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 rest of the Sundays in December as well), the Mar Vista Arts and Crafts Collective will be selling their wares — just in time for holiday shopping! 9am – 2pm, Grand View Blvd. @ Venice Blvd.
Sunday afternoon, I’ll be co-hosting, along with the moms from InspireThe Change, a holiday sale in a lovely private home here in Mar Vista. 1 -6pm, 3961 East Blvd. Click here for more details.
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 bottom prices — great gifts for the babies or toddlers on your list.
I have such a special place in my heart for this store and this soap. I remember walking by the store when they were getting ready to open for the first time. I love how it smells when you walk by and how they decorate for the holidays. And boy do I love their soap! 
They’ve made up a special gift box with my 2 personal favorites for the holidays: Candy Cane and Red Hot Lover, all wrapped up in the Double Bubble Soap Box for $12.50. 
Plus they’ve got the Jingle Smells Good Box for $27.50. Either of these would make a great gift for teachers, Mothers-in-Law, or best girlfriends.
from whose nose the ketchup emanates. Good ‘ole Mustard Marvin 
spits the yellow stuff right out of his mouth. It’s heaven on a plate for the picky-eater set. Perfect stocking stuffers for all the kids in your life.
It comes in milk chocolate or white chocolate, which is all the best kinds of chocolate as far as I’m concerned, and there are 2 sizes to choose from: their regular-sized bag for $22 or a holiday tin filled with a pound of bark for $26.50. This is a wonderful hostess gift, especially when traveling; you can give a little bit of Mar Vista while you’re away!
A basket of 18 cookies sells for $32. A perfect hostess gift — or for the choco-holic you know and love.
These oval-ish rings snap on to a stroller or a car seat, or whatever you have around and hold onto other things that you just don’t have enough hands for. I’m all done with strollers myself, but back in the day, I could have really used a Carabean or a dozen: I routinely had multiple bags tied on the to stroller handles, and the kids’ toys were forever falling out and getting lost. 
Not if they’d been clipped with a carabean! Perfect gift for the new families on your list (or apparently for the hipster bike riders on your list, too – 
These T-shirts are made of 100% organic, soft/lightweight cotton and come in a variety of sizes and styles for men, women and children. Wear one and Inspire Change! Perfect gift for the Greenest on your list. 
Use the coupon code MARVISTAMOM to receive 10% off. More product and ordering info at 
These candles are amazing. They’re made with all-natural soy wax and eco-friendly wicks, and the frosted glass container is so pretty, but the best part is they actually smell fantastic. My favorite, and it’s absolutely made for the holidays, is Perfect Pumpkin. There are plenty of other scents to choose from on their site, including Let it Snow and Holiday Glow.
We had the following products donated by their wonderful manufacturers and distributers so we could show them off to all of you who came to the market. And now I’m giving them away! Check it all out:
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And now for the RULES:
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 in a big iron wok. As they start to soften, she adds ground organic, free range sirloin beef she gets from Whole Foods. (Note: if you’d prefer to make this a vegetarian meal then just skip the meat — the rest of the recipe is the same.) Once the meat is browned, she adds 5 – 6 tomatoes, which she’s chopped and removed most of the seeds. 
She cooks this for about 30 minutes and then adds about 1/3 cup of this amazing organic tomato paste from Italy called 
She serves it over 
This is us: Me (Mar Vista Mom), Emily Carey of 
Check back Tuesday for the contest to begin! We’ll be giving away a 
The eggplant caviar begins with an eggplant that you roast whole, then let cool a bit so you can handle it. You scoop out the still warm pulp and toss it with chopped onions, 
garlic 
and tomato 
and a little salt and pepper.
and cantaloupe, added to arugula 
and dressed with a vinaigrette of fresh orange juice, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper, from the 
and Gala apples! 