I love metallics, I love things that are free and I love card holders (well, I do when they’re metallic and free) so I’m over the moon at this nice little offer from Marks & Spencer. This pretty little metallic-effect card holder is free when you spend more than £19.50 on handbags. And if you really can’t find anything you want for £19.50 then why don’t you just buy the card holder anyway – it’s really cute and is only £5.
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Here at Shiny Towers we're giving you the chance to win one of three Ipa Nima Sanrio bags. Ipa Nima is a relatively new brand to the UK but is already kicking up a storm, particularly in celebrity circles.
Ipa Nima can count Kelly Osbourne and Sara-Michelle Gellar among it's fans.It launched across the globe in 1997 and was created by by former litigator Christina Yu. The spring/summer range, that the Sanrio is part of, has a sense of character, fusing floral detail with delicate satins and leathers to create a unique look.
The Sanrio comes with zip up pouch for valuables and is perfect for picnics or the beach. We've been promised an Indian Summer so this is your last chance to indulge in summery fashions.
All you have to do to get your hands on one of these bags is answer this simple question. Kelly Osbourne is a fan of Ipa Nima, but which stage musical is she about to appear in? Email your answers here along with your name and address.
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Here’s one for all budding poets and bag lovers - Tokyo Made are giving away loads of goodies to the writer of the best summer haiku. A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry with three lines, made up of five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. To enter email your haiku or post it to the Tokyo Made blog by 6 August. If you’re not sure how to haiku there are loads of links from the Tokyo Made blog, along with full competition rules. Here’s my effort…
Hot summer days dream
Of fresh mountain air to cool
Breathless city heart
Let us know if you enter - we'd love to read your haiku's.
We seem to have gone Lulu Guinness crazy at the Bag Lady recently (or is it just me?) so I just have to show you these Lulu Guinness bargains from Handbags and Gladrags. There are 30 bags in the sale, some of which we’ve featured previously – the Star Stella clutch and This is the Life purse spring to mind – and some which I’m ashamed to say we have kept from you (bad Bag Ladies), including the butterfly embroidery carmen handbag pictured above. Prices range from £24.99 to £206.49 and you can see the whole sale collection at Handbags and Gladrags.
There’s good news for anyone who’s got £985 to spend on an overnight bag – the Pauric Sweeney metallic lizard overnight bag (pictured above) is in the Browns sale, down from £1,640. You don’t have that much to spend, you say? Never mind, there’s always the mini black ostrich overnight bag for £710, down from £1,180. I have one question though – does *mini* refer to the bag or the fact it was made from a very small ostrich?
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The sweet ladies over at Couture Candy are having a T.G.I.F. sale on accessories from designers like E.D.E. Studio, who crafted the Buccaneer bag above, Castaway, Kuo Ting, Erica Anenburg, and Pellemelle. For 25% off your finds, just enter TGIFSELECT at the end of checkout. The Buccaneer bag may be good for the high seas of some resort towns, but it seems better suited for city streets with its hand lacing and rock and roll vibe.
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How did I miss this little jewel last season? Apparently the Bal Harbour by Marc Jacobs has been out forever - so long that Net-A-Porter has ushered it off to discount-world with a reduced price of US$892.50, down from US$1,275. And I never noticed it till now? Mrph... Well, the lovely runched leather, fascinating deep color and beautiful hardware are an irresistible combination, masterminded by our favorite Mr. Jacobs. As shown by the busy, yet sophisticated outfit put together by Net-A-Porter, this bag can hold together an outfit by its sheer, superhuman powers of color matching. By pulling together the browns and golds, and minimizing the clutter of little details such as that busy print and the dangling tassles, the outfit ends up looking fresh, rather than frumpy.
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