All Entries in the "Shops & Services" Category
On This Shopping Tour, Style Is Your Guide
We all know where to go for the shopping staples, which include stores like Gap, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Old Navy. But, what to do if you’re looking for a store off the beaten path? New boutiques and designers are always flocking to Chicago and it can be hard to keep up! That’s why Danielle Lutz [...]
The Birth of a Perfect Gift Basket
Looking for a great hostess or holiday gift? How about a gift basket…the sort filled with gourmet goodies you’ve no doubt seen in big box stores like Target and Costco. But wait, you don’t have to run out to the store to buy one of these bounteous baskets. Design Pac in west [...]
Beta Boutique Brings “Stacked Rack” Back
Along with the New Year often comes the list of resolutions. Whether it’s to lose weight or learn Spanish, we all create a list of goals or wiser behaviors that we will pursue. One of mine is to spend my funds more wisely. Sure, I was pretty good about it in 2009, but this year, [...]
Going Organic on a Budget in Chicago
As we all have know, “going organic” is the new catch phrase – and with good reason too!
In Chicago, doing just this is easy to do. Probably just like you, where I live there is a large, national, organic grocery chain store right around the corner. Convenient, easy drive from home and a great selection. [...]
August Grocery Store – a shop for cooks!
It’s no secret that I love food, and that I love to cook. Despite this, I don’t enjoy grocery shopping. The fluorescent lighting, kids screaming over cereal choices, the aisles upon aisles of preservative-laden food…it’s enough to make me open a Peapod account! In a perfect world, I’d have a small neighborhood grocery store that [...]
Serendipity Delivers Kids’ Fashion For Less
There are two things that I know for sure about raising kids: they grow like weeds and they cost money. Those two facts can make shopping quite the costly chore. If it seems like you’re always buying clothes for your ever-growing child, I suggest that you look into shopping at a children’s resale shop. Saving [...]
Photobooth Express hands out license to act silly
I can’t say that I’m an expert in organizing parties but I’ve been known to throw some pretty fun events and so based on experience I think I have a clue on what are important issues when throwing a party.
Of course we all know that the venue, food, and drinks are important. But really [...]
Sweeter Than Honey
In this quest to be smart and healthy in how I feed my family, I am always on the look out for places that help me on this path. And while I always want to serve the best to my family, I don’t always feel like cooking that food in my own kitchen. That is [...]
Grow, Baby, Grow!
This Spring, my husband and I decided to make our large balcony into a container veggie garden instead of buying $100 worth of annuals as we’ve always done before. I asked him first what he thought about growing some vegetables out ther and his response was, “Why not do all vegetables?”. Yes! Why not? [...]
Pigtails & Crewcuts: A Cut Above Other Children’s Haircutteries
Recently I took my two-year-old son to have his hair cut at a popular discount haircut chain. As predicted, son threw a fit. The hairstylist had absolutely no idea how to handle him, other than to throw a sucker his way and stand back so as not to stab the thrashing child with her scissors. [...]
