Butterscotch.

All this talk about chocolate factories beckons our sweet tooth, but since we can’t afford the carb-o-centric worldview (blast you Dr. Atkins), we’ll opt for the sugar free but equally delectable Butterscotch boutique. Butterscotch on trendy Northeast 28th is a yummy modern mercantile that carries something scrumptious for every desire.

They’ve got cards, girlfriend and hostess gifts, books, bags, jewelry, inspirational women-focused books, kitchen wares, bath and body, unique children’s gifts to stand out at the baby shower or to spoil your own.

They have a little bit of everything with an urban edge and a neighborhood feel. It’s indeed a different twist on the mercantile of yesterday, bright, colorful and unique bounty for all.

Save the cals and ban the carbs, visit Butterscotch

144 NE 28th Avenue
Portland
503.234.6877
www.shopatbutterscotch.com

Get Foxy at Moxie

You know your girlfriend who always looks effortlessly amazing? She mixes prints. She wears things with flounces and always has the hottest handbags. She blends kitschy with uptown. She’s girly but something of a rocker, too. What if you could raid your girlfriend’s closet…and better yet, what if everything came in your size?

There’s a brand-new store called Moxie that can make your closet-robbing dreams come true. Moxie specializes in affordable clothes for every body – sizes 0-16 – which means that everyone’s arms and thighs and middles will find fashionable fits. The owners, who hail from Adidas, brought in more than 50 crave-worthy labels, five of them are local (plus they promised more local labels coming soon). And in the fall, look for vintage designer fashions hand-picked to fit Moxie’s milieu. Best-sellers right now are the candy-wrapper handbags (made from new but imperfect candy wrappers – you have to see to believe), Chandi printed t-shirts and the “Brazil” dress by Basic Law – promised to look fab on every figure!

Moxie
2400 E. Burnside
(502) 29-MOXIE
www.moxiepdx.com

Mmmm, we just discovered Dolce Vita Pearl, a clean little shop hugging the corner at 12th Avenue and Flanders. One part upscale skincare apothecary, one part makeup counter, one part spa, and all fabulous! Dolce Vita Pearl carries the brands you used to have to go to high-end department stores to find: Mario Badescu (the only place in Oregon to find it), Dr. Hauschka, Natura Bise, Darphin, Jurlique, and one of our great secret loves – Bare Escentuals (we swear that their foundation is genius).

You absolutely must try a spa service that utilizes your favorite skincare line, as well. Try the Jurlique classic facial for $75, or the NV Perricone MD version for $85. All facials last an hour and include a complimentary hand treatment. We likey! They also offer waxing services, a glycolic peel, certified lymphatic drainage and microdermabrasion. So you can step in as an oyster, and leave as a beautiful, glowing pearl.

Dolce Vita Pearl
402 NW 12th Ave.
(503) 243-4600

Organics To You

You’ve heard of road rage, but have you heard of grocery cart rage? We like to think of ourselves as Zen personified but get us behind one of those slender metallic carts and we become possessed by a less civil spirit. We are also jinxed by wrong-lane-pickage. This curse places us directly behind people who line edit their receipts and deliver bouquets of coupons at the very last minute. Our friends guffaw, but this phenomena is no laughing matter. It happens, especially when you’re in a big supermarket chain and all the registers are packed with long lines of shoppers. A clerk opens up a new register and you race to be first, fighting over the coveted space as if it were a downtown parking spot. Some are even known to ram into others, hence cart rage. We’d like to say we were above such things but that would be patently false.

But now there’s a solution to this growing epidemic. Organics to You. They deliver nature’s bounty to your door. There is no reason to ram folks. You have higher aspirations and Organics to You delivers serenity and wholesome goodness together.

Sigh and resume the highest Zen position on your dial.

Calling all Artists!

Be a part of our [home] Made in Oregon section and introduce your accessories, jewelry, food and fashion designs, or whatever your specialty may be, to our trendy shoppers.

Portland has an amazing number of local talent, boutiques, and designers and we just have to let the world know, that’s all. In addition to a special dedicated section, we also have plans to publish a book by the same name. Your entry may also be included in the Portland Pick’s archives along with visuals and website links.

Space is limited so contact us right away to save your spot. We celebrate what makes Portland great, get in on something wonderful and local.

The Real Deal

You know you live in a happenin’ place, a city that’s jumping off the map, when it produces its own vodka. Yes, New Deal Distilled Spirits are made right here, in Southeast Portland.

Here’s Part of their story, demonstrative of the true Oregon spirit, the spirit that arrived here via covered wagon, and that still exists with blood, sweat, and tears…and then vodka:

In 2004, the first batch of New Deal was filtered through an aquarium, labeled with 3x5 index cards, and when they took it next door to the neighbors to ask them what they thought, they were like, “ What the hell did you just do?”

It was the summer of experimentation, they developed a lot of vodkas, and they tested them all. It was brutal... it was making, testing drinking… the vodka got better, they drank more, and soon, their friends started to drink with them as well.

They felt it was just wrong that you couldn’t buy vodka made in Portland. (We agree!)

According to creators, Tom and Matt, “It’s fun to make vodka.”

And we think it’s fun to drink. Thanks New Deal!

Blackwagon

Enough with the cute stuff for baby, already. Mama likes to don the sweet items, too. Kissycake tote bags from Portland designer and musician Kim Baxter feature adorable animal characters silkscreened on these gingham lined bags. These totes are classic and functional for women who love to sport cute things as much as they like to dress their kids in them.

These bags were recently featured on Daily Candy! Get 'em while they're H-O-T! Remember to plug in coupon code CI4C-T5PO1U for 20% off all your purchases and get free shipping, too, through the end of the month of July at Portland’s Blackwagon.com.

Think slo-mo montage, you in your bikini on the beach a ‘la Bo Derek, your natural beach hair thick and bouncing just so, the right mix of sand and surf to create sexy messy hair we always wished to bottle and take home.

And now you can have it every day of the summer! Kusco-Murphy brings the beach to your hair with that great texture and body you can’t usually mimic after a day at the shore. And it smells like the tropics too, with coconut, crushed bamboo and bergamot to form and separate hair. Plus, what the beach doesn’t have, there’s sunscreens to protect!

Charmed

We heart New York. It puts up with so much. If you can’t make it there, forgettaboutit.

Now you can own a charm bracelet that will shout out your love for the Big Apple.

Taxi cabs, the Statue of liberty, pay hommage with this charming bracelet.

Lobster rolls are de riguer of Northeast summers. There’s the famous Lobster Roll shack in the Hamptons known simply as LUNCH. Every New England beach town’s main staple is the Lobster Roll. There’s nothing more defining than the infamous Lobster Roll when summering in Maine or Martha’s Vineyard. And frankly how can you resist? (Think Mayo!)

The lobster roll is the classic New England summer experience. The ideal lobster roll is simple, nothing fancy, just fresh lobster meat, a bit of mayonnaise and a toasted bun, If you can’t get to Montauk this summer, Dean and Deluca has you covered. For $90 (not including next day shipping), they’ll send you two 8 oz. tubs of lobster salad and eight rolls to assemble your own lobster roll. Trust us.

There’s nothing that defines summer like the Lobster Roll – and now we can have it here too!

If we could be Barbie, we’d aspire to be Princess Barbie, however, in reality we’d be Carpool Barbie, I Forgot To Wash My Hair For Three Days Now Barbie, Dysfunctional/PMS Barbie (she exhibits stink eye), Thrift Shop Barbie (enjoys the bargains); maybe occasionally Tie-One On Barbie (she comes with her own lamp shade).

And because Barbie’s always been a part of our lives…. maybe we should just wear her. Why not pay tribute to that Barbie we used to know and love, that one we used to dress and undress, melt and cut her hair, make kiss Ken, and if she looked at us wrong, yanked her head off.

Now you can wear your fun on your trendy shirt, from City Girl in Lake Oswego (A Avenue)…but hurry, these tees are flying out the door!

We love our fake tan. We strived all those years for our pinkish/white-ish/blue-ish skin to be tan, and finally we can, in our phony little way. But phony is good – as long as you don’t get caught “red handed.”

Now there’s Shimmer Dimmer – the celebs secret to a real looking spray on. You don’t have to look like an Oompa Loompa if it doesn’t turn out just so. Just a dab on those palms and rough spots and maybe a little on that spray-on-gone-wrong, and you’re golden!

OVER HER DEAD BODY…By KATE WHITE (WARNER BOOKS)

We’ll let you in on a secret. Kate White, the editor-in-chief of the sexy COSMOPOLITAN tells us she didn’t want a magazine job – she wanted to be a detective like Nancy Drew. So, now Kate is doing both. Who says you can’t have everything?

Kate has cooked up a really steamy murder mystery, OVER HER DEAD BODY. And the book sizzles with inside information about the magazine industry. Kate’s crime-writing alter ego is Bailey Weggins, who is quite appealing in her Sex-in-the-City-meets-Nancy-Drew way. Bailey signs on to work at BUZZ Magazine (one of those celeb rags), and within days, the wicked editor-in-chief is dead. We’ve got a “ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead” attitude in the newsroom, but Bailey is assigned to find the killer – and, boy, are there a lot of suspects! From her philandering boss…to a hot celebrity with a nasty secret…to her gay guy-friend who hooked her up with the job.

And, here’s the best part: While Bailey is dashing all over Manhattan, interrogating one suspect after another, she bumps into the most delicious man – Beau Regan -- and has unforgettable luscious sex even before the first date. We read those pages over and over, and had to tell Kate that we want Beau.

The murderer…? Oh, yeah, Bailey nearly gets killed figuring it out, and then falls into the gorgeous Beau’s strong arms. But, does she get to keep him, or is it just a fling? All we can say is that COSMO’s Kate White admits to flushing bright red as she writes the next Bailey Weggins mystery.

Contributed by Diana Jordan

Let's face it, we look our best in the summer. We're tan, we're fit, the
sun's out, gone are the distant daze of our winter blues mix (and our S.A.D). If you can't feel the love in the summer, when can you? And if you're not quite there yet, make this mix, crank it, and you'll be oozing love endorphins in no time, not to mention turning heads! (Okay, because of the loud music that's vibrating from your car but also because you are HOT and everyone can sense it.)

1. Ice Cream (iTunes Originals Version, Live), by Sarah McLachlan
   "Your love is better than icecream, better than anything else that I've
   tried."
2. Burning in the Sun, by Blue Merle
   "Well I had a girl, she was the best around, and I was in love, now I'm just hangin out. And I'm burning in the sun, losing my mind, hearts break in the summer time."
3. Burn, by Usher
   "I feel like this is coming to an end, And its better for me to let it go now than hold on and hurt You"
4. Together Again, by Janet Jackson
   "I'll never forget you. Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there, smilin' back at me."
5. Speed of Sound, by Coldplay
   "If you never try then you'll never know."
6. We Belong Together, by Mariah Carey
   "I never felt the feeling that I'm feeling now.."
7. Love of My Life, by Carter Beauford, Dave Matthews & Santana
   "Youre the love of my life, you're everything to me.."
8. Get to Me, by Train
   "I look around at what I got, and without you, it ain't a lot
   But I got everything, with you, everything. I don't care how you get to me, just get to me."
9. Where is the Love? by Black Eyed Peas
10. Sleeps with Butterflies, by Tori Amos
    “I’m not like the girls that you’ve known but I believe I’m worth coming home to....”

Friends of the English Dept:

We're having a terribly glamorous event here on Friday, July 29th. One of our favorite Portland designers, Adam Arnold, has whipped up a collection of stunning summer dresses for the sultry weeks ahead. Join us in our back garden (you didn't know we had one, did you?) for tall drinks, tiki torches, tango music, and some of the most refreshing summer fashion we've seen in ages.

Here are the details:

Evil Under the Sun
a show of dresses for the long hot summer
Friday, July 29
8 pm sharp

The English Dept.
724 NW 23rd Ave.
Portland, OR 97210
503.224.0724

Fashion writer and designer Ellizabeth Dye as Dr. John McLoughlin’s daughter Eloisa? Good Day Oregon’s Pete Ferryman as Asa Lovejoy?

More than 10 historic characters will be portrayed at the Fifth Annual Midsummer’s Night Tour at the Lone Fir Cemetery.

You’ve probably walked through or driven by the cemetery a million times, but perhaps never knew so many interesting people from Portland’s past were buried there. Bring a picnic dinner to this beautiful cemetery and enjoy bluegrass music before local elected officials, media personalities and others kick into character.

Saturday July 30
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Lone Fir Cemetery
2115 SE Morrison
(503) 775-6278

no pets or alcohol allowed in the cemtery

July is Measles and Malaria Awareness Month

First Lady Laura Bush visited Africa this month. Bob Geldof’s Live 8 and the G8 Summit focused on Africa this month. So you may be asking yourself, “What could I do for Africa this month?” Well here is something quick and easy.

Did you know that every day, more than 1,200 kids die in Africa from measles? It’s the #1 vaccine preventable killer of children in Africa but 23 million children suffer from the disease annually. Let’s be a part of the solution! For as little as $1, you can fund a measles shot. For $7 you can provide a child with a measles and polio shot; a malaria prevention net and other medicines.

During July, your local Red Cross is trying to collect small donations from a lot of Portlanders so we can support this successful international program. This year’s campaign is raising money for measles shots in Mozambique. You can visit www.redcross-pdx.org right now to make an online donation.

Coco and Toulouse and Coco gets Dressed are celebrating their birthdays on Friday and Saturday, July 22nd and 23rd from 10am-6pm.

There will be a French flea market at Coco and Toulouse and a sale at Coco gets Dressed.

Jo Ellen and Natalie brought home boxes and boxes of fun, cool, odd and wonderful finds from flea markets in Paris and the Loire Valley.

Also, there will be cheap champagne, door prizes, party favors.

• C and T 7080 se 16th 503 236 5999
• C gets D 7007 se Milwaulee av 503 236 7777

Both in Westmorland. See you there.

lucy Grand Opening.

Shop for a cause at lucy from July 21 to 24th.

In celebration of the Bridgeport Village store opening, lucy is partnering with three local non-profit organizations and encouraging patrons to shop for a cause Thursday, July 21 to Sunday, July 24.

lucy will donate 10 percent of all sales these four days from its Bridgeport Village and Brewery Blocks locations to support Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area, Raphael House of Portland and Susan G.

Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Oregon & SW Washington Affiliate.

Want to treat yourself to the ultimate wine country experience?

No need to travel to France or even Napa for world class food and wine. Thursday, July 28th, Alister Brown of Logan Brown Restaurant in New Zealand will join Dick Erath of Erath Vineyards, for an interactive evening of wining and dining at the new spectacular Black Walnut Inn in the Red Hills of Dundee.

Erath Vineyards' summer chef series, Wine Country Cooking, explores the terroir of both cuisine and wine from selected wine regions worldwide. The evening includes a walk in the vineyard, a five-course meal paired with wines, kitchen instruction, valuable giveaways, and it's all set to the rhythms of a live Latin-fusion duo.

For an extended stay at the Black Walnut Inn, Erath Vineyards Guest Packages are available at varying prices. Seating is limited. To purchase tickets please call (503) 538-3318, or toll free at (800) 539-9463, or for more information visit the web at www.erath.com.

"Clearance Sale -- everything in stock is 30%-70% off"

Wedding gowns, bridesmaids dresses, informal gowns, party dresses / cocktail dresses, separates, flower girl dresses, prom, jewelry, shoes, accessories, veils, guest books, purses, hair pins, headpieces/tiaras, etc...

Destination Bride
333 S. State St, Suite H
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
ph 503-635-5909
www.MyDestinationBride.com

The sale is on now through July ~29th.