Before senior pictures, high-school graduates could only commemorate matriculation by tossing caps into neighbors' gardens and humming "Pomp and Circumstance" over sleeping grandparents. Give graduates the gift of subtlety with today's Groupon to CL!X Portrait Studios in Maple Grove. Choose between the following options:
• For $75, you get a high-school senior-portrait session, including a two-pose digital-image package (a $155.95 value) and a 40-minute session (a $24.95 value; a $180.90 total value).
The professional shutterbugs at CL!X studios capture milestones with portraits that express the personalities of families, tots, and teens. During the 40-minute senior-portrait session, grads perch before three or four flattering studio backdrops with any props that define their high-school lives, from footballs and trombones to water wings and a volleyball with a face painted on it. Grads retain the copyrights to their photos, and leave with a high-resolution digital-image CD containing their two favorite poses, which they can send to the yearbook office and print frameables for friends, grandparents, and middle-school crushes. If students prefer more images or outdoor photo sessions, flexible photographers will dish out special upgrade deals to Groupon holders, as well as reduced prices on prints.
The baby's first year package snaps portraits of infants every three months, capturing the astonishing growth from tiny newborn to wide-eyed investment banker. Send out the happy news with 24 birth announcements, glossy, personalized portraits. Three months later, the eyes, nose, feet, and toes session (an 8"x8" print) zooms in on the details, capturing the wrinkles of a palm and a sweetly scrunched nose. At six months, a simple sentiments portrait (an 11"x14" print) pairs a photo with a song lyric or quote, and the nine-month portrait narrative (an 8"x16" print) snaps three poses of tots and props. The first year finishes with a signature photo of 1-year-olds (a 12"x12" print), that can be transformed into 12 birthday invitations, thank-you cards, or campaign buttons for preschool president. The package also includes a two-year club membership that comes with 10% off additional purchases and free sessions for two years.
Expiration varies. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person. Limit 1 per visit. By appointment only. Valid only for option purchased. Must activate baby's first year option by 2/13/12, option expires 1 year from activation. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
At CL!X Portrait Studios, photographers can capture well-posed shots of siblings in matching sweaters or click away at kids in their natural state of play, whether they are giggling in a frilly tutu or banging on a set of pots and pans. The studio’s array of portraiture styles reflects its founders’ goals: Sandy and Michael Pawlyszyn started CL!X after searching fruitlessly for a user-friendly way to document their own kids’ childhoods. Now, their team of photographers snaps youthful smiles in the studio as well as on site in the community, helming shoots at local schools, dance studios, and sports games. Their subjects need not be children, though—they can craft portraits of entire families, moms-to-be, and high-school seniors before they graduate and cycle back to preschool. The crew also takes photographic fun on the road via photo-booth rentals, which let partiers create their own lasting memories at special events.
A house is like a home with dozens of things that constantly need fastening, adjusting, caulking, and cake-frosting removal. Today's Groupon stocks a homeowner's tool belt with $20 worth of supplies at Paul's Ace Hardware Stores for $10. Choose between five well-built locations in Scottsdale (one on McDonald Drive, the other on Scottsdale Road), Fountain Hills, Tempe, and Gilbert for the friendly service of those who don't want to see your house revert to its natural state of wood chunks and brass piping.
The Paul in Paul's Ace Hardware stands for Paul E. Dauwalder, who started with one store back in 1956 and has built a family of shops that are guided by the caring dedication of a band of Dauwalders. Stop by one of Paul's stores for honest assistance with any questions you have about painting, electrical, plumbing, lawn, garden, automotive, and hardware-related duties. Bring clean air to your home with an electrostatic filter ($21.99) or sprinkle hydration to your side lawn with a portable hose handler reel ($25.99). No labeler can resist the fun brought along by an old-school embossing labelmaker ($5.99), and no sweet tooth can say nay to your very own four-quart electric ice cream maker ($39.99).
Whatever the project may be, Paul's Ace Hardware has the wares and professional guidance to get the home-improvement wheel running without unexpected leaks or squeaking noises. Top-drawer customer service, an enormous stock of supplies for all occasions, competitive prices, and the ability to special order any product make Paul's the place that houses dream about when they begin having existential crises.
For my husband, this hardware store is like a candy store to the kid with a sweet tooth...all sorts of great treasures to find! – Chris R., Insider Pages
The staff is always friendly and takes the time to answer any questions I might have. – Airy, Google Maps
I do not always know exactly what I am looking for at a hardware [store]. I just know what the problem is and I need a solution. I can always count on Ace. I don't have to wait around for someone to help me. That in itself is worth the trip. – Mary W., Insider Pages
Promotional value expires Jul 27, 2010. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person. May purchase multiple as gifts. Not valid with other offers. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
Countless repairs and home-remodeling projects can undoubtedly trace their lineage back to Paul's Ace Hardware, which began doling out DIY equipment and home-improvement supplies in 1956. Founded by Paul E. Dauwalder, the shop quickly expanded from its original 1,800-square-foot space, branching out to five shops that now operate beneath the expert eye of Paul's granddaughter. Cleaning products, outdoor equipment, and pool supplies are just a fragment of the stores' inventory, with power tools awaiting steady hands, fishing gear beckoning lake dwellers, and building materials—including the Tempe location's 56,000 square feet of lumber—standing poised and ready to be assembled into dams by handy beavers. Still in the city of its founding, the Scottsdale location has moved and upgraded to its own building.