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Lens Crafters in the Broadway mall

March 12th, 2011

Lens Crafters in the Broadway mall is a great place to buy your next pair of glasses. Choosing a new pair of glasses for yourself can be an intimidating process. You’re basically picking a new face and in a way a new identity. That is why it can be so vital to get the exact pair of glasses you feel are right for your style and face shape.

Lens Crafters offers more options than any other glasses retailer in Tyler and with the funding of national corporation it’s no surprise. Lens Crafters can easily afford to supply major brand names and also has the awareness to choose popular and emerging contemporary styles.

Most frame retailers in Tyler have a very limited selection of eye wear, they tend to accommodate a specific demographic of customer that more commonly buys glasses, I speak, of course of the elderly.

The intersection in style between the elderly and the young is practically non existent. This raises a dilemma for people looking to get some glasses with a more modern or individual look in mind. Lens Crafters meets the dilemma of frame choice head on, providing a great number of stylish choices including the ever popular Ray Ban frames.

Even if you prefer the look of a sunglass frames for your next pair of prescriptions simply request your regular prescription be put in and they will be happy to fulfil this wish. If you’re lucky Lens Crafters does occasionally have a worthwhile sale, even recently taking fifty percent off your lenses with the purchase of new frames.

One wonderful thing about Lens Crafters is the efficiency, their famous one hour assembly is a true luxury if you are eager for glasses and costs you nothing extra. The sales staff are also extremely bearable, many sales people can be over bearing and annoying, it takes a skilled people person to encourage a choice without pressuring the customer.

The employees at Lens Crafters are more than graceful in their approach, and extremely polite and willing when it comes to glasses repair and maintenance. One more benefit to using Lens Crafters is the thirty day trial period with any pair of glasses, if you aren’t completely satisfied with your new glasses you have for thirty days the option to exchange them for any other pair at no additional cost.

Essentialy Lens Crafters takes all the worry and pain out of choosing and buying  your new glasses. Although glasses are a high priced expense, it is hard to overcome the obstacle of price, however Lens Crafters has certainly done their best to cut down the eye wear bill and make it fast, easy and relatively inexpensive to get new glasses fast.

Clair’s in the Mall

September 13th, 2010

Claire’s has been in the Broadway Square Mall for a long time. When you raise two extremely girlie girls that love dressing up, Claire’s is a frequent stop while shopping at the mall. My girls’ faces light up when they see the corner of fairy and princess accessories.

I can get all my kids’ dress up needs here at Claire’s. The walls are lined with tutus, princess crown, colorful jewelry, hair bows, and fairy wings. With Halloween just around the corner you can dress you kids up with the fun, colorful accessories.

Claire’s does not only have stuff for toddler girls, but for women of all ages. They have the newest styles and accessories. Claire’s has had sales pretty much every time I have gone into the store. Many times they have earrings for “buy one get one half off”. The store has all different style of necklaces, earrings, rings, and bracelets. You can get all different jewelry for a great price. Some of my favorite things in the store are the selections of bags, scarves, and hair accessories. They have all accessories to top off all of your outfits for every season of the year.

When I was really young I got my ears pierced at Claire’s, and I recently took my daughter to get her ears pierced there too. They pretty much do the same thing that they did when I got mine done. They sat her in a car and let her hug a teddy bear. A lady marked her ears with a purple marker just to make sure that they keep the earrings even with each other. I sat her on my lap just to make sure she did not jerk and to make sure that the lady did not miss the mark that she made. After the lady pierced my daughter’s ear, my daughter started crying, but the lady was fast at getting the second ear pierced even though she had to “re-load”. As the lady was doing the second ear, my daughter jerked, but the lady still pierced it on the right spot. After it was done my daughter was still crying so the lady helped calm her down by showing her how beautiful her ears were and by giving her a lollipop. Candy always helps kids be happy. The only thing that I had to pay for to get her ears pierced was the actual earrings. The piercing was free and it came with a solution that you have to clean the ear with three times a day.

Claire’s is a great place to shop for all your make up, and jewelry needs for a low cost. And it is a great place to shop for all little girls love for finger nail polish, princesses, jewelry, and dress up.

The Children’s Place in Tyler TX

January 29th, 2010

The Children’s Place

Broadway Square mall
4601 S Broadway
Tyler 75703
903 561 9192

The Children’s Place is a store in the mall where you can find great up-to-date fashions for babies and children’s clothing up to the age of 14 without paying a huge amount for them.

There are many things I love about the Children’s Place.

Firstly – the bright colors! Why dress your kids in drab colors when they can look cool and trendy in bright shades? They will have plenty of time in their adult lives for wearing pastels and black.

Secondly – the quality. The Children’s Place in Tyler TX is proof that you can have fashion and good quality. The things I buy last more than one season and more than one kid – you can pass them down or even consign them easily. The clothes wash well and are immensely practical for school and play wear.

Thirdly – you can buy things to match! I am not obsessive about having everything the same but doesn’t it feel good when you can dress your child in co-ordinating socks, hats and even hair accessories. Not only that, but you can buy matching outfits for different kids. My 7 year old is so proud that his baby brother has the same striped sweater as him. It is usually the girls that have all the fun with clothes but here is his chance to have something special that people compliment him on.

The Children’s Place also has really good end of season sales. You can sign up on their website to be informed about them or you can shop for bargains online. I have done that on occasions and been delighted to receive a large box of clothes for just $5 shipping. You can also return them to the store for credit if they don’t fit or you change your mind about a purchase. One thing I have found is that the sizes run slightly small – especially for baby wear so if you are not sure about the size, buy the larger. Otherwise I have no complaints about the clothes we buy.

Finally, I have found that a gift card for the Children’s Place is a good baby shower or birthday gift and if you are a coupon hoarder then sign up for the birthday club in store or online for discounts on your child’s birthday.

Matching fleecy Christmas pajamas – for a steal at $10 a pair from the Children’s Place

The Portrait Studio at JC Penney

January 28th, 2010

4401 S Broadway Mall
Tyler
903 561 7000
Open from 10am

When my baby was born I was given a coupon for a portrait sitting and a free 8×10 photo and I thought ‘Why not?’ Our baby is so cute that I thought I really should let someone who knows what they are doing behind a camera take some pictures of him too.

I scheduled an appointment with a photographer at JC Penney. Although I wasn’t used to doing this, ‘Tiffany’ instantly made me feel at ease. She was warm and friendly and seemed to have all the time in the world for me and the baby. Even though my little fella didn’t really oblige us with great smiles, Tiffany managed to take some cute shots. There was no pressure for me to buy lots of photos and she advised me to come back when he was sitting up. The next time I went to the studio, Tiffany remembered us and knew exactly what sort of pictures I was looking for. This time we had more success and I wanted to buy a few more of her pictures. It was incredible – each sheet of photos was only $3.99. I bought a few for myself and treated all of my relatives to a picture of my little fella too.

The next time I went back with all 3 children. Tiffany had a colleague with her to help. He was called Wade and he was quite exotic looking but just as personable as Tiffany. He managed to get all the kids looking the same way as she took the pictures. They were quite busy that morning so they gave us coupons for a free sandwich at Chick-Fil-A while they loaded the images onto the computer and enhanced them. When we went back the older kids watched Toy Story while I looked at the pictures. I was really delighted and this time bought a portrait package which had the added feature of ‘pictures by wire’ which meant that family overseas could view and order photos over the internet.

My final challenge for the photographer at the Tyler Texas JC Penney was to take my family and my brother in law’s family for a portrait sitting for Christmas presents for my husband’s mother and grandmother. There were 5 adults, 4 children and a baby to take pictures of. Once again, Tiffany rose to the challenge and took great shots of everyone.

I think the JC Penney store in Tyler has a great crew of photographers. The studio is really accessible and best of all, the prices of the portraits are really affordable. There are more expensive options – different backgrounds, text and collages but if you buy the traditional sheets, one 8×10, two 5×7, four 3×5 or wallets then they are just around $4 each.

I heartily recommend Tiffany and Wade as photographers and JC Penney portrait studio as great value.