All About Shopping: 6 Sales, Events to Check Out

Get to shopping this week. Several stores are offering deals and events this week to sprice up your spring wardrobe and home decor.

Here is a rundown of fun events, specials and a chance to win a big gift package from a local shopping center:

1. Cobblestone & Vine, 5100 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Celebrate Ronda Rice Carman’s new Rizzoli book “Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living” with a forward by Martha Stewart as it launches today (April 10) in the store. Carman, along with her publisher, will be in the store to sign her book and share her insights on stylish living from 2 – 4 p.m. and 5 – 7:30 p.m. For more information, call (501) 664-4249.
2. Vesta’s, 11525 Cantrell Rd., Ste. 610: Get the dish at the store, located in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center, during its Fortunata sale, going on now. Customers can save more than 40 percent on Forunata dinnerware and select glassware, just in time for spring dinner parties and Mother’s Day coming up in May. Serving pieces are included, as well. Call (501) 375-7820 for more information.
3. Tulips in Little Rock, 5817 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Spruce up your spring wardrobe with a little color. The store is offering 50 percent off on all Tolani silk tunics, pants and dresses in a variety of colors. Call (501) 614-7343 to see what’s left.
4. B. Barnett, 8201 Cantrell Rd.: Tomorrow (April 11), the boutique will be having a one-day French Sole trunk show. From 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., get a preview of colorful, patterned and animal-print ballet flats, as well as sophisticated smoking slippers and moochers. Click here for more information.
5. Promenade at Chenal, 17711 Chenal Pkwy.: At the west Little Rock shopping center, shoppers can shop local and win a $500 prize package. To get more details about the giveaway and how to enter, visit these great locally owned businesses this week until Friday (April 12): Big Orange, Local Lime, James Eyecare & Optics Gallery, Just Dogs! Gourmet, Kenneth Edwards, Luxury Nails Spa, RK Collections, Strippagio and The Travern Sports Grill.
   
6. Box Turtle, 2616 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Get a look at new jewelry from Satya during the store’s trunk show, going on from 6 – 8 p.m. tomorrow (April 11). Also learn great about how to pamper your skin from Dee Dee of Ava Bella Day Spa while enjoying champagne and treats. There will be specials and giveaways and a chance to check out all of the new beautiful spring clothing. Call (501) 661-1167 for more information.