Shopping To You. A Mobile Boutique!

You feel the need to shop, but you simply can’t bear to get dressed. Egads! What is one to do? Well, now one of our favorite girly boutiques makes house calls! That’s what we call a moveable feast.

Check out this 40-foot motor coach that will bring shopping to you! It’s called "Lucy Concierge™” a mobile boutique and a division of Lucy Palmer.

Lucy Palmer Boutique & Lucy Palmer Specialty Gift Division, together, under one roof, bring you a fun & convenient way to shop. Lucy Concierge is a mobile showroom & boutique full of stylish gifts, home accessories, jewelry, cosmetics, cards and more. (We especially love their over the top girly gifts, like their funky adorned tanks from Alix & Maxx, their wide variety of charms and great foofoo line of make up.)

Lucy girls know how to party so gather your "A" list girlfriends, select a party from the trendy little list of themes and let’s get this party started! Theme parties include:

• "The Lucy Pre-Funk" - The hottest trends in jewelry, accessories & make-up
• Entertaining & Party Ideas - a crash course for the entertaining Diva who loves to throw a party!
• "Extreme Make-Over" Lucy style - feeling like you need a little style Rx? Lucy has a prescription for style!

They also offer shopping events for schools, auctions, clubs and associations.

Lucy Concierge™, the ultimate mobile soiree! Call for a tour 503-635-6856. The unveiling of their NEW website will be up on July 1st. Keep your eyes peeled.

Do Nothing!

Now you truly never have to lift a finger again. You can have someone schedule your appointments, wait for the cable guy, buy your groceries, make reservations, and even write your thank you notes for you. Remember our motto: delegate, delegate, delegate.

Introducing Portland’s first premier service concierge company, Pearl Concierge. They offer a wide range of services ranging from doctors who make house calls, household security, personal chefs, in-home veterinary visits, and much more.

Check out their website at: www.pearlconcierge.com and start doing more of nothing today.

Pearl Concierge
600 NW 14th Avenue, Suite 100
Portland, Oregon 97209

Phone: 503-595-5210
Fax: 503-222-3875

You are a City Girl

Portland is really amazing. It’s becoming more of a “Big City Shopping Experience!” What woman doesn’t want to pack her designer bags and go to New York or L.A. and shop til she drops? Fashion Boutiques can’t be beat on Madison Avenue in The Big Apple or Rodeo Drive in West Hollywood. There’s Henri Bendels, Scoop, NYC, Fred Segals…. Shall we go on? And now WE have City Girl, the shop that defines itself by these icons and carries the most fabulous Portland Picks we’ve seen.

City Girl, now open in Downtown Lake Oswego, is here to capture more of that urban shopping experience. City Girl, co-owned by Monica and Thomas Iizuka, specializes in “high fashion with atmosphere” found in the “Big City”. City Girl delivers this shopping spree concept in an atmosphere that is fun and hip to shop in. It is a destination for girlfriends 16 to 60 to gather and shop. Customer service is a number one goal. The attitude is “If we don’t have it, we will get it.” City Girl carries fashionable women’s clothing, Italian made shoes, designer accessories, hand made jewelry, Italian lingerie, and then some.

Some of City Girl fashions can be found online at www.shopcitygirl.com. Summer opening name brand fashions include Lure Clothing, Michelle Roy, Frankie B. Jeans, Pink Polka Dot, Eric Javits, Sam Edelman, Cosabella, Adea, Salt Works, Bella Chic, Divas, Simply Hot, and Johnny Was LA. Fall 2005 new lines will be added including Catherine Malandrino, Roberto Cavalli, Blue Colt, Ernest Sewn, Earl, Cynthia Steffe, Seven, ISDA – Red Line, Karv, Isabella Fiore, Sigerson Morrison, Iisli, Jet Tees, Three dot, bluejeanious, Edward An, and DWF…. There’s too many to list.

City Girl Boutique’s staff can’t wait to meet all the “City Girls” in the Lake Oswego / Portland area. Look forward to an unforgettable shopping experience. These guys are amazing.

The shop is so yummy, pink, flowery, cool. We dare you not to fall in love with everything!

Now you can get youthful skin without looking like "mommy-you-tied-my-ponytail-too-tight.”

We are all willing to do just about anything for youthful looking skin. In fact, we are willing to spend any amount of money if it guaranteed real results. Our sink looks like a professional stylist’s with all the products we’ve tried but that didn’t make the grade, a reminder of just how much money we’ve wasted. But one thing we do know that works, one simple word that beats the infomercial or department store products: a dermatologist. The prescription skincare products that you get from a dermatologist really do work.

But where do we start? We have met a group of female professionals that understand our dilemmas, that we can relate to, and that can prescribe a menu of options for natural looking real results.

The new trio at Providence Medical Systems is ready to help you, pretty girl. Dr. Lisa Turner, Dr. Kristin Stevens, and Dr. Michelle Bonta have nurturing techniques. They treat all skin afflictions. From warts (ick, hate that word), rashes, and acne to laser treatment, botox, collagen injection, and chemical peels. And what you do now can help sustain youthful skin well into the future so you never feel the urge to go "Joan Rivers."

Providence Medical Group
417 SW 117th ste 210
Portland, OR
503-216-9400

Girl’s Only

We reluctantly accepted a complimentary in-home foot treatment. Once we got past our modesty, well okay, humiliation, at undressing and exposing our nakey feet, we were able to relax and enjoy. (Though we continued to apologize every minute or so.) We are not modest, except when it comes to our feet. Forget trying on clothes, to try on shoes you’ll find us in the changing room. We felt so sorry for her, that she actually had to touch them. Eww. But she crossed her heart she had seen worse, so we dove in, he he, feet first.

Introducing Kate. Kate is amazing. She will come to your home and do the most delicious reflexology or massage treatment on those feetsies of yours. The treatment is beyond belief relief, and something you, Princess, deserve on a regular basis. We love her! She eased pressure in our back that we have spent years knotting.

Kate Wadhams practices reflexology and massage in her home and in the homes of her clients.

Reflexology works on the premise that the bottom of the feet are like mini-maps to the body; apply pressure to a specific area and the corresponding body part is stimulated, along with the entire nervous system, helping improve circulation and achieve internal balance.

Whether we’re footloose and fancy free or have our feet firmly planted on the ground, our heels, arches and toes may tell more about us than we think. The 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles in each foot carry the rest of the body’s weight. With thousands of nerve endings, they are a mirror of our general health. Your foot is your foundation, as the roots of a tree....so embrace them!

You can contact Kate at 503-319-2807 or email

For more information on reflexology, visit www.evergreenhealing.net

In the Bag

Janny Downey has launched a fabulous new bag collection under the label Minou-Minou, the same label she designed high-end children’s clothes for many years. After earning her undergrad degree in the states, Janny moved to Paris to receive her degree from La Chambre Syndicale De La Couture Parisienne, the world’s highly noted school of Haute Couture. After stints at Christian LaCroix & Chanel Haute Couture, she returned to Portland to launch her own line of children’s wear. Three kids later, she met another Mom who just so happened to be a very talented textile designer, and after coffee at Starbucks and a few small swatches she was inspired to create these great bags!

These bags provide an original, practical solution for the "mom who was a fashionista in her previous life." Still, while the designs are fashionable, there’s nothing over-the-top about these colorful, everyday bags.

Each bag is hand crafted in a limited edition of 250 pieces per fabric/style combination. Attention is given to each and every bag, created in her small Parisian Atelier, which happens to be located in Portland, Oregon. Most of her fabrics come from Europe and are absolutely exquisite. They are trimmed in leather, lined with waterproof breathable fabric and have that hand made quality that is so hard to find. It’s like having a couture bag at a ready-to-wear price.

Minou-Minou TM bags can be seen in Portland at Mimi & Lena’s, 1914 NE Broadway and in Seattle at Bohemian Dezigns 1501 Pike Place #521, in the Pike Place Market.

Stop and Taste the Chocolate: Hand made Chocolate

A chocolate a day, real chocolate, keeps the doctor away. Plus it’s just such an indulgent treat, a reward you are so worthy of. But it has to be the best. (Only the best for the best will do). And we’ve found a local girl who makes chocolate with your name on it! Chocolate so creamy, so dreamy, so perfect that it will seduce you; an experience with deeper flavor and visual beauty a meltingly heart-stopping tongue pleaser!

Elizabeth Montes started making chocolates nearly ten years ago as gifts for her friends and family. In early 2001, Montes began selling her chocolate morsels at the Portland Farmer’s Market, a place she soon found to be a fresh foods paradise offering indeed the best of the Northwest. She uses real spices, seasonal herbs and fresh fruit flavors to create pure tastes, along with hormone-free Oregon cream, all delicately painted with a dazzling burst of confectionary luster.

It is her wish that chocolate will compel us to stop for a moment and will show us that an already blissful experience can be made even lovelier when we pay attention to this little mystery we all love in its mass produced humble state.

Stop and smell the roses, and then taste the chocolate.

Know First Who you are. Then Adorn Yourself Accordingly

Baubles by Beth is ready for her close up.

Jewels and gems, glitz and glamour, sparkle and shine, razzle and dazzle, swirly and girly, oohs and aahs, and big-time bling. Be there to bask in the glorious warmth of this big day.

You’re invited to indulge, to be inspired, to adorn yourself, to celebrate, as jewelry designer Beth Heinrich introduces Baubles by Beth to the Portland fashion scene.

Enjoy sweet treats, bubbly, live music, and glittering jewels like nothing you’ve ever seen.

Saturday, June 18, 2005
6 – 8 p.m.
The Empire Room
4260 SE Hawthorne
Portland, Oregon

Your Clock is Ticking

We have discovered Tick Tock Clocks in Portland made from vintage children’s books, usually "Golden Books" and "Wonder Books" that a lot of us grew up reading. They can be found at "The Paper Garden" for $29 or through Tick Tock Clock’s directly for $25 and they make a great, rare and unique shower gift.

They will also take a book that is special to a grandparent, parent or child and customize a clock as a keepsake. They are great for a baby shower gift and they come wrapped very nicely with a battery included. The cost of this when you provide the book is $20. They don’t have to be baby books, either.... a favorite cookbook, gardening book, etc. works, too!

Tick Tock Clocks can also make clocks out of old album covers which is great for those "Led Zeppelin" fans who like to relive their glory days. Or, for older (our parents -- shhh) who want to display an Elvis Album in an office. It’s a great gift idea for Father’s Day. AND, they also make them out of old game boxes (twister, scrabble, etc.) for a game or party room. The sky is the limit!

For more information or to purchase: email ticktockclocks@verizon.net.

Suit Yourself with a monogrammed Ralph Lauren bathing suit.

It’s all about you (isn’t it always?) and now you can have exactly what you want (deservedly so).

The Ricky Bikini is a sexy string bikini from Ralph Lauren that is all the rage this season. In addition to coming in all kinds of bursting splashy colors, you can make it all your own by designing it on line.

For a fun stylish bikini go to www.ralphlauren.com to their Create Your Own collection. Choose your suit color, choose your pony color or monogram and then make it your own! Easy as one, two, three.

And after you’ve ponied up for your bikini, while you’re there, create your own sexy, skinny polo shirt, country club polo, or classic skinny oxford.

Wax strips

After you get your itty, bitty string bikini with your monogram, make sure you are well waxed for heaven’s sake before you strut yourself in public. There’s nothing worse, just think of the cruel nicknames. For easy use, carry along Wax Strips from Parissa.

These are a must! They’re easy & ready to use, no heating, no spreading, no mess. They are ideal for the novice, travel & touch ups, or for those that liken a bikini wax at a salon to getting a pap smear.

Don’t leave home without them.

Leaving Las Vegas

After Vegas, and the big scary birthday, you should have seen the airplane of passengers LEAVING Las Vegas. Just not quite the same as the bright eyed bushy tailed GOING to Las Vegas.

It was very telling. But not us. No, we “experienced” Las Vegas for the scary birthday but you couldn’t tell when we left...because we used famous Tracie Martyn’s Lotus Sculpt for a quick fix that left our tired eyes in Vegas Baby (what happens there stays there you know).

And sometimes it’s all about faking it (even though we slept the whole way home. Shhhhhh.)

Tracie Martyn’s Lotus Sculpt

Don’t Let it All Hang Out

Summer’s here and so are the tanks and halters. But nothing looks worse than a loose bra strap hanging out, going braless when you probably shouldn’t, or feeling self conscious with no boobs at all (that’s us!) Save your money on that lift you were thinking of and pick up Nu Bra.

They stick to your breasts, no straps, providing smooth and attractive support. You can even get them with a little lift and cleavage. And they look and feel like the real thing. They can be washed over and over and the adhesive continues to work.

These are truly amazing!

Nakey Nike

There’s a shoe from Nike called Nike Free. It let’s your feet feel free as they run, as they move, as they train, inspired by world class athletes....naturally. And you can design your own. We can pick one and customize it to our liking and wha-lah!

These are us. And we remain footloose and fancy free in our nakey Nike’s. And you can too.

Flower Power

Check out Wingard for their collection of vintage pillows and products made from retro 70s fabrics rescued from an old fabric warehouse.

These limited edition vintage prints are made available to the public for the first time in decades. From the discovery of the fabrics to the creation of the pillows, these are homegrown in San Francisco, and very cool for your home.

And while you’re there, check out their very Greg Brady HANGING MO-BI-LE-O’S.

You, The Owner’s Manual

Do you see the pattern yet? The re-occuring theme? Yes, YOU!

This book is for anyone that has ever had an hypochondriac moment, or if you’re like us, live daily life as a full blown hypochondriac. Test: Have you ever been panicked when you felt the little bump between your breasts and you were convinced it was a tumor, only to find out it was your sternum (but it wasn’t there before!) Well now you can spend all your time researching every ping and pang and understand it in layman’s terms. Not sure if it’s a good thing for the obsessive, since sometimes a little info can be a bad thing, but for you my educated princess, this will hopefully keep you healthy and youthful.

Check out the blurb from Amazon.com:

With much sassy humor (they describe the adrenals as similar in shape to Mr. Potato Head’s hat), they give a guided tour of the body’s anatomy and major systems (hormonal, nervous, digestive, sensory, etc.) including plenty of fascinating trivia along the way. How often should you get your thyroid level checked? How much gas does the average person produce in a day? And, most importantly, how many times a year do most people have sex?? Drs. Oz and Roizen know. They also reveal plenty of bizarre (and potentially life-saving) facts such as this: If your earlobe has a prominent vertical wrinkle, it’s likely that your arteries are aging faster than they ought to be. (You can bet we raced to the mirror on that on.)

It’s your body, shouldn’t you finally learn how it works?

• Sequence tops (think Boogie Nights)
  
  
• Mini skirts
  
  
• Natural cork-colored polish
  
  
• Ponytails (even seen worn on the side)
  
  
• Delicious ice cream shades for shadow
  
  
• Keep muscles guessing (shake up and shock your workout)
  
  
• Six Pack Abs
  
  
• Feminine dresses (instead of suits)
  
  
• Metallic Accessories
  
  
• Wood Bangles
  
  
• Clutch Bags
  
  
• Hot prints
  
  
• Halter tops
  
  
• Appliqué on everything
  
  
• Tunics, tunics, tunics
  
  
• Cropped blazers
  
  
• Glistening, sequenced bags
  
  
• Ethnic flats and sky high espadrilles
  
  
• Tiny string bikini’s
  
  
• Highlight feminine dresses
  
  
• Huge wide brim floppy hats
  
  
• White Jeans
  
  
• White round sunglasses
  
  
• Natural long wavy beachy hair and bangs
  
  
• Natural looking makeup
  
  
• Bronzer (but not too dark)
  
  
• T-shirts gone wild!
  
  
• Basket bags and totes
  
  

Wow!

June 29 6-8pm
Summer Cocktail Block Party in the Nob Hill neighborhood (which includes 21st, 23rd and uptown) Let us accessorize you from head to toe for all your summer parties! Unique hostess gifts 10% off all cocktail items New barware: shakers, glasses, recipe books and more!

Visit Blush Beauty Bar for professional tips on summer makeup and skin that glows.

Karen Brooks, author of Highballs and Highheels and Atomic Cocktails, will also be in the store to autograph books.

Just Peachy!

Absolut Vodka is hosting an art, dj, vodka evening named "mmm . . . peachy" at Pala, a brand new fashion bar in Portland.

Come to Pala, the newest addition to Portland’s nightlife on June 19th for an evening of art, music, dancing, and vodka! Featuring fresh inspirational canvases by Nate Luna, Kimmie Hutchins, and Dave Hsiao, and photography by Christina Weber. With Dj’s Alden Brown and DiBi YoSi. And brought to you by Absolut Apeach. Cover for this event is $3 after 10:00.

Pala is located at 105 NW 3rd at Couch where the old Couch Street Fish House used to be in old town. The club features fashion TV from Paris on big screens, elegant decor, a dance floor, a full bar, and dinner, and guest dj’s every weekend. The place has a great vibe and super friendly staff. Pala also has happy hour on week days from 5:00 to 6:30. The happy hour menu has a delicious selection of appetizer specials to choose from, including yummy garlic fries.

Splashion Show

Sunday, June 26th
Doors open at 4:30, show at 7pm.

Splashion Show - Crush’s first fashion show will showcase men and women’s summer skin wear. Swimsuits, underwear, lingerie, and more. Unusual models of all shapes and sizes, cheesecake, beefcake, and triple layer cake.

Models will strut the wares of local designers, while the 2 MC’s do more than just announce the model and describe the wear - they might just heckle a bit. Get ready for some surprises on the runway too!

After the show they'll have the usual Sunday T-dance with "hang_the dj" spinning into the evening. They have $2 drinks (a BLACK T, with citrus vodka, lemon and black tea, and a GREEN T, Citrus Vodka, orange and green tea. They also serve $1 PBR.

Crush 1400 SE Morrison www.crushbar.com 503.235.8150