Happy October!!

The event is around the corner--15 more days! Consignee's, how is the tagging and pricing going? Are you having fun cleaning out your items? Remember, shoes, jewelry, great condition men and women clothes; pj's, active wear, business attire, casual, dresses...etc.!

Have you RSVPed for the Presale Event? We are raffling off a fantastic gift. Bring friends, have a blast!

Have you told all your friends about the event? Remember the more people that know the more money YOU are going to make by selling your items.

Great news, Seattle Times is going to run another article about the event. We are working on many other media outlets. If you have any suggestions please let us know.

If you know of a place to drop off flyers let us know. We are happy to get them to you. Do you live in an apartment or condo complex? Do you attend college? Is there an event board at your office? Can you hang a tear-sheet flyer? If so, let us know and we'll email you with it.

We hope you are having fun with our event so far, we sure are!

Let us know if you have any questions about anything.

TTFN
Smartie Pants

Giving Feels Good

The definition of charity..."Love; universal benevolence; good will."

The founders and volunteers at Smartie Pants believe in universal love, good will and serving our community. We hope you will join us in making the difference in the lives of many. Our charity groups focus primarily on women and homeless teens.

The winter months are approaching fast, let's unite as a community and fill the closets of our charity organization.

We are proud to be a part of the organizations we are working with. Read about them below.

Seattle Children's Hospital Thrift Stores support uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s Hospital and help ensure that the best medical care will always be available to the children of our region. When you visit one of our six thrift stores you'll find a wide selection of quality new and used merchandise at fair prices. Best of all, you'll know your purchases will benefit the children who rely on Children's for their care.
Seattle Children’s Redmond Thrift Store 15137 NE 24th (Overlake Square) Redmond, WA 98052 p: 425/746-3092

Jubilee Women’s Center provides women a safe and supportive place to live and an opportunity to learn while becoming self-reliant in housing and employment. They have been providing transitional housing for women since 1983. Jubilee has an onsite free clothing boutique open by appointment to all women. Jubilee relies on the community for clothing donations to keep the boutique full. Smartie Pants has been donating clothes to this boutique for the past four years!
Jubilee Women's Center 620 18th Ave East Seattle, WA 98112 p: 206.324.1244

Rising out of the Shadows: ROOTS delivers critical services to homeless young adults and other low income persons, advocates for policies that foster dignity and long-term solutions, and works toward building community partnerships. This amazing organization provides shelter and clothing to homeless young adults. It relies heavily on donations. Let’s help them keep their closets full.
Rising out of the Shadows 1415 NE 43rd Street Seattle, WA p: 206.632.1635

What can I consign at Smartie Pants?

Here is a list of items that you can consign at our upcoming event:

-Clothes
-Jewelry
-Accessories; belts, scarfs, hats, etc.!!
-Handbags (Don't knock the Murse or Satchel)
-Shoes
-Maternity Clothes

We take men and women items...ladies, clean out your's and your husband's closets!

Let us know if you want to consgin with us, we are happy to get you signed up.
www.smartiepantsevents.com, click on Seller Information to download the registration form!

Later girl...er and ah, boyfriends...
Smartie Pant

Wanna be a Smartie Pants?

Extra extra read all about it..."the Smartie Pants event is happening again!" Mark your calendars for October 16th and 17th!

If you want to consign with us you can easily download the registration form, just click Seller Information, www.smartiepantsevents.com.

Our first event was a huge success! We had several consignee's, 100's of clothing items including handbags, shoes and jewels, lots of shoppers, amazing volunteers, a beautiful space and most importantly, we donated (55) fifity-gallon trash bags of clothing items to our charities--amazing, huh?

The event is at the same location, a gorgeous Seattle loft near Lake Union. You can find all the information on our website.

We sure hope you will join us in making YOU some money, being green by recycling your unwanted items AND being a part of the community.

Come play with us, it's fun to be a Smartie Pants.

Cheers!
Angela & Trinh
Smartie Pants

Smartie Pants special thanks to our consignee's...

Smartie Pants Consignee's:

We wanted to thank you for being a part of our first Smartie Pants public community event! We hope you enjoyed being a part of our event, we definitely enjoyed meeting and getting to know all of you. Many of you went above and beyond in spreading the word about our event, we can't thank you enough....we are in awe of the energy and excitement for this event. For those of you that ALSO volunteered, wow...amazing!

Our goal was to put on a community event with fabulous women--we not only believe we accomplished just that, we believe we BIG TIME accomplished our goal. Each of you made this event special, thank you for playing with us and making this fun!

We want our next event to be even better, so please share your feedback with us. We hope you will join us in the fall...next event will be mid to late September, stay tuned for more details. We hope to host it at the same location.

As promised, we will put checks in the mail within two weeks. If you did not sell anything, please know what a huge contribution you made to our charities; ROOTS, Jubilee Women's Center and Children's Research all received over twenty 50 gallon trash bags full of clothes EACH. They were all thrilled. We will be giving Eastside Domestic Violence a cash donation. We ALL did a very good thing...thank you for your part of this special contribution to our community.

Cheers!
Angela and Trinh
Smartie Pants

Smartie Pants Presale Event...

Here's the deets...

Smartie Pants had their Exclusive Presale Event for consignee's and volunteer's last night. It was so neat to see it all in action. We talked to people about the charities we are working with, we talked to women about loving their bodies at the very size they are, we had our hubby's telling women "yes ... or heck no" on this or ...that, women purchased gap, j-crew, lauren merkin all the way to prada...we have AH-MAZING volunteers and even had our first "off the street" customer.

We are headed to Seattle now...OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, come shop and support your local women's charity groups!! 9-5pm, www.smartiepantsevents.com

the loot is amazing!

Hello Ladies:

We have been checking our consignee's in and are just overjoyed by how cool, chic, hip, down to earth and fun all of these women are. We have attracted amazing volunteer's so far, our now dear friend Stacey, worked her butt off last night helping us sort by size and color. We love her.
You have to check out the denim we have, the handbags, the spring dresses...my business partner and I are spinning, we want to buy it all, we promise there is plenty for all.
Come shop with us, tomorrow, 9am to 5pm, Seattle...www.smartiepantsevents.com, address is posted there.

We have a raffle for a brand new, just arrived from NY, Lauren Merkin gold clutch that is well, too die for (compliments of Selene Sacks, www.selenesacks.com)! We have, just in from Paris, Herve totes of various colors, these totes haven't even made it to the US. A brand new Gerard Darel deep purple bag that melts at your touch, yum oh yum!

Bring your girlfriends, have some fun, give to your local community and be proud that you our part of helping our environment by buying recycled items. It's a wonderful thing.

See ya tomorrow girlfriends!

1,000's of items...it is plum crazy!

Ladies...we expect to have over 10,000 items at this event. This is plum crazy, plum crazy...are you having fun? We are over the moon excited. See you soon...

TTFN

"OMG! Did you hear?"

Mel: "Girlfriend, have you heard?"

Jamie: "No, what? I must know!!"

Mel: "Smartie Pants was featured in The Examiner and Seattle times? You have to see it. It is just amazing what is happening with this oh-so-fab company.

Jamie: "They are so fab, so fab! Did YOU hear about the event raffle?"

Mel: "WHAT! WHAT raffle?"

Jamie: "I heard they are raffling off a gorgeous hand bag, straight from Paris! They use Selene Sacks to buy all their gifts. Have you heard of Selene Sacks?"

Mel: "I think I just died and went to heaven!" "Is Selene Sacks that elite company that provides amazing personal shopping and gift services?"

Jamie: "YES!" Here's the website, www.selenesacks.com. You so have to check it out!"

Mel: "Wow, Smartie Pants just does it right, huh?"

Jamie: "They sure do...gotta run, need to Twitter, Facebook and text all my girls about this!"

Mel: "Later girlfriend! Don't forget to check out the articles."

Jamie: "OMG, totally won't forget. See you at the event!"

Mel: "You sure will!"

Jamie: "I am so excited! Later girlfriend!"

Links:
http://search.nwsource.com/search?from=ST&query=smartie+pants&searchtype=network

http://www.examiner.com/x-11513-Seattle-StayatHome-Moms-Examiner~y2010m3d16-March-27-2010--Community-consignment-event?cid=email-this-article

http://www.selenesacks.com

Spread the word--come shop at the Smartie Pants Event, 3/27 9am to 5pm!

Featured items of the day, makes you wanna come and play, huh? :)

Ladies---the inventory is building, we have tagged and priced thousands of items. You don't want to miss out on the shopping...tell everyone!

Franco Sarto little beauties!

Gucci wallet Valentino Garavani leather belt...such delightful little things!

Guess Stiletto...o-la'la!

Wait until you see the purses...the jackets...the hot hot hot dresses! Heck with the little black dresss..."little silver dress is more like it!"

We can't wait to see you at the event!

Be sure to check out The Examiner and NW Source on Monday, we are featured in both! Cool stuff, huh?

Shop till you drop, but make sure you are a Smartie Pants shopper, it's waaaay more fun.

Are you a Smartie Pants?

Are you hearing all the buzz about how cool it is to be a Smartie Pants--it's the talk of the town? Word has it there are already 100's of Smartie Pants running around the Puget Sound area. If you haven't become a Smartie Pants yet, do it now...www.smartiepantsevents.com.

If you haven't heard...a Smartie Pants is a smart and beautiful woman that loves extra cash, loves purging unwanted items, loves supporting local charities and loves getting together with 100's of other Smartie Pants.

Join us...we are having a blast.

Yours truly,
Smartie Pants

Are you holding onto clothes that don't fit?

Ladies...are you holding onto clothes that don't fit? Do you have "pre-pregnancy" pile of clothes that you are waiting to "get back into?" Did you have a rotten winter...or two...due to Pacific NW weather; therefore you "carbed up!" Whatever the reason is that you are no longer the size that you used to be, it's okay, at least for right now at this very moment it is.

We say, "love and accept yourself right now, at this size." When you focus your energy on love and acceptance, it shifts your focus from "I don't like my size, I am fat, ugh, I am not happy with myself" ... to "loving energy!" When you are in the space of love and acceptance you will notice that your spirits will have lifted. You will most likely turn down that "nightly treat" or that extra glass of wine. You will find you are whistling or humming. You will find you have the energy to make it to the gym.

It is proven that positive and loving energy gets more results than negative and loathing energy.

We know you are beautiful, no matter what size you are. Now, it's your choice to be smart and get rid of those clothes that don't fit. LET THEM GO! They aren't serving you. Turns out, we have the perfect event to where you can sell them, make some extra cash and buy something that does fit so you feel beautiful!

When we feel beautiful we walk with confidence. We want more beautiful and confident women walking around. A room full of powerful and confident women can light up an entire state.

Be smart and beautiful with us.

Later girlfriends!

Giving, it makes you feel good...

Smartie Pants was actually created through the act of giving. We gave to our girlfriends, then we gave to non-profit organizations. We believe in the greater good. We believe in the sense of community. We know it takes a colony of women to create a ripple in the community. We want to create a "giving ripple." Wanna ripple with us?

The non-profit organizations we are promoting and working with are doing amazing things. When Smartie Pants was an at home clothes swap we gave all the leftover clothes and accessories to Jubilee Women's Center and Eastside Domestic Violence. Both organizations provide safe environments for women to get back on their own two feet--they provide the space for empowerment.

The newest charity we are working with is Rising Out of The Shadows. This organization provides a safe and warm overnight shelter for homeless teens. I worked with them for 10 weeks while getting my bachelors at UW. I met some amazing teens and the experience changed me. I left there knowing that I would continue to work with this organization.

Check out the Charity Information section of our website for more information about each of these wonderful organizations doing very important work.

We hope to provide them with 100's of clothing items for as long as needed. We hope people will support these charities by volunteering, giving cash donations if they can and by sharing each of their missions with their friends and family. It doesn't cost a penny to share.

At Smartie Pants we believe change starts with giving. We hope you'll give by supporting our event and our charities.

Give something, we promise it'll make you feel good. :)

Happy Giving!
-Smartie Pants

The Spirit of Kindness

We are sitting here--with huge smiles on our faces--blown away at the frequency of kindness that is vibrating throughout the Puget Sound. We have attracted some of the most amazing women who are going out of their way to promote our Smartie Pants event. The cool piece to this, is that most of these women we haven't even had the opportunity to meet yet.

Women are special. When you get a colony of women together they can move mountains. Most women are innately caregivers and want to do what they can to help their fellow sisters and their communities. This is the true essence of what we are calling "The Spirit of Kindness." We are blessed to be playing with some pretty cool women with huge spirits.

A huge thank you goes out to all the women that are excitedly spreading the word about our event. We appreciate your support and look forward to playing with you the weekend of March 27th! Keep up "The Spirit of Kindness," we love it. :)

With Much gratitude,
Your Girlfriends at Smartie Pants

Did you notice your tulips blooming?

Ladies, when the tulips start to bloom it means a change of season is about to happen...Springtime is near! Oh my, isn't it exciting? And why is it exciting? It's exciting because springtime means purge-time.

Oh oh oh my, purging means filling up again on exciting new clothes and accessories.

Be smart, sell your clothes and donate the items that don't sell.

Be beautiful all over again, fill your closet up with tunic's, lightweight cardigans and sweaters, boyfriend-shirts and boy-cut blazers or THE hot item this spring, floral prints, especially skirts! Ladies, the platform is still going strong, go bold, go blue, go wild!

Have some fun with us!

Wildly excited,

Your Girlfriends at Smartie Pants

Smartie Pants, huh?

Smartie Pants, cute name, huh? We wanted the name to capture what we are about; smart and fun. Did we nail it or what?

The credit actually goes to Trinh, my partner in this fun adventure. She called me on her bluetooth after our first event site visit and said, "How about Smartie Pants?" I thought she was calling me a smartie pants...if you know Trinh you would have been just as thrown off as I was.

I thought, "Wow, she is really stepping out of her shy self to call me out!" It took her telling me at least three times that no, not me as the smartie pants, but the name of the business!" LOL

"YES, I said, it is PERFECT!" That was back in September of 2009. We tossed the name out to close friends along with other names and it was definitely the fav.

Ok, so be smart, sign up as a consignee, recycle your unwanted items, make some extra cash and donate to some amazing charities.

...and be fun, mark your calendar's and come shop with us!

--Smart and fun...your girlfiends at Smartie Pants (Trinh and Angela)

You will never wear it!

Did you know that if you haven't worn a clothing item within that past year that the chances of you wearing that item are slim to none? Do you continue to push that "shirt or pair of jeans" to the bottom of the pile because you feel guilty for paying money for it and/or because your aunt bought it for you?

Ok, since you know that the chances of you actually ever putting it on your body are slim to none why not sell it and make back some of the money you spent and/or extra cash (your aunt will never know, we promise!)?

Become a consignee and make up to 70% of the sell price for your items. If you are thinking you just don't have the time to think about pricing or tagging items, no problem. We love pricing and tagging. All you need to do is shoot us an email and let us know you want to go with Package B and we'll arrange a time to pick up your items. Sit back and watch the extra cash come in. Fun, huh?

We look forward to hearing from you and we look forward to mailing you a check after the event with all the profit from selling all of those items you keep pushing to the bottom of the pile. Oh boy, we see a new spring boyfriend blazer on the horizon. Now you are having fun. :)

Chat with ya later girlfriend.

We believe you can be smart and beautiful!

Smartie Pants believes you can be smart and beautiful.

Be smart; recycle your unwanted clothing items and accessories and pay considerably less for designer and quality wear that makes you look and feel beautiful.

Be smart and beautiful with us. Sign up to be a consignee, make some extra cash AND shop till you drop for something new and exciting for a fraction of what you'd pay at the department stores.

Looking for that "special couture dress" or "unique designer jeans?" Let us know the brand name and size and we'll get to work looking for it. We promise if we find it you won't pay full price!! We love the challenge of looking for that special something.

TTFN

-Your girlfriends at Smartie Pants