Jet lag tea

A natural antidote to travel fatigue, check out Jetlag Spa Therapy kits. There’s tea for your tub and tea for your tummy. To ease the time-change blahs, these products will transform you back to you.

Try their AM Energizing Mineral Scrub to rejuvenate your state of mind or their PM Soothing Herbal Tea to help heal your body and cope with the effects of jetlag. Jet Lag Tea. Don’t leave home without it.

Tealeaves.com
888.291.teas

Identification Tags

To make traveling more efficient, to identify your bag among all the others circling the luggage carousel, you need a neon bag tag you can’t miss.

Cut down the minutes that you spend shoulder to shoulder with the great unwashed, you’ll be so very glad that you bothered.

It always makes the flight go faster when you can catch up on that beauty sleep. It’s cramped, stuffy, not an easy task to catch those zzz’s. You need a silky leopard or zebra patterned eye mask from Urbane Zen.

The masks cut out all light and allow you to pretend you are at the spa, not ingesting recycled air. Relax, tune out, and feel refreshed upon your arrival.

Sharper Image – personal entertainment center/dvd player for the kids

It’s hard to travel with young children. They can’t sit still for long, and want YOU to entertain them (imagine!), play with them, read to them, sing to them for the ENTIRE painfully long flight...or else they will torture you by knowingly screaming, crying and kicking the seat in front of them.

To avoid your share of evil glances from others (don’t they see how cute they are?!), there’s really only a couple choices.

1. Benedryl for them (and you)....or
2. A DVD Player. A little indulgence once in a while will be okay, and for your sanity it’ll be well worth it.

Then there’s the videos...They will self destruct in 48 hours!

Okay, you’re set with your portable DVD player, now you need to rent the videos. Oh but we dread going to the video store. It scares us. “That’ll be 3.99 for the movie, and $182.00 in late fees, please.” We just can’t be responsible for returning our movies on time. It’s hard to find the videos and their cases, and then put them in their cases, the right cases, and then actually get to the video store....in between scouts, soccer practices, tutors, ballet, grocery store, cleaners, doctor’s appointments….!

We were waiting with bated breath for a solution and we didn’t have to wait long. We discovered video rentals Mission Impossible style – dissolving DVDs! And we bear no responsibility for their return.

They just self-destruct in 48 hours. How cool is that!? How do they know? Well, who cares, we love this!

You can go on vacation with your videos and not worry about returning them late or losing them. They just disappear, out of your hair, one less thing to worry about.

Cashmere Blanket Wrap

Oh luxury. This is a must-have scrumptious accessory for curling up with on the plane, and the perfect travel companion. This is an easy wrap that’ll pack well and wear well where ever your final destination may take you.

You deserve cashmere.

Snuggling up with those coarse, harsh airline ‘towels’ is no way to live large (and do they really wash them between flights?!). Get a cashmere wrap, you deserve it.

Comfy Loafers

We don’t like to think about it, much less admit it, but our feet tend to grow on the plane.

It’s quite a phenomena actually. You take your shoes off at the beginning of the flight and when you land, it can sometimes be impossible to scrunch them back on.

We suggest Tod’s loafers from Mario’s or comfy Cole Haan suede slides. All the comfort you need, plus room to grow.

Airborne

Not to be a hypochondriac, but okay, we are. Admittedly, flying is not our favorite thing. We are a tad nervous about potential terrorists, mechanical problems, the Bird Flu, SARS, and other germ infested foreign illnesses circulating and re-circulating the teensy compartment...!!!

Stranger’s coughs and sniffles make us bristle and wish we had worn that doctor’s mask, but it just didn’t go with our outfit.

That’s why we arm ourselves just before every flight. Okay, it may look a little paranoid but it works. You need to take the appropriately named prevention, Airborne.

Just plop, plop, fizz, fizz before the flight and you are armed for an airborne particle fight to the finish. Give your immune system a much needed boost and then sit back with one less heart-thumping fear.

Available at Rite Aid, Walgreen’s and other area drug stores, or online at www.drugstore.com.

The Times, They are a Changin’

Speaking of turning your clock back, hopefully by now all the clocks have been adjusted correctly. It usually takes us about a week before we get to them all, except for the car clock which we can’t figure out at all, so we just let it be, subtracting an hour as needed until it’s time to spring forward.

But, in the meantime, if we want to be certain of the time, always, we’ll head over to Carl Greve, to their new Cartier boutique. There’s no better home than Carl Greve for this exclusive Cartier Boutique, just one of 10 in North America, and it proves again that we have arrived.

We adore their pretty in pink Cartier Tank Divan, a limited edition pearl watch with pink alligator band...proceeds of which benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and that will surely be a “timeless” collector’s item.

We also adore their vintage looking Roadster and their platinum classics. All of Cartier’s timepieces will last forever in quality and style, and you’ll find them only at Carl Greve’s new Cartier Boutique.

Carl Greve.com
731 SW Morrison
503-223-7121

The holidays. Heavy sigh.

We look forward to them but they’re just so much work. The minute Thanksgiving is officially over, we are headed out to the tree farm to cut down our tree. But that’s just the beginning. Well, it’s going to be different this year. Remember our motto...delegate, delegate, delegate, and then take all the credit.

It’s so fun to drive around and see all the Christmas lights brightening up the houses and getting us into the Christmas spirit. But putting them up can be another story. Forget getting electrocuted or falling from the ladder, what about the nuisance of taking them down afterward? There is nothing less classy than Christmas lights in June. If our ability to return rental films is at all like our light removal system, we’re in trouble! But help is near. Let’s leave it to the pros.

Christmas Décor from Drake’s 7 Dees is the team for you. And they are turn-key. What goes up must come down and Christmas Décor does it all. You can have that look that others envy and it will disappear the moment the season does. That is a present to you.

Call them now and light up your holidays!

Christmas Decor
503.256.2224

With the rain comes the cravings and the desire for that home cooked meal. After all, we’re storing up for a long winter ahead.

There is something wonderfully appealing about a diner. The cozy booths, the causal atmosphere, the colorful and diverse clientele. The only drawback is often the food. Not at Ken's Place. Here you will find all the warmth you want and a menu that is sure to please even the most discerning.

Ken's place offers a variety of small plates, like crab cakes and calamari salad, as well as full entrees. Our favorite was the 28 East Pork Chop, a thick chop glazed with a light teriyaki-style marinade and served with Granny Smith applesauce with ginger. On the side is a heap of creamy scalloped potatoes. We dream about those potatoes.

Aside from their standard menu, Ken's Place offers themed prix-fixed menus the first Sunday of the month. For $29.75 you get a four course meal with wine, $22.50 without wine. Kids under 12 eat for $16.75. Upcoming themes and dates are:

• December 5 - The Pleasures of Burgundy
• January 9 - The Reign of Spain, an Evening of Tapas
• February 6 - The Spirit of New Orleans

Reservations required for the theme nights. Any other time, just stop in. Ken's Place is a great place to get a home cooked meal without having to cook.

Ken's Place
1852 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.
503.236.9520

Preppy Rules!

Just in time for giving and receiving, check out the entire Vera Bradley Collection at dieci soli in Lake View Village. These all cotton reversible bags are available in all the latest styles and colors. Bold yet comfortable, these bags provide ample space and cheerful, brilliant colors. Get noticed! Get envied!

Print this out, bring it in, and receive 10% off your Vera Bradley purchase.

Dieci Soli

Introducing a new shopping website, launching from right here in Portland: ShopCityGirl.com, for fun and fabulous fashion.

Cowboy hats are still raging, and ShopCityGirl has them. Meredith Philips, Portland’s favorite bachelorette, wears the Texas Star Hat with style and helps support breast cancer research and awareness.

This is the season for everything Western, so why not wear it with some flair? You will be the talk of the town, the hit on the ski slopes, and the buzz at the nightclub with this tea stained cowboy hat customized with a Michelle Roy flower with coordinating velvet Ribbon.

Nothing says, “Yee Haw!” like a tea stained cowboy hat. Giddy up, Cow Girl.

Rumi Simone spa has finally opened. We’ve been aching for this moment, holding our breath. And they don’t disappoint. This gorgeous, decadent day spa puts others to shame. It is out of this world luxury just waiting for you. From fancy facials to fancy feet, state of the art massages, a soaking tub in a private studio apartment with a fireplace, oh man!

We are running away to Rumi Simone!

Rumi Simone
345 First Street Suite 107
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
503-699-8899

You love to turn upside down and spin around on the Monkey Bars like the Olympic bound gymnast you are, but you don’t want those icky boys to see your undies. Really, it’s enough to ruin your day.

So what’s a girl to do?

Enter Monkey Bar Buddies, created in Portland, and now selling nationally. We love them down to the little wee bow! Adorable and created to not bunch or look bulky under a skirt, we hear Nordstrom has just signed on to carry them too.

With winter on the way, THINK SNOW!

Snow Patrol
Final Straw

We love it when a CD matches a mood, don't you?

This fall, as the weather gets cold and the leaves turn, we find ourselves reveling in the warm melancholy of the season. Mirroring that feeling is Final Straw, the newest release by British band Snow Patrol.

Lead singer Gary Lightbody's voice makes for a versatile instrument with it's breathy, moody depth. Lightbody is backed up by a nice blend of guitar, piano, strings, percussion and electronic music. The music is thickly textured, yet very easy to listen to.

You will find yourself reminiscing about loves lost and tapping your toes at the same time. We find this CD to be a perfectly upbeat blend of classic rock music elements and current music technology. If you like Radiohead, Coldplay, Pete Yorn, or Pink Floyd, we think you will enjoy Final Straw. Look for our faves "Run," "Chocolate," and "Wow."

Okay, different kind of cd. But this is soooo cool. Get the entertaining insiders walking tour for neighborhoods in San Francisco, Paris, London, and New York. Plunge into the heart, charm and romance unique to these cities.

Let Soundwalk’s audio tour whisk you away through lesser-known haunts, sights, and obscure boutiques all mixed with city sounds, music, and humorous insider anecdotes. This is a very clever, sophisticated, state of the art experience. An enthralling way to see the world.

Artistically produced (think NPR), this is an unconventional way to see the city’s neighborhoods (e.g. New York’s Ground Zero, the Meatpacking District, Wall Street, etc.).....taking the type of museum tour technology and translating it to these famed streets. Everything is perfectly synchronized, with sounds that conjure up a sense of being there, back with the gangsters and the flappers and your ancestors just off the boat.

Skin Candy
Now there’s wellness from the inside out and we’re talking more than just salmon.

Origins has created oil-spiked chocolate bars that taste good and are good for your skin.

Origins Sensory Therapy chocolate is our kind of skincare regime. This makes skincare a treat. Available at Nordstrom or www.origins.com.

Joy of Giving
This holiday season go shopping from the comfort of home.

Log onto www.ThanksAndGiving.com and start shopping! 100% of the proceeds from every purchase goes to St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital.

Each gift you buy, keeps on giving. We love the sexy girl-fit t-shirt from DKNY from their celebrity “hope” collection.

For great classic gift ideas visit HomeTownFavorites.com. Remember Astro Pops, Big League Chewing Gum, candy cigarettes (great party favor for playgroup!), candy necklace and candy buttons. Or what about Pop Rocks, cinnamon Toothpicks, waxed lips, and Zotz?

If you know someone with a sweet tooth that was a child in the 70s, a prerequisite of course, give them their decade in candy. The 70s Decade Box. A fun gift idea!

Virtual Cocktail Party Gift Set

A refreshing gift set of 3 sophisticated cologne sprays: Martini, Gin & Tonic, and Cosmopolitan Cocktail. A perfect gift for that elegant soul who enjoys the nightlife!

Or just in time for Thanksgiving Dinner, the Demeter Pumpkin Pie Pick Me Up Cologne Spray. Something perfect to wake you up so you can get going girl!

There’s lots to do. Thanksgiving is coming, and now you can have your pie and smell good too.

We know, we know. Enough about perfume. Okay, but just one more. We care how we smell. We fret over our signature scent. And we don’t want just any old smell. We love a natural (not too natural!) fragrance and certainly not one that makes other people’s eyes tear. Our scent needs are simple, but we are so picky, picky, picky.

Donna Karan's new fragrance, Be Delicious, is her tribute to the city she loves (and that we love, 2nd to Portland, that is) - New York City. Fresh scents like apple, cucumber and grapefruit meet the sensual exotic flowers tuberose, magnolia and violet to create a scent that is clean and fresh enough for day and still sexy enough for night. A 24 hour perfume from a 24 hour city, as fresh and daring as the city itself and even the presentation gives a nod to the big apple - a sleek metal and glass apple shaped bottle.

Very cute. We think you will love this modern yet warm perfume...we know we do, we can't stop going to the bottle, opening and enjoying it!

Long knit scarves are so in right now. By now you should have several. The chunky knit scarves from Gap and J Crew are classics. Wind it around that neck and let it hang down. And you never have to take it off.

It’s the new accessory and can be worn inside and out during these chilly months keeping you warm while making you so cool,.

Get the Face – You deserve the Renew Facial from Avalon Spa. This facial removes those icky toxins, blekky dead skin cells, and “initiates cellular renewal.” Not only is it heavenly as it’s happening, it leaves your skin soft and youthful.

Takes years off, you will look and feel fresh….and you are so worthy!

Renew Facial
50 minutes $86

Avalon Spa
0455 Sw Hamilton Court
Portland, OR 97201-4200
503-802-5800

Get the Skin - Start using Pacifica’s Sea Mineral Detoxifying Body Mask.

This spa treatment is based on the French art of using sea plants for skin therapy. Your body will feel refreshed, toned and brought back into its natural balance. Okay, yeah, whatever, it reduces cellulite too!

Perfect for destressing during this stressful time.

Get the body – One word. Josh. Josh Hunt is the trainer of Who’s Who in Portland. He will come to you, establish a program that fits your needs and then, like any good drill sergeant, make you do it.

Josh is your man. And with him at your side, you’ll feel like Madonna, and soon look like her too.

Josh Hunt
joshthetrainer@hotmail.com
503.799.7223

Get the Makeover – Pop into Blush Beauty Bar for a quick Flirtini. Flirtini – “in a wink and a pout your ready to go out!" A Flirtini is a 10 minute touch up during Blush’s Happy Hour to get you ready for your happy hour.

Blush Beauty Bar will touch up your eyes, lips, & cheeks and get you all dolled up to go out. They will add to your makeup, not take off or start from scratch. Their Flirtini’s are 4-6 pm for only $10. So sit back in the lush pink surroundings getting gorgeous. You will look flirtatiously fabulous, Dahling, after your Flirtini.

Blush Beauty Bar
513 NW 23rd Ave.
503.227.3390

Get the Gown – Lena Medoyeff. Forget black. Black is blah! Run across the street to Lena Medoyeff Studio for your gorgeous gown.

Lena Medoyeff studio carries the highest quality, incredibly gorgeous gowns and dresses by a local independent designer. In the latest styles, these are like artwork, often made of 100% raw silk, hand embroidered details, feminine, classic, timeless.

Trust us, Cinderella; you will be the belle of the ball in your one of a kind Lena Medoyeff gown.

Lena Medoyeff Studio
724 NW 23rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97210
503.227.0011

Dragonlily Fashion Show

November 18 at Pointe Spa Benefits Make A Wish Foundation

Hillsboro, OR (November 1, 2004) – A “Spa Soiree” fashion show and trunk show at the Pointe Spa on Wednesday, November 18 will feature new designs from the owners of dragonlily boutique, Jasmine Patten and Keri Ann Roberts.

Dragonlily, which was recently featured in Portland Picks, carries original clothing and accessories from more than 40 Portland, Seattle and San Francisco designers. It is the exclusive Oregon retailer for Dervish and Ipseity, the design labels created by Patten and Roberts. Also spotlighted are one of a kind garments by Hillsboro designer Sarah Van Raden and Good Fortune Bags by Sudan Handley.

A portion of the proceeds from ticket and raffle sales at the event will go to the Make a Wish Foundation. The Soiree begins at 7 p.m. with wine tasting by Stone Wolf Vineyards and hors d’oeuvres from New Leaf Bistro. Tickets are $15 and admission is limited.

For advance tickets and more information, call The Pointe Spa, 503-640-6404. www.thepointespa.com. 4800 N. Belknap Court, Hillsboro.

Dragonily boutique is located at 1740 SE Hawthorne in Portland. www.dragonlily.org. 503-234-LILY.

KIDS WILL HAVE A BALL IN OMSI'S NEW INNOVATION STATION
New Hall Explores Human Side of Technology

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry invites visitors to experience Innovation Station, a new permanent exhibit installed in the museum's historic Turbine building.

Opening November 11, Innovation Station encompasses more than 20 technology-themed exhibits, plus a new and expanded Vernier Technology Lab and the sure to be popular Inventor's Ball Room-a wild, interactive exhibit that has nothing to do with dancing, and everything to do with
the process of innovation.

"Technology has become so ubiquitous, people are often not even aware of it," said Ray Vandiver, OMSI vice president of exhibits. "We're pulling back the curtain with Innovation Station to show the human side of technology and the boundless creative opportunities even simple systems will inspire."

Innovation Station's collection of more than 20 exhibits includes:

• Inventor's Ball Room
  The Inventor's Ball Room, the centerpiece of Innovation Station, encourages families to develop their creative problem-solving skills by inventing various self-designed systems to propel some 10,000 spongy ping-pong-sized balls throughout the hall.
  
  Seven air hydrants with valves and vacuum-like hoses throughout the room allow visitors to push balls through more than 50 different contraptions.
  
  The ball hopper—suspended in mid-air, is sure to be a favorite target. It holds 5,000 of the primary colored balls, but when you add ball number 5,001, the hopper spills all of the balls onto the visitors below without warning. Nearby, a 22-foot-long "maze wall" peppered with 64 interchangeable valves, will inspire creative mosaics of propulsion.
• Racing robots
  Two large robotic arms skip life in an industrial plant for a life of education at OMSI. No one wants to talk to an arm, so the first robot picks up a flat screen monitor with a human face to serve as a personal tour guide through the world of robotics. OMSI personnel program the robotic arms, making the exhibit both flexible and unique to the area.

Visitors can race the robotic arms in a "loop and wire" challenge that demonstrates the delicate, yet fast capabilities of these modern marvels. Nearby, a Mars rover exhibit and other interactive games allow visitors to test their own programming skills and learn about robots' strengths and weaknesses.

The exhibits of Innovation Station are included with general admission to OMSI.

In recognition of American Diabetes Month, the OHSU Center for Women's Health invites you to attend this month's free women's health Brown Bag at Nordstrom Downtown Portland from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 11.

No RSVP is necessary, but seating is limited so come early and bring your lunch. Or order a delicious lunch ahead of time at Nordstrom Downtown Portland Café, and your lunch will be ready when you get there.

Join us for our November Brown Bag on:

Examining Diabetes and Related Problems:
A Woman's Health Issue
Thursday, November 11, noon to 1 p.m.
Nordstrom Downtown Portland*
701 S.W. Broadway, 4th floor conference room

Andrew Ahmann, M.D., will discuss the far-reaching impact of diabetes and related metabolic diseases, including unique implications for women, young and old. Ahmann will review diabetes in pregnancy, heart disease in women with diabetes, the related problem of polycystic ovary syndrome, and tips for prevention and therapy. Ahmann is associate professor of medicine (endocrinology, diabetes and clinical nutrition), OHSU School of Medicine; and director of the OHSU Diabetes Center.

We will kick off the lecture with a drawing. Simply enter your business card at the door for some fabulous, invigorating prizes:

• A gift basket from Nordstrom. Visit the Nordstrom website at www.nordstrom.com
• Manicure and one-day pass to Avalon Hotel's Spa and Fitness Club: www.avalonhotelandspa.com
• Private session at Pacific Northwest Pilates: www.pacificnorthwestpilates.com
• Ticket to the Women's Health Conference 2005: www.ohsuwomenshealth.com

  *We look forward to seeing you at noon on Thursday, November 11, at Nordstrom Downtown Portland, 701 S.W. Broadway (at the corner of Broadway and Morrison), in the fourth floor conference room, accessible through customer service on the third floor. For directions, please call 503 224-6666, ext. 1840