Oct 3, 2010 | Life, Score!
If you happened to miss it – there’s currently 2 giveaways accepting entries right here on my lil’ ol’ blog.
The one ending tomorrow is for the Gift Bag from the SELF Women Doing Good Awards – which is crammed full of $100 worth of L’Oreal Paris beauty and makeup products!
All you have to do is be a Chic Steals follower and leave a comment on the post in the link below saying what charity you liked from the post (and Tweet it, FB it, and re-post it for more entries).
It ends TOMORROW (Sunday, October 3, at 11:59 PM PST), so…
There’s only been 14 entries so far, so odds are looking pretty good for anyone who enters! Good luck!
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 29, 2010 | Fashion, Score!
As I’ve been hinting since last week, there was a Challenge given to the bloggers in attendance at the Marshall’s event last Tuesday (where I learned a lot about off-price retailing – check out my write-up here if you are interested in this particular sector of the clothing market).
10 Bloggers were in attendance at the event, and we were each gifted with a $100 gift card to use to purchase some items to work into our wardrobes.
Then we had to incorporate the items we bought into a Week’s Worth of Outfits, mixig them with other pieces that were already in our wardrobes.
So here’s how I styled the above items my week:
Also wearing: Claire’s rhinestone earrings; Forever 21 ruffled-front blouse, wool tuxedo jacket, and mixed chain bracelet; Alloy Victorian booties
Also wearing: Target 3-strand headband; envelope necklace from Reyney’s Etsy shop; Forever 21 collegiate blazer and goldtone chain ring; Newport-News oversized patent clutch; Alloy Parker Wedge heels
Also wearing: Jeans Warehouse white ribbed tanktop; tie-dye cardigan (also from Marshall’s); gold coin long necklace from Aldo’s; Forever 21 woven belt; Old Navy Trouser Jeans
Also wearing: chainmail viscose top from soo long ago the label’s gone; mixed white bangles from Pineapple County in Honolulu; vintage bangle; Old Navy chain pochette
Also wearing: DIY filigree dangle earrings; DIY scarf; Claire’s “Dream” 2-finger ring; Forever 21 studded clutch and heeled combat boots
Also wearing: Forever 21 sequined chain necklace; Ann Taylor leopard-print cardigan [Ebay]; Old Navy satin-edged cardigan; Target mixed-chain cuff; 2 DIY feathered bangles; Hue reversible tights
Also wearing: DIY spiked headband; silver key necklace from Japan; Urban Outfitters tassel bag; faux fur foxtail available in my Etsy shop; convertible Victoria’s Secret top worn as skirt; Alloy Marlane boots; cape from Ideeli slung over shoulder
A CHALLENGE FOR MY READERS!
So the challenge for you guys is: GIVE ME YOUR COMMENTS! The blogger with the MOST comments on their Week of Outfits post receives a $100 Marshall’s gift card to give to one of their readers!
So…to be entered in the drawing to win a $100 Marshall’s/T.J. Maxx gift card…
Leave your Comments on this post!
As many times as you want! Tweet it, blog it, post it on Facebook! Tell me what you thought of my outfits, if you liked anything I picked…anything! I really want one of my fabulous readers to win – so the more times you comment, the more I’m likely to win this!
If I am the one to receive the most comments, I’ll be picking one comment from this post [with the help of Random.org] and awarding the reader the $100 Gift Card! As you can see from above, if you shop smart there’s a TON of great items you can find at Marshall’s…so for anyone who’s longing for something new for Fall…to spice up their back-to-school wardrobe…needs to get some cute outfits for the kiddos…wants to get a head-start on Christmas gifts…or is desperately in need of a new coffee table…this $100 Gift Card will sure some in handy!
Contest is open until Oct. 4, 2010 at 5 PM EST.
So comment up a storm because we’ve got a lot of other bloggers to beat!!;-)
Check out the other bloggers’ Week of Outfits at:
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 25, 2010 | Score!
Tuesday earlier this week the Women Doing Good Awards commenced at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The third annual event hosted by SELF Magazine honored 4 women deserving of recognition for their charity work and their tireless efforts to make the world a better place. The recipients, as chosen by SELF reader vote, were:
Lisa Scarpinato and her husband co-founded Kitchen on the Street, a non-profit in Phoenix which sends more than 300 needy kids home from school on Fridays with Bags of Hope- backpacks filled with enough food for them until Monday. After learning that kids in her community were going hungry on the weekends, she decided to do something. “It broke my heart that kids at our local school were starving,” she said, “I wanted to be a good neighbor.”
JJ Ramberg thought with all the money that search engines were making, there must be a way to donate some to good causes. Her good heart and motivation led her to start GoodSearch.com with her brother, Ken. The site donates one cent to a charity (there are over 90,000 non-profits to choose from) each time you browse the web. They also launched a sister-site GoodShop to connect online-shoppers to vendors like Target who will donate up to 30 percent of each purchase to a listed cause. Since 2005, GoodSearch has raised $34,000 for the ASPCA and $14,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
When she was just 15, Haley Kilpatrick of Atlanta started Girl Talk, a mentoring program that pairs high school and middle school girls. Her hope is that young girls won’t go through the teasing and cyberbullying that she did as an adolescent. “Girls have to come together and talk so each one can realize it’s not just her having a rough time. I wish I’d known that,” she says. Nine years later, more than 32,000 girls in 39 states have joined Girl Talk.
Minka Kelly and Sofia Vergara
Minka Kelly, celebrity recipient (Stand Up To Cancer)
A stunning and talented young actress, Minka Kelly distinguishes herself with powerful performances and a natural ease on both the small and big screens. Minka is best known as ‘Lyla Garrity’ on NBC’s critically acclaimed series Friday Night Lights and currently can be seen starring on NBC’s Parenthood. In 2008, Minka lost her 51-year-old mother, Maureen, to colon cancer. Determined to join the fight against cancer, Minka became an ambassador for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a non-profit organization founded by a group of media, entertainment and philanthropic leaders whose lives have been affected by cancer.
Hoda Kotb and Dylan Lauren
Hoda Kotb of the Today Show emceed the event and was also honored for her charity outreach in the fight against breast cancer. The award recipients also received $10,000 from SELF’s editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger and Vice President & Publisher Laura McEwen.
AnnaLynne McCord. Love the updo!
Other celebs in attendance included Laura McEwen, Lucy Danziger, Maria Menounos, and Kamie Crawford, Miss Teen USA.
The event was presented by L’Oréal Paris, and included amazing gift bags filled to the brim with fabulous L’Oreal products.
So this brings us to our giveaway! To spread goodwill and the spirit of the Women Doing Good Awards, SELF Magazine has generously offered that same gift bag to one lucky Chic Steals reader!
L’Oreal Women Doing Good Awards Gift Bag
The same gift bag that was given to attendees of the Women Doing Good Awards event – crammed with 10 items to help you (and your guy) look and feel your most fabulous!
Contents: Telescopic Explosion / Infallible Lip Colour / Collagen Micro-Pulse Eye / GO 360 Clean / Men’s Expert Ice Cold Eye Roller / Men’s Expert Hydra Energetic Skin Energizing Gel Cleanser / Elnett Satin hairspray / Everstrong Reconstruct Shampoo / Studio Secrets Professional Color Smokes Eye Shadow / SELF Magazine October Issue
ARV = $100 (!!)
How to Enter
Edit 10/4: Entry period is now over and a winner will be announced shortly.
1. Required: Follow Chic Steals. (In Blogger, Google Reader, Bloglovin, etc. – just once somewhere is sufficient!)
Then, Leave a Comment on this post below telling me which charity from the post above captured your heart. Did Girl Talk seem like the best idea ever? Do you use GoodSearch.com? Or would you donate your money to breast cancer research? Let me know in your co
mment!
2. Optional: For another entry, tweet this giveaway and leave a linkback to your tweet in ANOTHER COMMENT. If you don’t leave it in a separate comment, I won’t count it – so keep it separate!
3. Optional: For another entry, blog about this giveaway and leave a linkback to your blog post in ANOTHER COMMENT. If you don’t leave it in a separate comment, I won’t count it – so keep it separate!
4. Optional: For another entry, post about this giveaway on your Facebook page and leave a linkback to your post in ANOTHER COMMENT. If you don’t leave it in a separate comment, I won’t count it – so keep it separate!
Max: 4 entries per person allowed.
Giveaway open to any Chic Steals follower in the U.S.
Apologies to my international readers!:-(
Giveaway period is open from today until Sunday, Oct. 3, 11:59 PM PST.
Winner chosen by Random.org.
So please enter, spread the word – and good luck! (I’m soooo jealous and totally coveting that gift bag myself!!)
xoxox
Carly
FTC Disclosure: I have not received any compensation for this post. The gift bag will be sent to the winner of the giveaway directly from Conde Nast and the SELF Magazine team. See my disclosure policy here.
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Sep 19, 2010 | Life, Score!
Can you believe Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week is over already???! It seems like this week has just flown by – and there’s still so much to talk about, covet, drool over, and be inspired by from the shows and the people and the creativity and the general fabulousness of this event.
So, at least for now, to console those of us who weren’t able to make it there in person – here are the giveaway winners!
For the Fashion Gift Bag Giveaway:
Entry #24: Destined for Now!
And for the Makeup and Beauty Gift Bag Giveaway:
Entry #80: Kammi!
The winners have already been contacted to get their shipping details.
Congratulations to our winners and thank you so much to everyone who entered! 🙂
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 16, 2010 | Life, Score!
The Judges have judged, the votes have been tallied, the Favoriting has been ranked…and at long last here are our 4 Winners!
Fan Favorite Winner
(Most Hearts + Likes during Competition Period)
Congratulations – your projects were all fantastic!
With over 150 entries this Competition was a smashing success! Thank you so much to everyone who entered, blogged, tweeted, added buttons, and promoted it – we couldn’t have done it without all of you! 😀
Even if you didn’t win something this time around, please keep crafting and DIY’ing and sharing your projects – so the spirit of doing-it-yourself spreads unbounded and teaches us all to
Don’t Buy…D.I.Y!!
xoxox
Carly
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