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More Beads Than You Can Imagine! • Check out all our beads on our 50% OFF rack • Natural Stones & Gemstones • Freshwater Pearls & Mother of Pearl • Glass & Crystal from Around the World • Ask About Wholesale Prices • Classes • Custom Designing Available www.azillionbeads.net O OW REG PIO A E NED ON NE UG BY ER EN FA E MI LY EUGENE 665 Conger St. Suite J (541) 338-8311 EW ’s gift guide 2007 get hip to the local VORE-ACIOUS FOOD FANS REJOICE IN OUR AREA’S BOUNTY By Suzi Steffen BEND (541) 617-8854 Pamper your mind, body, spirit & soul G IFT C ERTIFICATES FOR C OMPLETE S PA S ERVICES ! Massage • Facials • Tanning • Nails Body Wraps • Sauna • Hair Salon • Waxing We also offer corporate groups, weddings & other custom packages! Excellent products for hair, makeup & skin. The Perfect Christmas Gift! W hat’s the hottest new word this year? Tase? Mumblecore? Cougar? Heck, no. Those are just the runners-up. Instead, The New Oxford American Dictionary folks picked locavore as the word to know. A locavore eats local food, and in the Willamette Valley, locavores are blessed with options. Some of these options might come from a bit more than 100 miles away, but they’re not grown and packaged in Thailand, New Zealand or even Canada; they’re from Oregon. And we homers love saying that when we prepare our holiday feasts and wrap our holiday gifts. Of course, gift-givers might have grown their own berries and made jam with honey from the Saturday Market, but just in case, the Holiday Market offers up excellent jam in its first couple of weeks with Byrd’s Basket , where jam and jelly-maker Marilyn Byrd serves up everything fruited and preserved from dreamy apricot to spicy jalapeño treats. Fern’s Edge Goat Dairy from Lowell also perks up the Holiday Market with luscious cheese from its herd of goats, who thrive with biodynamic farming tech- niques under the watchful and hardworking eyes of proprietor Andhi Reyna. Mmmm, the pesto with pine nuts … the herb garlic rolls … the logs of plain cheese that would go remarkably well with Byrd’s spicier offerings on that holiday table. So would the fromage blanc from Alsea Acre Goat Cheese , which, if you miss the cheese at the Holiday Market, you can pick up in the Sweet Cheeks Winery tasting room (along with some wine, of course). For omega-3 lovers, a meal wouldn’t be complete without a taste of the sea. The Coos Bay-based Pisces Fishing Vessel brings its zero bycatch, sustainable, line-caught and hand-canned products to the Holiday Market, where Sally or Daryl Bogardus can show you photos and regale you with the tales of their adventures on the seas. The Bogardus family offers gift packs of Smoked Albacore , Smoked Wild Chinook Salmon and Albacore with Garlic and Jalapeño for friends and family far away, and if you somehow miss them at the market, you can snag some cans from the Kiva, where they far outshine the other albacore tuna and salmon available. NOM NOM NOM CAPRICE DAY SPA • Mon-Sat 10am-8pm • 541.744.8743 1623 21st Street Suite B Springfield • thecapricedayspa.com Over 5,000 pairs of women’s shoes and boots. Many favorite brands. Substantial savings. LIZ “Graffiti” $59.97 “Sherry” $79.97 Inside the Oakway Center across from Burch’s shoes 302-5748 / 877-683-4115 14 • Eugene Weekly’s Gift Guide 2007
