Sweet Home

I've lived in Chicago for five years now, but I still have those "I can't believe I'm here" moments.  It probably helps that I don't go out that often, so when I do, when I'm downtown at night and the buildings are all lit up, it still has a magical feeling to it all.

I've been having a lot of those moments this week, with the Chicago Dancing Festival going on.  On Tuesday I attended the opening night performance, and saw the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Brooklyn Mack and Tamako Miyazaki, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Brian Brooks Moving Company, and the Joffrey Ballet.  Front row, dead center.  I could hear the dancers breathing, and their shoes squeaking on the floor.  I learned that I'm not the only person who cries at these sort of things, thank goodness.

Tonight I'm going to the performances at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, and I'll see Ensemble Espanol Spanish Dance Theatre, and more performances by the Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.

The festival continues through Friday and Saturday, but I wasn't able to get tickets for the event tomorrow, so I'll be waiting patiently in the stand-by line.  Saturday the performances are all FREE and open to the public, in Millennium Park, so if you're in the Chicago area, you should definitely go!!

I've also got Randolph Street Market again this weekend, so needless to say I'm going to be busy, and running on a tight schedule, if I'm going to do everything I want to do.

I'll be in the same spot as last time, so come by and say Hi!  I'll have a few new pieces with me, including vintage international map necklaces and gold-glitter rings (for only $5!!), and I finally re-stocked the Chicago map necklaces, so I'll be ready to roll with those.

If you've never been to the market, or even if you're an old regular, I have two season passes still up for grabs.  There are only two more markets this season (August, and September), so if you're interested in going, now is your chance!  Both passes are good for admission to the remaining markets this season, for two people, for both days.  One of the passes includes free valet parking!  The other does not include the free valet parking, but is still good for shopping to your heart's content.

If you're interested in the season pass WITH free valet parking, enter here:

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If you don't have a car, and want the season pass WITHOUT free parking, enter here:

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Good luck, and I'll see y'all at the market!!

Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to...

Emily Purpura!

I've contacted you by email about how to get your season pass -- I hope I'll see you there this year!

Thanks to everyone for participating!

Randolph Street Market Season Pass Giveaway!!

So I've never done a giveaway on my own blog, and to be honest with you, I'm not even completely sure how this works... but, seeing as how I'm going to be poppin' shop at the Randolph Street Market this season, I thought it would be fun to giveaway a season pass.

Yes, I said season pass, so that's a value of $100!

It's good for two people, to every show this season (May-September).  Because this is a Chicago-based market, I'm going to have to keep it all in the family, so unfortunately this is for local residents only (anyone in the Chicago IL/Indiana area who can actually use the pass for all or most of the shows).  If you want to enter on behalf of a friend, and have it shipped to an address in the Chicagoland area, that's cool too.  :)

The giveaway ends on 03/23/2013 at midnight.

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Gift-Away!

Howdy, birds & blokes!  I've had a hectic last few days (phew), but I wanted to pop in real quick just to let you know about a little feature I have on the Style Maniac blog, and YES, it involves a gift-away of one item from my shop, up to $25!

So head on over to Style Maniac,

and let us know what love, your hometown, or Valentine's Day means to you.

Don't worry, it doesn't have to be sappy -- if you have a story about how you became jaded about all three of those things, that's welcome, too!  Haha, but hopefully at least one of those things make you happy, right?  Here's to hoping...

While you're at it, you'll probably decide your daily blog-reading won't be complete without Style Maniac -- Doreen is sweet, honest, and beautifully community-minded.  Oh, and stylish, of course!

You have until February 19th to submit a little tidbit and to be entered to win one of those necklaces from my shop, so get to it!

What I want... Retro-style Alarm Clock

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I entered the giveaway at Lovely Undergrad for $20 towards a CSN Stores purchase (fingers crossed) because I would love to have this darling little alarm clock!