioned “poor”), but I love […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Sale away
It happens every year about now: shopping is between seasons. A retail Twilight Zone, if you will. Down coats smooshed in with last season’s graphic T-shirts. Fleece-lined boots lounging next to the last pair of size 6 sandals. Christmas, Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day decorations mixed together in the same bin, a festively garish […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Scent of a woman: lime breeze, mimosa essence make the cut
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren have never, ever wondered what Beyonce, Jessica Simpson or a single Kardashian smells like. And yet, facing a display of pretty bottles bearing liquids of various, vivid colors, it’s hard not to sniff. (Spoiler alert: The trio turn out to be mostly airy-sweet and more than a little alchoholy. Which […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: No more slipping up.
Mr. Bag Lady took a nasty spill on a slab of dastardly, devious, snow-covered ice during a recent storm, ironically, while trekking out to retrieve Bag Lady’s snow-gripper slip-ons from her trunk. He winced for three weeks with a bruised tailbone. That’s love. It’s also, in hindsight, totally avoidable.* * Though no less chivalrous, sweetheart. […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Office supplies to the rescue
Right now in Augusta, someone is trying to figure out how to get the state an extra $119 million without, you know, robbing a bank. Or several banks. Or all of the banks everywhere. It’s a tough job, that, and Shopping Siren doesn’t envy the budget battlers at all. Red, though lovely for Valentine’s Day, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Tools of the trade and a machete grab-and-go
There are things you need (batteries). Things you didn’t realize you needed (electronic fly swatter). And there are things no one really needs but are such a great impulse buy that your favorite store is compelled to display them right next to the cash register. Like gum. Or candy bars. Or, at the new Harbor […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: A new year with Authority
We’ve all been there: Somewhere between Nov. 30 and Dec. 25, you realize your clothes dryer must be shrinking your pants because they’ve been getting increasingly tight. Then you glance down at the eggnog and sugar cookies in each hand. You hearken back to the wine, sweet potato casserole and pumpkin pie from Christmas dinner. […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Fa la la la Lewiston!
Bag Lady and Shopping Siren have this image of what Christmas shopping should be. It involves a merry trip downtown with friends, corner carolers dressed as 1800s English folk, hot chocolate topped with marshmallows and whipped cream, a strapping young lad to carry our packages to and fro — if he’s shirtless, so be it […]