Lisa Jeffries Nobling – Raleigh, NC

Tag: shopping

  • Calling All Local Readers with a Cause or Two

    Here’s a quick PSA, because I like to pay it forward and I know that lots of my local readers have some great causes to share! 🙂

    Last year, the Swagger Gifts Holiday Open House Preview Party raised over $1,500 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma society, and now your very own favorite cause could be featured this year!

    If you are involved in a worthy organization, cause, or non-profit, please tell my friends at Swagger about it!

    Email Mandy (at) SwaggerGifts (dot) com with the story behind your cause and why you think it would benefit from being featured as this year’s Holiday Open House Preview Party charity!

    Nominations will be accepted until August 1, 2009.
    Swagger will choose and let everyone know in August who has been selected.

    The 2009 Holiday Open House Preview Party (possibly benefiting YOUR favorite charity) will be held on November 5th, 2009.
    The 2009 Holiday Open House will be held on Sunday, November 8th, 2009.

    PS – If you do email a suggestion to Mandy, please drop me a comment or an email to let me know! I’d love to hear that one of my reader’s suggestions was selected and have the chance to support you and your favorite cause at the annual party.

    {Image: SwaggerGifts.com}

  • {Double Post} Dress for Success Auction & Show

    As I’ve mentioned many times before, my area has just gotten its own Dress for Success local affiliate and I am a proud volunteer!

    We have an online auction going on right now with some great items up for grabs… check it out!

    Success Suits Her Gift Bags and Free Tickets to the Southern Women’s Show are up for grabs!

    Our auction is being held in conjunction with this year’s Southern Women’s Show April 24-26 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Make a donation of at least $25 prior to the show and you will receive admission to the show, as well as a “Success Suits Her” gift bag in appreciation of your support. Visit our booth (613/615) to receive your bag filled with great products (including over $50 of Burt’s Bees personal care products) and discount coupons for valuable savings.
    Speaking of which, the Dress for Success fashion show at the Southern Women’s Show:April 25th at 4:00pm
    Dress for Success – NC Triangle Affiliate will have a fashion show at the Southern Women’s Show featuring clients wearing Dress for Success clothing. Sue Stock (N&O) and Sonya Williams (Tarheel Talk) will share wardrobe stretching tips, reveal the hottest bags from Beijo and most importantly, celebrate each woman’s success. Please be there and support these great women on this special day.    Thanks for reading – please feel free to share/repost/etc.!

  • {Double Post} Tervis Giveaway on Swagger’s Facebook “Public Profile”

    Swagger Gifts is giving away one of the most coveted accessories in blogland… and no, it has nothing to do with Lilly Pulitzer.

    It’s the Big-T (24 oz.) Tervis Tumbler (MadMariner.com calls them “Terrific”)!!!

    These bad boys keep your cold drinks cold, hot drinks hot, don’t sweat, you can’t break ’em, AND they are dishwasher safe. I’m drinking lemonade out of my “Pi Beta Phi” Big-T as I write this… and getting pumped about investing a whole set of these for the days on the beach, lake, tailgates, and boooooat.

    Click on the picture above and go directly to Swagger’s post on facebook to comment to win – it ends this Friday (so do it by Thursday night, just to be safe).

    When you “Become a Fan” of Swagger on facebook, you’ll receive weekly updates on each new giveaway. You should also subscribe to the blog, too – that’s where the winner is announced!

  • Vendor Fair in Morrisville

    This is a cool event (and venue space, for whatever your future needs may be) that I just found out about this morning through my Chix daily digest.

    The Studio
    Studio & Party Place – Morrisville, NC

    Vendor Fair
    (This is going to be a regular event on the Third Thursday of every month!)

    March 19th from 3pm to 8pm.

    Vendors Include: Gold Canyon Candles, Arbonne, Cardio Cocktail, Discovery Toys, Candles and Chimes, USANA, LocalAdLink, Tomboy Tools, Nikken, Spa Lady, Silpada, Private Quarters, Gold Girl, Pampered Chef, Juice Plus, MonaVia, Isagenix, Stampin’ Up

    I don’t know what “Cardio Cocktail” is… but it sounds like something I can appreciate.

    (Image: The Studio)

  • “Helloooooo Hangover”

    I usually put Swagger‘s giveaways on the girly blog (all things retail, style, and trends), but this one can apply to many of you – girly or not, and it prefaces a later post on this past weekend’s really awesome Riley-Dorn wedding extravaganza.

    This week’s Facebook Friday of the Week from Swagger’s facebook page is a product that has gotten rave reviews and flies out of stock: Sprayology.


    Sprayology Party Relief is one of our all time most popular items – and we FINALLY have it back in! Some of our customers (you know who you are) have been begging for it!

    This Party Relief is a HANGOVER REMEDY and it works like a charm – I had to test it out for you guys! 🙂 You will be seriously happy you found this product!

    You can check it out here: https://www.swaggergifts.com/party-relief $24

    Would have been AWESOME to have some handy yesterday and this morning. My hangover (possibly second hangover of the day) hit around 2pm while we were having breakfast at iHop. Yep, breakfast at 2pm. (I had to go retrieve my car from the Sheraton parking deck while I still had a driver and a vehicle at the townhouse before he had to go to work before I could meet the gang for breakfast.)

    PS – So how did I get home? White Horse! These are my boys (because they deliver me home safely on a regular basis) and I love them. Cabs suck – get in the truck! (That should be their new tagline.)

    Put the following numbers in your cell phone address book: 919-782-5893 or 888-62-HORSE (888-624-6773). You WILL thank me the next time you’d like a reliable ride home at 2am.

  • Great Giveaway for You Southern Chefs

    I received some delicious responses to yesterday’s post about Natty Light Chicken and cooking with beer.

    In honor of that, I’m posting a fantastic giveaway that everyone would be crazy not to enter themselves into!

    My favorite local gift and decorative accessories boutique, Swagger Gifts, has been hosting a Facebook Friday of the Week (see former giveaway items here) for a few months now where each Friday something special in the store will be given away to one (sometimes even two) lucky commenters who are fans of Swagger Gifts’ page on facebook. The winner is randomly selected and then posted to Swagger’s blog (which also, is SO worth following).

    This week’s giveaway is a monogrammed “Big Wood Board” cutting board. They are PHENOMENAL.

    All you have to do to be entered to win is leave a comment directly on the photo on facebook. It’s THAT simple.

    While you’re on Swagger’s page, you should obviously click on “Become a Fan” so that you get an update every week when Swagger offers up a new great giveaway.

    Biased much? Sure. But when you win a kick butt gift, I bet you’ll be thankful for my bias. 🙂

    PS – Regina and Randall, I’m formerly calling you girls out to enter to win because the sample photo has a “R” on it… how much more appropriate could it get?

  • {Double Post} The Shop with a Conscience

    I can’t believe this is another thing I’ve never remember to blog about, because it’s one of my Cameron Village favorites – Beleza: A Fair Trade Boutique.

    Described on their website as a place where:…you will find unique and extraordinary textiles and hats, jewelry and art that catch your eye and touch your heart.

    Beyond offering beautiful things, Beleza exists to provide hard working people from countries around the world – and here in the US – essential support to provide daily necessities for their families.

    While the store is fair trade, the major emphasis of Beleza is to treat people as they should be treated, and assist in global economic development.

    Beleza is owned and operated by two of the most wonderful people I know: P. Dail and his wife Sara.

    I received the following email today from Sara about a new addition coming to their store that I am really excited about:

    Recently we met Audias from Honduras. Born without arms, he paints with his feet. We will have his work in the store very soon and encourage you to come see this work. Audias has no other means of support. We plan to host a special event for you to meet him.I’ll be sure to update when I hear more details!

    In the mean time, go check out Beleza and become an addict of their amazing selection of goods with a heart, too.

  • What All You Well-Dressed Gentlemen Have Been Waiting For…

    …and also for us southern girls who love a sharp-dressed man!

    Southern Proper “Tailgates and Ties” Trunk Show
    Preppy and Football…It’s What We Do.

    Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
    Time: 12:00pm – 9:00pm
    Location: Varsity Men’s Wear, Crabtree Valley Mall

    Stop by Varsity Friday before the NCSU vs ECU football game to get all your tailgating essentials, bowties, neckties, Proper Polos, and more! There may even be a free gift with purhase like croakies and koozies!

    Ladies, come by and pick something up to surprise your beau!

    Also, get the chance to meet the original belles of the business. Emmie and Reagan will be visiting from Atlanta for this special event.

    Feel free to invite all your friends!

    Kisses to my lovely little Pi Phi – and fellow NCSU COT girl – Mary Lauren for sending me the scoop!

  • Local Round-Up

    A collection of some good to know local info from yesterday’s blogosphere…

    From the retail business news goddess, Sue Stock:
    North Carolina’s Fresh Market stores have started stocking fresh shrimp that have been caught in NC waters.

    Add this to the ridiculously long list of things to do this Saturday:
    the Town of Cary’s Lazy Daze festival!

    Another from Sue Stock – the business news writer who keeps us on our retail toes:
    Replacements will be selling more than 100,000 pieces of overstocked merchandise. Unlike previous years, shoppers will pay a $5 entrance fee and then $5 for a box that they can then fill with as much yard sale merchandise as it will hold. (Yes, you can buy multiple boxes.) Items in the separate sidewalk sale section of the event will still be priced per item.

    Love it all.

  • Holly Aiken’s Shop is Back!

    From my other blog (and originally from NewRaleigh.com):

    New Shop on the BlockSuper exciting!