Shopping in Kyle

StickerYou grants customers the power to create custom die-cut vinyl stickers with their own images or with images from the store’s extensive gallery, including several holiday themes. After devising or choosing from festive gift tags, ready-made decorations, or an ultra-condensed resumé for stickerdom, clients use the site’s Sticker Maker tool to easily drag and drop images onto a virtual 8.5”x10.5” page for proofing. For adding a personalized design to season's greetings or to keep pet turtles’ names straight, the store’s label templates equip sticker artisans with orderly blanks to fill out in a variety of shapes and styles that include mailing labels, party favours, and food labels perfect for gifting homemade eats. Based in Toronto, Canadian company StickerYou continually expands its stock art and, though not included with this Groupon, ships almost anywhere in the world.

As patrons pace and bounce on their heels, testing improved relationships with terra firma, the staff at Shoe Fitters Inc. inspects the foot anatomy and pressure points of each visitor using an Aetrex scanner. The revealing data enables them to recommend specific shoes and brands. In order to put this information to the best possible use, the crew undergoes continual training on new products and methods for addressing basic foot issues, such as rare dimensions and the phobia of closed-toe styles common among Greek gods. After listening to each patron's stylistic needs, staff members navigate wood and brushed-aluminum accents, glass shelves, and microsuede fitting chairs to pair feet with their requisite pavement pounders. Shoes from brands such as New Balance, Sperry, Clarks, Merrell, Ecco, and Born encase feet in a spectrum of styles for causal or formal events, athletics, and full-time jobs stomping sandcastles.

An effective training aid for all skill levels, Birdieballs simulate the feel, spin, and flight path of a real golf ball, allowing players to practice in the scaled-down confines of their own backyards or butterfly sanctuaries. The ball simulator soars up to 40 yards with a prolonged hang time, helping beginning clubbers correct their form, intermediate swingers build muscle memory, and more advanced golfers perfect various spins, with Birdieballs landing nearby for easy retrieval. Birdieball also manufactures products such as StrikePads with lines and guides to help golfers maintain a proper swing, as well as accessories such as targets equipped with pins and flags.

Picture Bungalow immortalizes images onto sturdy wooden plates, creating long-lasting, charming conversation pieces out of senior portraits, engagement pictures, or family photos. Like a curse from a jilted dryad, the studio's image printing process enshrines loved ones directly into the wood’s grain, adding a rustic, sepia-toned quality to any image, with no two boards turning out exactly alike. Digital retouching from a photography professional sharpens and perfects picture quality, and a variety of finishes add personalized accents to future mantelpiece adornments.

Fashionable, well-made bags can garner a lot of chatter when walking through an airport or across a busy expressway, but Heys USA’s colorful luggage has achieved an even greater feat by gaining the attention of magazines and critics alike. In 2006, the company's hard-to-damage, easy-on-the-eyes luggage graced the eyes of readers perusing the New York Times, and soon thereafter was seen on an episode of How I Met Your Mother. Heys USA's sturdy storage bags continue to be recognized in the media, being named as Best Hard Case by O, the Oprah Magazine in January 2012, and as a "gift-worthy" gadget by Budget Travel in December 2011. The vibrant bags are tailored to owners of all ages, boasting designs from Disney for young ones, and TSA-approved three-digit locks for frequent travelers.

With pieces that have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, hung in the White House, and chosen by Oprah to bestow upon Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to celebrate their joint invention of the cotton gin, Sticks and Stones has made one-of-a-kind art ubiquitous. The company's master photographers have compiled a gallery of black-and-white art photographs depicting natural and structural images that represent each letter of the alphabet, which customers can peruse to craft a framed heirloom up to 14 letters long. Once finished, a panel of judges approves the message masterpiece, which, regardless of semiotic weight, gets framed and shipped. Lauded by numerous other celebrity and media outlets, these letter-based and individually tailored decor concoctions make ideal housewarming, wedding, and new-baby gifts.