When “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” opens next week, all eyes will be on the special effects, yes, and the dinosaurs, the teeth, the drool, the chompiness, but they’ll also be on the heels. Bryce Dallas Howard’s character spent all of “Jurassic World” three years ago running in super high heels from dinosaurs and, despite critics deriding […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Nice day for a royal wedding
We started this week with a challenge: What Maine-made wedding gifts could we buy the couple who has everything? And what could we get under $20, under $100, under $1,000, and for an unlimited amount of money? Because it’s not often we get to shop with an imaginary-unlimited budget, and it’s highly unlikely anyone else […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: For the birds
Shopping Siren saw her first robin of the season the other day. There was jumping for joy. Literally. Jumping and shouting and pointing and a bit of weeping because, thank Mother Nature, robins mean winter is finally, finally ending. The robin, for its part, was startled and quickly flew away, likely to find a yard […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Legs for miles
Last week, Bag Lady asked a fabulously stylish friend’s advice on how to finish off an outfit for an upcoming formal event. Black dress and black heels, so plain black nylons, right? The friend’s reply over email read like a decorative dagger through the heart. “Black nylons and/or tights could tilt toward Italian grandma territory.” […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: We wanna be like RBG
With some trends, you welcome their return with a warm embrace. How have you been? How are the kids? Did that tennis elbow ever clear up? Others score only a curt nod. I remember you, feathered alligator clip/wedge flip-flop/fringed Old Orchard Beach belly shirt, and no, we won’t be friends again. Inspired by Ruth Bader […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Nailed it
To describe Bag Lady’s nails as the nails of a beet farmer is to insult the noble beet-growing profession. Her nails’ utter haphazard raggedness is only highlighted by the fact that it seems like every other woman she encounters on a daily basis has the most fantastic, bedazzled, polished, tipped-to-perfection hands ever. Shopping Siren included. […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Got snow? Go Backwoods
The other night, Shopping Siren had an epiphany while watching the Olympic Winter Games. Snowboarding is fun. I know a lot of people feel that way. But I have always been of the opinion that strapping your feet to a board and hurling yourself down a mountain is a scary/dangerous/generally bad idea — when you […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Hanging with the Holiday Bargain Outlet
Looking for One Direction perfume? Or sweet deals on gourmet honey, fleece-lined rain boots and bottles of sparkling Perrier? Miss the shopping experience that was Caswell’s Liquidation Center? Well, welcome to the Holiday Bargain Outlet. Shopping Siren and Bag Lady started seeing commercials for the new discount shop on outer Main Street in Lewiston a […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Kmart smart
Good news, everyone! Kmart is sticking around. At least the one in Auburn. At least for right now. Huzzah! Kmart is one of those places that’s easy to take for granted because it’s just always been there. Like your grandmother’s kitchen. But with less lemon cake and more Craftsman tool sets. So this week, Shopping […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: You say goodbye, I say hello
It’s time to bid goodbye to 2017, and there are lots of ways to do it. Farewell. Au revoir. Macsalaamo. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Shopping Siren is particularly fond of that last one. But it’s also the perfect time to say hello. To 2018! To a female Doctor Who! […]