Private Jewelry Sale with Gioielli and Urban Girl Squad

Urban Girl Squad is thrilled to offer a private sale with jewelry designer Nikki Baker! Nikki’s sophisticated and handcrafted jewelry line, Gioielli, is inspired by Classical Greek architecture and sculpture and features stunning combinations of color and stones. Her pieces are made with rare and beautiful gems sourced from all over the world and have unique handmade clasps and beautiful shapes.

Urban Girl Squad ladies will receive up to 40% off her elite collection just this week, so buy soon to own her most popular pieces before they sell out! Click here to see Urban Girl Squad’s private sale, which ends this Friday at 5PM.

Fast Facts:
Date: Now until Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:00PM
Private Sale: Gioielli Private Jewelry Sale
Info: Urban Girl Squad

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About Urban Girl Squad
Amanda Hofman created Urban Girl Squad, a community-based social group for women in their 20’s and 30’s in New York City, in January 2008. Urban Girl Squad creates opportunities for these women to try new things, spend time with friends, and meet new people. Our events include food and wine tastings, beauty and fashion nights, dance and fitness classes, sports events, cocktail parties and more. We provide special, discounted access to the city–you’ll meet store owners and designers, taste gourmet food and drinks, receive personal attention from popular venues, and score some amazing gift bags. The welcoming atmosphere at our events makes it easy for members to attend on their own or with friends!

Get 25% Off this Week at Bare Necessities During the Friends & Family Sale

Exciting and fabulous news in the world of sexy lingerie and cute panties! Bare Necessities has an awesome sale going on right now where you will get 25% off your order from now until June 21st by using discount code FRIEND.

The Bare Necessities Friends & Family Sale Event includes almost their entire website, which is pretty incredible, with the exception of just a few brands including Wacoal, UGG® Australia, RIPT Fusion, Wolford, Vilebrequin, and SPANX® for Men. Everything else is fair game and 25% off is an amazing deal. If it ever stops raining and being generally gloomy I bet it’s going to get really hot and actually feel like summer soon, so why not check out their extensive collection of swimwear or browse their selection of panties because it’s true that you can never possibly have enough panties. And another thing you can never have enough of? Yeah, that would most definitely be sexy lingerie.

This is easily the biggest sale of the year for Bare Necessities, so be sure to stock up and save big and don’t forget to use the discount code FRIEND at checkout!

Father’s Day Gift Ideas You May Have Never Thought Of

In case it accidentally slipped your mind (like it did mine, I just remembered!), Father’s Day is this Sunday. Of course that doesn’t leave much time for picking out the perfect gift your father (or father-in-law) will absolutely love.

If you’re battling with seemingly impossible time restrictions, check out the following unique Father’s Day gifts from the practical to the unique and also bordering on hilarious.

New York Street Games Documentary

Bring your dad on a trip down memory lane with this documentary that looks back at all of the old street games that we’d be hard-pressed to find kids playing now, like Stickball, Boxball, Skully, among others. This DVD is narrated by Hector Elizondo with stories from Regis Philbin, Ray Romano, Mike Starr, and many others. It captures a special time in American history and strives to address the social and cultural importance of these games and the sense of community they fostered at the time when they were the most popular.

Available at NewYorkStreetGames.com ($19.95)

Bacon of the Month Club Membership

There seems to be a ‘Something of the Month club’ for everything, and now we can officially add bacon to that list. But not just any bacon–this is artisan bacon delivered to your dad’s door once a month for 12 months. He will also receive discounts on other bacon products, a Bacon the Month Club membership card, the Bacon Strip, a members-only bacon comic strip, the Bacon of the Month pig ballpoint pen, a rubber toy pig, a Bacon tee-shirt, one recipe each month that uses the bacon he just received, discounts on suggested wines and products that appear in said recipe and a pig nose.

Available at the Grateful Palate ($190/6 month membership with one package, $315/12 month membership with one package, $375/12 month membership with two packages)

Beer Kit from Mr. Beer

Is your dad a beer snob? Mine is, and that is exactly what I get him every year for every holiday we celebrate–awesome-looking beer or brewed ales that I find at the local beer distributor. But this Father’s Day may be the time to start letting him make his very own beer and he can do exactly that with the Premium Beer Kit that contains everything he will need to brew and bottle one batch of great tasting beer. The kit includes one 2-gallon fermenter, a standard refill, eight bottles with caps, eight label, one Brewer’s Guide and one set of instructions.

Available at Mr. Beer ($49.95)

Sliders Mini-Burger Set

Have a dad who is the Master Griller of the family (or just seems to think he is?) Check out this Sliders Mini-Burger set that includes a triple slider burger press for the perfect size sliders, open bun cutter for perfect size slider buns and a none slider, non-stick metal grilling basket with rosewood handle for easy grilling that lets you turn all with one flip.

Available at RedEnvelope ($29.95)

Susan G Komen plaid silk tie

Sure, a tie may seem incredibly cliche, but there are some men out there who actually like ties and wear them often. Plus, if they have a job where they need to wear a tie daily, it makes this gift idea even better. This plaid silk tie is not only stylish, but also for a very good cause. The tie has a small embroidered logo of the Susan G Komen Foundation insignia for breast cancer awareness and the proceeds from the sale of this tie will go to the Susan G Komen charity for breast cancer.

Available at Macy’s ($19.98)

Act Fast: Shop It To Me is Giving Away a $1,000 Shopping Spree to Celebrate their New Look

Shop It To Me, the free personal online shopper website that sends you a personalized email full of awesome sales from your favorite designers, just got a brand new look.

We featured Shop It To Me here quite a while ago and have been members of the website since we had first heard about it. It’s super easy to get started and if you love fashion, keeping up with the hottest trends, shopping and of course, sales, you’re going to love Shop It To Me. Just create an account, pick your favorite designers and brands and choose whether you would like to receive a daily or weekly email full of amazing deals that you are actually interested in. No bulk emails from stores tipping you off to current sales on clothing and items you don’t wear and don’t care about.

Their website as well as their sale mail emails have been completely redesigned and they look great! To celebrate their new look, they are making it possible for one lucky winner to get a whole new look of their own–in the form of a $1,000 shopping spree to any store of their choosing.

To get in the running for the $1,000 gift card to your favorite store, all you have to do is sign up and tell all your friends about Shop It To Me through their website. You can send personalized emails to your friends and find them by using Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL Mail, Gmail, Twitter and Facebook. For each friend that joins Shop It To Me via your link, you will receive an entry into this awesome giveaway.

Not only will you be entered into the giveaway for this gift card, by inviting your friends and having them join the site, you also receive gift cards to your favorite stores–and that happens all the time, not just during the time of this giveaway.

Speaking of time… You better act fast because this giveaway is only open until this Friday, so be sure to sign up, tell your friends and get your entries in soon. Like, right now.

Mulberry to Create and Launch New Line for Target

The British lifestyle brand and trendsetter in handbags, Mulberry, will be creating and launching a new handbag line to be sold exclusively through Target.

Target just recently announced the collaboration and the line will will appear on Target.com as well as in most Target stores on October 10th.

Mulberry handbags run anywhere from $145 to $4,000 a piece, so come October 10th you will have perhaps one of the only changes to score an authentic Mulberry bag at a Target price. That is ridiculously awesome! Be sure to mark your calendars so you don’t miss out on this exclusive Mulberry line and act fast because the new line will only be available through December 24th. Think Christmas presents.

…Oh no, did I really just mention the holidays? It’s only June!

Are you hip? Are you trendy? This chair is for you.

Are you hip? Are you trendy? Are you looking for new barstools? Who isn’t.

First, let me say that no unfortunately, I do not get a kickback on this recommendation – I’m just the My Design Guide value vixen. Gotta get great style for a great price. I found these barstools after seriously searching and thought I’d share them with you.

I needed something without a back because I have a view issue and I wanted something a little more modern because I usually am more traditional–time to find something fresh. And most importantly… The price–crazy.  You get 2 for $140 and FREE shipping (I hate paying for shipping.) It swivels, it adjusts…it’s awesome. 

I’m guessing there is some putting this together to do, so dust off your screwdrivers. But, I have bought stuff from this company before and things were very doable. Use code YF-9659, and you get an extra 10% off – woohooo!!! Mine are on their way and I’ll let you know how they work. 

They have fantastic choice of others that look similar, but much higher price, like this little hottie:

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