Any springtime celebration has to embrace the irresistible charm of pastel color palettes, outside settings, and an abundance of flowers. All of these elements may be combined in this woven space-saving caddy centerpiece to create a tabletop display that simply signals the advent of spring. You can match it with your favorite wine, silverware, napkins, and floral arrangement. Because it's fashioned of exotic vines with a unique rustic finish, this is a great way to add a touch of country ...
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Spring is in the air and Beatriz Ball's Bamboo is a best-selling trend this season. Discover the beauty of bamboo with our Signature Metal & Thanni Collections
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Petal Pink Country Estate is dreamy, feminine, sophisticated, and soft. *Cue romantic sigh* Dream lunch guests would be: Jane Austen, Penelope Featherington, Emily Dickinson, and who else?
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We fix computers that are Acer, Asus, Dell, Alienware, HP, Lenovo, Thinkpad, Sony, Toshiba and many more types. Computers that are PC desktops or laptops. Wires Computing Electronics Repair has worked on every type of PC brand to date.
We also service Apple iPhones, Samsung Galaxy Cell Phones, Google Pixel Repairs, and so many more cell phones.
Find us for the best computer repair VT can offer you. Within burlington, computer repairs are done on-site within our office, or at your home / ...
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Jim Shreve made Baccarat hip. Now, he and his longtime partner, Mark Brashear, along with Sally Burnside, the former Baccarat sales V.P., intend to do the same for DeVine Corp., the 32-year-old distributor of elite European brands. You're invited to the opening!
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Congrats to you all. This is very exciting. Tim, we’ve known each other since before you started DeVine Corp., 32 years ago. You’ve been looking for the right opportunity to retire. TIM ...
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A McKinsey study found that the average life span of companies listed on the S&P 500 was 61 years in 1958; today, it’s less than 18 years. McKinsey believes that by 2027, 75% of S&P 500 companies will have disappeared. New businesses have an 81% chance of surviving their first year; in two years, a little less than 70% of businesses are still standing. Only 25% make it to 15 years or more. There’s a clear long-term trend of declining corporate longevity, with this figure ...
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We love this trend!
Start thinking spring and setting the Easter table with this classic design style.
An updated classic, the Bamboo serving pieces and candlestick holders in a champagne gold tone are distinguished by naturalistic details, expert craftsmanship and stately proportions. Guaranteed to add a luxe look to any space, the bamboo pieces are a standout! Add a touch of Palm Beach glamour to your dining table this spring.
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It’s hard to believe that MEPRA’s sophisticated technicolor collection FANTASIA is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year because its incandescent chromatic complexion is as fresh today as its 1989 debut.
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The brilliantly-hued fantasia comes from the Italian silversmiths Mepra, post-war business founded in 1947 by the Prandelli family, four generations fashioning flatware in the industrial Lumezzane Valley, about 90 minutes east of Milan. ...
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Designer Don Estabrooks just may have the most compelling flatware portfolio ever. The longtime Towle Silversmiths designer joined the company in the mid-’60s and has created hundreds of flatware patterns in an almost six-decade (and counting) tenure.
Perhaps his greatest achievement is Wave, which debuted in 2004 to rousing fanfare and has been at the top of the charts ever since. Chris Wile, another longstanding staffer (33 years), is president of Lifetime Brands/Metals (which owns ...
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Thanks to Casafina, a leading maker of table and giftware, for including a Shop Local flyer in its packages sent to retailers. The flyer helps the recipient more easily market and sell what is in the box online π¦ —> π±—> π
The recipient can open the box and in minutes do what otherwise may take hours. The store can scan a QR code on the flyer, sign up for a free Shop Local Store, Sync with Casafina products, and instantly show and sell the products online...
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The Atlantic shares how Chinese factories have found a new way around U.S. retailers and into our homes: Chinese apps. SHEIN and other Chinese apps are bypassing Amazon to be a new leader in Chinese goods. In addition to Amazon, Target, Walmart, and indie shops now have a new group of digital competitors embedded in customers’ pockets.
Except from The Atlantic article:
MATERIAL WORLD
IS THIS HOW AMAZON ENDS?
An open embrace of cheap foreign products has helped ...
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Kate Spade New York tableware and accessories has for two decades held a singular spot on retail shelves and on customers’ tables thanks to a timeless charm and chic stylings. Even after 20 years, the fun, fresh, playfully sophisticated, and refreshingly original collections from Lenox occupy a unique niche in the tableware pantheon.
Kate Spade’s contribution to fashion cannot be understated. She became synonymous with fashionistas everywhere when she started her fashion ...
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How to navigate around your site quickly using breadcrumbs in order to save time.
December 8, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added breadcrumb navigation to a brand's Home (Collections) page and a product's Details page. The trail of links (or "breadcrumbs") at the top of these pages shows the site's structure and identifies the hierarchy.
Benefits of Breadcrumbs:
Helps shoppers identify their current location on your website.
Helps shoppers find what they're looking for more easily.
Encourages shoppers to navigate from the current page to different
You're invited to use this template in your store. You can customize it with your store's registry QR code and website URL. If you need help making this, please ask our coaches.
Benefits:
Get more brides to register.
Sell more: each registry generates on average $1,000 in online orders.
We've created the template. All you need to do is print it ;)
Steps to make your template:
We've attached the template to this post. Please download it.
We are pleased to announce Porto Brasil Tableware's products are ready for Syncing.
Porto Brasil Tableware joins our network of 115+ premium brands that Sync products with 1,300+ fine indie stores.
Porto Brasil Tableware is a contemporary company passionate about design. Founded 20 years ago in Porto Ferreira, Brazil, Porto Brasil was the first company in the world to work with digital printing on stoneware. Their stoneware body is sustainable and is made from an ...
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The Beatriz Ball FRAME Vento 4 x 6 Frame shows off your favorite photo in shimmering and sophisticated, hand-polished surroundings. Mix and match with other great Beatriz Ball frames.
Vibrant styling and superior craftsmanship make this a perfect gift for someone special.
Beatriz Ball’s intensely handmade products employ eco-friendly and sustainable materials and are crafted by artisans who trace a heritage of metalworking for generations. An original Beatriz Ball design, ...
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BERTIL VALLIEN is a gift to glass. The impressive portfolio of this prolific artist is haunting, memorable, and mesmerizing.
His 60-year career, spent advancing the craft of sand-casting, is a study of one man's existential questioning actualized on hypnotic works of art.
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BERTIL VALLIEN IS A 60-YEAR KOSTA BODA ICON, DESIGNING FOR THE BRAND SINCE 1963.
He is one of Sweden's most celebrated glass artists with numerous awards and museums exhibitions around...
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NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 06, 2023 – Shop Local, an e-commerce platform, reported that it's helping indie stores rank on page one of Google in 64% of states for wedding gift purchases. The findings are based on a recent study that Shop Local conducted regarding wedding registry purchasing.
Study Findings:
For 32 state searches, Shop Local Stores appeared on page one of Google. This represents 64% of all states. When just calculating the states in which Shop Local has
The tortoise pattern appeal of these palm seed beads, which elegantly contrast with other natural materials, like in this handwoven placemat made of biodegradable vines, is one element that inspires their imaginative play. Our artisans carefully select each seed to ensure its excellent quality and intrinsic beauty. The selected seed is meticulously washed and sanded to highlight its natural texture and tortoise color, which contains traditional tones of brown and yellow. The seeds are ...
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