Shop With Me

via Belle Boutique, Rogers, AR

I love to shop - it's no secret. And approximately half of the emails I get on a weekly basis pertain to shopping and my recommendations for stores, both locally and online. So I thought a great way to keep you guys in the loop on my retail stomping grounds would to be to create a page called, (unorginally, I might add) Shop With Me.

I've always had a unique, 'works for me' approach to shopping, or as I like to call it, "closet feeding".

Hey, my closet is a hungry girl. And a girl's gotta eat, right? : )

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1. When it comes to shopping and styling, I prefer to buy and mix "investment pieces" with inexpensive items for a personal style philosophy I like to call "High/Low".

Shirt - Old Navy, Earrings- BaubleBar, Jeans-Hudson, Shoes- Nine West

2. I also shop on a budge. As cutie-patootie stylist Brad Goreski would say, "A low budge". I've never been one to turn up my nose at a clearance rack or a sample sale and I'm also a consignment store enthusiast. I also like to buy items at the end of a season. Retailers have crazy-awesome markdowns as seasons draw to a close because they're trying to move merchandise out of the store to make room for the next season's inventory.

3. Finally, I always encourage my friends to shop locally. Local stores are a gold mine of great pieces that are not only unique, but often times more affordable than those offered at a chain vendor. Plus, local boutiques tend to carry very limited numbers of each piece, guaranteeing that you won't see twenty other women walking down the street in the same top you're wearing, (how awkward is that moment, right?)

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Check out my fancy-dancy new Shop With Me page to check out the complete list of my favorite vendors! These are people and stores that I really, truly have purchased items from and really, truly adore.

Finally, if you visit one of the boutiques on the Shop With Me page or buy from them via Facebook,  please let them know I sent you! Any business owner likes to know where their traffic comes from, so just let 'em know that Leslie @ A Blonde Ambition blog sent ya : )


Thank ya kindly, little ladies : )

Be blessed, lovelies-

P.S. - There will be Confessional Friday Link-Up tomorrow. Still hard to blog right now because my energy is tapped from the surgery, but I can't resist this fun segment!)

P.P.S.- NWA Fashion Week is going on up here this week and it's killing me that I'm not able to go! If any of you guys go to the shows this week, please email me pics and I'll put them up here on the blog next week! Get your schedule for the rest of the week's shows, here.