It’s been a minute since I’ve posted but I didn’t travel much in the last quarter of the year, and truthfully, when I did, the pickings were slim. Now it’s 2010 and I’m not sure where – or when – my next foreign adventure will take me, so I decided to post about a recent and most successful shopportunities, right here in the Sunshine State.
Over the last year or so I’ve developed quite a liking for Kate Spade jewelry and accessories. I like the colors, clean lines and palpable sense of whimsy all her stuff, but the prices? Not so much. Luckily I’ve got two KS outlet stores near me, where prices are much more realistic and I can usually find some funky little frivolity to perk up an outfit.
Case in point: this amazing cuff. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it, and at $25 dollars (discounted from $125), buying it was a no-brainer. I wear it with a plain black or white three-quarter sleeve T, and I can’t tell you how many compliments I get when I do.
But the Kate purchase to trump all others has got to be this Poppy Fields pendant. I’d snapped up the matching ring on sale in the “real” KS store a few weeks before. 
It was still more than I wanted to pay, but it was around Christmas time and what can I say? My price-resistance was low. But I balked at paying $116 (on sale!) for the matching necklace, even though I knew I’d be able to rock it in so many ways.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. I’d planned a trip to the Orlando outlet malls with my shopper-in-crime Allyson and mentioned to her that I wanted to check KS on the off-chance that they might have the necklace – which is from the current collection, mind you – in store. Well, as I pushed the door, what did I spy on the display at the register? Yes, fellow shoppers, a single Poppy Fields pendant suspended from the display. In nano seconds I pounced, inhaled as I turned over the price tag and could hardly contain myself when I saw what it read: $27.99!
Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a deal and a half!
