Black Friday Sale-bration - OpulentFAVORS.com

To kick off the holiday shopping season, we are starting our Black Friday sale a little earlier than your average retailer!! For the entire week, we are offering 10% off your total favor orders to celebrate Black Friday!

Sale starts today, simply fill your virtual shopping cart with goodies and enter the coupon code of "Friday" in the coupons & discounts section when checking out!

Pretty simple huh..Happy shopping!!

Coupon Code: Friday
Sale ends on 11/30/2009

Be sure and spread the word!!

Favor-ite of the Week - "Bun in the Oven" Baby Shower Favor

Fresh-baked enchantment! The captivating scent of cinnamon is as sweet as your celebration, making this clever baby shower favor a crowd-pleasing morsel that’s impossible to forget! Inside the clear window of a cardboard “stove” sits a 2” x 1” diminutive honey bun candle, perfectly brown, with tempting, white “icing” slathered generously over the top.

The pale-yellow stove has knobs, burners and lavender accents. Across the stove’s top panel, it reads “Bun in the Oven”, and just below the clear, oven window is “Honey Bun Scented Candle”

The heavenly honey bun and its clever gift box arrive complete with a “For You” tag in the shape of an oven mitt—what else would you expect from the master “chefs” at Kate Aspen? The gift box measures 2 ¼” x 2 ¼” x 3”.

For this cute baby shower favor & many more log on to Opulent Favors & Gifts!

Favor-ite of the Week - Baby Shower Placecard Holders

Baby Carriage Place Card Favor Boxes with Designer Place Cards (set of 12) 

Is there anything more exciting than the arrival of a new baby? Celebrate your baby in style at your baby shower with these Baby Carriage Place Card Favor Boxes with Designer Place Cards - a place card holder and favor box, all in one!

Bring a touch of class to the affair by offering your guests these unique baby shower favors. The white wooden boxes are oval-shaped and can be filled with whatever sweet treat you'd like. The top features an adorable baby carriage that holds the accompanying place card. Your guests know where to sit and they receive a gift to take home to display pictures and store knick-knacks. What more could you want out of a baby shower favor?

Perhaps you are looking for a place card holder without a box? The place card holders stand up on their own without the box, if you choose to use them that way.

CONTENTS NOT INCLUDED. Feel free to fill the favor boxes as you wish.

Size: 3.25" x 2.5" x 1.5" 

Bridal Shower Advice Cards - Item of the Week

One of our top sellers over the last month at OpulentFAVORS.com  has been our advice cards that we have in our Baby Shower Print Shop!

These custom printed cards are perfect for advice showers for the Mommy-to-be & also the Bride-to-be!  All cards can be custom printed with the honorees name, date of the shower, due date of the baby or a wedding date.!  

Useful information:

Card Type: Flat Card 

Card Dimensions: 6.25" x 4.00" (w x h) 

Printing Process: Digital Press 

Paper Weight: 110 lb. White Smooth Cardstock
 
Proofs: Digital proof via email included 

Orders: 10 cards per order  

Pictured are the super chic cards that can be used for bridal showers!!

For more information on these and other great customized bridal shower & baby shower print items, check out OpulentFAVORS.com 

Important Information Please Read & Sign

I received this heartfelt letter from one of my distributors and just had to pass this along.  Please select the link at the bottom of the email to sign the petition.

What are your thoughts?

Effective February 10^th, all products designed for children – from toys and clothing to blankets, highchairs, carseats, bowls and cups, bedding, cribs and on and on – must be tested, in an EXTREMELY expensive and redundant manner, before being considered safe for sale. And because the law requires that every "batch" of products made be retested, even if each batch uses the exact same raw materials as in previously tested batches, this will be impossible for small businesses like Twinkling Tees. Our products are individually handmade to order and are not created in "batches" - and even if they were, we simply would not be able to afford to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to have every design in every size and every color tested, over and over and over again.

In addition, there is the issue of Swarovski crystals themselves. Because these are lead crystal (just like your favorite Waterford wine glasses, etc.) they will clearly not be within the allowed lead limits. BUT! What is important to note is that these crystals contain lead oxide, NOT the metallic lead that this law aims to remove, and that this lead oxide is wholly contained within crystal - and the molecular structure of crystal is such that the body is simply unable to break it down, and because of this, it is impossible for any lead to leach out of these crystals and into a child's body.

In other words - a child could swallow 1,000 Swarovski crystals whole (disclaimer - this is, of course, not recommended! Don't try this at home!) and 1,000 Swarovski crystals would pass through the system and emerge whole. Sparkly diapers, certainly - but no lead in the body. Some large apparel manufacturing lobby groups are requesting that crystals be considered exempt from the lead limit requirements for this reason, but if this request is not approved, crystal-embellished tees in children's sizes will simply not be legal for sale in the United States.

A cotton tee shirt embellished with genuine Swarovski crystals is simply NOT an item that should be banned as a "hazardous substance", something so dangerous to our children's safety that it is illegal to sell. Just the thought of it sounds absurd, does it not? And yet... as of February 10, that's exactly what they will be.

Obviously, from a personal standpoint, this is simply devastating. My heart and soul has gone into this business. I'm just a mom, like so many of you, who loves to create beautiful tees for little girls to sparkle and shine in. I work until 3 AM many nights, only to wake up four hours later to get my kindergartener and preschooler ready for school, and I truly love every minute of it (well, okay... maybe not the minute that the alarm clock rings...) because Twinkling Tees is my dream - the business that I've created from the ground up, on my own, and devoted the past year and a half of my life to building and building and building. And while, yes - I will still be able to carry adult size tees, the backbone of this business by far is baby, toddler, and girls' size tees.

 To quote the Fashion Incubator blog:

"Since most of the products intended for February delivery are either already made and on the way here or are in the process of being made and few to none of the inputs were tested beforeheand, all of these items will end up in bonded warehouses or landfills because it is illegal to sell them even as seconds. Products made domestically are not immune, they're in the same boat. A factor is not going to break the law and make an illegal contract so a retailer can buy illegal goods. The end result is there will be a whole lot less product on store shelves. Since there won't be much to pick from and costs are higher, consumers can expect to pay much higher prices. Prices will be rock bottom on February 9th, but overnight, prices will dramatically increase. The anticipated losses go into the hundreds of millions of dollars. This is not an exaggeration. According to 2002 U.S. Census Data (the last year for which data is available) just considering small U.S. clothing manufacturers, their contribution to the economy is over 900 million dollars annually. Small manufacturers with fewer than 20 employees comprise 68% of total apparel manufacturing in the U.S.. This of course does not include the untold numbers of stores that will go out of business too."

So... what now?

First, we can let our voices be heard. And heard and heard and heard! Take a moment to visit this link - simply enter your name and address, and a prewritten letter will be emailed to your members of Congress letting them know that changes need to be made so that we can keep America's children safe without destroying American businesses. You don't even need to know who your Congresspeople are - it will automatically be sent to the appropriate senators and representatives based on your address. Share this link with anyone you know who has children or shops for children's products! Let them know that this effects THEM - experts have estimated that the cost of goods from whatever companies are able to survive the cost of this repetitive testing will increase by 50%. Is that in their family's budget?

 

Second, I am deeply saddened to announce that I will be unable to accept any orders in children's sizes after January 30th, to allow time for all orders to ship by the 9th of February. I will not be replenishing my stock of kids' size tees at this time; if I do not have the shirt(s) in stock to complete your order, I will contact you with alternative color choices if available, or cancel your order and refund your payment.

I fear that so many of you, as retailers, will be affected by this - if the small businesses providing your inventory go under, or if the cost of purchasing your inventory from whatever businesses manage to survive becomes too high to allow you to remain profitable. We are truly in this together... let's not allow ourselves to disappear without a fight.

 

Holding out hope for change, 

Work in progress

Over the next few weeks, we will be adding new & exciting product to OpulentFAVORS.com!!! The store will still be open during this process so please continue to shop but check back often as updates are being done daily!

I will give you a hint...
*Think amazing holiday/Christmas, Sweet Sixteen & Vegas or poker related favors!!!**

So excited!

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