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Phew!
I’ve spent the majority of the weekend prepping our site for Cyber Monday tomorrow.
How about I offer free shipping all day tomorrow for orders placed online at www.virtuchicago.com. Your checkout will not reflect the discount. Go ahead and enter FREESHIP in the comments section of your order. I’ll take the shipping off manually when I process the order.
Updates include the entire ET CETERA section (with a few more on the way), additions to the Snow & Graham Boutique, and finally, additions to the JEWELRY section. You can now find Rebecca Overmann, Ananda Khalsa, and updated Philippa Roberts online.
Keep an eye out for a complete array of Jamie Joseph rings and Chan Luu wraps. I can only type so fast…
Enjoy and jingle on!
On the way to my local community bank this morning, I passed by a growing number of large, corporate retailers that have replaced some beloved indie friends like Embelezar.
Local and lovely is what keeps this neighborhood alive. You have a choice where to shop this season and every day. Consider keeping your money well spent in neighborhood stores like myself, Roslyn, Stitch and p45 before we get overshadowed by a corporate riff of what we do best.
For every $100 spent in independently owned stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. In a national chain, only $43 stays here. Spend it online and nothing comes home. Unless, of course, you are shopping locally on our website. Be sure to check the “local in store pick up” option and we’ll have you wrapped and ready to go.
When you shop those other behemoths from A to Z online you are taking money out of local resources and putting it into the coffers of corporate tax loopholes. And did you know that A owns Z along with D & E and so many others?
Locals Love You More and I’m fighting to Keep the Cheer Here! A huge and happy thanks to The 3/50 Project for all of the awesome resources.
Cheers to you for a gracious holiday season!
Good gracious!
As if things couldn’t get more beautiful around here. I am in love love love with Snow & Graham’s latest calendar edition for 2013.
Featuring twelve fully illustrated broadsides in a sophisticated palette of gray, green and white, the 2013 Botanical Calendar has been designed with longevity in mind. As each month comes to an end, you will flip to an even more beautiful floral in the months ahead. Have a favorite? Go ahead and frame it up.
Throughout my childhood, my mom kept a flourishing prairie of lily of the valley right outside our back door. For each Mother’s Day, my brother and I would clip some for her tray of whatever breakfast in bed we had concocted that year. I am certain that she’ll be getting one of these come Hanukkah.
You can shop for the complete Snow & Graham calendar collection right here on our very own website. Signature gifts as they are, stock up now on your favorite designs.
Cheers!
images courtesy of Snow & Graham’s instagram
A season of simple joys is beginning right now at Virtu.
Rounding out our month long series of events, it’s time, once again, for our 8th Annual Winter Wonderland event.
All day long on Saturday, November 10th from 10 until 6, we will unwrap the delights of the season from our friends at Snow & Graham.
Won’t you please join us?
On hand, we’ll have an extensive selection of holiday cards, wrap, gift enclosures and all five of this year’s signature calendar editions. New for 2013 is an elegant long form Botanical calendar in sophisticated shades of gray, green and white.
This Saturday’s event is a great way to start getting some ideas for you and for your friends. Feel free to fill out a Wishlist while you are here. You never know who might be calling….
Just in time for our fun festivities, brand new collections will arrive from Chan Luu, Ananda Khalsa, LuLu, and Rag&Bone Bindery.
In keeping with our local roots, I will donate 10% of the day’s sales to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. I hope you will join us in sharing the gracious spirit of the season.
Kick off the holidays and do a little good while you shop.
We’ll have a special treat for the first 25 guests who make a Snow & Graham holiday purchase.
For a super special treat, Ebony Snow Chafey, Creative Director of Snow & Graham, will be on hand in the afternoon – ComicCon style – to sign her beautiful designs for you.
I’m looking forward to sharing a spectacular season with you.
Cheers!
As a woman, as a mom, as a business owner, as an American, come Tuesday I will join you in the right to voice our opinions and cast a vote for the next president of our United States.
What better way to rock your pride than this awesome Tshirt from Chicago’s own US of Awesome?
The first in a series of designs we hope to carry, the states are stationed within a heart worn right over your own. It’s like having a petite personal pledge.
Just a few shirts remain in assorted unisex sizes. Long sleeved waffle tees are $35 while the remaining short sleeved shirts are $30. And, yes, there is a wee tee for the little ones with a Happy Sam emblazoned upon a light blue shirt.
Come on over and grab one before Tuesday is here.
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