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Big Store 2011 Year In Review

December 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Professional Shopping

Share.. If you missed the Christmas sales this year, you can take a breath. New Year’s sales will give you the best deals on the market. Christmas sales are designed to capitalize on the holiday while New Year’s sales are designed to get rid of old inventory in order to make room for the newest [...]

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Victoria Beckham Caught Shopping

September 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, Professional Shopping

Share.. Apparently, British superstar Victoria Beckham is passing on her love of shopping to her newborn child named Harper. Beckham was seen recently visiting an upscale children’s boutique in Los Angeles with her eight-week-old daughter, husband David, the soccer champion, and their three sons Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, nine, and Cruz, six. Despite back problems Victoria [...]

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Yard Sale Bananza, This Time of the Fiscal Year

December 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Professional Shopping, Tips

Share..Now, with the economy starting to back bounce from its unfortunate reality of the last couple of years, thrifty consumers are on the lookout for quality used goods. These thrifty consumers are visiting estate sales and spending more and more money. According to Caring Transitions, a company which manages estate sales, bargain hunters are spending [...]

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Art Thief

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Professional Shopping

Share..Last Thursday A lone thief – probably not Thomas Crown – in a brazen overnight theft has stolen five paintings worth a total of $613 million. This includes works by some pretty big names in the art world. The paintings were reported missing from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, across the Seine River [...]

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Refinery 29

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, Professional Shopping

Share..If you’ve been stuck voluntarily reading a fashion blog for long enough, it is definitely always a fun trip down e-memory lane to pay tribute to its humble beginnings – and beginnings are always humble. If you just got hooked on fashion’s web-crack recently, clicking through the archives is an awesome (and sometimes funny) way [...]

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Fashion in Israel

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, Professional Shopping

Share..Israelis love fashion. Even briefly glimpsing the country’s major cosmopolitan spots will reveal that the pioneering days of Israel, when a T-shirt, faded shorts and sandals were appropriate for almost any occasion, are coming to an end. Style has really become an integral part of life, and Israel’s fashion designers and manufacturers are the trend [...]

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For Book Worms

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Professional Shopping, Reviews

Share..Here at My Unique Gift Idea we love seeing original functions for recycled books, so we were really psyched to see that Manhattan’s McNally Jackson Books has integrated an incredible array of bound book decor in their new renovated cafe. The independent bookseller joined forces with Front Studio to renovate the bookstore’s existing café into [...]

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For a Change of Pace

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · New Stuff, Professional Shopping, Reviews

Share..Shoppers, hello! In the mood to let fashion and spirituality breath a little? I am! In a tech mood? Me too!!! Actually I was surfing the Web a little this morning and noticed that iPad reviews by tech writers have begun surfacing, most shining a positive light on Apple’s latest dooda. Walt Mossberg, the personal [...]

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The Art of Shraga Landesman

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Jewish Gifts, Original Artwork, Professional Shopping, Reviews

Share..Shraga Landesman is an Israeli-born artist based in Haifa. He was born in 1954 and studied painting and sculpture at Oranim College of Art and in Tel-Hai College. His work is widely exhibited in Jewish Museums in New York, Paris, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. Shraga considers as his sources of spiritual muse, the Bible and the [...]

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The Jack Jaget Universe

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Jewish Gifts, Original Artwork, Professional Shopping

Share..Jack Jaget creates art in two main categories, Christian and Jewish. He is world famous for his book covers, wood work and religious crafts. Born and raised in the United States of America, Jack Jaget attained high levels of success as Art Director for the World Publishing Company. During his US stint he won such [...]

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The First Shopper: What’s Michelle Wearing These Days?

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, Professional Shopping

Share..This week the First Family released their official family portrait on their Flickr page. First Lady Michelle Obama appeared in the family’s latest portrait in a black dress with sleeves; contrasting the sleeveless dress which she wore in a controversial photo released last February. The latest photos were taken by Vanity Fair photographer, Annie Leibovitz. [...]

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Guess the new Mideast Hotspot for Shopping

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Professional Shopping

Share..The combination of a country rich beyond imagination from the black milk set in the earth’s crust with a need for manpower to run the oil-driven economy spells huge economic opportunity, and that’s what retailers are taking advantage of in Dubai, of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai has actually made it to the list of [...]

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Groupon, Shopping in Numbers

September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Buying Online, In the News, Professional Shopping

Share..A totally new and innovative approach not only to online shopping, but event organizing as well. Groupon takes the power of a group and uses it promote offers and deeply discount in-demand items using strength in numbers and the concept of a tipping point. If you go their homepage, for example, you’ll see today’s groupon [...]

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Old News! Two Planets Bash Into Each Other Millennia Ago

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Professional Shopping

Share.. NASA’s Spitzer Telescope has recently discovered that two planets smashed into each other only a few thousand years ago 100 light years away. The telescope didn’t pick up the actual collision of course, though there is a 100 year lag between what happens over there and what our telescopes can pick up. Since it [...]

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Durabook Can Take a Soaking and a Beating

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Fun Stuff, Professional Shopping, Unique Gifts

Share.. Last month, a new laptop was unleashed by GammaTech, and boy can it ever take a beating. It’s armed to the teeth in bludgeon-blunting shock-absorbing pummel-proof shielding. You can even pour water all over the keyboard and it’ll just laugh at you and continue to compute while the liquid simply drains from the bottom. [...]

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