Posted in Weekend Plans on 04. Dec, 2009
Saturday and Sunday, PeachTree Pottery is holding its 4th Annual Holiday Art Show, 1 – 5pm, 3795 Boise Ave., MV 90066. Saturday evening, the newly-formed Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce will be meeting. 6 – 8pm, 12085 Venice Blvd. RSVP and more details here. Sunday morning, at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market (and all the [...]
Posted in Community, Family Fun, Mar Vista, Weekend Plans on 01. Dec, 2009
I’m joining forces with Annie Barnes and Jessica Tuck of Inspire The Change to present:There will be crafts for the kids to make, great items for sale from moms we know and love, and — full disclosure — I’ll be selling off all my inventory of hooded baby towels from my previous incarnation as a crafter.Rock [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 27. Nov, 2009
Here’s to holiday gift-giving, Mar Vista-Style! I have chosen some of my favorite products made by my favorite local companies to highlight as gift ideas this year. All of these gracious companies have offered a limited-time discount to you lucky readers of Mar Vista Mom, which will last from Friday, November 27th through Saturday, December [...]
The Green Booth at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market was all about lunches last Sunday! Annie Barnes of InspireTheChange.com and I co-hosted the booth and were joined by Jennifer Taggert of TheSmartMama.com, Elizabeth Rietz of WhiningNDining.com, Emily Carey of ScrappyNaps, and Melissa Davis of Melissa’s Food Blog. We had the following products donated by their [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Green, Mar Vista on 18. Oct, 2009
Today’s shopper is Dr. Susanne Bennett, a holistic chiropractor who also founded a line of skin care products called Purigenex. She’s going to make her organic heirloom tomato bolognese sauce. She starts with 6 – 7 cloves of garlic, minced, and about 2/3 of a yellow onion, chopped and sautes them in grape seed oil [...]
Posted in Community, Family Fun, Mar Vista, Weekend Plans on 16. Oct, 2009
Friday night is the All-Girl Revue at the Fanatic Salon. I highly recommend it! Those women will make you laugh, I guarantee it. Starts at 8pm. Saturday morning 10am E-Waste recycling at Whole Foods on National Blvd. First 25 people will receive a gift bag! Saturday afternoon Mar Vista Walkabout. Come help design the future [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 30. Aug, 2009
Today’s shopper is Annie Barnes, co-founder of Inspire the Change: Green Your Momfluence. She’s going to make 2 dishes: Eggplant caviar and a salad of figs, cantaloupe and arugula, with orange vinaigrette. The eggplant caviar begins with an eggplant that you roast whole, then let cool a bit so you can handle it. You scoop [...]
