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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

"Celebrity Connected" Celebrated American Music Awards w/Holiday Gifting

Photos & story by Karen Ostlund
Justins.com white chocolate with peanut-butter for the holidays
One day prior to the American Music Awards at Microsoft Theatre - The Celebrity Connected yearly gifting suite was held November 18th, at the W Hotel in Hollywood.
The suit focused on Holiday Gifting: Candles, Soaps, Creams, Apparel, Games, Jewelry and Sex-toys.                        
Rollingicecreamery.com specializes in making pan rolled ice cream, providing you with a variety of flavors to choose from and adding fresh fruit. Rolling Ice Creamery was founded back in 2015 from 3 best friends that was looking to revolutionized the way ice cream was made. By using a sub-zero temperature pan, the team was able to create freshly made ice cream from scratch using only the freshest ingredients.
Rolled ice cream with fruit
Noah Urreah eating rolled ice cream

James and Christian Ganiere at PrimBathandBodyCo.com
 PrimBathandBodyCo is a Louisiana-based bath and body shop, which specializes in unique bath and body products! None of the products are tested on animals and are all 100% handmade.  Bath bombs are their trademark, and the ingredients in each bath bomb are: baking soda, citric acid, SLSA, colorant, sweet almond oil, polysorbate 80 (helps disperse the colorant into the water so it doesn't stain the tub), & fragrance oil.

Costume Holiday and American Music Awards Candles by LoveLifeCandles.com
Wise Hands plant based salves on Facebook:Muscle Mend, Healing Touch and Working Hands
Elixirmask.com sauna foil mask can prevent to evaporate effective ingredients such as gold, hydrolyzed collagen, coenzyme Q-10, adenosine and soy bean extract.
Elixirmask
Elixir provides strong elasticity and a skin firming effect to loose skin, keeping skin’s health and making it soft. This mask is specially developed to help with anti-aging, getting rid of wrinkles and skin firming.

MelanatedRich.com is  best known for their haircare products, but have now launched a skin care for the holidays, to help with common issues such as moisture, firming, correcting fine-lines, uneven skin tone, dark circles or wrinkles. Melanated means combining form - of botanical as almond oil, aloe vera, antioxidants, avocado oil, chamomile & cucumber extract, jojoba oil, green tea and shea butter.
NakedAllNatural lotion for tattoos
Nakedallnatural.com is a company that believes in the power of nature, and harnessing that power to create the finest all-natural healing products with no artificial coloring or fragrance - which is very common cause of skin allergies and contact dermatitis. "Our soap is made from vegetable and plant oils only. You will notice in many bars a product called sodium tallow ate  and contain grapefruit seed (gse) , which is an all-natural, broad spectrum antimicrobial agent". The NakedAllNatural products: soap, tea, lotion, oil and salve were originally made as a healing aid for tattoos and piercings, and other cosmetic applications, such as nails, waxing, and permanent makeup.

Billy Morrison at Second Skin.SecondSkin.com is tight unisex sports apparel engineered for unrestricted movement so you can set your goals and break them.
                                               
Svakom.net presented Cookie & Candy new foreplay vibrators: Cookie with 3 massaging tentacles and Candy, the kissing fish mouth - both waterproof which run with lithium batteries

Shaka Smith at HempLoveProducts.com
 Hemp Love Chocolate share two powerful ingredients: hemp from Canada and love for chocolate.
Hemp is a crop that comes from the cannabis plant, but is not marijuana and does not contain THC. The hemp love chocolates come in Cinnamon-Salt, Lavender-Salt and Mint flavors.
ShageeKnots.com is a girl's lifestyle brand of sandals that is fun and festive. Each pair is handmade and no two pair are alike!
TheElephantPants.com was gifting women's elephant print harem pants with elastic smock waist, elastic ankles, and external pockets. Since The Elephant Pants store opened it’s doors in 2014, it has sold more than 400,000 pairs of pants and donated more than $127,000 to organizations that are looking to make the world a safer place for elephants.
Selectoil.com  - Select CBD Blends oil combines the medical benefits of CBD with essential oils and natural extracts to help you Relax, Focus, and Revive: Relax offers release at the end of a stressful day with sweet-smelling, calming lavender extract. Focus is formulated to provide the clarifying benefits of CBD combined with soothing, refreshing peppermint extract. Revive lifts you up with invigorating, rejuvenating grapefruit extract to help you recover, reconnect and regain energy. Experts use this oil to make devastating edibles, soothing topicals, and to fill their own dab pens. Over 21 for usage.
The idea the Wymgame.com was born from one scene of the movie ‘The Boss’ starring Melissa McCarthy, where she was getting her teeth whitened, wearing the infamous mouthpiece and struggling to speak. Watch Ya’ Mouth Game includes 143 cards (ages 8+), 10 mouthpieces (6 regular for adults, 4 small for kids), 1 60-second sand timer, and instructions.

VivianaDontanon.com Viviana D’Ontañón is the Puertorican jewelry designer who has been known for creating her layering concept lines.  Viviana creates today a wellknown brand with gold-filled chains and semi precious stones - minimal and classic designs.

Travis Deslaurier at Provincialvodka.com tasting, also in spiced flavor from Radouga distilleries
Okolifestyle.com
 OKO Lifestyle was created by sisters Abbie Boatwright and Katie Steelman. Their t-shirt dresses come in versatile styles, and has been their favorite since the beginning, created from 100% bamboo.
Eco-friendly and sustainable materials - "We use a variety of sustainable materials including bamboo, hemp, organic cotton, and recycled polyester said Alexa Varana the founder and owner of ThirdWolfDesigns.com
 "A stencil is created to ensure efficiency for production, which allows us to produce large amounts of our final product. The stencil is hand-cut and applied to our manufactured blanks,and then chosen a variety of paint colors, to hand-paint every item".

MaBelleAvenue.com
 MaBelleAvenue.com offers a selection of authentic products from a small european country Lithuania, where some very talented designers live and create. The store Ma Belle Avenue traveled from Hinsdale, IL to Hollywood, CA to showcase.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Eataly, LA's Italian Market Place Inaugurated w/Pasta-Ribbon Cutting

Photos by Karen Ostlund   

The Los Angeles Eataly, located in the northeast corner of the Westfield Century City mall, opened on Nov. 3 with pasta-ribbon cutting by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Mayor Eric Garcetti cuts the “Pasta Ribbon” with Eataly’s partners
Eataly  has locations in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Italy, and now Los Angeles, Century City.
The Italian company was brought to the Americas in 2010 with the help of Mario Batali, Lidia and Joe Bastianich and Adam and Alex Saper.
Eataly is not a chain, it's a family, and each location is distinct and highlights the city and people who reside there.
  The large-scale Italian marketplaces, which include restaurants, cafes and markets, are like Disneyland for Italian food lovers. Imagine giant rooms full of fresh pasta, bubbly pizzas, rounds and rounds of cheese, baskets full of fresh bread and walls lined with bottles of wine stacked to the ceiling.
Salumi and Formaggi
Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti said he’s been thinking about an L.A. location since opening the first Eataly in Turin, Italy, in 2007. Lidia Bastianich and her son Joe, as well as chef Mario Batali (Joe and Batali are partners in the L.A. Mozza restaurants along with Nancy Silverton), are all partners and collaborators.
There are now 13 locations in Italy, four U.S. Eatalys, and multiple iterations around the world for a total of 39. The next U.S. location will be in Las Vegas.
Italian desserts
Eataly has also announced plans to open its first Canadian location in early 2019 as an anchor tenant of the newly renovated Manulife Centre in the heart of Yorkville. Eataly, a vibrant Italian food marketplace including a mix of food markets, restaurants, and eateries will span three stories for a total space of 50,000 square feet.
Pasta making
Italian cheese
pasta tasting

www.Eataly.com

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Bow Wow Beverly Hills Presented ‘Say Sparky Sent ‘Ya’ for Halloween 2017

Photos & story by Karen Ostlund

 Bow Wow Beverly Hills Presented ‘Say Sparky Sent ‘Ya’ Halloween Party to
benefit The Amanda Foundation last Sunday, October 29th, at
The Via Rodeo at 2 Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
The 3 winners of Doggie Costumes Contest 2017 with Amanda Foundation founder Teri Austin

Semi Final of Doggie Costume Contest

Tito's Vodka Martinis and Nectar of the Dogs Wine
Bow Wow Halloween 2017 theme was:
Step back in time to the Roaring ’20’s when a quick knock at the right unmarked door in Tin Pan Alley opened to a bevy of “It” girls and swanky Swells puttin’ on the Ritz enjoying some forbidden Hooch! You’ll be the cat’s pajamas in your flapper finery while you sip our special Halloween cocktail, the “Prohibition Inhibition Martini”.
1920's style dancers at Bow Wow Halloween at Via Rodeo in Beverly Hills

The Amanda Foundation's yearly Halloween event help raise the funds  to rescue our furry pals from the shelters, spay and neuter thousands of pets, and educate the public on how to be the best buddy to our best buddies.
Tina Sinatra with Teri Austin

Tina Sinatra (daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Barbato) returned this year to talk about her long time support of The Amanda Foundation's mission to rescue homeless dogs and cats. She is an actress and producer, known for The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Perlico - Perlaco (1971) and Dream Girl of '67 (1966).
Tina confessed she was once allergic to dogs but overcame it with help from the Amanda Foundation, and she has been a dog-owner ever since.
                     
Collie in a hot dog costume


The night's highlights included the doogie Halloween Costume contest, a silent and live auction, Casino Night (roulette, craps and blackjack), delicious vegetarian cuisine by 208 Rodeo restaurant, and special Halloween cocktails from Tito's vodka and a launch of a new vineyard Nectar Of The Dogs Wine.
Craps at Bow Wow Halloween
Bow Wow veggie platter and silent auction

Chihuahuas in sailor costumes
More contestants
         
The Amanda Foundation established 1976 has rescued and placed thousands of dogs and cats into loving homes and is the ONLY non-profit animal charity in the city of Beverly Hills and the only one in Los Angeles to own and operate a full-service veterinary practice.Amandafoundation.org